VOY: Before and After

         I don't know if it was certain at this point, but it really looks like they are starting the process of getting rid of Kes. This episode is all about a future we know won't happen and honestly it raises some serious questions. I get that despite only being a few years old Kes is ready to have a baby with Paris, but would that daughter really grow up fast enough for Kim to be married to her and have a son by the time she was 9? Also I get that maybe it was supposed to be technobabble, but the machine the Doctor is talking about putting her in is clearly a time manipulation machine of some sort so maybe she should have figured out she was unstuck in time sooner. But she also has no memories so who knows. 
         We begin with Kes unstuck from time and finding herself in sickbay as an old woman. Her grandson is there and the Doctor has hair, but she has no memory. The Doctor is preparing some sort of chrono-procedure to try and prolong her life. She gets cold and jumps back in time to being in her quarters with her daughter. It seems she is entering the period of dementia at the end of Ocampan life so no one believes her that she is unstuck in time. She gets taken to sickbay where she runs into Tom, her husband, Kim, now her son in law, and Chakotay who is now captain. After a few more jumps she realizes she was exposed to chroniton radiation in what is in theory her future and the procedure even farther into the future managed to unstick her. She ends up in the middle of the chroniton torpedo attack and gets the frequency she needs super conveniently. Time then takes her to the present where the Doctor is working on a cure and only needs the frequency. She jumps back into the past and we see her being born and then as a fetus. And then she is back, the treatment worked and they now know they are going to face some evil chroniton weapon using jerks soon.

         Review: For a time travel episode this one seemed pretty weak. Especially some of the ways they handled the future crew changes seemed pretty unreasonable. I guess it counts as foreshadowing since the year of hell does in fact happen, but obviously Janeway doesn't die but I guess at the time that wouldn't have been clear.

3 out of 10