Jetrel
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 15 May 1995
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- 48832.1
- DIRECTED BY
- Kim Friedman
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 115
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Jack Klein & Karen Klein and Kenneth Biller; story by James Thornton & Scott Nimerfro
Neelix comes face to face with the scientist behind the weapon that killed his family, who arrives with troubling news about Neelix's health.
Red alert: the full plot, ending included. Haven't watched yet?REVEAL SYNOPSIS
Dr Ma'Bor Jetrel, a Haakonian scientist, comes aboard Voyager. He developed the metreon cascade, the weapon that destroyed Rinax and killed more than 300,000 people, Neelix's family among them. Jetrel says he must test Talaxian survivors for metremia, a fatal illness caused by metreon exposure, and persuades Janeway to divert to the Talaxian system. Neelix is consumed by anger, but he also confesses to Kes that he was never the soldier he claimed to be: he hid from the war rather than fight. Neelix then catches Jetrel conducting unauthorised experiments after knocking out the Doctor. In the transporter room, Jetrel reveals his real purpose: he hopes to use Voyager's transporter to regenerate the victims of Rinax. The attempt fails and Jetrel collapses. Before the scientist dies, Neelix finds it in himself to forgive him.
- 01Jetrel was modelled on J. Robert Oppenheimer, and several of his lines were inspired by Oppenheimer's own words.
- 02James Sloyan's fourth Star Trek role. He had played Admiral Jarok in The Next Generation's “The Defector” and Mora Pol in Deep Space Nine.
- 03Larry Hankin returns as Gaunt Gary, the pool player from Chez Sandrine first seen in “The Cloud”.