Star Trek Voyager: Episode 18: Elogium (Full Frame)

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Who will operate the Voyager if it takes decades to find its way home? Should crew members start raising families so that they'll have replacement personnel for the starship in years to come? Those questions come to the forefront when swarms of space-swelling, protozoa-like life-forms attach themselves to the the starship because they think the ship is a reproductive mate. The electronic field emitted by the swarms has a profound impact on Kess, disrupting her biological clock and beginning Elogium, the phase in which Ocampan women become fertile. The process occurs only once in an Ocampan's life, so if Kes ever wants to have a child, she must find a mate now. She asks Neelix to father the child. But the prospects of parenthood may be more than he can accept.