“Barge of the Dead” is the third episode of the sixth season of Star Trek: Voyager. In the episode, half-Klingon B’Elanna Torres has a near-death experience and appears to be sent to the Klingon version of Hell known as Gre’thor. There she encounters her Klingon mother Miral, who is damned because of Torres’ refusal to fully accept her own identity as a Klingon.
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“Barge of the Dead” is the third episode of the sixth season of Star Trek: Voyager. It was first broadcast by UPN on October 6, 1999. In the episode, half-Klingon B’Elanna Torres has a near-death experience and appears to be sent to the Klingon version of Hell known as Gre’thor. There she encounters her Klingon mother Miral, who is damned because of Torres’ refusal to fully accept her own identity as a Klingon. The episode also guest stars Eric Pierpoint as Kortar, who ferries the souls of the dishonored on the Barge of. the Dead, and Sherman Augustus as the dead Klingon Hij’Qa. It received a Nielsen rating of 3. 86 ratings share, meaning 3. 8 percent of all households with a television viewed it and six percent of homes then viewing television were tuned to it. Critics have praised the focus on Torres, and praised Dawson’s performance, while others were critical of the representation of Klingon spirituality. The episode was one of several episodes that addressed Torres’ strained relationship with her parents and her Klingon heritage. It is set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of the starship USS Voyager after they are stranded in the Delta Quadrant, far from the rest of the Federation. After the episode’s completion, both Moore and Fuller left the series because of dissatisfaction with their lack of control over its direction, and the perceived absence of strong story arcs across multiple episodes.
After being reunited with her mother, Torres successfully returns the barge, but they argue about whether or not she has truly embraced her Klingon spirituality by telling Miral she does not understand what it truly means to be Klingon. She discovers that she is her version of Gre’tor, and is confronted by alternate versions of the crew. She is allowed to move on to Sto-vo-vo, but she cannot explain that she cannot be fully released from her Klingon-vok-vo. She awakes to find she has been in a coma the entire time. She had almost died from the accident in the ion storm. Commander Chakotay finds a Klingon artifact lodged inside Torres’ shuttlecraft, and Torres sees this emitting blood and hears voices speaking in the Klingon language. Since the USS Voyager is. several thousand light-years away from Klingon-controlled space, the ship is several thousand years away from Klingons. Torres notices the Doctor and Seven of Nine singing Klingon drinking songs and Tom Paris eating Klingon cuisine. After witnessing several Klingon warriors killing the crew, she falls and finds herself aboard a boat. She believes her mother is being punished because of her daughter’s dishonor, saying that she must return to the B barges to rescue her.
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