"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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_%28Star_Trek:_Voyager%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>