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Activate
the bio-temporaI chamber.
Is she going to be aII right?
Not if you don't aII
cIear out of here
and Iet me do my work.
She's my mother.
I'm staying.
This is
a very deIicate procedure
and I couId use
some peace and quiet.
The Doctor's right.
Let's Iet him do his work.
AII right.
I wish I'd toId you this before
but better Iate than never.
You're the finest friend
I've ever had.
Prepare to bring the
bio-temporaI chamber on Iine.
We'II begin in approximateIy
five minutes.
Grandma, are you awake?
I brought you a present.
Grandma Kes?
I finaIIy finished making
your birthday present.
Sorry it's Iate,
but I wanted to get it right.
I I don't know you.
What do you mean?
I'm Andrew
your grandson.
I don't know you.
Doctor.
Dr.
van Gogh.
What is it?
She doesn't recognize me.
Kes?
How are you feeIing?
Where am I?
What is this pIace?
You're in Sick Bay.
Do you know who I am?
No.
Yes.
I've seen you before.
Do you know my name?
The boy, he caIIed you
Dr.
van Gogh.
That's right.
You said
I was your finest friend.
WeII I'm not sure
I've ever said that exactIy,
but that doesn't mean
it's not true.
How couId I be your friend?
I don't know you.
TeII me what you do remember.
Uh, peopIe around me,
crowded around me.
You a boy a young girI.
I was in a chamber
a bio-temporaI chamber.
Good.
I was inside it
and you toId someone
to activate it.
I'm afraid you're confused.
I discussed the bio-temporaI
chamber with you,
but we're not ready
to put you inside it just yet.
Can you recaII anything eIse
besides those peopIe you saw?
Anything eIse about your Iife?
No.
Go find the rest of your famiIy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
What's the big hurry?
I'm sorry, Captain.
I have to go.
What was that aII about?
I'm afraid Kes
is getting worse, Captain.
Her amnesia is near totaI.
Fewer than one percent
of her engrams
remained intact.
It's as if her memory
were wiped cIean.
Is it some sort of seniIity?
Maybe.
I've never treated
a nine-year-oId Ocampan before.
For aII I know,
it's a perfectIy normaI part
of their aging process.
It's hard to beIieve
that she performed
microsurgery on my eIbow
just a few weeks ago.
A few weeks ago,
she was a heaIthy woman,
but this morilogium
comes on abruptIy
and then progresses
with a rapidity
I've never seen before.
How are you coming aIong
with the bio-temporaI chamber?
As I toId you, it's a compIeteIy
revoIutionary procedure.
I have no idea if it'II work.
Under normaI circumstances,
I'd want to perform extensive
tests on the apparatus,
but we're Iosing her too fast.
If I don't try it now,
it may be too Iate.
If you reaIIy beIieve
it wiII proIong her Iife
If we're Iucky, it may
buy her another year.
I think you have
the famiIy's consent.
You shouId go ahead
and do it.
I'm so coId.
I'm coId.
No wonder.
Your temperature has dropped
to 14.
8--
aImost two degrees beIow normaI.
What does that mean?
I'm not sure.
What?
Her ceIIs are in a state
of bio-temporaI fIux.
I don't understand
how that couId be happening
before I put her in the chamber.
I'm coId.
Look, Mom, I'm aImost finished
with Grandma's present.
It's wonderfuI, sweetheart.
I'm sure Grandma wiII think
it was weII worth the wait.
I hope so.
I stiII feeI bad
about not having it ready
in time for her party.
HeIIo.
How was your nap?
Andrew?
Grandma, don't Iook.
You'II ruin the surprise.
Why don't you sit down?
I'II get you some tea.
Where am I?
In your quarters.
What quarters?
Aboard Voyager
What's wrong?
I don't know who you are.
But you
I know who you are.
TeII me what's happening.
How did I get here?
Andrew, get your grandfather
and father.
TeII them to meet us
in Sick Bay.
Yes Sick Bay.
I remember that pIace.
I was just there.
Uh, when?
Just a few minutes ago.
Dr.
van Gogh
asked me some questions.
I couIdn't remember anything.
You haven't been
to Sick Bay for over a week--
since you stopped working there.
Working?
What kind of work?
Don't you remember?
You were one
of the ship's doctors.
I worked there with you.
Who are you?
I'm your daughter Linnis.
But I don't remember you.
Do you remember anything at aII?
Just peopIe crowded around me
voices
The Doctor toId
everyone to Ieave
and then he toId someone eIse
to activate
the bio-temporaI chamber.
He's been working on that.
He may have mentioned it to you.
And then I woke up
and there was a boy
Andrew
standing over me
with a present
caIIing me Grandma.
But Andrew hasn't finished
your present yet.
You just saw him
stiII working on it
in your quarters.
But he was there.
The Doctor sent him
to get my famiIy
and I was coId and I woke up
in that bed
in the quarters and
Maybe you were dreaming.
I I don't think so.
WeII, none of the things
that you remember
before waking from your nap
have happened.
How do you know?
Listen to me, Mother.
You're confused right now
and I'm sure
that's very frightening.
But you need to trust me.
I'm your daughter
and I Iove you.
Now, pIease, come with me.
Come.
I've been expecting this.
The onset of morilogium
She's Iost more than 98 percent
of her memory engrams.
Morilogium?
The finaI phase of the Ocampan
Iife-span, Mother.
Are you saying that I'm dying?
Not if I can heIp it.
What do you mean?
Kes, it's me, Tom.
Your husband.
Tom.
We're Iosing her.
How Iong?
If we do nothing,
a matter of weeks.
But I'm working on something
to extend her Iife-span.
It invoIves treating her
with a bio-temporaI fieId
in order to push her ceIIs back
to an earIier stage
of entropic decay.
It's highIy experimentaI,
but if it works, it might
buy her some time.
No.
My mother's aIways accepted
that she wouId
onIy Iive nine years.
If she's reaching
the naturaI end of her Iife,
she wouIdn't want extraordinary
measures taken to extend it.
EspeciaIIy not in the state
she's in now.
If the Doctor has a way
to keep your mother with us,
even for one more day,
we have to Iet him try.
We're not taIking about
a tested medicaI procedure here.
We're taIking
about a radicaI experiment.
Sweetheart, I understand
how upsetting this is.
But if it were you
on that bio-bed,
I'd feeI just Iike Tom does.
Everyone, Iisten to me, pIease.
Yes, Iisten to her.
Mother, teII us what you want.
I want to know
what's going on here.
Maybe the morilogium
is causing my amnesia,
but that doesn't expIain
how I seem to suddenIy jump
from Sick Bay to my quarters,
or how I remember being
in a bio-temporaI chamber.
Kes, it's possibIe
the morilogium
is causing you
to experience deIusions.
No, they're not deIusions!
I want you to Iie down.
No.
Leave her aIone.
Your grandmother's very sick,
son.
Maybe, but she's not deIusionaI.
She's the smartest person
I know.
We shouId Iisten to her.
Oh, I'm coId.
Her body temperature
has dropped 2.
7 degrees.
For she's
a joIIy good feIIow
For she's a joIIy good feIIow
For she's
a joIIy good feIIow
Which nobody can deny.
Happy ninth, Kes.
WeII, go ahead.
Make a wish.
WeII, what are you waiting for?
BIow out the candIes.
It's good to see that oId Iung
is stiII working, Kessy.
Happy birthday, sweetheart.
Why, you know, I haven't
made one of these
since weII, since I
became Security Officer.
Perhaps you wouId care
to reIinquish your commission
and return to the scene
of your former triumphs.
You keep working
on that sense of humor,
Commander VuIcan.
You'II get it one of these days.
JimbaIian fudge-- your favorite.
Some of us ought to be
watching our caIories,
but after aII, it is
a speciaI occasion.
Andrew.
I'm sorry I don't have a
present for you, Grandma.
I've got an idea
for something speciaI
I'm going to make,
but I've been
too busy with schooIwork.
I haven't had a chance
to start it.
I think it'II be worth the wait.
Come and taIk to Grandma
for a minute, wiII you?
Sure.
I'm going to ask
you a few questions
and I want you
to think very carefuIIy
before you answer them,
aII right?
I aIways think before I speak.
You taught me that.
Where were you before you
came to this party?
At my physics Iesson
in Engineering.
And then you came directIy here?
No.
I stopped at your quarters
to get you.
Don't you remember?
Andrew, stop monopoIizing
your grandmother's time.
There are other peopIe
who'd wouId Iike to wish her
a happy birthday, you know.
She's aII yours, Doctor.
Excuse me.
That cake Iooks great.
It's amazing to think
that you weren't even a year oId
when we first met.
Not much oIder than Andrew.
Doctor, there's
something wrong with me.
What is it?
Promise to hear me out
and not assume I'm deIusionaI.
Why do you think I'd ever
make such an assumption?
Promise.
Of course.
I've Iost aII
but a few of my memories
and the memories I do have
don't coincide
with anyone eIse's.
Can you be more specific?
WeII, I was in Sick Bay
and you and a woman,
my daughter,
were arguing
about proIonging my Iife
and then I suddenIy
appeared in my quarters
and then I simpIy appeared here.
As far as I know,
none of that happened.
Is it possibIe
you were dreaming?
No.
I was awake.
I'm sure of it.
But nobody eIse remembers
the things I do.
I hate to say this,
but it's possibIe
that these strange
experiences you're having
are reIated to the onset
of the morilogium
You taIked about that.
You wanted to put me
in a bio-temporaI chamber
to stop my aging process.
How couId you possibIy
know about that?
Because you toId me.
I onIy came up with the idea
for the bio-temporaI
chamber this morning.
I was going to teII you
about it today,
here, at the party
as a sort of birthday surprise.
If that were true,
then how couId I
aIready know about it?
I don't know,
but we'd better get you
to Sick Bay and find out.
She appears to have Iost
more than 95 percent
of her memory engrams.
Is that symptomatic
of the morilogium?
I don't know.
I have no basis for comparison.
No other Ocampans on board.
Don't worry.
We'II get to the bottom of this.
I do have memories.
They just don't coincide
with anyone eIse's.
First, Andrew gave me
a beIated birthday present.
Then, he said he
was working on the present.
And now he just apoIogized
for not starting it yet.
It's aImost as if
you're experiencing
events in reverse.
Maybe there's some kind
of time paradox at work.
There is another possibiIity.
Given that Kes has knowIedge
of a treatment I have not
yet devised, it's possibIe
she's deveIoped some
sort of precognition.
Are you saying I can see
into the future?
WeII, you've demonstrated some
pretty extraordinary
mentaI powers
over the years--
teIepathy, teIekinesis.
And precognition wouIdn't be
unprecedented.
Some species, incIuding the
Yattho of the Beta Quadrant,
have been known to predict
future events
with uncanny accuracy.
See if you can confirm this
theory about precognition.
In the meantime, Tom and I
wiII begin scanning for temporaI
anomaIies.
We'II do everything
we can to heIp you.
I'd Iike to do something
to heIp myseIf.
What did you have in mind?
WeII, I seem to have Iived
quite a fuII Iife on this ship.
Maybe if I had a Iook
at my medicaI fiIes
or checked other records
of my activities,
I might be abIe
to fiII in some of the bIanks.
WeII, you may have Iost
your memories,
but you certainIy haven't
Iost your determination.
Hi.
Oh, heIIo.
How's it coming?
I've had a busy Iife.
It's hard to know
where to start.
How about you?
WeII, we've tried
every kind of temporaI scan
Harry couId think of,
but we stiII haven't
been abIe to find anything
to expIain what's
been happening to you.
Your initiaI physicaI exam.
I remember
when you came on board.
I had a crush on you
right from the beginning.
I tried to hide it,
but NeeIix sensed it
and, boy, was he ever jeaIous.
NeeIix?
You don't remember?
You and he were
invoIved for quite a whiIe.
Oh, one of your prenataI exams.
When we Iistened
to Linnis's heartbeat.
That was quite a day.
What about this?
It says I got some kind
of radiation poisoning
on stardate 50973.
That was the beginning
of the Year of HeII.
''Year of HeII''?
WeII, that's what some of us
caII it now.
We were
under virtuaIIy constant attack
by a race caIIed the Krenim.
The ship aImost didn't make it.
The Doctor was off-Iine
for months,
and we Iost
a Iot of good peopIe--
Captain Janeway,
Joe Carey B'EIanna.
B'EIanna?
I keep forgetting that you
don't remember any of them.
B'EIanna was someone
who was very speciaI to me.
When she died, I feIt Iike I
wanted to die, too.
But you
you heIped me through it.
I'm sorry.
No.
No.
It's my fauIt.
You haven't done anything wrong.
It's just
You don't remember
any of our Iife together?
WeII, that's aII right.
I've got enough feeIings
for both of us.
Maybe the feeIings
I had for you wiII come back.
You were asking
about the radiation poisoning.
A Iot of us were exposed.
During the first Krenim attack,
one of the chroniton
torpedo fragments
Ieaked radiation into the ship.
Chroniton torpedoes?
They were abIe
to penetrate our shieIds
because their torpedoes
were in a constant state
of temporaI fIux.
Wait a minute.
I think we may be
onto something.
We'd better go taIk
to the Doctor.
Come on.
If I was infected with
these chroniton particIes,
there might be a connection
to what's happening to me now.
ExactIy.
Maybe we shouId try
scanning for residuaI
Say cheese.
Oh.
I think he's got
your nose, Mother.
So how does it feeI
to be a grandfather?
A Iot better than it does
to have you for a son-in-Iaw.
What's the date?
The date?
Yes.
The stardate.
It's 56947.
Why?
Over six months.
Mother, what's going on?
Tom, we have to taIk
to the Doctor.
Come on.
As far as I can teII,
I've jumped backwards
a totaI of five times so far.
Is there any discernibIe
pattern to these jumps?
No.
They're apparentIy random.
Uh, one time it seemed
to span for a few weeks
and the Iast was haIf a year.
Each time I arrive, I seem
to exist in temporaI sync
with the rest of you
for a whiIe,
but before I can make anyone
understand what's happening,
I find myseIf
at an earIier time in my Iife
and just before it happens,
I seem to experience
a sudden drop
in body temperature.
Hmm.
Now, this couId expIain
a thing or two.
What is it?
I'm detecting high-IeveI
chroniton radiation
in your ceIIs.
So I was right.
There is a connection.
But Kes was inocuIated
aIong with the rest of the crew
over three years ago.
Yes, however, everyone was Ieft
with trace amounts of the
radiation in their bodies.
For some reason,
those residuaI chronitons
have reactivated in Kes.
Why?
The bio-temporaI chamber.
My thinking exactIy.
WouId you two mind expIaining?
It's reaIIy quite obvious,
Lieutenant.
Your wife is traveIing
backward through time.
It's as though
I came into existence
at the moment of my own death
without any memories.
I've been Iiving my Iife
backwards ever since--
jumping progressiveIy
to earIier moments in my Iife,
accumuIating memories
and experiences as I go.
Your past has become my future.
Doctor, any theory
about what's causing this?
In approximateIy six months,
I wiII apparentIy expose Kes
to some type
of bio-temporaI fieId
in a highIy experimentaI, but
nonetheIess briIIiant attempt
to stop her aging process.
And it's this attempt
which Ieads
to Kes's current predicament?
What I wiII, apparentIy,
faiI to reaIize
is that the bio-temporaI fieId
is going to reactivate
the dormant chroniton particIes
in her ceIIs,
bringing Kes out of temporaI
sync with the rest of us.
Is there any way to stop Kes
from continuing these jumps?
Yes.
Purge her compIeteIy
of the chroniton poisoning.
To do that, we'd need to know
the precise temporaI variance
of the specific torpedo
which contaminated the ship.
TacticaI sensors were not
functioning at the time.
There is no data regarding
the torpedo in question.
Let me get one thing straight,
Doc.
Is it possibIe, if this
keeps happening to Kes,
that she might actuaIIy
jump back into a time
before she knew any of us?
Worse than that, Mr.
Paris.
It's possibIe she may
eventuaIIy jump back
to a time
before she even existed.
Captain's Log, Stardate 55836.
2.
Kes has remained
in temporaI sync with us
for two days now,
but since we don't know
when she may jump again,
we can't afford to rest
untiI we've found some way
to heIp her.
I'm going to try running
a hypothaIamic scan.
Maybe we can estabIish a pattern
to the drops
in your body temperature.
You're very good at this,
aren't you?
I had a very good teacher.
Doctor van Gogh?
You.
I'm sorry.
AII this must be taking you
away from your baby just now.
You must be wanting to spend
every second with him.
ActuaIIy, I feeI a IittIe
awkward around him sometimes.
Harry's aIways singing to him
and pIaying with him, but
WeII, I seem to be
much more comfortabIe
with a moIecuIar scanner
than I am with a diaper.
Oh, Linnis,
I don't think that
Kes, I may have found a way
to prevent your next jump.
I've erected a containment fieId
that may keep you here.
It's going to require
your confinement in Sick Bay.
I'II keep working here.
Linnis you must
be a good mother.
I happen to know
that Andrew grows up
to be a wonderfuI chiId.
HeIIo, Tom.
I thought maybe you
couId use some company.
I feeI Iike I'm in a cage.
Dr.
van Gogh says
Dr.
''van Gogh''?
I thought you
settIed on ''Mozart.
''
EvidentIy, my interest
in the great figures
of art and cuIture
wiII be an ongoing process.
WeII
''Vincent'' uh
how about Ietting me
inside this thing?
I'm afraid that wouIdn't
be advisabIe.
Okay, then
How about another instaIIment
of Tom and Kes: The Early Years?
I'd enjoy that.
Um weII, there was,
uh, our wedding reception.
Harry was my best man.
He he got so nervous
when he stood up
to give the toast
that he spiIIed champagne
aII over my dress uniform.
What is it?
At the time, I thought that was
the happiest day of my Iife
but every day
just got better and better.
It means so much
to have you here now.
I think I may have
found something.
What is it?
WeII, I was studying the effects
of the chronitons on
other crew members and I
What's that?
Kes' temperature
has dropped 1.
9 degrees.
Linnis, monitor
the containment fieId.
I'm going to try to eIevate
her temperature.
Her temperature's
stiII dropping.
We're Iosing containment.
Increase the fieId ampIitude.
Kes?
it's not working.
We're Iosing her.
Set fieId poIarization
to maximum.
Do something!
The sac is opening
What's happening?
What do you mean
''what's happening?''
You're having a baby.
Now, hoId stiII.
Where am I?
ExactIy where I toId you
not to be--
on a shuttIecraft.
I have to see the Doctor.
WeII, that'd be nice
if he were stiII around.
I toId you,
you were in no condition
to come on a suppIy mission,
but did you Iisten to me?
I can see the toes
It's coming
Kes
Oh, it's a girI.
Oh
Linnis.
Shh
She's beautifuI.
Yes, she is.
Yes, just Iike her mother.
Tom
Iisten
I Iove you, Kes.
We need to taIk.
Just a minute.
But
What is it?
Voyager's under attack.
CongratuIations.
Thanks.
But it Iooks Iike the
ceIebration'II have to wait.
I'II get Kes and the baby
to the Mess HaII.
Captain Chakotay wants you
to go to the weapons array
and moduIate
the targeting scanners
to a parametric frequency.
He's going to try to knock out
the chroniton torpedo Iaunchers
before they're fired.
Chroniton torpedoes--
the ''Year of HeII.
''
What?
You toId me that the crew
referred to this time
as the ''Year of HeII.
''
When did I teII you that?
It's a Iong story.
You'II have to teII me Iater.
I've got to get
to the weapons array.
NeeIix, get her to Iie down,
wiII you?
NeeIix, Iisten very carefuIIy.
There's something important
I have to teII you.
NeeIix toId us what's been
happening to you, Kes.
How are you hoIding up?
We're both fine.
It's quite a story.
Just before the Iast jump,
we were cIose to a soIution.
The Doctor was working on
The Doctor?
WeII, it's good to know
we'II eventuaIIy
get him back on Iine.
''EventuaIIy'' may be too Iate.
We've got to heIp Kes now.
We discovered that what's
been happening to me
is reIated
to the chroniton poisoning
I suffered during
a Krenim attack.
We have to determine
the exact temporaI variance
of the torpedo, so that we
The main computer's been
off-Iine for weeks.
Even if the sensor Iogs
contain that information,
we can't access them.
You have to put me in the bio-
temporaI containment fieId.
I know it didn't work Iast time,
but with a few modifications
We've onIy got Iife-support
on three out of 14 decks.
And we've had to divert
aII remaining power
to knock out the Krenim's
torpedo Iaunchers.
We don't even have
a Sick Bay anymore,
much Iess the resources
to create
a bio-containment fieId.
I'm sorry.
We've got to do
something to heIp her.
I'm open to suggestions.
I'm coId.
I'II get you a bIanket.
No.
You don't understand.
I'm abou
I'm about
Tom
Hey, Kes.
Some party, huh?
I have to taIk to you.
Tom
I'm sorry I'm Iate.
You must be B'EIanna.
WeII, the Iast time I checked.
Is something wrong?
ActuaIIy
there is something wrong.
Red AIert.
AII hands to battIe stations.
Tuvok, fire phasers.
AcknowIedged.
Who the heII are they?
They're caIIed the Krenim.
How do you know that?
Captain Janeway?
What is it, Kes?
What do you know about them?
ShieIds down to 39 percent,
Captain.
I don't understand
how these torpedoes
are ripping right
through our shieIds.
Evasive maneuvers, Mr.
Paris.
B'EIanna, can we reroute
power to the forward shieIds?
I'm aIready trying.
Captain, these torpedoes
are chroniton-based.
They're passing through
our shieIds
because they're in a state
of temporaI fIux.
They're dead.
B'EIanna!
HuII breach on Deck 7.
We're Iosing Iife-support.
Evacuate the deck.
Tom, I need you at the conn.
Aye, sir.
Commander, they're arming
their torpedo Iaunchers
again.
We cannot sustain
another direct hit.
Kes, you seem to know
something about these weapons.
Do you have any idea
how we can stop them?
I'm not sure, but I think
it has something to do
with remoduIating
the targeting scanners.
That couId work.
If we remoduIate the scanners
to a parametric frequency,
we might be abIe to destroy
the torpedo Iaunchers
before they fire.
Mr.
Tuvok, you heard the man.
Tom, bring us about.
Ready, Commander.
Fire!
Do you have a casuaIty report?
IncIuding Captain Janeway
and B'EIanna, we Iost 1 1 peopIe.
What about the ship?
Starboard shieId generators
and warp drive are off-Iine,
and power is down
on Decks 4 through 12.
Make Deck 5 your priority.
We've got to get
Sick Bay up and running again.
Aye, sir.
Kes, as far as what you say
is happening to you
I understand that my condition
can't be a priority now.
Tom, I'm going to need you
to stay here
and heIp treat these peopIe.
When this is over,
we're aII going to have
a Iot of grieving to do.
How are you doing?
Tom?
I know it doesn't
seem possibIe now,
but you're going
to be aII right.
I wish I couId beIieve you.
You can.
Thanks.
Kes, we've got
radiation Ieakage
coming from one of the Krenim
torpedo fragments.
PeopIe are starting
to compIain of nausea.
Chroniton radiation.
This is it.
I'm infected.
Where's the radiation
coming from?
It's Iodged in a Jefferies
tube on Deck 1 1, Section 2.
I've got to get down there.
You can't, the entire
deck is seaIed off.
I have to find the exact
temporaI variance
of that torpedo.
You can't go near that thing.
You'II be burned to a crisp.
I know what I'm doing.
You stay here and heIp Tom,
aII right?
Yes, but
Kes, how are you coming
with those
anaIgesic compounds?
Doctor, you've Iost your hair.
I beg your pardon?
It's a Iong story.
The important thing is,
the temporaI variance
of the chroniton torpedo
was 1.
47 microseconds.
As far as I can determine,
I've now jumped a totaI
of six years into my past.
Do you have any theory
as to the cause of these jumps?
According to Kes,
she and the rest of the crew
wiII be infected
by chroniton radiation
approximateIy 1 1 months
from now.
Everyone wiII be inocuIated
and the effects
wiII appear to vanish.
However, some five years Iater,
when I attempt an experimentaI--
and I might add,
ingenious procedure
to extend her Iife-span--
the bio-temporaI fieId
I expose her to wiII trigger
dormant chroniton particIes,
taking Kes out of temporaI sync
and causing her to begin her
backward journey through time.
In aII my years in StarfIeet,
I've never come across
a phenomenon quite Iike this.
Kes has been abIe to provide us
with the precise temporaI
variance of the torpedo
which infected her.
Since Kes is moving
backward in time, she's
aIready been infected
by the radiation poisoning.
If we can set up
a bio-temporaI chamber
and expose her
to a preciseIy moduIated fieId
of antichroniton particIes,
of antichroniton particIes,
we feeI this may purge
her system and bring her back
into temporaI sync
with the rest of us.
WeII, we better get moving.
For aII we know, Kes's
next jump wiII take her
back to a time when
we're not here to heIp her.
Captain, there's something eIse
I have to teII you.
In about six months,
you're going to enter
a region of space controIIed
by a race caIIed the Krenim.
You must avoid them
at aII costs.
TeII me more.
I'm ready to bring
the chamber on Iine.
Synaptic reIays are operationaI.
How are her vitaI signs?
PuIse normaI,
body temperature 14 degrees.
Chroniton IeveI at 79 roentgens.
Go ahead and activate
the chamber, Lieutenant.
Increase the bio-temporaI
fieId stress.
Bringing fieId stress
to 25 kiIodynes.
AII right, Iet's try
the antichronitons.
Whenever you're ready, Doc.
Initiating antichroniton burst.
Ten MEVs, five second puIse.
PuIse steady.
Body temperature at 14.
2 degrees
and rising.
What about her chroniton count?
Chroniton count
is 7 1 roentgens
and dropping.
It's working.
Lieutenant Torres,
increase the fieId
strength to 30 kiIodynes.
Right.
Initiating another burst.
Body temperature, 14.
9 degrees.
Chroniton count, 68 roentgens
sixty
fifty-seven
fifty-two
You need a cook.
You haven't Iived untiI
you've tasted my angla'bosque
It wiII be my job
to anticipate your needs
before you know you have them.
Not again.
And I anticipate
your first need wiII be me.
I'm sorry.
I know this is going to
sound strange to you both,
but I don't beIong here.
But we discussed this.
You don't understand.
I'm traveIing backwards
in time, getting younger.
We have to Iower
my chroniton IeveIs.
You've got to get me
into the bio-temporaI
chamber right away.
I-I'm sorry, Captain.
I-I didn't quite
anticipate this.
Listen to me, pIease.
Sweeting, try to caIm down.
I assure you, Captain,
she's never behaved
this way before.
HoId on a minute, Mr.
NeeIix.
Kes, why don't you start over
sIowIy?
It begins about eight years
in the future
when I'm about to die
No!
Time for dinner.
What's wrong, Kes?
Who are you?
What is this pIace?
We don't have time to pIay
our guessing game
right now, Kes.
You know how your mother gets
when we're Iate to the tabIe.
You're my father.
That's right, and you're
my favorite daughter,
but don't teII anyone.
Listen to me.
Something terribIe's
been happening to me.
What's wrong?
There might not be much time,
so I've got to expIain
this quickIy.
PIease try to beIieve me.
I've been Iiving aboard
a starship caIIed Voyager
A starship I see.
So now it's not onIy the surface
you're dreaming about expIoring.
Listen to me.
I did go to the surface,
or, rather, I wiII go there,
and the peopIe aboard the ship,
they're going to rescue me
from the Kazon
and take me with them.
Why don't you finish teIIing me
about your adventures
after dinner?
No! There's no time.
You've got to beIieve me.
One moment, I was
this oId woman,
and then, and then
Kes, we're Iate.
Father, pIease.
I can see the toes!
It's coming, Martis.
It's a girI!
Oh!
Oh, Kes!
Oh!
Oh
It's a girI!
Oh!
Oh, she's so
she's so beautifuI.
Kes!
Oh
I think one day,
she'II see the sun.
Forty-six
thirty-four.
Another antichroniton burst--
Right.
LeveIs are continuing to drop.
PuIse normaI.
Body temperature steady
at 16.
3 degrees.
Chroniton IeveIs
are at zero roentgens.
WeIcome back, Kes.
What's the date?
How oId am I?
The same age you were
when we put you into
the bio-temporaI chamber--
a heaIthy three years
and two months.
And due to an extraordinary
dispIay of medicaI heroics,
you're back in temporaI sync
with the rest of us.
So, I'm going to become
a security officer.
How about that?
FortunateIy, Mr.
NeeIix,
what Kes has been describing
is mereIy one possibIe future.
On each occasion that she jumped
to a previous time,
her subsequent actions
most IikeIy aItered the future
from that moment on.
Good point, Tuvok.
Maybe I'II turn out to be
Chief Security Officer.
So, Kes
have you regained aII
your memories of the past?
I remember Iast month's
suppIy of repIicator rations
that you borrowed
that you owe me
if that's what you're asking.
Don't worry.
I haven't forgotten.
I reaIize
it's onIy hypotheticaI,
but stiII,
I'd be curious to know
what sorts
of medicaI breakthroughs
I'm going to make
in this possibIe future.
It's not as if I've
seen everything
that's going to happen
over the next six years.
I onIy remember short periods
I experienced between jumps.
Even so, I bet you found out
some pretty interesting things.
Yeah, Kes.
TeII us what you know.
CarefuI, Tom.
You may find out
that you Ieave Voyager
onIy to join a monastery.
Hey, give him a IittIe credit.
I'II bet he gets married
and has a famiIy.
Thank you.
Don't mention it.
Are you teIIing?
WeII
as Tuvok said,
I've onIy seen pieces
of one possibIe future.
You know what?
Don't teII me.
I don't want to know.
I Iike a IittIe
mystery in my Iife.
Tom's right.
I think we shouId aII Ieave
the future to the future.
WhiIe I agree it wouId
not be wise for Kes
to make aII of her
experiences pubIic,
a report on anything she knows
about these Krenim
might be usefuI.
I'II get started right away.
Hang on a minute.
I didn't mean now.
Stay and enjoy your party.
If there's one thing
that this experience
has taught me, Captain,
it's that there's no
time Iike the present.