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The U.S.S. Voyager is fired
upon by the 29th-century Federation "Timeship" Aeon commanded by
Captain Braxton, who has time-traveled through a spatial rift to
destroy Janeway's ship. Braxton claims that Voyager is
responsible for a temporal explosion that will obliterate
Earth's solar system in his era. Although equipped with only
24th-century technology, the crew manages to deflect Braxton's
blasts and damage his ship, but then both the timeship and
Voyager get sucked through the rift. The starship winds up in
orbit around Earth in 1996.
Knowing Braxton's ship holds
the key to returning to their own era, the crew begins searching
for it, and an Away Team beams down to Los Angeles to
investigate subspace readings that seem out of place in the 20th
century. Meanwhile, at Griffith Observatory in the Hollywood
Hills, astronomer Rain Robinson picks up Voyager's warp emission
on her instruments and reports the finding to computer mogul
Henry Starling, who funds her lab. Against Starling's
instructions, Rain transmits a greeting to Voyager, and the crew
tracks her to the Observatory. While Paris and Tuvok head for
the site, Chakotay and Janeway identify a homeless man as
Captain Braxton. He explains that he emerged from the time rift
in 1967 and crash-landed in the desert, where a young Henry
Starling found the timeship and utilized its technology to start
a high-tech empire. Starling is now planning to use Braxton's
vessel to time travel, and, according to Braxton, that will
cause the explosion in the future.
Fearing that Rain is a security risk, Starling sends a henchman
to kill her. But Paris and Tuvok spirit her away before she can
be harmed. When Rain questions what they're up to, Paris tells
her that they're secret agents tracking a Soviet KGB spy
operation. She sees through his story, though, because the
Soviet Union and the KGB no longer exist.
Chakotay and Janeway sneak into Starling's office, where they
discover Braxton's timeship just as Starling walks in and
confronts them. Janeway warns Starling not to launch the ship,
explaining it will unleash disaster. Undaunted, Starling tries
to kill Chakotay and Janeway, but they're transported to Voyager
in the nick of time. They try to beam up the timeship, but
Starling uses their transporter beam to access Voyager's
computer and study its systems. Minutes later, the wily Starling
steals the Doctor's program from Sickbay. To complicate things
even further, Voyager's presence is disclosed on the evening
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