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Star trek: Voyager 3.11a - Before and after

Stardate 50601.9
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Kes (Jennifer Lien) awakens to discover she is an old woman with a spouse, Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), daughter Linnis (Jessica Collins) and grandson Andrew (Christopher Aguilar). Confused by these events she soon realises that she is trapped within a temporal anomaly, and travelling backwards in time. Kes then learns that she may be the only person who can stop disaster from striking both the ship and her crew.

Persons of interest

Kate Mulgrew .... Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran .... Commander Chakotay
Roxann Dawson .... Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
Jennifer Lien .... Kes
Robert Duncan McNeill .... Lieutenant Tom Paris
Robert Picardo .... the Emergency Medical Hologram
Ethan Phillips .... Neelix
Tim Russ .... Lieutenant Tuvok
Garrett Wang .... Ensign Harry Kim
Majel Barrett .... USS Voyager computer voice
Jessica Collins .... Linnis
Christopher Aguilar .... Andrew
Michail L Maguire .... Arnis
Rachel Harris .... Martis
Janna Michaels .... young Kes
Kenneth Biller .... Screenwriter
Allan Kroeker .... Director

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Ah, those temporal anomalies, what would Star trek be without them?

What makes this episode better than most timeline ones is that the solution is so hard to achieve, and the technobabble counter has to be reset each time Kes jumps to a new temporal moment. It's her frustration, her inability to affect her life and those around her, that make it worth watching. That and the Ocampa birth process (and I thought Human births were nyucky).

The alternative reality in Voyager's (linear) future is pretty interesting, too. Bring on the Year of Hell...