Buckle up kids, this episode is WILD. I haven't written one these reviews in quite awhile, but watching "Prophecy" has inspired me to get back behind the keyboard just to dive into the absurdities of this content-heavy ep.
Alright, so there's Klingons in the Delta Quadrant. They broke away from the Empire because they felt that other Klingons have lost their way. Oh and they found some ancient scrolls that guide them to do crazy shit like just head off alone for a hundred years. So basically, they are a cult offshoot of Klingons. Come to think of it, they're Klingon Mormons. They found some writings, got into some trouble, and headed for Utah... er I mean the Delta Quadrant.
After the Klingons attack Voyager unprovoked, and then find themselves immediately out-gunned, their leader Kohlar comes on board so they can explain to him that the Empire and the Federation are friendly now. They give him a hard copy of the Khitomer Accords, and show him a pregnant B'Elanna as proof. A lightbulb goes off in Kohlar's head, and he immediately returns to his ship to blow it up.
Yep, that's right. The ship that has been home to this cult for generations is gone due to a split second decision. Now all 200 or so Klingons are on Voyager mucking about, stinking up the place, fighting, and mating. Harry attracts a rough lass who tries to bite his face off like a chimpanzee. The doctor suggests that the only thing to do is bone her, and signs off on the inter-species mating. He also tells him that Janeway will need to sign off as well. But in the end, Neelix gladly takes the aggressor off Harry's hands and shtups her himself, trashing Tuvok's place. Ew. He didn't bother to get permission for any of it.
So why blow the ship up? Well there's the stated reason, and the real reason. The stated reason is that B'Elanna's baby is the savior they've been seeking, and so they must follow it and immediately shed the last bit of their old Klingon ways. The real reason is that Kohlar is sick of this shit and wants it to end. He doesn't really believe that the baby is their Kuvah'magh, but he sees it as an opportunity to convince the rest so they can find a place to settle down. He convinces B'Elanna to go along with the ruse so that the Voyager crew can have their ship back. But T'Greth ain't buying it, especially when they discover that the baby is only a quarter Klingon. He then challenges Paris to a fight to the death, which Tom immediately accepts. WHAT?
Janeway nixes that idea, and they instead just do a sanctioned fight with rules and stuff. Tom wins because T'Greth is all of a sudden dying. Oh yes, did they forget to mention? All the Klingons have the plague and now so does our resident Klingon as well as her unborn child. So that's nice.
But wait, there's more! The now very sick T'Greth is leading a double mutiny to not only break away from Kohlar, but also take over Voyager. It promptly fails, and T'Greth wakes up in the sick bay cured by the baby's stem cells I guess. They dump the Klingons on some planet and bail. The end.
I have questions. If the baby is the answer to the virus because she has both human and Klingon DNA, then wouldn't B'Elanna also have the same circumstance? Wouldn't they both be immune as well? The doctor extracts presumably stem cells from the baby and then, what? Gives them back to the baby to cure it?
Didn't we already do the whole schtick with Tuvok and Neelix bunking up? And isn't it a little late in the series to be playing up their dynamic so comically? They were literally one person for awhile. Neelix literally nursed a child-like Tuvok back to health. Certainly their relationship has matured at least some, no?
Why is B'Elanna again so dismissive of her Klingon heritage and religion? Didn't she literally go to Klingon Hell and rescue her mother? Why does she not believe now?
Why is Harry the only person that has to get special permission to bang? This rule has only ever come up when it's Harry getting lucky. Everyone else just blasts off to Risa and shtups the first alien they see displaying a horga'hn.
Why in the ever-loving hell would Paris agree to a fight to the death? You can't just do that, you're an officer in Star Fleet. There's no fights to deaths. Plus, the stakes weren't even that high. Like, Tom, you have to fight to the death or your family dies. Sure. But this? This was just for honor, or maybe to prove that their baby was Klingon enough to be a savior? I'm really not sure.
"Prophecy" is an Adequate episode of Star Trek. There is a lot going on, and most of it is really out there and wild. It certainly keeps you entertained. But it is also all over the place, nonsensical, and doesn't really come to any cohesive point.
Published Aug 10, 2025
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