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Harry Kim wakes up in 24th-century
San Francisco and no one seems surprised to see him there — not
his girlfriend Libby, nor a local coffee shop owner named Cosimo,
nor his friend Lieutenant Lasca, a fellow design specialist at
Starfleet Headquarters. As the strange morning continues, Kim
finds himself in an important meeting with high-ranking officers
who want to hear Kim and Lasca's proposal for a new runabout.
Feigning illness, Kim leaves
the meeting and tries to figure out how he got to Earth. A check
of Starfleet records reveals that he never served on Voyager,
which, as Kim well knows, has been reported missing in the
Badlands. He also finds out that Paris isn't on the crew
manifest; he's been paroled from the penal settlement that
Janeway found him at and now lives in Marseilles. Kim heads to
France, seeking answers only Paris can provide.
He locates his friend at the real Sandrine's, but to Kim's
chagrin, Paris doesn't know him. Still, Paris is intrigued by
Kim's story. His last recollection is being in a shuttlecraft
heading back to Voyager, and Kim begs Paris to accompany him to
Starfleet Headquarters where they can run a computer simulation
and learn what happened to him; Paris refuses. When Kim arrives
home, he is apprehended by Lasca who suspects he may be a Maquis
spy. Until the matter can be settled, an electronic anklet is
place on Kim to monitor his whereabouts.
Later, Cosimo tells a distraught Kim that he was sent to keep
watch over him after Kim's shuttlecraft intersected one of his
species' "time-streams." The incident scrambled Kim's time-line
and sent him back to the life he would have known if he hadn't
joined Voyager's crew. In an effort to help Kim, Cosimo tells
him where to find the time-stream that could take him back. Kim
says goodbye to Libby and makes a run for it, only to be
apprehended by a Starfleet security guard. Thankfully, Paris
arrives on the scene and helps Kim out. The pair then flee.
Needing a ship to recreate his shuttle accident and ride the
time-stream back to Voyager, Kim boards a runabout at Starfleet
Headquarters. With Paris at the helm, he recreates the
conditions of the incident that sent him to Earth. Suddenly, he
finds himself back on his original shuttlecraft. Kim is beamed
onto Voyager, where he resumes his normal life.
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