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"'Timeless'", the sixth episode of the fifth season of '', was also the series 100th episode. The episode was directed by LeVar Burton who also featured in a cameo appearance as his '' character Geordi La Forge, along with complete restoration of his eyesight.
The episode begins, literally, with a "cold opening" on a frigid windswept planet. Two figures wearing survival gear beam onto the scene and search until they discover what they are looking for: ''Voyager'', buried beneath the ice.
The episode also marks an important turning point among the series when Janeway notes in her personal log the changing perspective of their journey home: it's no longer "if" the crew will ever return to Earth, but "when."
The ''Voyager'' crew is about to experiment with a new form of faster-than-light drive: the quantum slipstream. If successful, the trip back to home space would be accomplished in hours, rather than years. However, simulations show that the slipstream is unstable and would tear ''Voyager'' apart. As many of the components of the slipstream are perishable, waiting is no longer an option. It is decided that the ''Delta Flyer'', flown by Chakotay and Kim, would fly ahead of ''Voyager'' in the slipstream and send course corrections back to the ship. The slipstream experiment fails; Kim and Chakotay are propelled to Earth in the ''Flyer'', but ''Voyager'', presumably unable to maintain the burst due to its greater mass, crash-lands on an ice planet just a few parsecs from the Alpha Quadrant, killing everyone onboard instantly.
In the future, Kim and Chakotay become obsessed with finding a way to change the timeline so that the crew can live. After stealing the ''Delta Flyer'', they find the planet where ''Voyager'' crashed and enter the long-frozen starship. They reactivate the Doctor and track down Seven of Nine's body, intending to use her Borg implants to send a signal to the past. However, they are intercepted by the ''USS Challenger'', a ''Galaxy'' class starship commanded by Captain Geordi La Forge. Starfleet officials realize what Kim and Chakotay are trying to do, and the ''Challenger'' has been sent to stop them from altering the timeline. They quickly attempt to alter the slipstream to allow ''Voyager'' to make it through, but fail. So using the Doctor's mobile emitter to provide a power boost, Seven of the past is sent instructions ("corrections") from the future which intentionally shut down the slipstream, altering the timeline to one in which the experiment fails and the crew survives. However in attempting to escape the ''Challenger'', the warp core of the ''Delta Flyer'' is breached and explodes.
In the present, Kim watches a recording which the future Kim left for him. Moreover, in their aborted slipstream hop, ten years are taken off ''Voyager's journey to the Alpha Quadrant. Future Harry's actions have placed his timeline in a closed loop. It happened, yet the events that prompted the timeline have now been prevented. This causal "protection" could be called a Law of Temporal Conservation; in a future episode, "Relativity", Starfleet officers from the 29th century, dedicated to protecting the flow of time, are said to have been left to clean up the "mess" caused by future Harry's message to his past self (they refer to it as 'the temporal inversion in the Takara sector').
"Timeless" is generally highly regarded by ''Voyager'' fans[1]. The episode has an average rating of 4.7/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of August 2nd, 2007). Many fans liked seeing a more mature Harry Kim, and seeing him talking to his younger self.[2]
★ Episode synopsis from Startrek.com
"'Timeless'", the sixth episode of the fifth season of '', was also the series 100th episode. The episode was directed by LeVar Burton who also featured in a cameo appearance as his '' character Geordi La Forge, along with complete restoration of his eyesight.
The episode begins, literally, with a "cold opening" on a frigid windswept planet. Two figures wearing survival gear beam onto the scene and search until they discover what they are looking for: ''Voyager'', buried beneath the ice.
The episode also marks an important turning point among the series when Janeway notes in her personal log the changing perspective of their journey home: it's no longer "if" the crew will ever return to Earth, but "when."
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Plot
The ''Voyager'' crew is about to experiment with a new form of faster-than-light drive: the quantum slipstream. If successful, the trip back to home space would be accomplished in hours, rather than years. However, simulations show that the slipstream is unstable and would tear ''Voyager'' apart. As many of the components of the slipstream are perishable, waiting is no longer an option. It is decided that the ''Delta Flyer'', flown by Chakotay and Kim, would fly ahead of ''Voyager'' in the slipstream and send course corrections back to the ship. The slipstream experiment fails; Kim and Chakotay are propelled to Earth in the ''Flyer'', but ''Voyager'', presumably unable to maintain the burst due to its greater mass, crash-lands on an ice planet just a few parsecs from the Alpha Quadrant, killing everyone onboard instantly.
In the future, Kim and Chakotay become obsessed with finding a way to change the timeline so that the crew can live. After stealing the ''Delta Flyer'', they find the planet where ''Voyager'' crashed and enter the long-frozen starship. They reactivate the Doctor and track down Seven of Nine's body, intending to use her Borg implants to send a signal to the past. However, they are intercepted by the ''USS Challenger'', a ''Galaxy'' class starship commanded by Captain Geordi La Forge. Starfleet officials realize what Kim and Chakotay are trying to do, and the ''Challenger'' has been sent to stop them from altering the timeline. They quickly attempt to alter the slipstream to allow ''Voyager'' to make it through, but fail. So using the Doctor's mobile emitter to provide a power boost, Seven of the past is sent instructions ("corrections") from the future which intentionally shut down the slipstream, altering the timeline to one in which the experiment fails and the crew survives. However in attempting to escape the ''Challenger'', the warp core of the ''Delta Flyer'' is breached and explodes.
In the present, Kim watches a recording which the future Kim left for him. Moreover, in their aborted slipstream hop, ten years are taken off ''Voyager's journey to the Alpha Quadrant. Future Harry's actions have placed his timeline in a closed loop. It happened, yet the events that prompted the timeline have now been prevented. This causal "protection" could be called a Law of Temporal Conservation; in a future episode, "Relativity", Starfleet officers from the 29th century, dedicated to protecting the flow of time, are said to have been left to clean up the "mess" caused by future Harry's message to his past self (they refer to it as 'the temporal inversion in the Takara sector').
Fan Reaction
"Timeless" is generally highly regarded by ''Voyager'' fans[1]. The episode has an average rating of 4.7/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of August 2nd, 2007). Many fans liked seeing a more mature Harry Kim, and seeing him talking to his younger self.[2]
External links
★ Episode synopsis from Startrek.com
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