I know, you are probably all going to say that I am obsessed with time travel. And yeah, that is pretty much true. I love fiction that tries to explore the possibilities of altering reality with time travel in various ways. In this case a ship from what I assume is the future detects that Voyager has been destroyed by a time traveler and starts recruiting Seven of Nine over and over again to get her to help them save the ship. I rather enjoyed the twist both in that I didn't see it coming and that it made sense. Well, made sense in a time travel kind of way. Finally before I get to the summary, does the time ship guy really think Janeway is going to pay any more attention to the temporal prime directive than she does the regular one?
We open in the Utopia Planitia shipyards with Janeway on her first tour around Voyager. Everything seems pretty normal until she runs into a fully human looking Seven of Nine poking around. She runs into the captain again in the briefing room where they speak briefly before Seven heads to engineering to get flirted with by Lt. Carey. She heads to a Jefferies tube and finds what she refers to an unfamiliar voice as the weapon. But she can't get to it because it is out of phase. Janeway detects her activity from the bridge and puts of a forcefield but the time captain beams her back, unfortunately she is dead. This isn't a huge problem though as they can just travel back in time to get another Seven.
Cut back to Voyager where Seven is having problems with her vision which the Doctor concludes is nothing serious. She gets recruited for a ping pong game but during the game the ball freezes in the air momentarily due to some sort of temporal distortion. Things start getting worse and the ship is in danger of exploding so Janeway orders an evacuation. On her way to an escape pod Seven runs into the time captain who brings her forward into his ship and Voyager is destroyed. The captain is named Braxton of the ship Relativity. It seems Sevens implants give her a unique advantage as a temporal agent. It seems the device was planted on Voyager during a Kazon attack so Seven is sent back there to stop it, but not before warning her about the Janeway factor. Apparently Janeway is notorious for her time travel and messing with chronologies in every way.
Seven manages to get on Voyager and to the location, but she is detected by Janeway who recognizes to signature from when she ran into it on her first tour of the ship. She traps Seven but trusts her enough to bring down the shield and let Seven find the sabatour, Braxton! In the future he is arrested but his future self in the past escapes further into the past (I know right!). Seven tries to shoot him during Janeway's tour but he escapes to the present where a now incapacitated Seven chases him through the ping pong tournament where she recruits herself from that timeline to capture Braxton. It works, but the timeline is now a mess so they recruit Janeway to travel back to the Kazon attack to capture Braxton. That works too and everything seems to be back to normal.
Review: Another interesting take on time travel and while I enjoyed it, I kinda suspect time cops in the future will be a little less likely to radically alter the timeline as they do in this episode. Well, I guess they fix it using a classic Bill and Ted move so that's fine. They should just be glad they don't live in the Terminator universe.
8 out of 10
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