Phage

"Phage" is the fifth episode of Star Trek: Voyager. In the course of helping to investigate a network of caverns in a planetoid for dilithium deposits, Neelix is attacked by a previously undetected alien and left in a state of shock. He is beamed directly to Sickbay where it is found that his lungs have been teleported out of his body. The Doctor keeps him alive by projecting a pair of holographic lungs into his torso using Sickbay's holographic ... more

"Phage" is the fifth episode of Star Trek: Voyager. In the course of helping to investigate a network of caverns in a planetoid for dilithium deposits, Neelix is attacked by a previously undetected alien and left in a state of shock. He is beamed directly to Sickbay where it is found that his lungs have been teleported out of his body. The Doctor keeps him alive by projecting a pair of holographic lungs into his torso using Sickbay's holographic emitters. Another away mission is quickly organised to find the perpetrator and retrieve Neelix's lungs. They return to the planetoid and discover an alien facility behind sophisticated cloaking technology, and conclude that the facility is being used to store organic material, particularly respiratory organs. In a hostile encounter with an alien, they obtain the alien device used to remove Neelix's lungs and find it to be a highly advanced medical and surgical instrument. The aliens escape the planetoid on a ship, and Voyager goes in pursuit.... less