"Faces" is an episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. First broadcast by UPN in May 1995, it was developed from a story by Jonathan Glassner and Kenneth Biller. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of the starship USS Voyager after they are stranded in the Delta Quadrant, far from the rest of the Federation. In this episode, a Vidiian scientist named Sulan (Brian Markinson) captures and performs medical experiments on the half-Klingon, half-human B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson). He creates two clones, human Torres and Klingon Torres, to serve as test subjects; these were treated as two separate characters during the development and filming of the episode. The episode was developed as a character study to further explore Torres' internal struggle with her identity. Dawson (pictured) said that it deepened her understanding of the character and strengthened her acting.
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1837:
Banks in New York City suspended specie payments, triggering a seven-year recession in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837
1916:
Ernest Shackleton and five companions completed one of history's greatest small-boat journeys (launch pictured) when they arrived at South Georgia after sailing 800 miles (1,300 km) in a lifeboat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird
1941:
World War II: Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess
2005:
Armenian Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arutyunian
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abstract away: 1. (transitive) To generalize concepts or their application by using abstraction into a more usable form. 2. (transitive, by extension) To ignore, to omit. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstract_away
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was — which was ungodly and inhuman. … Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. … What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now? What are the blind spots of our age? --Bono https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bono