Torres discovers she is being transported to Gre’thor on the Barge of the Dead, and that her mother Miral was placed aboard as a dishonoured soul. After witnessing several Klingon warriors killing the crew, she falls and finds herself aboard a boat. While attending the festivities in the mess hall, Torres notices the Doctor and Seven of Nine singing Klingon drinking songs and Tom Paris eating Klingon cuisine. Tuvok assaults Torres with a Klingon weapon called a bat’leth, saying she is not a true Klingon before dismissing her as dishonoured. She consults with Security Chief Tuvok, who believes her negative response to the object stems from her hatred of her Klingon heritage. Morale officer Neelix plans a celebration of the discovery of the object, believing it originates from the Alpha Quadrant and thus proves Voyager is getting closer to home Torres resists the proposal for a party. Since the USS Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant, the ship is several thousand light-years away from Klingon-controlled space. Commander Chakotay finds a Klingon artefact lodged inside Torres’ shuttlecraft, and Torres sees this emitting blood and hears voices speaking in the Klingon language. While returning from an away mission, B’Elanna Torres encounters interference from an ion storm which results in a concussion. Critical response to the episode was mixed some television critics commended the focus on Torres, and praised Dawson’s performance, while others were critical of the representation of Klingon spirituality. It was a drop from the episode broadcast the previous week. The episode received a Nielsen rating of 3.8/6 ratings share, meaning 3.8 percent of all households with a television viewed it and six percent of homes then viewing television were tuned to it. Scholars have offered a range of opinions on Gre’thor, with the setting and ideology compared to Norse mythology, Greek mythology, and Catholic theology. “Barge of the Dead” was one of several episodes that addressed Torres’ strained relationship with her parents and her Klingon heritage.
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Following the episode’s completion, both Moore and Fuller left the series because of dissatisfaction with their lack of control over its direction, and the perceived absence of strong story arcs across multiple episodes. The idea was initially rejected, but was revisited for Star Trek: Voyager. Moore originally developed the episode as part of a pitch for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “ Soldiers of the Empire” (S05E21). The episode also guest stars Eric Pierpoint as Kortar, who ferries the souls of the dishonoured on the Barge of the Dead, and Sherman Augustus as the dead Klingon Hij’Qa. After being resuscitated by the Voyager crew, Torres becomes intent on revisiting Gre’thor to save her mother. There she encounters her Klingon mother Miral (Karen Austin), who is damned because of Torres’ refusal to fully accept her own identity as a Klingon. In this episode, the half-Klingon, half-human B’Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) has a near-death experience and is sent to the Klingon version of Hell known as Gre’thor. Moore and Bryan Fuller, who wrote the teleplay, and was directed by Mike Vejar. “Barge of the Dead” was developed from a story by Ronald D. It is the third episode of the sixth season.
“Barge of the Dead” is an episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager.
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