"The Thaw" is the 39th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 23rd episode of the second season. The crew discovers aliens who are mentally connected to a computer.
Voyager discovers a planet that was the site of a major ecological disaster and receives an automated message from a group of people who went into artificial hibernation nineteen years ago. The message indicates that they were to awaken four years ago, which concerns the crew. The planet ...
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"The Thaw" is the 39th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 23rd episode of the second season. The crew discovers aliens who are mentally connected to a computer.
Voyager discovers a planet that was the site of a major ecological disaster and receives an automated message from a group of people who went into artificial hibernation nineteen years ago. The message indicates that they were to awaken four years ago, which concerns the crew. The planet is now capable of sustaining life, so Janeway decides to wake the aliens. Once the stasis chambers are beamed aboard, it is revealed that two of the people died of apparent heart attacks and the brains of the other three are interconnected via a computer designed to keep their brains active during hibernation. However, the system has been designed to allow participants to decide whether to wake up and simply deactivating the computer program would kill them. As the aliens should have woken up four years ago, B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim enter...
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