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It is Janeway's first day aboard
the U.S.S. Voyager. Seven of Nine, disguised as an ensign,
investigates a weapon on the ship and reports back to Captain
Braxton, who now knows where the weapon was placed but still
needs to know when. After Janeway is alerted to a chronoton
flux, she almost discovers Seven of Nine, which would
contaminate the timeline. Braxton beams Seven from Voyager just
in time, but she is dead by the time she gets to his ship.
Braxton orders his men to go
back in time and retrieve Seven before Voyager explodes. This is
the third time they have tried to help Seven save her crew. On
Voyager, temporal distortions are fracturing space-time
throughout the ship, making people space-sick and causing
bizarre paradoxes to occur. When Seven and Torres investigate,
Seven's ocular implant detects a device emitting the
distortions. Before they can take action, the hull begins to
demolecularize. Janeway orders the crew to abandon ship as two
men materialize and beam away Seven.
Seven is once again welcomed to the Federation timeship
Relativity. It is 500 years in the future, and Braxton wants to
solve the mystery of who planted the weapon. His crew has
recruited Seven because of her ocular implant's ability to
detect irregularities in space-time. Once they persuade her to
help them, Seven is beamed to Voyager two years before she
became part of the crew. The ship is under attack from the Kazon,
and Braxton believes this is the time a saboteur boarded the
vessel and planted the device. Seven is to find him and stop him
at all costs.
Seven checks the ship and finds no sign of the weapon or the
intruder. When Janeway detects a chronoton flux and remembers
the same thing happening two years ago, she investigates and
finds Seven, whom she recognizes from that first day on the
ship. Over Braxton's objections, Seven explains her presence on
Voyager and persuades Janeway to trust her seemingly implausible
story. When they are suddenly alerted to an intruder, they find
Braxton himself planting the weapon.
Suffering from temporal psychosis, this version of Braxton
claims Janeway is responsible for his exile stemming from his
time travel. He suddenly jumps to two years earlier, and Seven
follows him. When he is trapped in a forcefield, Braxton jumps
five years ahead. By this time, Seven is suffering from having
made too many time jumps, and recruits herself in that time
period to apprehend Braxton. Once Seven and Janeway catch him,
Janeway must go back to an earlier period of Voyager's history
to capture Braxton before he has a chance to place the weapon.
Meanwhile, the original Braxton is arrested for "crimes he will
commit" by his first officer, who takes command of the timeship
and vows to clean up the contamination in the timeline to
prevent any of it from happening in the first place. Seven is
"reintegrated" and Janeway is urged to avoid time travel as the
two are returned to Voyager and back to normal. |
