"Holding course 351, mark 10, warp 7." "We'll be passing a red dwarf system in 40 minutes." "I can't tell if there are any M-Class planets." " You ready?" " I want to do the transtator diagnostic." " Harry, I can't do this alone." " Sorry." "You're making a big mistake." "Can't you see what's going to happen?" "We're the only humans out here, Harry." "People will start pairing off." "And if we don't get to the Delaney sisters soon, somebody else will." " I've got a girl back home." " So what, I've got five." " I plan on seeing mine again." " Harry, Harry, Harry." " You really think she's goign to wait for you?" " I hope so." "Let her go." "Let her have a husband and kids and a good life... while you and I have the Delaney sisters." " I told you, I need to run a transtator diagnostic." " You need to run a self-diagnostic." "Look, they come as a pair." "It's a double date or no date." "Come on." "I told them all about you." "What did you tell them about me?" "Well, for one thing, how you broke the single pilot speed record at the Academy." " Record?" "I never broke any record!" " Who are they going to check it with?" " Report." " We're at the leading edge of a shock wave." "Monitoring hull breach on deck 3." "Contained." "Shields are holding." "Engineering is undamaged." "All systems operational." "Can you identify the source of the wave?" "I'm not sure." "There's a debris cloud in the red dwarf system." "It consists of differentially charged polaric ions." "Differentially charged?" "That would suggest a massive detonation." "Are you familiar with any life-forms in this system?" "Familiar?" "Not exactly familiar." "Considerably less than familiar, actually." " Adjust course to investigate." " Aye, Captain." "Entering the system, Captain." "Heading 010, mark 4." " What are you doing here?" " I had to know." "Know what?" "The origin of the shock wave is an M-Class planet." "On screen." " The vegetation of the planet has been destroyed." " No satellite system at orbit." "No evidence of spacecraft." " Lifesigns." " None." " But the poradic radiation may be interferring with the scanner." " Take us into orbit." "There are artificial waterways and a global aqueduct system." " There is a civilisation down there, Captain." " Or there was." " Surface conditions?" " Radiation level is within acceptable level." " Atmosphere, breathable." " Mr Paris, Tuvok, you're with me." " Ms Torres, meet us in transporter room 2." " On my way." "Commander, you have the bridge." "The entire surface of the planet was just seared." "There was a chain reaction in subspace, very likely ignited by the detonation of one or more polaric ion devices." "The people here never had a chance." "They're gone." "Vaporised." "Everything organic has been obliterated." "At least it happened quickly." "Polaric detonation would have swept through the city within seconds." " It recalls the Chaltok IV incident." " Chaltok IV?" "A Romulan research colony was nearly destroyed during a testing of one of these devices." "It led to the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268." "So we're looking at the end of a war." " I wonder who won." " I'm not so sure there was a war." "Look at these readings, Delana" "Polaric ion concentrations are so high" "I can't get an accurate reading." "I say these conduits was the source of these explosion?" "A civilisation powered by polaric ion energy?" "That's what it looks like." "A time bomb underneath every street," "Running into every home." "What do you mean you saw it?" " How could you see it?" " I don't know." "What did you see?" "I saw them burning...." "Their bodies..." "Ashes where they stood." "You felt the shock wave in your sleep." "It's just your imagination." "A strange coincidence." " I don't think so." " What else could it be?" "It was almost telepathic." "Telepathy is a message, words, voice." "What you're describing is almost like the visions of Drakina Forest dwellers." " Who?" " A tribe with paranormal abilities." " They can walk into an empty room..." " Neelix." "My ancestors were said to have unusual mental abilities." " No one believes those stories." " I always have." "Look." "This may be some kind of timepiece." "It stopped at the moment of the explosion." " What was that?" " What?" " Didn't you hear that?" " Hear what, Lieutenant?" "Kids playing." "They were as close as..." "I don't understand." "I was here in the square but there were people." " You never left here." " But I saw them." "Lots of people." "Children playing." "The sun was shining." "There was no explosion." "Everyone was alive and happy." "You were standing here all the time." "Your nervous system is showing a temporal flux but it's normalising." " Subspace is shattered." " I want everyone to stand where you are." "There may be subspace fractures floating like iceberg across the planet's surface." "Away team to Voyager." "Four to beam up." "Tuvok." "B'Elanna." "Hey." "Calm down." "It's all right." "What's the problem?" "I saw them appear out of thin air!" "They're demons!" "I saw them with my own eyes!" " We just came around the corner." " They're lying!" "Calm down." "You've been reading too many dark storm tales." " There's no such thing as demons." " But I'm telling you..." "Run along now." "Have a confection bar and calm down." "All right, everybody, back to your business." "Nothing else to see here." " Sorry about that." " No problem." " Who knows what's in their heads?" " Perhaps the uniform scared him." " Come in on the continental transport?" " This morning." "Is that what they're wearing in Kalto Province?" "This is a little more formal than most." "You know how it is when you travel." "We were looking for a clothing shop." "We though we change into something more appropriate." "There's one over there." "I hope your stay is enjoyable." "I wish I could say it will be." "Need a timepiece?" "Maybe you could help me." "I'm from..." "Kalto Province." " I'm not used to your timepieces." " They're no different from the Kolta timepiece." "Are you sure?" "What do these numbers stand for?" "Rotations, intervals, fractions." "Same as any timepiece." "14 kelodas." "A fair price." "I might stop back later." "If there's time." "This world is going to be destroyed some time tomorrow." "First officer's log, supplemental." "There's been no sign of Janeway or Paris since they were lost in subspace fracture." "This is one of the subspace fractures we've located with magneton scanner at the surface." "This is the time of the explosion with the facture opened." "As the shock waves dissipate, the fracture grows more narrow." "We believe that the captain and lieutenant Paris are trapped at the narrow end." "Shockwaves from most explosions dissipate into the future." "But we're speculating, based on what Paris saw us what he saw, that these dissipate into the past." " That's consistent with subspace damage we observed." " But haven't they been able to return like Paris did the first time." "He wasn't all the way inside a fracture, remeber." "We still saw Paris standing there when he still could look at the other side." "So is possible that Caption and Paris are existing only hours or minutes before the explosion occurs." "There is no way we can measure exactly how far back these fractures go." "How do we find them?" "If I know Captain Janeway, she would activate a subspace beacon to assist us." "We are counting on it." "First we have to find a fracture in the location where they've been." "Then we have to microscan the fracture to try to pick up their signal from their subspace beacon." "Once we know where and when they are, then we have to widen the fracture at that point." "How do you suggest we do that?" "We're not sure yet." " What?" "Is something wrong?" " Yes, terribly wrong." "Your brain is not on file." "Either your government failed to transmit the standard 15501 crew personnel report or someone at Starfleet Medical really fouled up." " I'm not a member of this crew." " We came aboard at mid-expedition." "And no one asked you for your medical histories?" "Of course not." "That would be the ship's doctor's job." "My job." "If anyone had bothered to tell me about new passengers." "But I'm the lastto know just about everything around here." " So, how many others new arrival are there?" " Just us." " And another crew from another ship." " Another crew?" "That's nice." "This is the Emergency Medical Holographic System to Captain Janeway." "She's missing on the surface of a planet." "Missing." "The Captain is missing." "Seem I've found myself on the voyage of the damned." "Very well." "Please advise the highest ranking officer who is not missing to see me at his earliest convenience." " You may shut off my program." " But you haven't told us anything about her condition?" "She's the healthiest member of her species I've ever seen." "The only one member of her species I've ever seen." "You have a lovely brain." "It will make a fine addition to our files." "I won't worry." "If your species has a history of extraordinary mental abilities this may be your way of flexing those muscles for the first time." "Living in space requires the body a variety of biological adjustments." "This could be a side effect of that process." "Go home, get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluids." " Fluids?" " Everybody should drink fluids." " Don't leave without turning me off." " Computer, end program." "And call me in the morning." "We can assume the Voyager will be looking for a way to reach us." "I'll set my combadge to emit a subspace beacon." "If they get close, maybe they'll pick it up." " I know." " Maybe there's some way..." "Don't even think about it." "The Prime Directive is clear." "We cannot alter this planet's natural course of events." " Even if that natural course is annihilation?" " Yeah." "My father used to talk about the Prime Directive." "Once a year." "He considered it our guiding principle of space exploration." "To be honest, I tuned out most of his sermons years ago." "Well, tune back into this one because I agree with him." "You have no idea what the consequences might be once you involved yourselves..." "The consequences have to be better than mass destruction." "You're not to warn these people." "That's an order." "Oh, God." "Come on." " I know you're lying." " Young man, we're here on a business trip and we have a lot of work to do." "The officer told me you came on the continental transport?" "Yes." "From Kalto Province." "Yeah, I just talked to the transport attendant." "He told me that four people came today from Kalto." "Two of them were older than you and they had a child with them." "The attendant was wrong." "That was us." " So where's the child?" " We ate him." "Because we are demons and we eat children and I haven't had my supper yet." " Sorry, I just figured it was the quickest way." " Let's concentrate on getting out." "The same subspace fractures that brought us here might still be around." "If they were caused by a polaric explosion..." "Is there anyway we could use polaric energy to get us back?" "If we have access to a polaric ion generator, we could modify a tricorder to emit a polaric field." "At the very least, it might help us scan for a fracture." "I wonder where these conduits get their power." " This is a lawful demonstration." " We have a right to be here!" "Under normal circumstance, I'd say we should come back tomorrow." "This uses the same energy that destroyed the planet." " At intense level, it can open a subspace fracture." " Wide enough for the Captain and Paris to get through?" "If we can locate them, this is capable of bringing them back." "The logical place to begin will be the same location they disappeared." "But the problem is, at the necessary intensity, polaric generator will burn itself out after 30 seconds at best." " Can't we initialize the generator and try again?" " Not at the same location." "Once we make one attempt at any given location, the damage to subspace will make a second attempt impossible." "How do we prevent one of us from getting trapped in the facture?" "We modify our tricorders to detect the fractures and all of us will be wearing one of these." "It puts out an anti-polaric field." "It should repel the fractures when they get within three meters." " Nice work." " Commander." " Will you be going back to the planet?" " We're going now." " I have to go with you." " There's nothing you want to see, Kes." " That's what I said." " I already seen it." "I have to go." "We're sorry to involve you in this." "Pe'Nar Makull." "My colleague, Ny Terla." "Apparently, you were just at the wrong place at the wrong time?" "I was just thinking the very same thing." " What were you doing?" " We're from Kalto province." "We were hoping to tour your power facility, compare it to our own." "I've never seen a Kalton with your colour hair." "Now you have." "My friend thinks you were sent to infiltrate us." "Infiltrate?" "You were there when she got this." "Perhaps you were told to put on a good show for us." "We don't even know why someone would want to infiltrate you." "That's hard to believe." "Even in Kalto there are protests against polaric energy." " We're not spies." " When was the last time you were in a power plant?" " Before we left home." " You weren't in that plant yesterday?" "We were just getting there when we stumbled into you." "We know you're not telling the truth." "We have safety monitors to measure polaric energy." "When you got here, they registered five times the normal readings." "To register these high, you were either inside that plant yesterday or at the site of a polaric disaster worse than any in the history of this planet." "What is it?" "It's as though I can sense the people who were here." "I know." "It's like walking through a graveyard." "No." "It's more than that." "I almost feel as if I could touch the people who were here." " What have you found?" " The scanner is not showing any fractures in this area now." "That probably indicates the subspace damage is beginning to dissipate." "If that's true, it will be harder to locate Tom and the Captain." "Commander, I'm picking up a signal from a combadge." " A subspace beacon?" " No, it's not on subspace." "It's here." "Now." "Kim to Janeway." " Kim to Paris." " Can we locate the source of the signal?" "Yes, sir." "This way." " What's your name?" " Janeway." " Unusual name." " Not where I'm from." " What part of the Kalto province would that again?" " I don't see any point in this." "There is a point, a very important one." "It has to do with our schedule and whether we can keep it or not." " Can we?" " I don't know." " Do they know our plan?" " I have no idea." " Let me go!" " Look what I caught sneaking around." "I'm still not showing any lifesigns." " He has nothing to do with this." " Is he yours?" " No." "He is just somebody we met here." " Don't trust them." " They aren't who they say they are." " Really?" " Thanks, kid." " Looks, this is all a misunderstanding." "They lied about coming here on a continental transport." "I talked to the attendant myself." "Let me go!" "What do we do with him?" "We can't let him go." "Just put him over there with the other." "Now stay quiet." "The combadge self-activates when the casing is destroyed to help searchers locate victims." "I guess it means they were caught in the explosion." "It only means that their combages were caughtin the explosion." "For this speculation serves no purpose." "I suggest we should search for tangible evidence." "None of us have seen devices like these before." "Terla believes they're spy equipment." "They're for surveying property." "I've thinking of buying land here." " I need to survey it." " I'd be curious to know how they work." "Would you show me?" "But then one of them might be a weapon." "And I wouldn't want you to show me how that works." "Hey, kid." "You were right about one thing." "I was lying." "I don't eat children." "You don't scare me." "My father works for the Media Bureau." " When I tell him all about this..." " Is he a journalist?" "Yes." "And so am I." " Is that right?" " I report for my school journal." "Thats right." "Everyone's gonna find out about you when I write about this in next week's edition." " What's your name?" " Latika." " I'm sorry." " For what?" " I just am." " I realise how this must appear." " But I'm just a patriot." " A patriot?" "I sincerely believe polaric energy has the potential to destroy this entire world." "I take it very few people here agree with you." "We've had more support since the accident at Markov." "We know the companies are afraid of us." "We know they've increased security at all their plants." "But it will not be enough to stop us." "We can't wait another week." "We have to reschedule." "We know they're not telling the truth, we have to assume the government sent them." "Tell everyone we begin at 0400 tomorrow." "Wait a minute." "Captain?" "Kes." "Do you have something to tell me, Janeway?" "If that's your real name." "It is my real name." "Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation starship Voyager." "I can feel their presence." "Please elaborate." "How can you feel their presence?" "I don't know." "I just can." "They've been in this room." "I know it." " Is there a subspace fracture in here?" " Affirmative." "Set up the equipment." "You wanted the truth." "All right." "Here's the truth." "We're from the future." "Exactly one day in the future." " You mean I was right?" " We weren't allowed to tell." "At least I thought we weren't." "In a few hours from now, there will be a serious accident on this world." "It will be caused by a polaric detonation." "We came here in an interstellar ship to investigate that explosion." "When we arrived, we were exposed to the polaric radiation." "Showing a subspace fracture." "Coordinates 141 by 21 by 14." " 5% drift, range:" "Four metres." " Initiating generator." "Initiating microscan of the fracture." "Whatever you're planning to do could be responsible for this tragedy." "And somehow you were able to come back here to warn us?" "The explosion had an unexpected aftereffect." "It created fractures in time." "We fell through one of those fractures." "Interstellar ships?" "Fractures in time?" "Do you honestly expect us to believe all this?" "I found them." "Scanners are picking up a subspace beacon." "Adjusting penetration coordinates to match." "I'll try to open up the other end." "Chakotay to Janeway." "Captain, can you read us?" " Eavesdropping devices." " No." "But they are for communication." " My crew is trying to contact me." " From the future, of course." "Get the particle injector." "Bring them with us." "The boy, too." "I have an ideo how they can help." "Chakotay to Janeway." "Can you read me?" "Please respond." "I don't get it, Captain." "This morning you were giving orders about not interfering because of the prime directives, now you're telling them everything." "I told them the truth when i realize we'd already violated the Prime Directive in the worst possible manner." " How?" " Just by being here." "If we hadn't been here, is very possible that this world may not have been destroyed." "Think about it, Tom." "Before we got involved, these people were planning to commit somekind of sabotage next week." "We were the one who forced a change in their schedule." "Because of us, they decided to begin today at 400 rotations." "We know the detonation takes place today just after 401." "401-22-84." "Wait a minute." "You were saying we're responsible for an explosion even though it occured before our ship arrived here?" "We've travelled back a point in time before the explosion." "So yes, we can be responsible for it." "Let's say we never came and their plans didn't change." "Wouldn't the accident simply have occurred next week instead of today?" "Who knows what might have happend between now and then." "They could have been arrested before they got a chance to carry it out." "Conditions at the plant might not have been the same next week." "But it's our problem now." "And we have got to find a way to solve it." "The subspace fractures are closing." "We've lost over 70% of them." "At this point, we are suggesting we concentrate our search at the flashpoint." "May I ask what do you expect to accomplish by doing that?" "We figure the Captain and Paris might look for the origin of the explosion to try and prevent it." "Unlikely, it would be highly questionable decision in light of the Prime Directive." "If it were me, I would have tried." "The issue is whether Captain Janeway would go there." "Not you, Commander." " Can you locate the flashpoint?" " We already have." "Let's go." "Your job is to get us past the guards." "You'd tell them you bring in agent to to negotiate a settlement of our dispute." "I cannot and will not do anything to help you." "Think before you say no." "Terla has a weapon trained on the boy." "If shooting begins, he'll be the first victim." " Is there something I can do for you?" " She's a government representative on official business." "I am a hostage." "These men are here to break into the plant." "Their lives are on your conscience, Janeway." " You saved my life!" " Don't waste time with me, Captain." " Gotta stop them." " Will you stay with him until help arrive?" "Sure he will." "The kid and I we're old friends now, aren't we?" "I'll be back for you." "We'll be here." "The polaric levels are higher here than any place we've been so far." "This was undoubtedly the flashpoint of the explosion." "Whatever went wrong, it started here." " So we have subspace fractures to work within here here?" " Affirmative." "They remain quite numerous in this area." "Set up the equipment." "I need the injector." "Just hand that bag to me." "41 by 310. 2% drift." "Range six metres." "Mark." " I have it." "Initiating generator." " Scanning for the subspace beacon." "It doesn't look like they were here." " It is highly unlikely that Captain Janeway would come here..." " No." "The Captain did come." "She was here." "This is where she died." "Everybody on this planet have less than three minutes to live if you go through with this, Makull." "Don't." "What exactly do you think we are planning to do here?" "I assume you're going to subotage the plant, probably by detonating some kind of device." " We are not stupid enough to blow up anything here." " That maybe true." " But something will go wrong." " Nothing is going to go wrong unless you fire that near a polaric conduit." " For everyone's safety, I suggest you put it down." " Give me the bag." "All right, then." "We'll wait." "If Kes is right, the Captain was here at the moment the explosion occurred." "Is there anyway to break through subspace a few minutes before the detonation?" "If the widest point of the fracture represents the time of explosion, couldn't we open a hole just before the widest point?" "There is no way we could pinpoint the time we'd be penetrating but we could an educated guess." "I feel that it is my duty to point out there is no logical reason to believe Kes is correct." "However, since I have no alternative course of action to recommend this time," " I suggest we proceed." " Commander?" "What time is it?" "401 rotations plus 21." "We'll just wait until 23." "23?" "What's the importance of 23?" "Oh, this is all about the alleged time of our self-annihilation." "All right." "Let's just see if we can all get through the next..." " What's going on?" " They're cutting through subspace." "My God." "It's going to intersect with the conduit wall." "Our own rescue attempt." "That's what sets it off." "My weapon may be able to seal that hole." "It's our only chance." "I'm getting particle resistance from the other side." "Increasing generator to maximum output." " The generator's overloading." " I don't understand." "Is not working." "We're not penetrating the fracture." "Harry, Harry, Harry." " You really think she is going to wait for you." " I hope so." "Let her go." "Let her have a husband and kids and a good life... while you and I have the Delaney sisters." " I told you, I need to run a transtator diagnostic." " And you need to run a self-diagnostic." "Look, they come as a pair." "It's a double date or no date." "Come on." "I told them all about you." "What did you tell them about me?" "Well, for one thing, how you broke the single pilot speed record at the Academy." "Record?" "I never broke any record!" "Who are they are going to check it with?" "Chakotay to Captain Janeway." "Yes, Commander." "We've identified an M-Class planet in the red dwarf system." "Do you want to investigate?" "Are you familiar with any intelligent life-forms in the system?" "Familiar?" "Not exactly familiar." "Considerably less than familiar, actually." " What are you doing here?" " I had to know." " Know what?" " The planet..." "Everyone was killed." "There was a terrible explosion." " You had a bad dream." " No, it was more than a dream." "Mr Tuvok, any indications of trouble on that M-Class planet?" " Negative." " Is it populated?" "Sensors do show humanoid life." "There is no satellite system and no indications of spacecraft in the vicinity." "It appears to be a pre-warp civilisation." "Which means as a policy, we don't involve ourselves in their affairs." "Of course." "A most enlightened philosophy." " Come on, Kes." " I'm sorry." "Captain." "Is it possible to see this planet on the view screen?" "There it is." "Thank you." "Come on." "Enter the planet's coordinates into the log and maintain present heading." " Warp 6." " Aye, Captain."