Synopsis:
Ensign Harry Kim awakens on Earth, where he's shocked to
learn there's no record of his assignment on Voyager.
Harry wakes up in 24th-century San Francisco and no one seems
surprised to see him there -- not his girlfriend Libby, nor a
local coffee shop owner named Cosimo, nor his friend Lieutenant
Lasca, a fellow design specialist at Starfleet Headquarters. As
the strange morning continues, Kim finds himself in an important
meeting with high-ranking officers who want to hear Kim and
Lasca's proposal for a new runabout.
Feigning illness, Kim leaves the meeting and tries to figure
out how he got to Earth. A check of Starfleet records reveals
that he never served on Voyager, which, as Kim well knows, has
been reported missing in the Badlands. He also finds out that
Paris isn't on the crew manifest; he's been paroled from the
penal settlement that Janeway found him at and now lives in
Marseilles. Kim heads to France, seeking answers only Paris can
provide.
He locates his friend at the real Sandrine's, but to Kim's
chagrin, Paris doesn't know him. Still, Paris is intrigued by
Kim's story. His last recollection is being in a shuttlecraft
heading back to Voyager, and Kim begs Paris to accompany him to
Starfleet Headquarters where they can run a computer simulation
and learn what happened to him; Paris refuses. When Kim arrives
home, he is apprehended by Lasca who suspects he may be a Maquis
spy. Until the matter can be settled, an electronic anklet is
place on Kim to monitor his whereabouts.
Later, Cosimo tells a distraught Kim that he was sent to keep
watch over him after Kim's shuttlecraft intersected one of his
species' "time-streams." The incident scrambled Kim's
time-line and sent him back to the life he would have known if
he hadn't joined Voyager's crew. In an effort to help Kim,
Cosimo tells him where to find the time-stream that could take
him back. Kim says goodbye to Libby and makes a run for it, only
to be apprehended by a Starfleet security guard. Thankfully,
Paris arrives on the scene and helps Kim out. The pair then flee.
Needing a ship to recreate his shuttle accident and ride the
time-stream back to Voyager, Kim boards a runabout at Starfleet
Headquarters. With Paris at the helm, he recreates the
conditions of the incident that sent him to Earth. Suddenly, he
finds himself back on his original shuttlecraft. Kim is beamed
onto Voyager, where he resumes his normal life.
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Cast:
Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway™
Robert Beltran as Chakotay™
Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres™
Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris™
Jennifer Lien as Kes™
Ethan Phillips as Neelix™
Robert Picardo as The Doctor
Tim Russ as Tuvok™
Garrett Wang as Harry Kim™
Guest Cast:
Louis Giambalvo as Cosimo
Jennifer Gatti as Libby
Jack Shearer as Admiral Strickler
Mark Kiely as Lieutenant Lasca
Creative staff:
Director: David Livingston
Written By: Brannon Braga
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