screenshots are from [#48 Remember]
screenshots are from [#48 Remember]
ENARANS
There was once a group of Enarans called the Regressives who refused all but the most primitive technology, did not use radioseptics to clean their hands and homes, and did not employ a communications interlink or microfusion generators. The Regressives suffered discrimination socially and legally from other Enarans: in cities a curfew bell tolled before dusk each day and Regressives had to leave, often being chivvied through the gates by security guards; and Regressives had to wear identity tags around their necks. By their own choice the Regressives also kept themselves apart from other Enarans, for instance by wearing simple clothes and different headwear.
 Dathan Alaris - last moment of life before his execution basically for being a Regressive and in particular a Regressive who had dared to court the daughter of civic leader Jareth | The Enarans claim that the Regressives were resettled to their own colony but they were actually probably killed. Regressives not yet relocated reported that there had been no contact whatsoever with Regressives who were supposed to have been relocated. Eventually the Enarans knew that the Regressives had died, attributing it officially to the Regressives' backward ways - in the words of teacher Korenna Mirell herself spoken to children in her charge: "But they couldn't take very good care of themselves. They fought with each other. They spread all kinds of diseases. They destroyed themselves." |
 in her quarters, the dying Korenna Mirell makes a last effort and transfers the rest of her memories to Torres | En route from the Fima colony to Enara Prime, one of the group being transported by Voyager, an Enaran woman named Korenna Mirell shares her memories of these events with Torres because she her conscience has overcome her and she decides she does not wish to hide the truth any more. The truth is shocking and appalling: in the mid-24th century, as depicted in [#48 Remember], the Enaran government systematically relocated the minority ethnic group called the Regressives, with "relocation" being the official term to disguise systematic extermination. In later years, knowledge of this holocaust was kept from younger Enarans, until it had virtually disappeared from memory, with only the oldest Enarans recalling it who preferred not to remember it. When Torres suspects Mirell was murdered and asks the dying woman who did it to her, Mirell does not reply. Although the Doctor is unable to find evidence to corroborate Torres' murder claim, Janeway cancels trade negotiations and shore leave after Torres reveals what Mirell has shared with her in the most public occasion possible, that of the farewell party for the Enarans held in Voyager's messhall. |
Torres accuses the Enarans of genocide, of trying to cover it up and of murdering Jora Mirell
Top row left to right: when his name is called a Regressive comes forward carrying his possessions in a bag; he shows his identity tag to an official who marks it off on a data storage device; a Regressive is frightened and demands to know where she is going but is not told and is forcibly moved on by a guard.
Bottom row left to right: a Regressive attacks Mirell (Torres is experiencing Mirell's memories); Mirell is knocked to the ground and shrieks in pain from the wound dealt her, the scar from which she will have forever afterwards; Dathan Alaris, a Regressive, tells Mirell that relocated Regressives are never heard from again
As recalled by Mirell, the process of "resettling" the Regressives includes the following procedure: the Regressives are made to stand in a queue at the gate and when a name is called, the Regressive called shows his or her identity tag to her before being moved on to where, no doubt, transport awaits them to take them far away from their village, out of sight and mind of the other Enarans. Demalos, Sanric, and Farran, as well as Dathan Alaris, are the names of three Regressives.
See also 'Law And Punishment'.
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