Muse (Star Trek: Voyager)
| "Muse" | |
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| Star Trek: Voyager episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 22 |
| Directed by | Mike Vejar |
| Written by | Joe Menosky |
| Featured music | David Bell |
| Production code | 244 |
| Original air date | April 26, 2000 |
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"Muse" is the 142nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 22nd episode of the sixth season. Its setting is a reference to ancient Greece, with plays, gods, etc.
An enraptured audience watches a play in a stone amphitheatre. The main characters are called B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim, and they are on an adventure seeking dilithium when they are in a shipwreck. Harry gets out in an escape pod but B'Elanna crashes and is injured. Kelis the Poet, the playwright, steps in and narrates his rescue of B'Elanna. The audience is pleased by this interesting and creative plot twist. Afterwards, Kelis is congratulated by his wealthy patron who demands to see another play about these Voyager adventures and he wants it done in one week. Desperate for a new story, Kelis travels to the source of his inspiration: The wreckage of the Delta Flyer which sits on a mountainside outside the village. Kelis creeps in and finds B'Elanna's unconscious body where he left her, tied up and with one of her arms covered with bloody slashes. B'Elanna has crash landed on a pre-warp society planet similar to ancient Greece.
Well-meaning Kelis has been bleeding her, trying to treat the fever that has kept her incapacitated for the eight days since the crash. She has now recovered enough to fight back, so she directs him to heal her cuts with a dermal regenerator. When the cuts disappear, he is convinced she is really an "Eternal", a god in his peoples' ancient sagas. From his exploration of the computer and B'Elanna's logs, he knows that her fellow "gods" await her on a great ship called Voyager.
Despite her being an Eternal, Kelis is not afraid to negotiate with her. B'Elanna promises to tell him more stories he can use for his plays if he unties her. When he does, she grabs a phaser and chases him off. As she works to get the Flyer running again, the bold playwright returns with food for her, asking to hear stories in return for it. She's more interested in getting off the planet so she demands he bring her some dilithium. It is a common mineral in the area and he knows where to get it, but he'll have to risk trespassing on his patron's property to harvest it. He decides it's worth it to hear more tales about Voyager.
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