While the crew races against time to stop a 20th century computer industrialist from causing a 29th century disaster.
Janeway’s attempts to beam up 20th century computer mogul Henry Starling and an important time ship are stymied because Voyager's long-range transporters aren't working. As a result, brilliant astronomer Rain Robinson lures Starling to a meeting where the crew hopes to hijack him. Starling shows up with the Doctor, whom he's supplied with a 29th century portable holo-emitter that allows him to exist in environments without holographic emitters.
Having reconfigured the shields on a shuttlecraft to disguise it from 20th century radar, Chakotay and Torres try to beam up Starling from the rendezvous. Starling has a device that interferes with the attempt, but Voyager is able to redirect the transporter signal to beam him directly to the starship. Unfortunately, Starling's attempt to disrupt the beam-out damages the shuttle's controls. It goes down in the desert, where Chakotay and Torres are taken hostage by an extremist group. Voyager traces the crash site to Arizona, and the Doctor and Tuvok travel there to find them.
On Voyager, Starling admits to Janeway that he wants to travel into the future to steal more advanced technology. Although Janeway thinks she's put an end to those plans, one of Starling's henchmen uses his scavenged 29th century technology to transport Starling back to his office. Outside Starling's headquarters, Paris spots a truck that appears to be moving the timeship to another location. In Arizona, Tuvok and the Doctor manage to free Chakotay and Torres. Torres repairs the damaged shuttle, which they use to track the truck and destroy it. However, they discover the truck was a ruse; the timeship is back in Starling's office, and he's just launched it.
Retrieving Paris and Tuvok, the shuttle returns to Voyager, where Janeway hails Starling, who refuses to abort his mission. She has no choice but to destroy the timeship. Seconds later, a time rift opens and Braxton appears in his timeship. With his previous timeline altered by the destruction of Starling, this Braxton has come from the future to lead Voyager back to the 24th century, where it belongs. Back in the Delta Quadrant, the crew finds that they've gained one advantage from their journey: the Doctor has retained the 29th century portable holo-emitter.
CAST
CAPTAIN KATHRYN JANEWAY
KATE MULGREW
COMMANDER CHAKOTAY
ROBERT BELTRAN
LIEUTENANT B'ELANNA TORRES
ROXANN BIGGS-DAWSON
KES
JENNIFER LIEN
LIEUTENANT TOM PARIS
ROBERT DUNCAN MCNEILL
NEELIX
ETHAN PHILLIPS
THE DOCTOR
ROBERT PICARDO
LIEUTENANT TUVOK
TIM RUSS
ENSIGN HARRY KIM
GARRETT WANG
GUEST STARS
RAIN ROBINSON
SARAH SILVERMAN
CAPTAIN BRAXTON
ALLAN G. ROYAL
MILITIA MAN
BRENT HINKLEY
MILITIA MAN
CLAYTON MURRAY
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
ED BEGLEY, JR. as "Henry Starling"
Written by: BRANNON BRAGA &
JOE MENOSKY
Directed by: CLIFF BOLE
HIGHLIGHT LISTING
STAR TREK: VOYAGER: "Future's End” (Part II) -- The crew races against time to stop a 20th century computer industrialist from causing a 29th century disaster.
ADVERTISING HEADLINE
THE END OF THE WORLD?
A timeship from the future could destroy the past… unless Voyager can stop it!