Star Trek episode where old people have to die?

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I'm looking for a Star Trek episode, I think it's from Voyager, where the crew encounters an alien race where the elderly have to die. I know of one scene where Janeway (?) talks to a healthy and intelligent man who has to die because of this law.

I've been poring over all the Voyager episode summaries, but didn't find anything. Does anyone know which episode I'm talking about?

Valorum · Accepted Answer

You're referring to TNG "Half a Life".

Per wikipedia;

""Half a Life" is the 96th episode of the science fiction television
  series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 22nd episode of the
  fourth season.
  
  Lwaxana Troi falls in love with Timicin, a scientist who is
  participating in an experiment to test his theories of stellar
  ignition. Timicin hopes to use the technique to save his world's dying
  star, but the experiment fails. Although Lwaxana encourages Timicin to
  continue his research, the scientist reveals that he can't. It's time
  for him to go home for "Resolution"- a ritual suicide invoked at the
  age of sixty to save children from the burden of a parent's aging."

Dima · Answer

It is a Next Generation episode Half a Life.  And it is not Janeway, it is Lwaxana Troi.

steenbergh · Answer

I'm slightly late to the party here... But there's also a Voyager episode that matches your description: Emanations (S01E09). In this episode, Kim gets sucked into some sort of subspace portal that links a burial site (discovered by Voyager) to a sarcofagus on a planet where living people are killed and then sent through it into the 'next Emanation'.

Script here: http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/108.htm

nick · Answer

there is this one too, from the original series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)

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