MEDICAL LOGS

TIMELESS
Season 5 : Episode 100

 

DOCTOR'S LOG:

The following events occur in an alternative future timeline and are not true by the end of the episode. In 2390 Chakotay and Kim visit an ice world, a Class-L planet, in the Beta Quadrant. There they retrieve the Doctor and the dead body of Seven from the wreckage of USS Voyager. When the Doctor is brought online in the Delta Flyer, Chakotay and Kim inform him of tragic events in 2375. Then, Voyager installed a prototype engine, the quantum slipstream drive (adapted from Arturis' ship, ref.  [#94 Hope And Fear]), and generated a quantum slipstream for itself and the Delta Flyer, flying ahead of it, as a means of rapidly travelling to the Alpha Quadrant. But Kim relayed incorrect phase corrections to Voyager with the result that Voyager crashed on the ice world, killing all aboard. The Doctor agrees to aid Kim, Chakotay and Chakotay's lover Tessa in an attempt to change history by preventing the crash and bringing Voyager home instead. To do this, as one of Seven's cranial implants is a transceiver, known as an interplexing beacon, designed to communicate with drones, the Doctor extracts the beacon and discovers its translink frequency. This allows him to send a signal to Seven containing the true phase corrections. To determine when to send the signal, the Doctor accesses her chronometric node to pinpoint the exact moment her cybernetic implants disengaged from her organic systems i.e. the moment of death. Seven's translink frequency is 108.44236000. Her moment of death was stardate 52164.3, Borg time index 9.43852. To contact Seven, Kim and Chakotay use the salvage component 36698, which they stole - this is a Borg temporal transmitter found in the wreckage of a Borg cube in the Beta Quadrant. Their first attempt to send the true phase corrections fails, because the phase corrections are actually wrong. USS Challenger accosts the Delta Flyer, pursuing Chakotay and Kim who are wanted for two counts of high treason and conspiracy to violate the Temporal Prime Directive. The Challenger's captain, Geordi La Forge, is aware of their goal, and locks onto them with a tractor beam. They manage to escape the tractor beam but the Delta Flyer's warp core begins to breach. Kim realises he is unable to ascertain the true phase corrections. The Doctor persuades him to change goal - rather than try to bring Voyager home, Kim could warn them instead.

Doctor: "You want to wallow in self-pity. Fine! Do it on your own time."   Kim: "Don't you see, history's repeating itself. I destroyed Voyager once. I'm doing it again!"   Doctor: "Somebody has to knuckle down and change history and that somebody is you."

In fact, and with only seconds to spare, Kim transmits a phase correction to Seven which disperses the slipstream entirely, leaving Voyager safe. This erases the alternative timeline but the future Kim manages to send a message of encouragement through to his younger self. Only Kim and Janeway are aware of the contents of the message.

MEDICAL REPORT:

On the eve of the quantum slipstream flight, the crew celebrate with synthehol champagne. Seven feels drunk with a blood-synthehol level of .05% from one glass of champagne. The Doctor takes her to Sickbay and administers her some inaprovaline to counteract the effect.

MORGUE RECORD:

In the alternative future, the entire Voyager crew is killed when the ship crashes on the Class-L planet in the Tekara sector in the Beta Quadrant, just short of the reaching the Alpha Quadrant. The exceptions are Kim, Chakotay, and the Doctor (who goes offline). None of the deaths occur when the timeline is altered.

STAR TREK CONTEXTUAL MEDICAL GLOSSARY:

Inaprovaline.

DOCTOR'S QUOTE:

In the unrealised timeline, to Kim: "To aid an honorable thief or to spend eternity inside cybernetic oblivion? Let's tempt fate."