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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.

15 MEVs, five second puIse.

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.

51 roentgens.

Forty-six...

thirty-four.

Another antichroniton burst-- 20 MEVs.

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.

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