Mindwalk (episode)

Desperate to warn Starfleet of their dilemma, a daring experiment goes awry as Dal inadvertently swaps minds with a Starfleet vice admiral.
== Summary ==
On board the the Diviner and Asencia stuff the unconscious Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway into a closet and remove her combadge until they can figure out what to do with her. The Vindicator then reasserts her Trill appearance and reports to the bridge. There, she suggests to Commander Tysess that they merge their warp field with the .
Thanks to the corruption in Hologram Janeway's program, the Protostar crew is unable to stop the ship as it hurls directly towards Federation space, with the Dauntless dangerously close behind. As the crew tries to come up with ideas, Holo Janeway decides to deactivate herself, explaining that she can't sabotage them if she doesn't know what they're doing. Suddenly, Zero gets an idea—they should try using telepathy to tell Admiral Janeway what’s going on. Zero states that if they were still a part of the hive mind, they'd be able to but suggests that Dal R'El's Organian genes might permit him to make contact. As Zero uses himself as a facilitator to assist Dal in telepathically contacting the admiral, the ship is hit with phaser fire from the Dauntless and Dal passes out for a moment. When Dal wakes up, he seems to have no memory of who they all are. However, it quickly becomes apparent that this isn't Dal – it's Admiral Janeway in Dal's body. Zero deduces that somehow the Admiral’s neural pattern switched with Dal’s – which means that Dal is on the Dauntless in the Admiral’s body.
Meanwhile, on the Dauntless, Dal wakes up in the closet and discovers that he's in Admiral Janeway's body. When he's beamed directly to the bridge by Tysess, the "Admiral's" odd behavior perplexes the crew. Concerned, Doctor Noum gives Dal-in-Janeway a cup of coffee which she promptly spits out. Realizing something is wrong, Noum orders her to sickbay for tests. However, Dal-in-Janeway insists that her “brains are fine” and quickly exits the bridge, leaving Tysess in command. With the Protostar headed for the heart of Federation space, the commander decides to contact Starfleet and request that they send every available ship to meet them when they arrive. 
On the Protostar, Janeway-in-Dal's-body demands to know what's going on, and crew explains their entire situation, including the living construct. Janeway is sympathetic and promises to help them any way she can, but she needs to find a way to get back into her own body on the Dauntless. Soon after, Dal-in-Janeway locates Holo Janeway and restores her original program and removes the Construct's corruption. Holo Janeway's memories of the original Protostar crew return and she shows the admiral the logs of what happened to Captain Chakotay.
Later, Rok-Tahk figures out that phaser beam must've acted as a conduit and the two neural patterns were switched when Zero was attempting to create a telepathic link. Suddenly, Zero has an idea. They state that before the ancient Organians became non-corporeal, they were able to transfer their consciousness into other bodies through physical touch. Zero suggests that Janeway-in-Dal and Dal-in-Janeway go out into space in environmental suits so they can float out in space until they come within touching distance of each other. Since the Protostar is so close to the Dauntless that Dal-in-Janeway can see them through the windows, they're able to get the word out to him through charades. Unfortunately, just as Dal-in-Janeway decodes the message, he's discovered by the crew who sedate him, take him to sickbay and place him in restraints. Luckily, the Diviner enters and unexpectedly allows Dal-in-Janeway to escape as repayment for her saving his life and in exchange for taking care of his daughter, Gwyn.
As Dal-in-Janeway prepares to exit the ship, she tells Rok that she'll make a great science officer someday and promises to help them all in their quest to join Starfleet. However, she reveals to Gwyn that, since Dal is an Augment, he will never be allowed to join.
Meanwhile, Dal-in-Janeway has made it to the outside of the ship and struggles to reach Janeway-in-Dal, so the latter gets Murf to stretch her across the gap between them. When the Dauntless attempts to pull Dal-in-Janeway back in via a tractor beam, Janeway=in-Dal shoots her counterpart with a low powered phaser blast, hoping it'll work as a conduit for the mind swap. The plan works and both Dal and Janeway are returned to their respective bodies and to their ships.
Groggy from the phaser blast she inflicted on her own body, Admiral Janeway wakes up and finds herself in the brig. At the same time, the Protostar drops out of warp and is greeted by an entire armada of Starfleet vessels.
==Memorable quotes==
"What if we reconfigure the deflector to emit a phased tachyon pulse to communicate the..."
"Yeah, sure! Why not? Beep, boop! Beep, boop! Jankom doesn't know how to do that."
:- Rok and Jankom
"Hello, Starfleet person. I am the admiral obviously. Thank you for your service during... Ah. Red alert."
:- Dal (in Janeway's body), to an officer on the Dauntless
"I'm Admiral Janeway. I can do this."
"A few more phaser volleys should knock out their shields."
"Whoa! Stop firing! Uh, cease! Quit it!"
"But Admiral, those were your orders."
"I changed my mind. Not in a weird way, but a totally normal way. I can change my mind." 
"Uh, understood. We'll end our pursuit." 
"Wait, don't do that either! I don't want to lose my body... of work that is the Protostar." 
"So, you do want to board their ship?" 
"I mean, let's see where they're going first. Then, pew pew pew?" 
"You heard the admiral."
:- Dal (in Janeway's body) and Tysess
""Admiral, as your doctor, I order you to drink this coffee. Get it together."
""Ugh! How does she drink this stuff?""
:- Noum and Dal (in Janeway's body)
"Admiral, my medical scan picked up faint cellular damage in your cerebral cortex. Your brain waves..."
"What? Oh, that's crazy! My... my brains are fine. I'm just busy thinking real hard, that's all."
:- Noum and Dal (in Janeway's body)
"You, Antennas, you're in charge. Everyone else, keep doing an awesome job. Teamwork makes the dream work!"
:- Dal (in Janeway's body), to Tysess and the Dauntless crew
"Come on, Kate. Make something great out of that mess."
:- Admiral Janeway (in Dal's body), quoting her father to Hologram Janeway to prove who she was
"It's really you. I mean me. How?"
"Dal tried to use telepathy to contact me, but we swapped neural patterns."
"Sounds like something Dal would do."
:- Hologram Janeway and Admiral Janeway (in Dal's body)
"You mean you want me to exit a starship, go to the middle of a warp bubble, and make physical contact with my own body? Listen, I was once transformed into a salamander. Nothing can be as difficult as that. Let's do it."
:- Janeway (in Dal's body)
"Don't you know who I am?” 
"No, Admiral. We do not."
:- Dal (in Janway's body) and Noum
==Background information==
===Title===
* The title was announced by Paramount+ on . 
===Production===
* Like , which was aired by Nickelodeon in some European countries such as Croatia, Hungary, and Poland ahead of US release, this episode was originally scheduled to be aired there on . However, other programming was aired instead on that day. 
* The episode was released on on CANAL+ online in Poland ahead of US release.
===Continuity===
* The Dauntless and the Protostar merging their warp fields is a technique first featured in when the NX-01 merged its warp field with its sister ship Columbia to allow Charles Tucker III in a risky maneuver to transfer to Enterprise via a grappler wire extended between the two ships while at warp to assist in repairing the ship after it had been sabotaged by Klingon forces.
* Janeway's sister, who was mentioned several times on , is finally given the name Phoebe, which was first established in the Voyager novel Mosaic, written by Voyager co-creator Jeri Taylor.
* The swap between Janeway and Dal is attributed to Dal's proto-Organian DNA allowing consciousnesses to move between bodies, similarly to the events of . 
* Janeway references her experience transforming into a "salamander" in . Beckett Mariner likewise references Tom Paris' transformation into a salamander, as well in , which Brad Boimler defined as a "celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate".
* Janeway reveals to Gwyn that as an Augment, Dal R'El will never be allowed to serve in Starfleet due to the Federation ban on genetic engineering. Enforced for more than three centuries following the Eugenics Wars, this law forced other Augments to hide their true nature, such as Una Chin-Riley in or Julian Bashir in , in order to join.
* Although there is no official stardate within the episode itself, an entry by Janeway on the "Star Trek Logs" Instagram account dated the episode to Stardate 61403.7. 
==Links and references==
===Cast===
* Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk
* Dee Bradley Baker as
** Murf
** Bridge Officer
* Brett Gray as
** Dal
** Admir-Dal
* Angus Imrie as
** Zero
** Crew Member
* Ella Purnell as Gwyn
* Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog
* John Noble as The Diviner
* Jimmi Simpson as 
;And
* Kate Mulgrew as
** "Hologram Janeway / Vice Admiral Janeway"
** Dal R'El 
* Jason Alexander as Doctor Noum
* Robert Beltran as Captain Chakotay
* Daveed Diggs as Commander Tysess
* Jameela Jamil as Asencia
=== Background characters ===
* Brenari operations ensign
* Drednoks
* Human command officer 1
* Human command officer 3
* Human operations lieutenant
* Human operations officer 	
* Human sciences officer
* Orion sciences ensign
=== References ===
airlock; Andorian; augment; beaming; body swap (aka mind swap); Bolian; brain wave; Brenari; bridge; brig; Brikar; cadet; celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate; cerebral cortex; charades; coffee; combadge; Construct; daughter; deflector; DNA; dog; dreaming; Drednok; ensign; environmental suit; epigenetic dermal implant; Eugenics Wars; Federation; Federation space; Gamma Serpentis; genes; genome; hive mind; Human; ; ; kindness; Library Computer Access and Retrieval System; lieutenant; maximum warp; medical scan; Medusan; Mellanoid slime worm; mess; mind; mission; Morse code; neural patterns; non-corporeal; "not my first rodeo"; ; orders; Organian; Orion; "pew"; phased tachyon pulse; proto-warp engine (aka proto-drive); quantum slipstream; quarters; red alert; rodeo; salamander; science officer; shields; SOS; space; spatial distortion; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; ; sting; telepath; telepathy; Tellarite; temporal anomaly; thoughts; tractor beam; Trill; type 2 phaser; Vau N'Akat; voice; void; Vulcan; warp bubble; warp drive; warp field; "Z"
==== Starship references ====
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====LCARS references====
active line; alert status level; analysis; Andorian; antimatter mixer; armament; atomic missile; auditorium; ; Bajoran; briefing room; captain's chair; captain's office; Cardassian; cargo bay; caution; Class 5 Bird-of-Prey; cockpit; code keypad; command bridge; command code; computer room; comms; conference room; connection system; contour mode; control station; crew's personal area; cruiser; danger; Dauntless-class decks; deflector; deuterium; deuterium storage tank; diagnostic; dilithium reactor; Dominion; Earth; electrical system; energy convector chamber; energy converter; engineering room; engineering stat; ; entry hatch; escape pod; field generator; fire alert; fire fighting system; firefighter; first officer's office; flight deck; Gigean; Gorn; heat convector; Hirogen; holodeck; Human; Imperial Klingon Fleet; infirmary; impulse drive system; intermediate room; intermix chamber; Kalona 54; Kazon; ; Klingon; Klingon Bird-of-Prey; Krenim; landing gear; laser; ; magnetic field; main bridge; main hangar; Maquis; medical services; meeting room; message; navigation; Nebula C; officer's mess; offset; Orion; ; phase cannon; phaser; phaser array; phaser cannon; Pierre of Gigean; planet tracker; plasma cannon; plasma injector; plasma torpedo; polaron torpedo; Protostar-type decks; pulse cannon; quantum torpedo; radar; radar control; radar system; relaxation area; Reman; rescue capsule; rescue material capsule; Risian; Romulan; scan; shield; shield generator; ship directory; shuttlebay; shuttlecraft; Son'a; space scanner; spare parts deposit; Species 8472; staff deck; ; subspace coil; Suliban; system controls; thalaron; target; Tau Ceti; Tellarite; Tholian; torpedo launcher; transfer bridge; transporter room; Type 9 shuttlecraft; ventilation system; Vidiian; Vulcan; ; warp core; warp nacelle; warship; water turbine/pipe; weapon system; wireframe mode; Xindi
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