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Synopsis
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS from
StarTrek.com
During the night shift, as Paris presses Kim to join him on
a double date, the ship is shaken by a huge shockwave.
Investigating its origins, the crew finds a nearby planet
where a cataclysmic explosion recently wiped out all life.
Beaming down, the Away Team discovers that the detonation
has actually fractured subspace. But before they can react
to this dangerous revelation, Paris and Janeway find
themselves transported back in time to the day before the
explosion. While the crew tries to figure out how to
retrieve the missing officers, Janeway orders Paris not to
warn the residents of the planet about the approaching
disaster, since that would violate the Federation's Prime
Directive. Seeking their own way back to Voyager, the pair
head for a polaric ion power station, the site of the future
explosion. There, they inadvertently become caught up in a
clash between the authorities and a group of protesters who
later accuse them of being government infiltrators.
Disbelieving Janeway's claim that they are about to trigger
a major accident, they continue to move forward with their
plan to sabotage the power station.
In the meantime, a troubled Kes reveals that her latent
Ocampan psychic abilities seem to have been sensitized by
the accident. She accompanies the Away Team as they attempt
to track Janeway and Chakotay's movements being made in the
past.
The protesters force Janeway and Paris to accompany them to
the plant, where they shoot their way in. Paris is wounded
during the scuffle, but Janeway leaves him to follow the
protesters, hoping to stop the devastating explosion.
On Kes' recommendation, Chakotay's crew goes to the
flashpoint of the blast and uses a polaric beam to "cut
through" subspace and find the missing crewmembers. When
Janeway sees their polaric beam, she realizes that it wasn't
the protesters who caused the accident — it was the Away
Team's attempt to rescue her! Janeway uses her phaser to
blunt the impact of the beam. At the instant she succeeds in
sealing the opening, time is "reset," and the crew finds
itself back on Voyager, a few seconds before the shockwave
first hit the ship. None the wiser for their experience,
Paris urges Kim to join him on a double date, and Kes finds
herself strangely relieved that a nearby planet is teeming
with life.
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