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Star-Trek-like series, where a man accidentally gets impregnated by an alien species

Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked on June 29, 2021

I would have absolutely sworn that this was an episode from Star Trek: Voyager. However, I’ve just finished re-watching the entirety of Voyager, and the episode didn’t happen! Either I managed to inadvertently skip over an episode, or it wasn’t Voyager after all.

So details come in two parts:

  • Bits that I’m "certain" of having existed which aren’t absolutely tied to Voyager,
  • Bits that I thought existed and do tie to Voyager specifically.

Non-Voyager Specific

Series Context: Something that involves the standard weekly cast regularly meeting aliens.

Episode Details:

  • The cast meet a new, and broadly-friendly species.
  • One (male) cast member gets particularly friendly with a female-equivalent member of the other species.
  • The "female" alien invites the male cast member back to her room/quarters/etc. and then invites them to do a shared meditation/psychic link thing, in private.
  • To the viewer it appears as a fake-out…. "Oh, they’re going to have sex! Oh, no, they’re just doing a some-what romantic meditation/link thing."
  • The cast and the new species go their separate ways.
  • Some time later… the male cast member starts to get weird symptoms and develops nipples on his forearm.
  • The cast go back and find the aliens.
  • It turns out that the meditation thing was (alien) sex, and the female alien assumed that they’d be biologically incompatible.
  • Shockingly, by the end of the episode everything has been sorted out, and it never comes up again.

Voyager-Specific

  • The "cast" in this case would be the Voyager’s crew.
  • I would have said the male cast member was either Tom Paris or Harry Kim.
  • The aliens are another species on another starship.

3 Answers

This is the ST: Enterprise episode Unexpected.

A ship feeding off Enterprise's warp field is exposed after the crew ignites the plasma exhaust. Commander Tucker takes a trip to the ship to help them repair their warp drive. After his return to Enterprise, he learns that he is "pregnant". The nature of this event becomes a major plot device of the episode, and took the series into the realm of hard science fiction.

Correct answer by Valorum on June 29, 2021

Unexpected Star Trek: Enterprise episode (season 1, episode 4)

Trip gets pregnant. You are correct the series is only star trek like.

Answered by lucasbachmann on June 29, 2021

This sounds like VOY 5x17 "The Disease". Harry Kim experiences a biological linkage after a sex-adjacent experience on a generation ship.

Answered by jkingsman on June 29, 2021

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