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"Alice" is the 125th episode of the science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Voyager'', the fifth episode of the sixth season. The episode bears a striking resemblance in some elements to the Stephen King novel ''Christine'', such as the idea of a vehicle having a consciousness. ==Plot== The Federation starship ''Voyager'' finds an alien junkyard and trades for supplies with the junk dealer, Abaddon. Ship's pilot Tom Paris discovers a rusty old shuttle in the yard and convinces his superiors to let him bring it aboard and restore it, just as he has been doing with old cars on the holodeck as a hobby. He discovers that the shuttle is equipped with a neural interface. It reads and communicates directly with its pilot's mind, giving it instantaneous maneuverability. He tries out the interface and the ship makes a record of his brain patterns. As time goes on Paris becomes more and more obsessive about restoring and caring for his new shuttle, which he has named ''Alice''. He can even hear "her" speaking to him in his mind. His behavior becomes more and more strange. He wants to spend time with ''Alice'' and no one else, even his girlfriend, Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres, who is distressed about Paris's obsession. He begins to neglect his appearance and duties, looking more tired and frantic as time goes on, and he wears a spacesuit designed for use with ''Alice'' instead of his ''Voyager'' uniform. When power cells from ''Voyager''s back-up systems go missing, Torres finds them in the cargo bay where Paris fixes ''Alice''. She then sneaks aboard ''Alice'' to see what's drawing Paris there so strongly, but the ship springs to life, traps her inside, and shuts off life support. Paris gets Torres out of the shuttle before she is seriously injured, but soon after that he loses control of his own behavior. He boards ''Alice'' and speeds away from ''Voyager'' with her, disappearing from ''Voyager''s sensors. They return to Abaddon to try to learn more on ''Alice'', and discover that Abaddon too still struggles with a mental figment of the ship's computer. From him, they identify that the intelligence behind ''Alice'' was trying to head towards a particle fountain, which it called home; the fountain would destroy the craft and its pilot should it get inside. ''Voyager'' arrives in time, but find they cannot stop the ship using weapons without harming Paris, his mind linked to the ship. Torres uses ''Voyager''s neural interface to project herself to Paris and convince him to return to ''Voyager'', allowing Tactical Officer Tuvok to sever the neural link to ''Alice''. Paris is transported back to ''Voyager'' moments before ''Alice'' is destroyed in the fountain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice (Star Trek: Voyager)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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