FURY
Episode 143
Part D

 

Scenes in the present, i.e. year 2376, are shown in this style. Scenes in the past, early in the year 2371, are shown in this style.

Briefing room - a senior staff meeting is in progress. Tuvok: "The ships we detected earlier have disappeared from our sensors." Kim: "Maybe we outran them." Torres: "They wouldn't give up that easily." Doctor, on monitor: "Why would they? Voyager's the only organ bank within half a parsec." (In 2371, he has not yet acquired the mobile emitter and thus is confined to Sickbay, hence 'attending' the meeting via monitor.) Chakotay: "We fought off their first attacks. Now they seem content to show up on sensors just long enough for us to change course. It's like we're being herded somewhere."

Paris: "If we maintain our present course we're going to enter a region filled with subspace vacuoles." Torres: "We'd have to drop to impulse to get through."

Chakotay: "Sounds like a good place for an ambush." Torres: "The Maquis used to lure the Cardassians into the Badlands. Those Galor-class cruisers had nowhere to run."

Janeway: "Neither will we, unless," and she gets up and heads for the wall-mounted monitor, "Tom, how dense are those vacuoles?" Paris: "They cover about 70 per cent of the region."

Janeway: "Excuse me, Doctor." She turns him off and replaces his image with a chart of the vacuoles. "Tom, what's the first thing they teach you about maneuvering at warp?"

Paris: "Er, faster than light, no left or right."

He gets up and joins her at the monitor. "When possible, maintain a linear trajectory. Course corrections could fracture the hull."

Janeway: "Exactly. We'd have to drop to impulse every time we made a course change but," here pointing to underline her words, "what if we let Voyager do the driving?"

Kim: "Ma'am?"

Janeway: "We could pre-program every kilometre. That way we'd only spend a second or two at impulse every time the computer executed a turn."
Paris: "Auto-navigation the entire way?"
Janeway: "No offence, but the neural gel packs can calculate vectors a little faster than you can."

Chakotay: "B'Elanna?" Torres: "We'd need a more accurate scan of the region. If we even graze one of those vacuoles...." Kim: "We could send a shuttle ahead."

Tuvok: "The Delta Flyer - its sensors are more advanced." Janeway: "The Delta what?" Everyone looks at him, puzzled.

Tuvok recollects himself: "Forgive me. I must have been thinking of another starship."

Janeway: "Prepare a shuttle. I want all of Voyager's systems operating at peak efficiency by the time Tom gets back. If we're going to pull this off, there's no margin for error. Dismissed."

Tuvok is very disturbed at the mention of the Delta Flyer. He knows it is a Voyager shuttlecraft with superior technology....but how did he know?!

On the Hangar Deck, Older Kes is inside a Type-9 shuttlecraft, specifically the one to the right of the picture with the door open.

Older Kes: "Computer, display an image of the Ocampan homeworld. Plot a course from Voyager's current position."

Paris enters. "Homesick?"

Older Kes, startled: "Lieutenant!"

Paris, inviting her to call him by his first name: "Tom." He continues: "It's OK, a lot of people on board feel the same way." Older Kes: "I spent my entire life trying to get away from Ocampa. Why would I want to go back?" Paris: "Because it's home. Home for me means a penal colony. Out here, I get to fly a state-of-the-art ship, and there's no admirals in sight." Older Kes: "What are you doing?" Paris: "Getting ready for a scouting mission."

He sees on the screen that a course has been plotted for her by the computer. "You planning on going somewhere?"

Older Kes: "Er, no, of course not. I was just studying the helm configurations."

Paris: "I didn't know you could pilot a shuttle." Older Kes: "I can't," although in the future it was Paris who taught her to fly, "but," enthusiastically, encouraging him to teach her to shore up the future, "I'd like to learn." Paris: "Well, then, why not learn from the best? I could start you off in the holodeck, on an old Class 1. It's the kind of shuttle my father used to take me up in."

Older Kes, getting up to leave: "That would be very nice, Lieutenant." She recollects his words and, touching his arm, amends it to: "Tom."

Tuvok walks along a corridor to a turbolift. He presses the button to summon it.

The turbolift arrives and the doors open. A young child is there. It is Naomi Wildman, but in this part of 2371 she had not yet been born and so of course he does not know her.

Tuvok: "Identify yourself."

Naomi: "It's me, Tuvok - Naomi Wildman." She walks past him.

Again, Tuvok is disquieted. What is happening?!

He decides to follow the young girl. Following her, he hears but does not see her enter Cargobay 2 (he hears the doors open and shut). He also enters the cargobay.

By the side wall, he sees two children and an adult female, none of whom he knows, standing at Borg regeneration alcoves!

They are Azan, Rebi and Seven of Nine, but in this time period he has not met them yet, and he is profoundly disturbed by the sight, and by the sight of Borg alcoves on a Starfleet ship.

His thoughts are interrupted by Lieutenant Carey who is working at the computer console nearby.

Joe Carey: "May I help you, sir?" Tuvok does not know what to say. Carey asks: "Lieutenant, is something wrong?"

He turns to look again at the Borg alcoves but they are gone and the ordinary wall is there.

Older Kes enters Kes' quarters.

She finds that Neelix has been into her quarters. He has set a romantic mood - he has laid the table and left soft music playing. She sees an active file waiting for her on a PADD on the table.

Neelix's voice message on the PADD: "Hello, sweeting. I took the liberty of preparing one of your favourite meals. It's under replicator program Neelix-1. Call me if you'd like some company. Miss you."

Older Kes: "Computer, end music." Angrily she sweeps the contents of the table onto the floor. She orders the computer: "Open an encrypted channel. Direct the signal to the following co-ordinates." Computer: "Channel open."

At the desk she enters the co-ordinates into her personal computer.

Older Kes, via comms: "My name is Kes. I'm aboard the Starship Voyager. Respond." There is no response. Sharply: "I know you're receiving this transmission, and I also know that your attempt to capture this ship will fail. If you want to harvest Voyager's crew I suggest you answer me now."

Vidiian captain, on monitor: "Explain." Older Kes: "Captain Janeway is aware of your ambush. She's found a way to evade your vessels but I can help you." Vidiian, on monitor: "I'm listening." Older Kes: "I can send you tactical data on their shields, weapons, everything you need to take this ship." Vidiian, on monitor: "This is a deception." Older Kes: "Do you want this crew or not?" Vidiian, on monitor: "In return?" Older Kes: "Safe passage to Ocampa for myself and one other."

Vidiian, on monitor: "Why would you sentence your own crew to death?" Older Kes: "They're not my crew. They abandoned me a long time ago."