Timeless (Voyager episode)

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"Timeless" was the 100^th episode of . It aired early in season five and featured LeVar Burton as a guest star. The episode begins with an attempt by Ensign Kim to propel the USS Voyager across the Delta Quadrant into the Alpha Quadrant, much closer to Earth, with the use of slipstream technology. "Timeless" is generally highly regarded by Voyager fans, though some critics, including David E. Sluss [link], consider it uninteresting and unaffecting. The episode also marks an important turning point among the series when Janeway notes in her personal log the changing perspective of their journey home: it's no longer "if" the crew will ever return to Earth, but "when."

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The slipstream experiment fails; Kim and commander Chakotay are propelled to Earth by the Delta Flyer, but Voyager, presumably unable to maintain the burst due to its greater mass, crash-lands on an ice planet just a few parsecs from the Alpha Quadrant, killing everyone onboard instantly. In the altered future, Kim and Chakotay become obsessed with finding a way to change the timeline so that the crew can live. Finding the planet where Voyager crashed, they reactivate the Doctor and track down Seven of Nine's, body, intending to use her Borg implants to send a signal to the past. The first attempt (To just alter the slipstream to allow Voyager to make it through) fails, and so, using the EMH mobile emitter to provide a power boost, Seven is sent instructions that shut down the slipstream, altering the timeline to one in which the experiment fails and the crew survives. Not all is lost, however; in the present, Kim reads a recording which the future Kim left for him. Moreover, ten years are taken off Voyager's journey to the Alpha Quadrant.

Timeless (Voyager episode)

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