EPISODE #201
“TIMELESS”

Fifteen years after making a horrible mistake, Kim attempts to rewrite history.

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 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 transferred the wrong variance, forcing Janeway to make an emergency landing that killed the crew on impact.  He and Chakotay made it back to Earth, but when Starfleet gave up their search for Voyager, he and Chakotay 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 Starfleet vessel arrives in search of the thieves.

Starfleet 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.  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 Starfleet’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, and the Delta Flyer explodes.  On Voyager, both the ship and shuttle are thrown out of the slipstream, effectively erasing the future.

CAST

CAPTAIN KATHRYN JANEWAY
     KATE MULGREW
CHAKOTAY
     ROBERT BELTRAN
B'ELANNA TORRES
     ROXANN DAWSON
TOM PARIS
     ROBERT DUNCAN MCNEILL
NEELIX
     ETHAN PHILLIPS
THE DOCTOR
     ROBERT PICARDO
TUVOK
     TIM RUSS
SEVEN OF NINE
     JERI RYAN
HARRY KIM
     GARRETT WANG

GUEST STAR

TESSA
     CHRISTINE HARNOS

SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY

CAPTAIN GEORDI LAFORGE
     LEVAR BURTON

Teleplay by:     BRANNON BRAGA &
                          JOE MENOSKY

Story by:     RICK BERMAN &
                    BRANNON BRAGA &
                    JOE MENOSKY

Directed by:     LEVAR BURTON

HIGHLIGHT LISTING

STAR TREK: VOYAGER: “Timeless” -- Fifteen years after making a horrible mistake, Kim attempts to rewrite history.

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