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"Future's End, Part II"
VOY, Episode 3x09
Production number: 151
First aired: 13 November 1996
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Written By
Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky

Directed By
Cliff Bole
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Janeway tries to prevent Henry Starling from launching the timeship without altering the past.

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[edit] Summary

Henry Starling continues to prepare for his flight back to the 29th century to get more technology, which he plans to use to revolutionize the 20th century computer age further than he already has with his technology from the Aeon. Luckily for the crew of USS Voyager the news footage of the ship flying through the skies has been dismissed as fraudulant by most people, although the military are taking it seriously and therefore the crew cannot attempt another low-altitude flight.

Because the crew of USS Voyager found out that it was Starling's trip that caused the temporal explosion, Rain Robinson, Tuvok, and Tom Paris divert Starling when Robinson calls Starling for help because "people are shooting at me!" Suspicious but convinced, Henry Starling drives to her location with The Doctor, wearing his new mobile emitter. Tuvok and Paris transmit Starling's coordinates to Chakotay and Lieutenant Torres, who are flying towards them in a shuttlecraft. They beam Starling to Voyager, but the shuttle loses attitude control and crashes in an Arizona desert.

Annoyed that his technology did not prevent his capture, Henry Starling revealed to Janeway on Voyager what his intention was. Afterwards, Mr. Dunbar, Starling's assistant, activates a satellite in orbit around Earth and beams him back to Chronowerx Industries.

Mr. Dunbar creates a diversion using a tachyon emitter and lures Paris and Robinson to chase him, believing that he has the timeship. Just before Mr. Dunbar runs Paris and Robinson's car over with his truck, Chakotay and Torres, having been rescued from Arizona by Tuvok and The Doctor, destroy the truck with a blast from the repaired shuttle. Torres manages to fix the transporters and beams Paris onboard to return to Voyager. However, Starling succesfully launches - from the Chronowerx building.

Voyager's weapons were still offline from their jump to the 20th century, so they could not disable the Aeon. Kim gets the photon torpedos back online and can lock on target but doesn't have firing control for them just yet and phasers are still offline. Just as the Aeon is about to fly into a temporal rift to the 29th century, Janeway manually fires a photon torpedo and destroys the Aeon.

After the Aeon's destruction, an alternate Aeon emerges from the rift with an alternate Captain Braxton, who has no memory of past events. He detected Voyager in the 20th century and took her back to the 24th century to their previous coordinates in the Delta Quadrant; however, he could not transport Voyager to Earth in the 24th century since doing so would have violated the Temporal Prime Directive.

Afterwards, the Voyager's crew hold a celebration in the mess hall, for both saving the future and for the Doctor, who with his mobile emitter, now has complete freedom from the confines of sickbay.

  • Captain's log, stardate 50312.5. We are again in the Delta Quadrant, at the exact time and place we first encountered the timeship. I've resumed a course for Earth and I've ordered the crew to the mess hall for a toast.

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"Agent Tuvok, what's up?"
"Breakfast is 'up'."

- Rain Robinson and Tuvok


"They've got lasers! A black man and some bald guy!"

- One of the farmers, about Tuvok and The Doctor


"If my history is accurate, Southern California in the late twentieth century had no shortage of psychotherapists, competent and otherwise. I suggest you find one. Now... return me to Voyager."

- The Doctor to Henry Starling


"I'm a doctor, not a database."

- The Doctor


"I've been equipped with an autonomous self-sustaining mobile holo-emitter. In short, I am footloose and fancy free."

- The Doctor


"And you, Mister Leisure-suit."
"There's a name I hadn't considered."

- Rain and The Doctor


"What's good for Chronowerx is good for everybody."

- Starling to Captain Janeway


"Chronowerx stock is about to crash."

- Janeway to Starling


"Activate hyper - impulse."
"Hyper - impulse drive engaged."
"... Let's do it."
"Command comfirmed."

- Starling and Aeon right before Aeon launches


"Talk about a motley crew. We have the Doctor – a guy with the worst, worst taste in clothing I've ever seen. Tuvok – what a freak-a-saurus! Has the guy ever cracked a smile?"
"Not that I can recall."
"And you, Tom Paris – hmm, sexy, in a Howdy Doody sort of way, pretty goofy, although sometimes I think you're the smartest man I've ever met."

- Rain and Tom Paris


"God in Heaven help us."
"Divine intervention is unlikely."

- Porter and The Doctor before the Doctor stuns the two militiamen


"Doctor, how –"
"It's a long story, commander. Suffice it to say, I'm making a house call."

- Chakotay and The Doctor as the latter rescues the former while nowhere near one of Voyager's holoemitters


"Doctor, get down there."
"How exactly do I get to Torpedo Tube 1?"

- Chakotay and The Doctor


"Fire!"
(The Aeon's computer beeps)
"Uh Oh!"

- Chakotay and Starling as the Aeon is destroyed just before it enters the temporal rift by Janeway


"Tuvok, has anyone ever told you you're a real freak-a-saurus?"

- Tom Paris

[edit] Background Information

  • Starling fits The Doctor with a mobile autonomous holographic emitter, allowing him to freely move about outside of Voyager and would remain in place until the series' end. Much in the same way as Rene Auberjonois reacted to Odo finding his people, Robert Picardo felt that giving The Doctor a mobile emitter would be a huge mistake and would ruin the character. Though, in the end, much like Auberjonois, Picardo eventually realized that it was the right decision: "I remember thinking it was a bad idea to give him mobility outside of sickbay. I thought that part of the audience's interest in the character was because of the limitations the character had and the challenges he had to face in trying to make the best of his limitations. But Brannon Braga was really right in that idea of giving me the mobile emitter. It opened up whole new storytelling vistas and I was the first to tell him that I was wrong - that the mobile emitter was a great idea." (Star Trek: Voyager Companion)
  • Starling's company is called "Chronowerx," yet the inside of the timeship bay is emblazoned with "Chronowerks".
  • Rain claims to have seen "every episode of Mission: Impossible." Leonard Nimoy (Spock) played "The Great Paris" on this Desilu series following the cancellation of the classic Star Trek series (albeit, for only two seasons).
  • Before returning to the 24th century, Voyager leaves some technology behind, including Captain Janeway's combadge (in part 1), her tricorder (in part 1), and The Doctor's holographic combadge. Considering that everything was undone when Voyager destroyed the timeship, these may have been erased from existence on Earth as well. Admiral Kirk and his crew also left technology behind in the 20th century (a phaser and a communicator) in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
  • The Aeon's cockpit would later be reused in "Fury" and "Retrospect".
  • The events of this episode represent the seventh time (aside from the series premiere) that the Voyager crew has a possibility of returning home (to their timeline).
  • These episodes present a different interpretation of temporal causality than "Time and Again". In both episodes, a terrible disaster occurs, someone returns to the past and ends up trying to prevent the same disaster. In the season one episode, when the disaster is averted, the characters lose their memories and everything is exactly as it was before the disaster. Here, the characters retain their memories and are still in the 20th century after Braxton's ship is destroyed.
  • The Doctor mentions having recently undergone a severe programming loss, and that he is still in the process of recovering his memory files, referencing the events of "The Swarm".

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[edit] References

Arizona; Astrotheory 101; Baja Peninsula; bar code reader; bipolar personality disorder; California; car; cellular phone; Central America; chili burrito; class 2 shuttle; Dodger Stadium; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Earth; Edgemont Road; fast food; freakasaurus; Goliath Gulp; Griffith Observatory; helicopter; Highway 101; Hollywood; Hollywood Hills; hologram; holographic projection system; holographic simulator; hot dog; Howdy Doody; hyper-impulse drive; Indian; interferometric dispersion; internet; laptop computer; Lincoln; Los Angeles; Mars; Metro Plaza; microchip; microcomputer revolution; Mission: Impossible; mobile emitter; Neanderthal; Nobel Prize; North America; pattern buffer; Phoenix; radar; SATCOM 47; Saturn; Soviet Union; space-time continuum; Starfleet Academy; Starling location sweep; stealth; tachyon; tactile response sensor; taxicab; telephone; teleporter; telescope; temporal core; temporal field generator; Temporal Integrity Commission; temporal inversion; Temporal Prime Directive; temporal transponder; tricorder; truck; UFO; United States Air Force; USS; van; Venus


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