(Music) Seska and the Kazon are secure in the Jefferies
Tube.
The last gel packs?
They're ready.
The rest of us should return to our sections.
(Music) After Chakotay initiates the warp pulse, he should find himself back at the
moment Voyager encountered the chrono-kinetic surge.
He's only going to have a few seconds to reset the deflector polarity.
If the timeline is restored, the rest of us should have no memory of what's happened here.
(Music) So I'd like to thank you now for putting your doubts aside and helping me put mine
aside as well.
Good luck to each of you.
(Everyone leaves.)
Mind if I ask you one last question?
Will I have to break the Temporal Prime Directive to answer it?
(soft music) Maybe, just a little.
For two people who started off as enemies, it seems we get to know each other pretty
well.
So I've been wondering.
Just how close do we get?
(Music)Let's just say there are some barriers we never cross.
(They shake hands.)
See you in the future.
[Bridge - pre-Caretaker] (Music)
Ensign?
Chakotay should be initiating the pulse in ten seconds.
Five, four, three, two (A bright light fills Voyager.)
[Engineering] (Music)
(Chakotay is back where it started.)
Reroute the main power to the deflector, and set the polarity to the frequency I'm inputting.
Why?
Have you ever heard of a lightning rod?
In about three seconds, we're going to need one.
(Music) [Bridge]
What is it?
I don't know.
The main power's being rerouted to the deflector dish.
Who gave that order?
(Energy from the anomaly hits the deflector and is reflected away.
The lights go out.)
Damage?
The deflector's been burned out, but we're okay.
(Music) (Voyager flies away.
Chakotay enters.)
Do you mind telling me why B'Elanna burned out the deflector dish?
Actually, I ordered her to do it.
Why?
Trust me, it was better than the alternative.
Which was what, exactly?
(Music) I can't tell you.
Why not?
The Temporal Prime Directive.
B'Elanna's already got a team working on repairs.
What do you say we finish our dinner?
(Music)
[Janeway's quarters]
(After dinner, drinking cider.)
Forget particle fountains and subspace inversions.
There isn't an anomaly scarier than a thunderstorm on the plains, especially when you're six
years old.
I remember watching a bolt of lightning split an oak tree in my grandfather's yard.
I'd climbed it just a few hours before.
Good timing.
So what would've happened if you hadn't turned our deflector dish into a lightning rod?
We've been down this road before.
Have we?
You want answers to questions you shouldn't ask.
But something did happen, outside the normal space-time continuum.
It's strange, thinking there's a piece of your life you don't know anything about.
Sounds a lot like the future.
Any predictions?
Only in a few minutes, this bottle will be empty.
Then maybe you should go to the Cargo Bay, and grab another one.
How do you know that's where I keep it?
Oh, I can't tell you.
Why not?
Temporal Prime Directive.
(music)