Star Trek Voyager Scripts Time and Again
"Time and Again"
Written by David Kemper and Michael Piller
Directed by Les Landau
Season i, Episode three
Production episode 104
Original air date: January thirty, 1995
Stardate: unknown
Captain'southward log. Paris goes off duty, turning things over to the 2d-shift conn officer, and and then inveigles Kim to go on a date with the Delaney sisters downward in Stellar Cartography. Kim has a girlfriend dorsum home, and he wants to stay faithful. Paris tells him he'south being a moron. He also lied to the Delaney sisters almost something he did at the Academy, to Kim's horror. Paris asks how they're going to check, and I dunno, perchance utilise the library computer on their super-spiffy-great spaceship?
A planet suffers a massive cataclysm near where Voyager is located. Neelix is unfamiliar with the globe, and they head in that location to notice that in that location was a major catastrophe, a release of polaric ion energy that atomized all life on the planet, leaving simply nonorganic items.
Janeway, Tuvok, Torres, and Paris beam down to bank check the place out. Paris finds a stopped timepiece that indicates when the disaster takes identify, if they can effigy out what the numbers mean, anyhow.
On the ship, Kes wakes up from a seeming nightmare—she felt the people on the planet die telepathically. Neelix is skeptical, but he takes her to sickbay. However, the EMH doesn't know how to diagnose her, as at that place are no medical records on file for Ocampa.
Paris has a wink of the square they're continuing in, but it'southward daylight and at that place are people effectually. Afterwards a minute, he's back with everyone else, merely then both Janeway and Paris current of air up in the square, seemingly in the by.
Torres determines that the polaric energy explosion sent out a subspace shockwave, some of which went dorsum in fourth dimension, opening subspace fissures into the by. Paris and Janeway roughshod through one such.
Paris finds the same timepiece he saw in the present, and bluffs his style into finding out how to read it. As all-time as he can determine, they're a day in the past.
A little kid sees them announced out of nowhere and causes a fuss, just a local constabulary-enforcement officer sends the kid on his way and apologizes to Janeway and Paris, who bluff their way through the conversation, later trading their uniforms for local dress (which are evidently all yellows, reds, and oranges).
Paris wants to tell these people that they're all going to die in a solar day, but Janeway refuses, because of the Prime number Directive, thus showing that Voyager's writers have the same criminal misunderstanding of the PD that TNG's writers did.
Janeway activates a subspace beacon, hoping that Torres and Kim will exist able to trace it. Back in the nowadays, Tuvok says that Janeway would probably activate a subspace beacon, and Kim and Torres try to find it.
The planet is powered past polaric energy, which is incredibly dangerous, and it turns out that there'south a very widespread motility to switch to a safer energy source, but the corporations that make a ton of money off polaric energy don't want to change. (That doesn't sound at allfamiliar……..)
Janeway and Paris get caught up in a demonstration confronting polaric free energy that turns into a riot, and both of them are hurt. The protestors bring them back to their headquarters, where they're interrogated by Makull, the leader of the protestors. Makull doesn't trust them, concerned that they're spies. The child shows upwardly, and winds upwards beingness taken prisoner, too. Paris apologizes for threatening to consume him.
Kes asks Chakotay to axle down for one of the attempts to locate Janeway and Paris, and at i point she hears Janeway telepathically across time through a fissure. They also locate two combadges, which are shattered—the show now suggests that the two of them were killed in the cataclysm.
At one point, they try to contact Janeway and Chakotay's voice comes through on the combadges. Makull thinks they're spy devices and removes them, leaving them behind.
Janeway and Paris are brought to a power plant, as Makull has moved up his planned demolition a calendar week. Janeway is convinced that whatever Makull is doing is going to result in the planet being destroyed, and she realizes that the toothpaste is out of the tube with regard to the Prime Directive, as their very presence changed things. And then she tells the truth that they're from a starship from the futurity, which is, unsurprisingly, not believed, as it'southward ridiculous.
Kes is convinced that Janeway is at ground zero of the calamity, even though Tuvok is sure that she wouldn't be. Notwithstanding, they're running out of fourth dimension, and Tuvok has zip better to suggest, so they try to pierce the fissure at the power establish.
When they're brought to the power plant, Janeway doesn't become along with the programme, tells law-enforcement that they're hostages, which gets ii cops killed and Paris shot. Makull and his gang get in, Janeway following. She tries to stop their sabotage—but so a subspace field opens, and Janeway belatedly realizes that Voyager's rescue effort is what caused the catastrophe. She convinced Makull to let her have her phaser, and she uses information technology to collapse Torres's subspace axle, which causes time to reset…
Paris is back at ops, trying to convince Kim to date the Delaney sisters. Kes comes to the bridge to ask most a nearby planet. Tuvok scans information technology and says that information technology's a pre-warp society, full of sentient life. Kes is grateful; anybody else is confused.
Can't we only reverse the polarity? Polaric energy is powerful, only unstable. It's unsafe plenty to engender protests and, oh yes, destroy all life on a planet. This is likewise the only time it's ever mentioned.
There's coffee in that nebula! Janeway is a business firm believer in the Prime number Directive, having had lessons in it drilled into her by Paris's begetter when she was under his command. (This is, sadly, the shitty version of the PD.)
Mr. Vulcan. Tuvok uses his noesis of Janeway to predict what she'll do and winds up being hilariously wrong.
Half and half. Torres does all the technobabble, figuring out ways to retrieve Janeway and Paris.
Please state the nature of the medical emergency. The EMH doesn't find out until now that Neelix and Kes came on board after they went to the Delta Quadrant, which is why there are no medical records for either of them. He also isn't informed when Janeway and Paris get missing. He is generally quite cranky nearly how he'due south not being provided with information.
Forever an ensign. Kim has a girlfriend back in the Alpha Quadrant, and he hopes she'll wait for him, an absurdly naïve attitude to have given how far from domicile they are. Paris sensibly tries to get him to go on a appointment. (We will meet Kim's girlfriend in "Non-Sequitur.")
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Everybody comes to Neelix'south. Neelix is convinced that Kes is imagining her telepathy, which is a depressingly patriarchal and patronizing attitude toward her.
No sex, please, nosotros're Starfleet. Nosotros get the first mention of the Delaney sisters, who volition be mentioned repeatedly on the evidence, finally seen in "Xxx Days" (played by twins Heidi and Alissa Krämer).
Practise it.
"We're from Kalto Province."
"Yeah, well, I but talked to the transport attendant. He told me four people came today from Kalto. Two of them were a lot older than you, and they had a kid with them."
"Well, the attendant was incorrect. That was united states."
"So where'due south the child?"
"We ate him. Because we are demons and nosotros eat children and I haven't had my supper withal."
–Janeway trying to convince a kid that they're legit, and Paris taking the nuclear option.
Welcome aboard. The diverse natives of the Planet of Orangish are played by Nicolas Surovy, Joel Polis, and Brady Bluhm.
Piffling matters: Many writers of Voyager fanfic who were shipping Paris and Kim decided that "the Delaney sisters" was simply their code for going off and having wild sex together, and that the sisters didn't really be.
David Kemper (who as well wrote or cowrote the TNG episodes "Tiptop Performance" and "The Enemy") would later go on to be an executive producer on Farscape, and that show had a 3rd-season episode with a very similar structure, "…Different Destinations," just that one had a much less happy ending. While the basic structure of our heroes being the ones responsible for screwing upward time was intact, the Farscape episode has the protagonists making things worse and not fixing it, while the Voyager episode resets everything.
The outdoor scenes were shot at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, which was also used for the Edo's planet in TNG's "Justice," and for both Starfleet Academy and Starfleet Headquarters in several episodes of TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise.
Screenshot: CBS
Fix a course for domicile. "You lot accept a lovely brain." I like the twist in this one that information technology turns out that the attempt to rescue Janeway and Paris is what caused the planet to be destroyed in the commencement identify—merely then they blow it past having it fixed with literally no consequences. This was a real opportunity to do some meaty, in-depth storytelling, and they utterly ruined it by hitting the resettiest of reset buttons. Only Kes has the faintest idea what happened, and what could've been a difficult lesson for the crew about consequences—and perhaps an actual colloquy on the Prime number Directive, since this world is a classic instance of why the PD exists—is instead an utterly inconsequential episode considering nobody remembers what happened.
Instead, we get the same appalling version of the PD that we got in "Who Watches the Watchers?" (though at least Janeway figures out what Picard didn't figure out in that TNG episode, to wit, that the impairment had already been done and his standing to not interfere was only going to make things worse) and "Homeward" (in which our heroes became out-and-out murderers).
On its own, the episode is still skilful, mostly because the time travel is actually fun and caput-twisty in a proficient style, with outcome preceding cause. In the context of the early part of the show, information technology'south a chip more problematic, partly because nosotros just did temporal mechanics last episode, and partly because information technology's still another focus on Paris.
One of the comments on "Flagman" (by Eduardo Jencarelli) pointed out that Voyager is the only Star Trek airplane pilot that doesn't focus on the chief graphic symbol, and information technology's a valid point. "The Cage" is well-nigh Pike, "Where No Human Has Gone Before" is about Kirk, both "Encounter at Farpoint" and especially "Remembrance" are about Picard, "Emissary" is very much about Sisko, "Broken Bow" is most Archer, "The Vulcan Hello"/"The Battle at the Binary Stars" is nigh Burnham.
But the kickoff Expedition testify with a female lead has as its POV character in the pilot, not the helm, but the dudebro white guy with the franchise creator's first name as his heart name whose redemption is evidently so of import that two of the first three episodes have to be devoted to it.
Having said that, the line virtually eating the kid was hilarious…
Still, I would much rather have paired Janeway upwards with Tuvok (permit him pull a Spock and take to wear a hat!) or Chakotay (so they can develop their captain/first officer rapport) or Torres (so they can keep existence nerdy together, which is fabulous). The situation on the planet is a nice parallel to the "no nukes" move of the 1970s, one ofTrek'due south more subtle $.25 of social commentary.
Warp factor rating: 5
Keith R.A. DeCandido has written three works of Voyager fiction, about of which don't actually take place in the Delta Quadrant: the Mirror Universe short novel The Mirror-Scaled Serpent (in Obsidian Alliances, in which Kes and Neelix go through the Caretaker'due south array and wind up in the Blastoff Quadrant), the novella "The Third Artifact" in The Dauntless and the Bold Book two (which tells the story of how and why Tuvok infiltrated the Maquis), and the short story "Letting Become" in the anthology Afar Shores (which focuses on the families of the crew left behind, primarily Janeway's beau Marking Johnson).
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