Deadlock ( episode ) While trying to avoid Vidiian territory , " Voyager " is nearly destroyed by proton bursts coming from an unknown source . Summary . Teaser . Neelix asks Ensign Samantha Wildman to help him in the mess hall . A heating element in his kitchen is malfunctioning , and it won ' t be long before there won ' t be any way to cook for the crew . Since Neelix has her there , he also asks her to help fix one of the food replicator s . While investigating the problem , Wildman goes into labor . Neelix is excited for her and escorts her to sickbay . Seven hours later , The Doctor announces Wildman will soon deliver her baby . The bridge crew waits in anticipation . Lieutenant Tom Paris can ' t believe how long it takes ; he figures she would have had the baby by now . Captain Kathryn Janeway reassures the lieutenant that childbirth takes as long as it takes . Lt . Tuvok adds that the birth of his third child took 96 hours . The light conversation is interrupted when Tuvok detects Vidiian subspace communication s ahead and a G - type star system containing two inhabited planets , all Vidiians . Janeway doesn ' t want her or her crew to be unwilling organ donors , so she orders Paris to find a way to avoid detection . Paris suggests traveling through a large plasma drift , which spans almost halfway across the sector , and the crew head in knowing the interference caused by the plasma drift is their best chance to escape the Vidiians . Back in sickbay , Wildman is beginning to push but suddenly screams in pain as the baby turns awkwardly and lodges its cranial ridge into Wildman ' s uterine wall . The baby can ' t be moved for risk of causing nerve damage , but if it isn ' t delivered soon then the ridges could cause internal bleeding . The Doctor decides to perform a fetal transport and beam the baby out . " Voyager " successfully leaves the Vidiian system without being detected , and Janeway orders Paris to leave the plasma drift and resume their previous heading . In sickbay , The Doctor performs the fetal transport and delivers the baby , a girl . The Doctor notes that the transport caused a small complication that can be fixed with osmotic pressure therapy . Otherwise , she ' s perfectly healthy . Just then , the ship hits severe subspace turbulence . The warp engine s stall and power failures occur all over the ship . Janeway calls for red alert , and asks Lt . Torres what ' s happening . It turns out the ship ' s antimatter is being drained , but Torres can ' t find any reason why it would be as all the containment fields are in place . Janeway orders Torres to start a series of proton bursts that will keep the antimatter reaction going . Torres prepares to start the procedure , but suddenly a proton burst hits the ship without warning seemingly out of nowhere . The ship is heavily damaged and people are hurt all over the ship . What ' s worse , the incubator for Wildman ' s baby is losing power due to the energy drain . The Doctor asks Kes to switch to an emergency incubator while several injured crew members pile into sickbay . Act One . In sickbay , The Doctor attempts to deal with the wounded crewmembers while Kes tries to use osmotic pressure to stabilize the baby ' s cells , but it is having no effect . Suddenly , another proton burst damages sickbay , and The Doctor tells Kes to increase the pressure . The Doctor is informed that there are more injured crewmembers on the way . From the massively - damaged main engineering , Torres tells Janeway that the ship is being hit by proton bursts , but she didn ' t start the proton burst procedure . Ensign Kim confirms that no bursts were fired , and the sensor array which would have emitted them is off - line . Another burst hits , causing a hull breach on deck 15 , section 29 alpha and the emergency force fields are off - line . Ensign Kim tells Captain Janeway that he has been working on a portable force field generator which could seal the breach , and Janeway sends him to try it . Back in sickbay , The Doctor treats an injured Neelix while Kes is struggling with the baby , whose condition starts to deteriorate due to the cell imbalance . The Doctor prepares to help , but suddenly another burst hits , causing damage to The Doctor ' s program , almost knocking him off - line . Torres and Kim reach the breach on Deck 15 Section 29 . Assisting them is Lt . Hogan , and Torres and Kim go off to the breach while Hogan tries to re - route the power to them . Tuvok has fully analyzed the proton bursts and still has no idea where they ' re coming from , but by now Janeway is more concerned with stopping them . She tells Commander Chakotay to magnetize the hull to minimize the effects of the bursts . She works with him to transfer enough power to protect the ship . The Doctor stabilizes his program , but by now the baby is unconscious . The Doctor prepares to try and resuscitate her and promises Wildman he ' ll do everything he can to save the baby , but by now things are looking very bleak . Hogan is about to re - route the power , when suddenly another proton burst hits and blows out the panel he ' s working at injuring him . Torres and Kim don ' t have time to go back , and continue on to the breach . In sickbay , all attempts to resuscitate the baby have failed and The Doctor is forced give up and declare her dead . Wildman is devastated and begins to sob while Neelix comforts her . Hogan calls sickbay for help , and Kes grabs a medkit and heads to his position . Meanwhile , the breach is widening and Torres decides they need to leave . However , Kim hesitates and suddenly the ship is hit with a huge jolt causing Kim to fall . He grabs a railing , but is hanging directly above the breach . Torres tries to grab him , but the force of the vacuum is too strong and he is pushed into space , killing him . Torres comes out of the Jefferies tube into the corridor to help Hogan . Kes runs down the corridor to help , but she vanishes into thin air . Act Two . Torres tells Janeway what has happened to Kim and Kes and informs her of the spatial rift that has opened on deck 15 . She throws a piece of broken conduit into the rift and scans the fissure . She notes that there is an oxygen - nitrogen atmosphere on the other side ; Kes might still be alive . With the hull breach widening , Janeway orders that the entire deck be evacuated . Torres helps Hogan to his feet and the two of them make their way out of the area . Chakotay is able to draw enough power to magnetize the hull and minimize the effects of several proton bursts . Janeway orders a full damage report from Tuvok . The news isn ' t good : the deck 15 breach had widened to encompass a part of deck 14 , and 632 microfractures are all over the hull . All primary systems are offline , the antimatter levels are at 18 percent and continuing to fall , the warp coils in both nacelles are fused and inoperative , 15 crew members have plasma burns and 27 others are injured . The Doctor has opened triage facilities in both sickbay and holodeck 2 . Tuvok also reports that Wildman ' s baby has died . Janeway first shows a sign of sadness , then anger . She orders the microfractures sealed and tells Paris to go to help the wounded . Just then , the proton bursts start to cause damage again . The power feeding the magnetized hull shuts down and the hull begins depolarizing . Fires erupt everywhere , but aren ' t put out because the automatic fire suppression system is also offline . The computer then reports that a hull breach has appeared on the bridge and , with the emergency force fields offline and no way to seal the breach , Chakotay begins an evacuation . Janeway stays at her command chair , trying to re - route emergency power to the field emitters to seal the breach . Chakotay yells at her to leave the bridge before it is too late . As more of the bridge begins to crumble , Janeway finally leaves to join the other evacuees . As she evacuates , she takes one last look at the bridge and freezes in disbelief – she sees a ghost - like image of her bridge crew . In fact , she ' s staring at herself sitting in her chair . Chakotay yells once more and Janeway leaves the bridge . On an undamaged bridge , the Janeway in the chair ( Janeway # 2 ) sees herself ( Janeway # 1 ) cross the bridge and enter a turbolift . Janeway # 1 has a tinge of orange from the fires that erupted on the first bridge . This Janeway sits on an unaffected ship ; gone are the breaches , injuries , and damage . The proton burst procedure is occurring normally . Janeway # 2 in shock tells a very much alive Harry Kim to scan the bridge because she says she saw herself . . . and she looked like hell . Kim reports that he found a spatial fluctuation , but it was gone in a millisecond . He can ' t get a more precise reading because the sensors are being used for the proton bursts . Janeway asks Torres to speed up the procedure from its normal three hours so she can use the sensor array to find out what happened . In sickbay , Wildman holds a healthy baby girl . Janeway goes to congratulate her and asks The Doctor about a mysterious crewmember they found unconscious on deck 15 : the Kes from the first " Voyager " ( Kes # 1 ) . The Kes from the second " Voyager " says Kes # 1 is nearly identical to her in every way , except for a phase shift in her DNA . Act Three . Kes # 1 recounts the events of the severe damage on her " Voyager " . She says she ran through a corridor , then she felt dizzy and she woke up there in Sickbay . Janeway # 2 says her crew found a piece of conduit from bulkhead 052 on deck 15 , section 29 Alpha , even though there were no signs of damage . Kes # 1 disagrees , saying there was massive damage to deck 15 . Janeway # 2 walks Kes # 1 through the events after they left the plasma drift . Since Kes # 1 ' s " Voyager " had not started the proton burst procedure , Janeway # 2 realizes that the proton bursts from their " Voyager " is damaging the other one . Janeway # 2 tells her Torres to stop the proton burst procedure . The bursts stop , but the drain on antimatter starts once again . Janeway # 2 knows the only way to figure out how to get out of the situation is to find the first " Voyager " , so she heads to the bridge for more information . Chakotay # 2 runs a quantum level analysis on the ship ' s sensors after they left the plasma drift and hit the spatial turbulence . Torres # 2 explains that it was more than just turbulence , it was a subspace divergence field . After the ship left the drift , all sensor readings doubled . . . every particle of matter was duplicated . The field created another " Voyager " , occupying the same point in space - time . Janeway # 2 recounts a Kent State University experiment in which quantum theorists duplicated a single particle of matter using divergence of subspace fields called a spatial scission . The theorists failed when they tried to duplicate antimatter . The experiment explains why " Voyager " s power was draining so fast ; both ships are running their engines from the same antimatter source , like Siamese twins linked together at the heart . Janeway # 2 asks Torres # 2 to figure out a way to communicate with the other ship . She also wants to find a way to get Kes # 1 back to her ship without being harmed . Kim works on a phase discriminator to protect Kes # 1 from the effects of the spatial rift . Back in sickbay , Wildman # 2 asks The Doctor # 2 when she can start breastfeeding her baby . The Doctor says she can start immediately , although they ' ll have to think of alternatives once her baby ' s Ktarian incisors form in three to four weeks . The sound of the baby crying brings back Kes # 1 ' s memory of the first Wildman ' s baby dying in her sickbay . The Doctor tries to comfort her and says it ' s not her fault . Kes # 1 wants to go back to her ship to help her crew . The Doctor tells her not to worry ; he should have a counterpart that is well - programmed to handle the situation . Janeway # 2 and Torres # 2 try to figure out a way to communicate with the first " Voyager " . Janeway orders Torres to emit a comm signal through all subspace bands to get their attention . The comm signal pronounces itself as a shrill noise that permeates into engineering ( which , due to the bridge being uninhabitable , is the crew ' s temporary command center ) of " Voyager " # 1 . " Voyager " # 1 locks onto the phase variance of the communique and sends back the signal . Torres # 2 sends a message to the first " Voyager " using the ship ' s emergency encryption code to begin communicating at a frequency of 12 GHz . The viewscreen behind the engineering console springs to life , and the face of Janeway # 2 appears . The two Janeways meet for the first time . Janeway # 1 and her crew discuss whether the second " Voyager " is a deception but Janeway # 1 tends to believe Janeway # 2 . Janeway # 1 ' s counterpart knew intimate information about her and her crew , including when she walked seven kilometers in a severe thunderstorm after she had lost a tennis match . Janeway # 1 decides to cooperate with her and coordinate an attempt to try to merge the two ships . Janeway # 1 takes command of the effort and orders both Torres ' to synchronize a depolarization pulse with the deflector dish . The pulse doesn ' t work and results in the ships going further out of phase . The phase separation threatens to destroy both ships , so the plan is aborted . The stress of the procedure breaks the comm link and turns the antimatter leak into a hemorrhage , meaning the ship will be out of power in thirty minutes . Running out of time , Janeway # 2 asks Kim # 2 if he ' s ready to send Kes # 1 back to her ship . He replies that he is ready . Janeway # 2 tells him to rig another phase discriminator ; she plans to go to the other " Voyager " and coordinate operations with Janeway # 1 . Act Four . Janeway # 1 is attempting to figure out how to stop the leak of antimatter when Janeway # 2 shows up in engineering to talk to her . The two Janeways go to the top level of engineering to try to determine how to fix the problem . Janeway # 1 thinks of separating the two ships , but Janeway # 2 says that ' s impossible because her Torres says interaction between the two ships ' antimatter would cause the ships to destroy themselves . Janeway # 2 wonders if Janeway # 1 could move her crew to her undamaged ship . Janeway # 1 says that is impossible , because her Torres says that moving more than five or ten people at a time would harmfully adjust the atomic balance of the two " Voyager " s , once again destroying both ships . Janeway # 1 tells Janeway # 2 to go back to her ship to run a metallurgical analysis on the hull . Janeway # 2 already knows what her counterpart is going to do – destroy her ship and allow Janeway # 2 ' s intact ship to continue on its journey – and convinces her to wait for fifteen minutes to think of another way . Back on her own bridge , Janeway # 2 hails her counterpart and begins to describe an idea she ' s had when both Tuvoks detect a Vidiian ship heading toward them . The effects of the power loss and proton bursts have caused the weapons and shields on both ships to go offline . Tuvok # 2 calculates it would take three hours to restore the weapons system to the undamaged ship . The Vidiians are aware of this and fire a Hyper - thermic charge . The charge results in a direct hit but only the second ship feels the effect , its weapons array is destroyed . The Vidiians land their ship on the hull of the second " Voyager " and cut an access port onto deck 5 . Act Five . Vidiians board the second " Voyager " and begin killing the crew and harvesting their organs . A Vidiian kills Tuvok and a security guard . In sickbay ( on deck 5 ) , The Doctor tells Wildman that he will keep her baby safe , planning to hide her in an access port . The Doctor erects an emergency force field around Sickbay to protect them , but it doesn ' t hold for long and two Vidiians storm into the room while The Doctor is forced to hide in his office with the baby . Back on the bridge , Chakotay reports the Vidiians have taken Sickbay and everything below deck 5 . There are 347 Vidiians on the ship and more are boarding . Janeway # 1 hails the second " Voyager " and offers to help by sending a security team to fight the Vidiians , but Janeway # 2 refuses . She decides to use the auto - destruct sequence to prevent both ships from falling into Vidiian hands . Janeway # 2 tells Janeway # 1 that it only seems fair for her to send Harry Kim through the spatial rift with Wildman ' s baby . Kim protests , but Janeway # 2 orders him to get the baby and go , saying he ' s got five minutes to get through the rift . As Kim leaves the bridge , Janeway # 2 sets the auto - destruct for five minutes and tells the computer to disable voice warnings . She and Chakotay # 2 sit down in their command chairs and grimly look at each other before she enables the countdown . Kim makes his way to sickbay where the Vidiians , having killed everyone inside apart from the hidden baby , are scanning Kes # 2 and Wildman # 2 for organs . They notice that Wildman has just given birth . They begin scanning for the baby , who is huddled in The Doctor ' s arms in his office . Kim bursts in and kills the Vidiians . The Doctor hands over the baby and tells Kim to tell The Doctor on the other ship that he has corrected the baby ' s hemocythemia . Back on the bridge , two Vidiians walk off the turbolift . Janeway stands and gives them a calm welcome : " " Hello . I ' m Captain Kathryn Janeway . Welcome to the bridge . " " The Vidiians are puzzled at the welcome , when suddenly one of the Vidiians alerts the other to the auto - destruct countdown as it enters the final few seconds , far too late to do anything about it . The countdown reaches zero and the second " Voyager " explodes , which also destroys the Vidiian ship and leaving the first " Voyager " intact . Ensign Kim makes it safely through the rift with Wildman ' s baby . Chakotay informs Janeway of the destruction of the other " Voyager " and the Vidiian ship . Janeway is saddened at the deaths , but knows it was what they had to do . " Voyager " continues on its way and the crew starts to makes repairs . There are no signs of the Vidiians , while it will be three days before the crew can return to the bridge . Tuvok and Janeway have a discussion about their experience , and Janeway admits that after going over what happened , if the Vidiians hadn ' t attacked , she would have destroyed her ship but she could also see the other Janeway ' s point of view . Tuvok comments that Janeway was " both the doubter and the doubted " and notes the paradoxial logic at work in the situation . Ensign Wildman thanks Kim for reuniting her with her baby , but he tells her it was the other Doctor who saved her from the Vidiians . Kim and Janeway walk out into the corridor where he comments that it ' s weird that he ' s on a different ship with a different captain and a different crew , except she is his captain and there is really no difference . Janeway says that being Starfleet officers , weird is part of their job . Memorable quotes . " " Uhh . . . " " " " What ' s wrong ? " " " " I think I ' m having a contraction . . . Oh yeah , it ' s a contraction alright . " " " " Oh that ' s wonderful . Labor can ' t be far behind . We ' re having a baby . " " " " The Delta Quadrant isn ' t anybody ' s idea of a playground . " " " " Push , ensign . " " " " You push ! Dammit ! I ' m sick of pushing ! " " " " I ' m just not sure if I should be welcoming it aboard or apologizing . " " " " My father had a saying , captain . " Home is wherever you happen to be " . " " " " This is ridiculous . It ' s been seven hours . How long does take to deliver a baby ? " " " " As long as it takes Mr . Paris . " " " " Indeed . During the birth of our third child my wife was in labor for 96 hours . " " " " Four days ? " " " " I have learned that pregnancy and patience go hand - in - hand . " " " " Ensign Kim , scan the Bridge . I just saw myself cross the Bridge and enter that turbolift . It was very faint , almost like a ghost image . And I looked like hell . " " " " This isn ' t really my ship and you ' re not really my captain and yet you are and there ' s no difference . But I know there ' s a difference . Or is there ? It ' s all a little weird . " " " " Mr . Kim , we ' re Starfleet officers . Weird is part of the job . " " " " Please don ' t make me call security and have you escorted off my ship , because . . . you know , I ' ll do it . " " " " Make me a promise , Kathryn : Get your crew home . " " " " I will . " I will . " " " Harry , you ' ve got five minutes , get the baby . " " " " But captain . . . " " " " Move it ensign , that ' s an order ! " " " " Warning , self - destruct sequence has been initiated . Warp core overload in four minutes , fifty - five seconds . There will be no further audio warnings . " " " " Hello . I ' m Captain Kathryn Janeway . Welcome to the bridge . " " " " Mr . Kim , we ' re Starfleet officers . Weird is part of the job . " " Links and references . 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