Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001): Season 3, Episode 21 - Before and After - full transcript

Activate the bio-temporal chamber.

- Is she going to be all right?
- Not if you don't let me do my work.

- She's my mother. I'm staying.
- This is a very delicate procedure.

The Doctor's right.
Let's let him do his work.

All right.

I wish I'd told you this before,
but better late than never.

You're the finest friend I've ever had.

Prepare the bio-temporal chamber.
We'll begin in five minutes.

Grandma, are you awake?

I brought you a present.

Grandma Kes?



I've finally finished making
your birthday present.

Sorry it's late, but I
wanted to get it right.

I don't know you.

What do you mean?

I'm Andrew, your grandson.

I don't know you.

Doctor Van Gogh?

What is it?

She doesn't recognise me.

Kes, how are you feeling?

Where am I? What is this place?

You're in sickbay. You know who I am?

No.

Yes.



- I've seen you before.
- Do you know my name?

The boy called you Dr Van Gogh.

That's right.

You said I was your finest friend.

I'm not sure I said that exactly but...

that doesn't mean it's not true.

Your friend? I don't know you.

Tell me what you do remember.

People around me, crowded around me.

You, a boy, a young girl.

I was in a chamber.

- A bio-temporal chamber.
- Good.

I was inside it and you told someone
to activate it.

You're confused.
I discussed the chamber with you,

but we're not ready to put you
inside it yet.

Can you recall anything else,
besides those people you saw?

No.

Find the rest of your family.

- What's the big hurry?
- I'm sorry, Captain. I have to go.

- What was that all about?
- Kes is getting worse, Captain.

Her amnesia is near total. Fewer than
1% of her engrams remained intact.

- As if her memory were wiped clean.
- Some sort of senility?

Maybe. I've never treated
a nine-year-old Ocampan.

For all I know, it's a normal part
of their ageing process.

It's hard to believe she performed
microsurgery a few weeks ago.

This morilogium comes on abruptly

and progresses with a rapidity
I've never seen.

How are you coming along
with the bio-temporal chamber?

It's a revolutionary procedure.
I have no idea if it will work.

Normally, I'd perform extensive tests
on the apparatus, but we're losing her.

If I don't try it now,
it may be too late.

- It may buy her another year.
- You have the family's consent.

- Go ahead and do it.
- I'm so cold.

I'm cold.

Your temperature has dropped to 14.8,
two degrees below normal.

- What does that mean?
- I'm not sure.

Her cells are in a state
of bio-temporal flux.

I don't understand how that could happen
before I put her in the chamber.

I've almost finished Grandma's present.

It's wonderful.

I'm sure Grandma will think it was
well worth the wait.

I still feel bad about
not having it ready for her party.

Hello. How was your nap?

- Don't look, you'll ruin the surprise.
- Sit down. I'll 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.

Tell me what's happening.

Andrew, tell your grandfather and father
to meet us in sickbay.

Sickbay. I remember that place.
I was just there.

- When?
- Just a few minutes ago.

Dr Van Gogh asked me some questions.

I couldn't remember anything.

You haven't been to sickbay for a week,
since you stopped working there.

Working? What kind of work?

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 all?

Just people crowded around me.
Voices.

The Doctor told everyone to leave
and activated the bio-temporal chamber.

He's been working on that.

I woke up and there was a boy,

Andrew, standing over me
with a present, calling me "Grandma".

Andrew hasn't finished your present.
You just saw him still working on it.

But he was there.
The Doctor sent him to get my family.

- I was cold and I woke up in a bed...
- Maybe you were dreaming.

I don't think so.

None of the things you remember
before waking have happened.

- How do you know?
- Listen to me, Mother.

You're confused. I'm sure
that's very frightening, but trust me.

I'm your daughter and I love you.
Please. Come with me.

Come.

- I've been expecting this.
- The onset of morilogium.

She's lost more than 98%
of her memory engrams.

Morilogium?

The final phase of the Ocampan lifespan.

- Are you saying that I'm dying?
- Not if I can help it.

What do you mean?

Kes, it's me. Tom.

Your husband.

Tom, we're losing her.

- How long?
- If we do nothing, a matter of weeks.

But I'm going to treat her
with a bio-temporal field

to push her cells back
to an earlier stage of entropic decay.

If it works,
it might buy her some time.

My mother's always accepted
that she would only live nine years.

She wouldn't want measures taken
to extend her life.

If the Doctor has a way to keep your
mother with us, we have to let him try.

We're not talking about a tested
procedure. It's a radical experiment.

I understand how upsetting this is,
but if it were you, I'd feel just like Tom.

Everyone listen to me, please.

Yes, listen to her.
Mother, tell us what you want.

Maybe the morilogium
is causing my amnesia,

but that doesn't explain how I jump
from sickbay to my quarters.

Or how I remember being
in a bio-temporal chamber.

It's possible the morilogium
is causing delusions.

- They're not delusions!
- Lie down.

- Leave her alone!
- Your grandmother's very sick.

Maybe, but she's not delusional.
We should listen to her.

I'm cold.

Her body temperature
has dropped 2.7 degrees.

For she's a jolly good fellow.

For she's a jolly good fellow.

For she's a jolly good fellow.

Which nobody can deny.

Happy ninth, Kes.
Go ahead, make a wish.

What are you waiting for?
Blow out the candles.

It's good to see that old lung
is still working.

Happy birthday, sweetheart.

I haven't made one of these
since I became security officer.

Perhaps you would care to return
to the scene of your former triumphs?

Keep working on that sense of humour.

You'll get it one of these days.

Jimbalian fudge. Some of us
ought to watch our calories,

but it is a special occasion.

I'm sorry I don't have a present.
I've got an idea for something special,

but I haven't had a chance
to start it.

I think it'll be worth the wait.
Talk to Grandma for a minute.

I'm going to ask you a few questions.
Think carefully before you answer.

I always think before I speak.
You taught me that.

Where were you
before you came to this party?

- At my Physics lesson.
- Then you came directly here?

No, I stopped at your quarters
to get you. Don't you remember?

Andrew, other people would like to wish
your grandmother a happy birthday.

She's all yours, Doctor.
Excuse me. That cake looks great.

You weren't a year old when we met,
not much older than Andrew.

Doctor, there's something wrong
with me.

Promise to hear me out
and not assume I'm delusional.

- Promise!
- Of course.

The memories I have don't coincide
with anyone else's.

Can you be more specific?

I was in sickbay,
and you and a woman, my daughter,

were arguing about prolonging my life.

Then I appeared in my quarters
and then I appeared here.

None of that happened.
Is it possible you were dreaming?

No, I was awake. But nobody else
remembers the things I do.

I hate to say this,

but these strange experiences
might be related to the morilogium.

You wanted to put me in a bio-temporal
chamber to stop my ageing process.

- How could you know about that?
- You told me.

I only came up with the idea
for the chamber this morning.

I was going to tell you about it
here at the party.

Then how could I already know about it?

I don't know, but we'd better get you
to sickbay and find out.

She appears to have lost
more than 95% of her memory engrams.

- That's symptomatic of the morilogium?
- I have no basis for comparison.

- No other Ocampans on board.
- We'll get to the bottom of this.

I do have memories.

Andrew gave me a present,
then he said he was working on it.

Now he just apologised
for not starting it yet.

It's as if you're experiencing events
in reverse.

- Maybe some kind of time paradox?
- There is another possibility.

Kes has knowledge of a treatment
I have not yet devised.

- She may have developed precognition.
- I can see into the future?

You've demonstrated extraordinary
mental powers over the years.

It wouldn't be unprecedented.

Some species have predicted future
events with uncanny accuracy.

See if you can confirm this theory.

Tom and I will scan
for temporal anomalies.

- We'll do everything we can to help.
- I'd like to do something.

Maybe if I had a look at my medical files
or checked other records,

I could fill in some of the blanks.

You may have lost your memories,
but you haven't lost your determination.

Hello.

- How's it coming?
- It's hard to know where to start.

How about you?

We've tried every scan
Harry could think of,

but we haven't found anything to explain
what's been happening to you.

Your initial physical exam.

I remember when you came on board.
I had a crush on you.

I tried to hide it, but Neelix sensed it.
Was he jealous!

- Neelix?
- You don't remember?

You and he were involved
for quite a while.

One of your prenatal exams.
We listened to Linnis' heartbeat.

That was quite a day.

What about this?
It says I got radiation poisoning

on stardate 50973.

That was the beginning
of the year of hell.

- Year of hell?
- That's what some of us call it.

We were under constant attack
by the Krenim.

The ship almost didn't make it,
the Doctor was off-line

and we lost a lot of good people -
Captain Janeway, Joe Carey,

B'Elanna.

B'Elanna?

I keep forgetting
that you don't remember any of them.

B'Elanna was someone
who was very special to me.

When she died,
I felt like I wanted to die, too.

But you...

You helped me through it.
I'm sorry.

No, it's my fault. You haven't done
anything wrong. It's just...

You don't remember
any of our life together?

That's all right.
I've got enough feelings for both of us.

Maybe the feelings I had for you
will come back.

You asked about the radiation poisoning.
During the first Krenim attack,

a chroniton torpedo fragment
leaked radiation into the ship.

- Chroniton torpedoes?
- They penetrated our shields.

The torpedoes were in
a constant state of temporal flux.

Wait a minute.
I think we may be on to something.

We'd better go talk to the Doctor.
Come on.

If I was infected, there might be
a connection to what's happening to me.

Maybe we should try...

Say cheese!

- I think he's got your nose, Mother.
- How does it feel to be a grandfather?

Better than it does to have you
for a son-in-law.

- 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 talk to the Doctor.
Come on.

I've jumped backwards
five times so far.

- Is there a pattern to these jumps?
- No, they're apparently random.

One time it spanned a few weeks,
the last was half a year.

I exist in temporal sync
with the rest of you for a while,

but before I can explain to anyone, I
find myself in an earlier time in my life.

Just before it happens, I experience
a sudden drop in body temperature.

This could explain a thing or two.

I'm detecting high-level
chroniton radiation in your cells.

So there is a connection.

But Kes was inoculated three years ago.

But everyone was left
with trace amounts of the radiation.

For some reason, those residual
chronitons have reactivated in Kes.

- The bio-temporal chamber.
- My thinking exactly.

- Would you mind explaining?
- It's quite obvious.

Your wife is travelling backward
through time.

I came into existence at my own death
without any memories.

I've been living my life backwards,
jumping to earlier moments in my life,

accumulating memories and experiences
as I go.

Your past has become my future.

Doctor, any theory
about what's causing this?

In approximately six months,
I will expose Kes to a bio-temporal field

in an attempt to stop
her ageing process.

This attempt leads to Kes'
current predicament?

What I will fail to realise
is that the bio-temporal field

reactivates the dormant particles,
bringing Kes out of temporal sync.

- Is there a way to stop the jumps?
- Purge her of the chroniton poisoning.

We'd need to know
the temporal variance

of the torpedo
which contaminated the ship.

Sensors were not functioning.

There is no data
regarding the torpedo in question.

Is it possible,
if this keeps happening to Kes,

that she might jump back into a time
before she knew any of us?

It's possible she may eventually
jump back to a time

before she even existed.

Captain's log, stardate 55836.2.

Kes has remained in temporal sync
for two days,

but we can't afford to rest until
we've found some way to help her.

I'm going to run a hypothalamic scan.
Maybe we can establish a pattern.

- You're very good at this.
- I had a very good teacher.

- Dr Van Gogh?
- You.

This must be taking you
away from your baby.

You must want to spend
every second with him.

Actually, I feel a little awkward
around him sometimes.

Harry's always singing to him,
playing with him,

but I seem to be more comfortable
with a molecular scanner than a diaper.

I don't think...

I've erected a containment field
that may keep you here.

It's going to require your confinement
in sickbay.

Linnis, you must be a good mother.

Andrew grows up to be a wonderful child.

I thought maybe you could use
some company.

I feel like I'm in a cage.
Dr Van Gogh says...

I thought you settled on Mozart?

Evidently my interest in the great figures
of culture will be an ongoing process.

Well, Vincent. How about letting me
inside this thing?

I'm afraid that wouldn't be advisable.

OK, then.

How about another instalment
of "Tom and Kes, the Early Years"?

I'd enjoy that.

There was our wedding reception.
Harry was my best man.

He got so nervous that he spilt
champagne all over my dress uniform.

What is it?

At the time, I thought that was
the happiest day of my life,

but every day it just got better.

It means so much to have you here now.

I may have found something.
I was studying the effects...

What's that?

Kes' temperature has dropped
1.9 degrees.

I'm going to try to elevate
her temperature.

Her temperature's still dropping.
Increase the field amplitude.

- It's not working.
- Field polarisation to maximum.

Do something!

- The sac is opening.
- What's happening?

- You're having a baby. Hold still.
- Where am I?

Where I told you not to be.
On a shuttlecraft.

- I have to see the Doctor.
- It would be nice if he were around.

I told you that you were in no
condition to come on a supply mission.

I can see the toes.
It's coming.

It's a girl.

- She's beautiful.
- Yes, she is.

Yes, just like her mother.

Tom.. Listen.

- I love you, Kes.
- We need to talk.

Just a minute.

- What is it?
- Voyager's under attack.

- Congratulations.
- The celebration will have to wait.

I'll get Kes to the mess hall.

Captain Chakotay wants you
to modulate the targeting scanners.

He's going to knock out the chroniton
torpedo launchers before they're fired.

You told me the crew referred
to this time as the year of hell.

- When?
- It's a long story.

Tell me later. I've got to get
to the weapons array.

Neelix, there's something important
I have to tell you.

Neelix told us what's been happening.
How are you holding up?

We're both fine.

Before the last jump, we were close
to a solution. The Doctor...

It's good to know
we'll get him back on-line.

We've got to help Kes now.

What's happening is related
to the chroniton poisoning I suffered.

We have to determine
the temporal variance of the torpedo...

The main computer's off-line.
We can't access the sensor logs.

You have to put me in
the bio-temporal containment field.

We've got life support on three decks
and have diverted all remaining power.

We don't have the resources
to create a bio-containment field.

We've got to do something to help.

- I'm cold.
- I'll get you a blanket.

You don't understand.
I'm about... I'm about...

Tom!

- Hey, Kes. Some party, huh?
- I have to talk to you.

Tom! I'm sorry I'm late.

- You must be B'Elanna.
- The last time I checked.

- Is something wrong?
- Actually, there is something wrong.

Red Alert.
All hands to battle stations.

Tuvok, fire phasers.

- Who the hell are they?
- They're called the Krenim.

- Captain Janeway?
- What do you know about them?

Shields down to 39%.

How are these torpedoes
ripping through our shields?

Reroute power to the forward shields.

The torpedoes are passing
through our shields

because they're in a state
of temporal flux.

They're dead.

B'Elanna!

- Hull breach on deck 7.
- Evacuate the deck.

Tom, I need you at the conn.

Aye, sir.

They're arming their torpedo launchers.
We cannot sustain another direct hit.

Kes, do you have any idea
how we can stop them?

It has something to do with
remodulating the targeting scanners.

If we remodulate the scanners
to a parametric frequency,

we might be able to destroy
the launchers.

Mr Tuvok, you heard the man.
Tom, bring us about.

- Ready, Commander.
- Fire!

- You have a casualty report?
- We lost 11 people.

What about the ship?

Warp drive is off-line and power is down
on decks 4 through 12.

We've got to get sickbay up and running.
Kes, as far as what you say...

I understand that my condition
can't be a priority.

Tom, stay here
and help treat these people.

When this is over, we'll all have
a lot of grieving to do.

How are you doing? Tom?

I know it doesn't seem possible,
but you're going to be all right.

- I wish I could believe you.
- You can.

Thanks.

We've got radiation leakage
from one of the torpedo fragments.

- People are complaining of nausea.
- Chroniton radiation.

This is it. I'm infected.

- Where's the radiation coming from?
- A Jefferies tube on deck 11.

- I have to get down there.
- The deck is sealed.

I must find the torpedo's
temporal variance.

- You'll be burnt to a crisp.
- You stay here and help Tom.

Yes, but...

How are you coming
with those compounds?

- You've lost your hair.
- I beg your pardon?

It's a long story.
The important thing is

the temporal variance of the chroniton
torpedo was 1.47 microseconds.

I've now jumped a total of six years
into my past.

Do you have any theory
as to the cause?

Kes and the crew will be infected by
chroniton radiation 11 months from now.

Everyone will be inoculated.

However, five years later,
when I attempt to extend her lifespan,

the bio-temporal field will trigger
dormant chroniton particles,

causing Kes to begin
her backward journey through time.

I've never come across a phenomenon
quite like this.

Kes has provided us with
the temporal variance of the torpedo.

She's already been infected
by the radiation poisoning.

If we set up a bio-temporal chamber
and expose her

to a field of anti-chroniton particles,

this may bring her back into
temporal sync with the rest of us.

Kes' next jump might take her back
to a time when we're not here to help.

There's something else.

In six months, you'll enter a region
of space controlled by the Krenim.

You must avoid them at all costs.

I'm ready to bring the chamber on-line.

How are her vital signs?

Pulse normal,
body temperature 14 degrees,

chroniton level at 79 roentgens.

Activate the chamber, Lieutenant.

- Increase the field stress.
- Bringing field stress to 25 kilodynes.

- Let's try the anti-chronitons.
- Whenever you're ready, Doc.

Initiating anti-chroniton burst.
Ten MEVs, five-second pulse.

Pulse steady, body temperature
at 14.2 degrees and rising.

- Her chroniton count?
- 71 roentgens and dropping.

It's working.

Increase the field strength
to 30 kilodynes.

Initiating another burst.
15 MEVs, five-second pulse.

Body temperature 14.9 degrees.
Chroniton count 68 roentgens.

60...

57..

52..

You need a cook. You haven't lived
until you've tasted my angla'bosque.

It will be my job to anticipate your needs
before you know you have them.

Not again.

And I anticipate your first need
will be me.

I know this is going to sound strange
to you both, but I don't belong here.

- But we discussed this.
- You don't understand.

I'm travelling backwards in time,
getting younger.

You've got to get me
into the bio-temporal chamber.

I'm sorry, Captain.
I didn't quite anticipate this.

- Listen to me, please.
- Try to calm down.

She's never behaved this way before.

Hold on a minute, Mr Neelix.
Why don't you start over, slowly?

It begins eight years in the future
when I'm about to die.

Time for dinner.

What's wrong, Kes?

Who are you?
What is this place?

We don't have time to play. You know
how your mother gets when we're late.

- You're my father.
- And you're my favourite daughter.

- Something terrible's happened to me.
- What's wrong?

I've got to explain this quickly.
Please try to believe me.

I've been living aboard a starship
called Voyager.

So now it's not only the surface
you're dreaming about exploring?

I did go to the surface.
Or rather, I will go.

The people aboard the ship
will rescue me from the Kazon.

- Why don't you tell me after dinner?
- There's no time.

- One moment I was this old woman...
- Kes, we're late.

Father, please.

I can see the toes!
It's coming.

It's a girl!

It's a girl!

She's so beautiful.

I think one day she'll see the sun.

51 roentgens. 46...

34. Another anti-chroniton burst.
20 MEVs.

Right.

Levels are continuing to drop.
Pulse normal,

body temperature steady
at 16.3 degrees,

chroniton levels are at zero roentgens.

- Welcome back, Kes.
- What's the date? How old am I?

The same age when we put you
into the chamber.

A healthy three years and two months.
Due to a display of medical heroics,

you're back in temporal sync
with the rest of us.

So I'm going to become
a security officer. How about that?

Fortunately, what Kes has been
describing is one possible future.

On each occasion that she jumped
to a previous time,

her subsequent actions most likely
altered the future.

Good point. Maybe I'll turn out
to be chief security officer.

Kes, have you regained
all your memories of the past?

I remember last month's supply
of replicator rations

that you borrowed that you owe me,
if that's what you're asking.

I'd be curious to know

what sorts of medical breakthroughs
I'm going to make.

I haven't seen everything
that's going to happen.

I only remember short periods.

I bet you found out
some interesting things.

- Tell us what you know.
- Careful, Tom.

You may find out that you leave Voyager
to join a monastery.

I'll bet he gets married
and has a family.

Are you telling?

As Tuvok said, I've only seen pieces
of one possible future.

Don't tell me.
I like a little mystery in my life.

Tom's right. We should all leave
the future to the future.

I agree it would not be wise for Kes
to make her experiences public,

but a report on these Krenim
might be useful.

- I'll get started right away.
- I didn't mean now.

One thing this experience has taught me
is that there's no time like the present.