Lifesigns (Star Trek: Voyager)

"**Lifesigns**"
"Lifesigns"
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 19
Directed by	Cliff Bole
Written by	Kenneth Biller
Featured music	Paul Baillargeon
Production code	136
Original air date	February 26, 1996
Guest appearances
	Susan Diol - Denara Pel; Raphael Sbarge - Michael Jonas; Martha Hackett - Seska; Michael Spound - Lorrum; Rick Gianasi - Gigolo; Tarik Ergin - Lt. Ayala;
Episode chronology
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"Lifesigns" is the 35th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 19th episode of the second season. It has an average fan rating of 4.2/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away. The episode centers around a Vidiian woman which the Doctor works to save.

This episode was previously known as "Untitled Doctor" and "Magnetism".^[1] The finally adopted title has a dual meaning: the lifesigns the doctor finds in the body of Denara, the Vidiian woman, and his own growing self-awareness as a sentient life form through the experience of romance.^[2]

Plot

Paris arrives late to the bridge as a distress call is picked up. Voyager beams aboard the dying body of a Vidiian woman. The Doctor works to save her in Sickbay. He creates a holographic body of her to assist him; a hologram which looks and acts the way she would if she were healthy. Her name is Denara Pel and she is a physician, ready and able to help heal the disease-ravaged body on the bed. The Doctor soon realizes he is falling in love with Dr. Pel, but has trouble sorting out his feelings toward the vibrant hologram and the real, dying patient.

Torres' past mistreatment at the hands of the Vidiians causes her to be reluctant to help Dr. Pel—Klingon DNA has been shown to be resistant to the Phage, the disease afflicting the Vidiians— but she soon relents.

Sandrine's bar makes a reappearance, a long-standing holo-location that many members of the crew enjoy.

References

^ Taylor, J. "Inventory". Lilly Library. Public Services Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
^ "Lifesigns". Lifesigns (episode). memory Alpha. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

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[1] Taylor, J. "Inventory". Lilly Library. Public Services Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

[2] "Lifesigns". Lifesigns (episode). memory Alpha. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

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Season 1	"Caretaker, Part I" "Caretaker, Part II" "Parallax" "Time and Again" "Phage" "The Cloud" "Eye of the Needle" "Ex Post Facto" "Emanations" "Prime Factors" "State of Flux" "Heroes and Demons" "Cathexis" "Faces" "Jetrel" "Learning Curve"
Season 2	"The 37's" "Initiations" "Projections" "Elogium" "Non Sequitur" "Twisted" "Parturition" "Persistence of Vision" "Tattoo" "Cold Fire" "Maneuvers" "Resistance" "Prototype" "Alliances" "Threshold" "Meld" "Dreadnought" "Death Wish" "Lifesigns" "Investigations" "Deadlock" "Innocence" "The Thaw" "Tuvix" "Resolutions" "Basics, Part I"
Season 3	"Basics, Part II" "Flashback" "The Chute" "The Swarm" "False Profits" "Remember" "Sacred Ground" "Future's End, Part I" "Future's End, Part II" "Warlord" "The Q and the Grey" "Macrocosm" "Fair Trade" "Alter Ego" "Coda" "Blood Fever" "Unity" "Darkling" "Rise" "Favorite Son" "Before and After" "Real Life" "Distant Origin" "Displaced" "Worst Case Scenario" "Scorpion, Part I"
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Season 5	"Night" "Drone" "Extreme Risk" "In the Flesh" "Once Upon a Time" "Timeless" "Infinite Regress" "Nothing Human" "Thirty Days" "Counterpoint" "Latent Image" "Bride of Chaotica!" "Gravity" "Bliss" "Dark Frontier, Part I" "Dark Frontier, Part II" "The Disease" "Course: Oblivion" "The Fight" "Think Tank" "Juggernaut" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "11:59" "Relativity" "Warhead" "Equinox, Part I"
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