Prototype

"Prototype" is the 29th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and the thirteenth episode in the second season. A robot that was drifting in space is found and beamed aboard Voyager. It is examined by Lieutenant Tuvok, Captain Kathryn Janeway and Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres and found to have a quickly dying plasma-based energy source. Tuvok suggests they let the source fizzle out and examine it in an incapacitated state, but Torres suggests they try to re... more

"Prototype" is the 29th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and the thirteenth episode in the second season. A robot that was drifting in space is found and beamed aboard Voyager. It is examined by Lieutenant Tuvok, Captain Kathryn Janeway and Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres and found to have a quickly dying plasma-based energy source. Tuvok suggests they let the source fizzle out and examine it in an incapacitated state, but Torres suggests they try to revive the robot to discover more about it. For the sake of scientific exploration, Janeway agrees. After consulting with Ensign Harry Kim and the Doctor, Torres manages to revive the robot by modifying its energy source to accept plasma taken directly from Voyager's warp core. The robot activates, introduces itself as "Automated Unit 3947" and thanks Torres for repairing him. While Torres is examining 3947, the robot reveals how he had come to be drifting in space - he was in a mining pod that exploded. 3947 then asks Torres whether she could... less