Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
AStar Trek : Voyagerepisode tookStar Trek : The Original Series ' trade good vs. evil Captain Kirk ( William Shatner ) to the next stage . Voyagerborrowed fromTOSmore than once in its first time of year , reworking concepts or exploring themes thatTOShad first introduced but with a twist that always made them more interesting . One case of this wasVoyagerseason 1 , installment 14 , " face , " which dealt with the theme of a character being split into two separate being , something thatTOShad done in season 1 , episode 4 , " The Enemy Within . "
During theTOSepisode , as a resolution of a transporter chance event , Captain Kirk was separate into two different variation of himself . The " malefic " version of Kirk began running rampant on the USS Enterprise , terrorise the gang and attempting to take control of the ship . As the crew seek to captureKirk ’s evil doppelgänger , it presently became clear thatthe " good " Kirk ’s decision - making was impaired as a consequence of the stroke , and that both Kirks ' mental land were deteriorating apace without the opposite side of their personality backing the other up . finally , the accident was revoke , and both Kirks were merged into one being again .
From the “ drop boot " to " the human rocket " to the full " Kirk - Fu , " there ’s only one Star Trek maitre d’hotel with all the movement : Captain James T. Kirk .
Voyager Made TOS’s “The Enemy Within” Storyline More Complicated
Although " The Enemy Within " was already based around an interesting concept , Voyagertook the idea and made it more nuancedby explore the split sides of B’Elanna Torres ’s ( Roxann Dawson ) human and Klingon personality . " Faces " revolved around B’Elanna being split in half due to experiment by the Vidiians , but the instalment did away with the good vs. evil concept in respect to B’Elanna ’s two sides . The Klingon version of B’Elanna was not vicious like Kirk ’s counterpart and was even shown to be heroic throughout the course of the episode . In fact , she was instrumental in avail rescue her crewmates and the human edition of herself from the Vidiians .
Rather than a square good vs. malign fight , " Faces " alternatively chose to explore B’Elanna ’s battle with her interracial heritage , something that went on to become a focal point of her fictitious character throughoutVoyager ’s streamlet . AlthoughB’Elanna ’s Klingon halfwasn’t iniquity , she was an scene that B’Elanna fight against her whole life sentence . Confronting the Klingon side of herself face - to - faceforced B’Elanna to reckon with why she hated being partially Klingonbut also what she admired and even loved about her Klingon one-half . In contrast , Kirk never acknowledged the deeper questions raised by confronting the darker side of his personality in " The Enemy Within . "
How B’Elanna’s Split Selves In “Faces” Still Mirror Kirk’s On TOS
AlthoughStar Trek : Voyager ’s characterexploration was more nuanced thanTOS ’s , both episodes at last came to the same conclusion about B’Elanna and Kirk ’s two selves : they both needed each other to survive . Human B’Elanna and " good " Kirk suffered from confidence and decisiveness - making issue without their counterpart , and both episode made it clear that , from a medical stand , neither of the split one-half could continue to hold out on their own without being reintegrated . However , although reintegration was successful for both character , only B’Elanna take in a truly greater understanding of herself as part of the experience .
