Star Trek: Voyager: Prophecy

A group of Klingons on a religious mission meet Voyager and, destroying their own ship, worship B'Elanna's unborn baby as some kind of Chosen One.

Yes, it's as bad as it sounds. While Klingons have been dealt with in a religious context before, they somehow don't seem the type to send a group of their race off in a ship to the middle of nowhere searching for a special child. The whole concept is incoherent. Apparently this child will lead them to a new land (presumably a planet) and because he's having trouble keeping control, the leader decides to make them settle down somewhere. Is this it? It seems as if the prophecy would at least call for B'Elanna to stay with them on the planet rather than just dumping them and running away. What kind of prophecy is that? And is the child meant to lead the Empire or a group of random people in the Delta Quadrant?

Frankly, it's all a bit weird, and at this stage in the life of the show, we don't need a group of Klingons prised into the show. If they'd stayed on Voyager until it got home, that might have been interesting, but instead we just get a mish-mash of various prior Klingon stories, from The Next Generation's Heart of Glory onwards. We've got a fight to the death which is immensely badly choreographed, Klingons who don't know the war is over with the Federation (and in 80 years, you'd think they might have found their way somewhere by now) and a disease that the Doctor is, naturally, able to cure in about 10 seconds flat. The story doesn't flow, just throwing in extra problems every few minutes to stretch the episode out, and Neelix's dalliance with a Klingon woman is neither amusing (Deep Space Nine did it ages ago) nor clever.

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