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Chakotay and Kim are on an ice
planet investigating the crash site of Voyager. It is the
future, and the entire ship and crew are frozen inside a
glacier. Once they are beamed inside, Chakotay finds the
long-dead Seven of Nine and summons the pilot of his shuttle,
Tessa, to transport her aboard. Kim uses Starfleet technology to
access Voyager's computer and activate the Doctor's program.
When he demands to know what has happened, Chakotay tells him
they are there to change history.
Flashback to the crew
celebrating the completion of Voyager's quantum slipstream
drive. The next day they will set a course for the Alpha
Quadrant at a speed never before imagined. However, Paris finds
a phase variance in the threshold that causes the slipstream to
become unstable. Kim volunteers to take the Delta Flyer a few
seconds ahead of Voyager in the slipstream. He can map it and
send the phase variations back to the ship in time to make
corrections. Janeway agrees to take the risk and assigns
Chakotay to fly with Kim.
Fifteen years later, Chakotay and Kim explain to the Doctor what
happened. Kim transmitted the wrong variance, forcing Janeway to
make an emergency landing that killed the crew on impact. Kim
and Chakotay made it back to Earth, but when Starfleet gave up
their search for Voyager, they decided they had to find a way to
correct their mistake. They stole a Borg temporal transmitter
and the Delta Flyer from Starfleet, and now they can use Seven's
Borg interplexing beacon to send a new set of phase corrections
back in time to the crew. Just as Chakotay downloads Voyager's
sensor logs, a Galaxy-class starship arrives in search of the
thieves.
Captain Geordi La Forge of the U.S.S. Challenger hails Chakotay
and tries to talk him out of altering the timeline, but Kim and
the Doctor continue to work feverishly on Seven's Borg implant.
Once the Doctor pinpoints her time of death, they use the
temporal transmitter to send the phase corrections four minutes
prior to Voyager's crash. In the past, Seven receives and inputs
them, but the slipstream continues to collapse. Just outside of
the Alpha Quadrant, Voyager crashes onto the ice planet.
When Kim realizes his phase corrections still didn't work, he
doesn't have time to find his mistake. Tessa disengages the
Delta Flyer from the Challenger's tractor beam, but the
shuttle's warp core begins to breach. With only seconds to
spare, Kim transmits a phase correction to Seven that will
disperse the slipstream entirely, just as the Delta Flyer
explodes. On Voyager, both the ship and shuttle are thrown out
of the slipstream, effectively erasing the future. Later,
Janeway informs Ensign Kim that a log entry was found encoded in
the transmission to Seven: a message "from Harry Kim ... to
Harry Kim." |
