User Reviews

This episode is action packed, well written and a very plausible what if episode. Can't believe this episode is 24 years old, the effects are spot on and flawless. Voyager cracking into the ice is amazing. Go watch and enjoy!

This episode had it all - time travel, Voyager crash landing, big continuity advancement in the series story, and even a wonderful special guest appearance!

Great episode, very fun to watch and so many things that make Trek great.

Most of this episode is fine. It has a fascinating premise and it is nicely put together. There are some "buts" however. The business of changing time is still out there in the realm of impossibility. How humans can change it, is also beyond me. But, we need it for science fiction, so let's give it a pass. The one issue that bothered me here is that the cause of all the problems is a blind trust in Harry Kim, knucklehead at large. They had run 20 simulations and each had ended in problems. Enter the impatient Kim, and a little speech allows him and his friend Tom to go off into the ethos with no regard for testing. Anyway, the dark future is interesting and the effort to correct a fatal mistake are fun. One last thing. Don't give Harry any responsibility that affects the lives of the crew.

Kim and Chakotay attempt to change the present by altering events in the past.

This is a refreshing episode for several reasons. Firstly, it approaches the concept of the Voyager crew attempting to speed up their journey home in a different way. Previous episodes have unsuccessfully attempted to raise hopes of a return home, whereas the writers establish this as a failed attempt early and develop a good story around the failure.

Most Star Trek stories about temporal anomalies show characters fixing deviations created by other characters or phenomena. I like that this one has the central characters trying to create an anomaly due to a vested interest in how events will unfold.

Arguably the highlight is that it makes great use of Kim as a central character in a way that works well. The writers make him suffer, but he has very strong arc and Garrett Wang puts his heart into the performance.

If I had to nitpick, I would say that once again the writers have characters over explain their feelings in certain moments of dialogue rather than come up with ways of showing it through behaviour. My least favourite scene involves this type of conversation between Chakotay and Tessa.

Visually it is one of the best Voyager episodes. Scenes of dead characters frozen is are very well designed and the crash sequence is excellent. Both timelines are edited in a way that makes the story flow.

This is an excellent time travel episode, and also one of the best Harry Kim episode in which his future him is much tougher than the Harry Kim we know.

When Voyager crashes after a new travel attempt with the slipstream drive, the whole crew dies - almost. Harry and Kim, who were flying in front of the ship in the Delta Flyer, survived and lived their lives for 15 years afterwards. Both spent most of the past years finding a way to undo this event. Especially Harry's life only was about redeeming himself and bring the crew back, because it was his wrong calculation which led to the Voyager crash. After they obtain a temporal device from the Borg, stole the delta flyer and found the crashed Voyager, they try to send a message to past Seven of Nine and provide her with the correct calculation to correct the mistake done by Harry. Although this attempt fails, too, they still manage to save Voyager and the crew and revert the past 15 years with a snap of their fingers.

I like time travel stories and this is a well done episode. Plagued by his own mistake, Harry is obsessed with making things right and bring the crew back. His past 15 years must have been painful for him. Well acted by Garrett Wang in this episode. Normally I am not a fan of this Harry Kim character, but this episode was joyful to watch.

But just like with every time travel episode, they always pick a few minutes before the fatal event to change the timeline. Since they are in the future, they could have chosen any time to send Seven a message through her Borg implants. For example when they were debating Harry's suggestion to execute the flight. With an additional message that explains everything, Harry could have stopped the crew from trying this flight in the first place. This way it would not have been such a pressure to fix everything in the last possible second. But of course, this would be boring to watch for the viewers. Also, Chakotay gets the shortest straw in this episode. Although he also determined his life in changing the past and even sacrifices the new love he found back on earth, it is only Harry who receives all the praise. This is one of the letdowns in this episode. Chakotay is the unsung hero of this episode.

I wonder though: Where did the doctor get his mobile holo emitter back? Last time it was evolved by Borg technology and fused into the Brog drone. Suddenly it is up and running again. And La Forge was quite pointless and helpless in this episode. He could not even stop a shuttle craft with his spaceship.

Despite the nitpicking I enjoyed this episode, the things that bug me about the teek universe is its always advertised as "the United federation of planets is about exploration, meeting new species, making friends" but every time they show a time travel episode it shows star fleet as being almost evil, uncaring, not at all showing anything their captains and crew preach about! There's always a criminal aspect to them too.. even in picard series it shows the future of drug users, alcohol, swearing etc.. its like as time went on the series just moved away from jeans original vision. Kim is a great character but in this episode he's a hot head and it doesn't suit him. They keep saying they have no time but they have time to talk about sex and go over all that's happened! The biggest mistake tho was using laforge, going off TNG and his character, he's a genius, able to do incredible things yet in this episode he's powerless to stop a shuttle from its mission Despite having a starship and full crew..