EPISODE #218
“RELATIVITY”

Voyager’s future depends on Seven’s success in preventing the past.

It is Janeway’s first day aboard USS 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, 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.  When she 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.  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 planting the weapon.

Suffering from temporal psychosis, the future Braxton believes 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 being out of her time frame and recruits herself in that time period to apprehend Braxton.  Once Seven and Janeway catch him, Janeway must go back to her first day on the ship to capture Braxton.  Because the timeline has been contaminated, she cleans it up by preventing any of it from happening in the first place.

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 STARS

CAPTAIN BRAXTON
     BRUCE MCGILL
DAKIN MATTHEWS
     DAKIN MATTHEWS
DUCANE
     JAY KARNES

Teleplay by:     BRYAN FULLER &
                          NICK SAGAN &
                          MICHAEL TAYLOR

Story by:     NICK SAGAN

Directed by:     ALLAN EASTMAN

HIGHLIGHT LISTING

STAR TREK: VOYAGER: “Relativity” -- Voyager’s future depends on Seven’s success in preventing the past.

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