Favorite Son ( episode ) Harry seemingly learns both that he is actually a member of a Delta Quadrant race and that " his " people want him never to leave his new home . Summary . Teaser . Commander Chakotay suggests using a trinary star system as a focal map point for the sector the is passing through . Ensign Harry Kim asks if " Voyager " had been to this system before , only to have Tuvok suggest that he was experiencing a " " paradoxical state dependent associative phenomenon " " , or as Captain Janeway puts it , " " déjà vu " " . When " Voyager " encounters an alien ship they have never seen before ( the Nasari ship " Nerada " ) , Kim instinctively transfers tactical control to his station . Though the Nasari show no apparent hostile intent , Kim raises " Voyager " s shields and fires phaser s without orders , claiming that the alien vessel is charging weapons . Act One . " Voyager " takes heavy damage in defending itself from the Nasari vessel , forcing them to withdraw . Janeway demands Kim explain his actions , and Harry tells her that he just knew the Nasari were going to attack . Tuvok says he detected nothing but a tetryon surge coming from their ship , and points out that there could be any number of explanations for that . Kim is suspended from duty , and shadowed by a security guard , pending investigation of his overtly - hostile actions . Lieutenant B ' Elanna Torres was severely injured during the attack in engineering and is brought to sickbay . Kim then goes to sickbay on Captain Janeway ' s orders to look at a cut on his forehead and to watch The Doctor and Kes treating Torres ' injuries . He feels extremely guilty over his actions and Kes comforts him , telling him that what ' s done is done and that he cannot change that fact . During the night , Kim has a strange dream while asleep in his quarters and when he awakens , he goes to his bathroom to find he has a strange rash all over his face . Act Two . In sickbay , The Doctor scans Kim with his medical tricorder and cannot find an initial cause . However , when Kim remembers dreaming about Mendakan pox he had as a child and suggests a possible connection , The Doctor sarcastically tells the ensign he will note it . Fortunately , Torres then wakes up and is all right . Kim reports to the captain ' s ready room and admits fault about starting the last engagement . Janeway reveals that he was right about the Nasari ship charging weapons , and they would have caught " Voyager " with her shields down had he not acted . The question now is how did Harry know they were going to attack . Kim can only say this part of space has become increasingly familiar . Tuvok suddenly alerts Janeway that there are three Nasari ships approaching them . Kim immediately has a star chart pulled up on one of " Voyager " s computers at the ship ' s conn and convinces Janeway to set a course to a nearby system . Upon arriving , Kim sees a planet and knows its name is Taresia . Prior to being attacked by the Nasari , " Voyager " is defended by an unknown ship which forces the Nasari vessels to retreat . " Voyager " answers a hail from the unknown ship which is from Taresia . The woman communicating with " Voyager " from the Taresian ship recognizes Harry as a Taresian and welcomes him home . Act Three . Kim , Janeway , Tuvok , and Paris beam down to Taresia . The Taresians tell a shocking story of how Kim was implanted with their DNA at birth . When he was an embryo , he was put in stasis and taken to Earth , where he was implanted in the womb of a Human woman , his mother . After the implantation process , Kim began to incorporate DNA from his " surrogate " parent , so he developed as a Human . Tuvok asks if " all " of their children are born to alien parents . Lyris tells him yes , and that each child that returns to their homeworld brings an infusion of genetic material as well as firsthand information of alien species . After this revelation , Kim decides to stay with the Taresians , at least temporarily , to learn more about his newfound species and himself . " Voyager " leaves orbit to attempt negotations with the Nasari . They learn from the Nasari , Alben , that the Taresian males who return to Taresia never leave , but , oddly , provides no more information and promises to fire if they do manage to get Kim back . " Voyager " returns to Taresia where they find a protective polaron grid encircling the planet which also blocks communications . " " I guess we ' re not welcome anymore " " , Chakotay tells Janeway . Act Four . Kim participates in the joining ( marriage ) ceremony of another male Taresian , Taymon , where he is joined ( married ) to three women . Eliann tells Kim that he will remember how to perform the ceremony with everyone else as soon as it begins . After the ceremony is over , Kim tries to contact " Voyager " through his combadge but is unsuccessful . Lyris tells him the ship may still be conducting negotiations with the Nasari and therefore delayed . She encourages him to join the wedding celebration while he waits . Back on " Voyager " , Janeway and Chakotay walk down a corridor towards sickbay . Chakotay announces to the captain that the crew has been able to poke some holes in the tachyon grid , but " Voyager " is too big to go through . Janeway asks if a shuttle could , but Chakotay doubts it . Even if it could , a powerful Taresian vessel patrols the other side . Upon entering sickbay , The Doctor meets with the captain and first officer in his office to inform them that he discovered something about Kim ' s Taresian DNA : it was implanted , possibly by a retrovirus . The Doctor confirms that Kim " is " fully Human but warns them that the alien DNA from is beginning to alter his genetic structure ; in a few days he will be indistinguishable from a Taresian . The Doctor reviewed the transporter biofilter log s and found that the alien DNA made its first appearance on stardate 50698 . Chakotay remembers that was the date of the away mission on the planet where Vorillium was found . The Taresian ' s whole story was a lie but Janeway wonders why the Taresians would go to so much trouble to lure Kim to their planet . Meanwhile , on Taresia , Kim is led to his quarters by Eliann . She tells him to lie on his bed and relax . " " Lekaria san " " , she tells him . She asks if he understands the Taresian word . " " Pleasant dreams " " , he replies . She asks him to close his eyes while she applies " " the essence of rikka flower s " " to Kim , something very soothing . Kim kiss es Eliann and promptly falls asleep . However , Kim begins experiencing some more strange dreams , of Taresian women welcoming him home , of Janeway and Chakotay on " Voyager " s bridge , telling him how lucky they ' ve been to have him and how special he has been all his life . His mother appears and tells him he " knows " where his real home is . Suddenly , Eliann appears and asks him to stay with her as they begin to kiss passionately . Doubt begins to creep up on Kim after waking up to two " very " " interested " Taresian females , Eliann and Rinna . They try to reassure him but their attempts to do so instead make him outright suspicious . Kim ties up Eliann and knocks out Rinna so he can escape . Kim makes it to Taymon ' s quarters to try to free him as well . When he enters , he finds Taymon ' s corpse in bed . Act Five . One of Taymon ' s wives , Malia , enters the quarters and Kim overpowers her . He learns what The Doctor discovered and that the Taresian reproductive process is deadly to the male , meaning that more males have to be repeatedly harvested from space due to the high female population . Taymon ' s other two wives enter the quarters . Kim throws Malia at them to continue his escape and they all fall onto Taymon ' s bed . " Voyager " finally finds a way to get inside the polaron grid and beam s Kim up as he is surrounded by more Taresian women who try to forcibly have him joined , armed with their staffs . When " Voyager " leaves the system , a Taresian ship fires at " Voyager " when three Nasari ships appear and also fire at " Voyager " and the Taresian ship . The Nasari later concentrate their fire on the Taresian ship allowing " Voyager " to leave . Kim meets with Neelix and Lieutenant Paris at the mess hall where he tells the Talaxian the story of Odysseus and the call of the sirens , a tale strikingly similar to the situation he just found himself in . The captain of ancient ships ordered the crew to block their ears in order not to be seduced by the singing of the sirens . The sirens would cause the ships to crash , marooning the crew . Neelix says he ' s glad Kim is back aboard but admits he misses the spots Kim had . Kim tells Paris that he wished he was more like Paris with women . Paris states he has tried to be like Kim since he joined the crew of " Voyager . " Paris puts his hand on Kim ' s shoulder as he tells the young man he is " " reliable , hard working , extremely punctual . Did I mention polite ? " " " " Thanks a lot " " , Kim replies . Memorable quotes . " " Perhaps you are experiencing a paradoxical state - dependent associative phenomenon . " " " " Déjà vu . " " " " We raised you to be a responsible boy . " " " " I try to be . " " " " I ' m suspending you from duty ! " " " " Mom . . . " " " " What ' s your next trick , Harry ? Pull a shuttlecraft out of a hat ? " " " " Is this the standard " welcome home " reception ? " " " " For males , it is . They ' re " very " rare . Our population is ninety percent female . " " " Really ? " " " Harry . What happened to your face ? " " " " We ' re still trying to figure that out . " " " " It ' s kind of cute . Makes you look like a speckled targ ! " " " " Sometimes I wish I could be more bold , more confident with women , more like you . " " " " Like me ? You might want to reconsider that , Harry . There may be prison time involved . " " Links and references . References . Alpha Quadrant ; Ashmore ; binary code ; bioscan ; blindfold ; " déjà vu " ; Delta Quadrant ; DNA ; Essence of rikka flowers ; evasive maneuvers ; Federation ; genetic engineering ; genetic memory ; hatana ; ; ; Klingon ; medical scan ; Mendakan pox ; microcellular scan ; Milky Way Galaxy ; mood enhancer ; Nasari ; Nasari ship ; Nerada ; neural tissue ; Nucleation ; Odysseus ; paradoxical state - dependent associative phenomenon ; plasma conduit ; plasma injector ; polaron grid ; pulmonary regeneration ; pulmozine ; rash ; red alert ; retrovirus ; rikka flower ; Sirens ; tachyon ; Taresia ; Taresian ; Taresian language ; Taresian chime ; Taresian starship ; Taresian system ; targ ; tetryon ; tone deafness ; transporter buffer ; vorillium ; warp field