10 Greatest Unspoken Star Trek Plot Points

10. The Fate Of Paris And Janeway's Alien Children

The infamous Voyager episode Threshold has a number of ridiculous, headache-inducing plot points, but perhaps the most outrageous comes at the end of the episode.

Lieutenant Paris had just passed the warp 10 barrier using a new engine modification. Travelling at warp 10 is meant to be infinite velocity, a speed at which one would occupy every point in space simultaneously, however, his journey had the unfortunate side-effect of mutating Paris into a half-human, half-lizard monster, apparently speeding up his evolution for some reason. Surprisingly, the scientific illiteracy of this episode wasn't even the worst part.

As Paris began to mutate, he kidnapped Janeway in a shuttlecraft and jumped to warp 10 again, this time mutating both him and Janeway. By the time Voyager found them on some alien planet, Paris and Janeway had turned completely into lizards and even mated. The crew found them as well as a number of baby human-lizard hybrids and decided to take their Captain and Lieutenant back to reverse the process, but left the babies on the planet.

Paris and Janeway's children were now left on some planet in the Delta Quadrant to fend for themselves and no one ever talked about it again (apart from the appearance of a similar lizard in the background of the Lower Decks episode Much Ado About Boimler).