USS Voyager (mimetic)



The mimetic USS Voyager was a copy of the USS Voyager created by the "Silver Blood" on a Demon class planet in 2374. As part of the deal to let the real Voyager crew leave the planet, the crew let the Silver Blood copy every one of them. The copies of the Voyager crew eventually lost their memories of their origins and left the planet, setting a course for the Alpha Quadrant. On their journey, the mimetic crew invented a way to increase the speed of their engines and overtook the original Voyager.

By 2375, the Silver Blood had replicated Voyager itself, including its computer memory and programs, as well as The Doctor. By this time, the crew was able to breathe oxygen and had forgotten that they were copies of the original Voyager crew. Traveling across the Delta Quadrant while trying to return to Earth, which they thought was home, the crew had invented or acquired an enhanced warp drive. While the effect of this new warp core had no harmful side-effects on cellular life, it did however cause all people and objects made of the Silver Blood to eventually break down and die, striking first the engineering staff and subsequently spreading. Having discovered their true nature after determining that the degradation only affected objects that had been on the ship before their visit to the demon planet- as well as testing the body of the recently-deceased B'Elanna Torres duplicate-, the crew tried to land on another Y class planet, only to be thwarted by the planet's claimants. Although the Janeway duplicate was initially resolved to continue their remembered journey to Earth- despite such issues as Tom Paris wondering why they should even bother obeying her since she had no 'real' rank-, the death of Chakotay forced Janeway to recognise that they couldn't continue in this manner, prompting her to order the ship to turn around so that they could reach the demon planet. With the ship's degradation increasing as they progressed despite their use of Borg nanoprobes to try and stabilise the ship, the crew made a log buoy from non-Silver Blood components detailing their history for others to find, but it was destroyed in the torpedo tube before it could be launched. The ship and remaining crew literally fell apart in sight of the real USS Voyager; all hands were lost and the real Voyager never knew of the fate or even the existence of its counterpart, its discovery simply being a brief recording of an unknown tragedy.