Star Trek: Voyager, "The Disease"
Star Trek: Voyager, "The Disease." Production #212 (or 213), season 5, episode 16 (24 Feb. 1999).[1]
From Memory Alpha summary:
USS Voyager has stopped to help repair an alien ship's warp drive. The Varro are very xenophobic and often avoid alien encounters. [...]
Janeway tells the Varro leader, Jippeq, how she believes their two ships are very similar. Both have long journeys ahead of them, and have had some bad experiences in the Delta Quadrant. Despite the fact that the Varro ignored Voyager's initial hails, their crews have made considerable progress together. Four hundred years prior, the Varro began with a small starship and crew, and grew into a generational ship carrying hundreds. Janeway says this could be the future of Voyager.[2]
So: See for a variation on the motif of the generation starship.[3]
(The plot involves an interestingly problematic love affair.)[4]
RDE, 12Jul22