CODA
Season 3 : Episode 57
Part A

Neelix and Janeway discuss the very recent successful Talent Evening as Janeway heads for the Shuttlebay. Neelix: "Captain, do you have a minute?" Janeway: "Just about a minute. I'm on my way to the Shuttlebay." Neelix: "I thought last night went well, didn't you?" Janeway: "Extremely well. Everyone had a lot of fun." Neelix: "I was thinking of making it a regular feature, say er, once a month?" Janeway: "Certainly worth a try." Neelix: "But Captain, you were especially good last night." Janeway: "Thanks, Neelix. It's been a while." Neelix: "You'd never know. Captain, do you think, I mean, I was wondering-" Janeway: "What is it, Neelix?" Neelix: "Could you possibly keep Mr Tuvok busy on the Bridge that evening?" Janeway: "I'm sure something could be arranged. Our secret, Neelix." Neelix: "Oh, we never had this discussion."

Janeway and Chakotay are travelling in the Type 6 shuttlecraft called Sacajawea. Chakotay: "Harry's clarinet solo was ok. I could've done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the dying swan." Janeway: "I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure you it was the hit of the beginners' ballet class." Chakotay: "I don't doubt it. If Neelix has another Talent Night I hope you'll reprise it." Janeway: "Oh no, not until certain other people take their turn, the ship's First Officer, for instance." Chakotay: "Me, get up in front of people and perform? I don't think so." Janeway: "Come on, Chakotay. There must be some talent you have that people would enjoy. Maybe I could stand with an apple on my head and you could phaser it off." Chakotay: "Sounds great. If I miss I get to be captain." The shuttlecraft is jolted and they concentrate on the instrument read-outs. "Atmospheric turbulence. We might be in for a rough landing." Janeway: "Funny. A minute ago there wasn't any indication of rough weather." Chakotay: "I'm reading even more severe storms near the surface." Janeway: "Ion lightning. Maybe we'd better try the fifth planet instead, come back here when things have cleared up." Chakotay: "I think we took a lightning hit. Attitude control is out." Janeway: "I'm switching to manual." Chakotay: "The navigational system's out." Janeway: "Reverse engines. Full thrusters." Computer: "Warning. Hydrazine gas leak." Janeway: "Altitude twelve kilometres. Hull temperature 4,000 degrees. We have to reduce speed." Chakotay: "I'll try the emergency antigrav thrusters."

The shuttlecraft hurtles toward the planet surface and crashes. the shuttlecraft descends (pop-up window) After a while Chakotay comes to.

Chakotay staggers up and sees Janeway unconscious and injured. "Kathryn. Kathryn!" He grabs a medkit from the wall, takes out a tricorder and scans her. The tricorder's prognosis is grim. "No!"

The computer states: "Warning. Hydrazine gas levels at one hundred twelve parts per million. Begin evacuation procedures."
Chakotay carries Janeway out onto the planet surface where he desperately tries to revive her. "Hang on, Kathryn!" He gives her artificial respiration. "Breathe, dammit, breathe! Don't you die on me now. Come on, Kathryn, breathe!"

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	At last Janeway gasps and starts breathing. "Chakotay." Chakotay: "Don't ever do that to me again." Janeway: "Thanks." Chakotay: "You went into shock. Gave me quite a scare there for a minute." He gives her a hypospray injection. "This should help reduce your cranial swelling. Should have a headache for a while." Janeway: "I'll live with it." Chakotay: "We need to set up a homing signal." As Janeway starts to get up: "Here, take it easy." Janeway: "I'm alright. Chakotay, we're going to need the blankets and the rations." Chakotay: "I can get them. You set up the homing signal." He races back to the shuttlecraft.

As Chakotay returns to the shuttlecraft, Janeway starts to set up the homing beacon in her combadge.

Chakotay fetches the supplies from the shuttlecraft. On his way he looks at the outside of the shuttlecraft.

Chakotay returns. Chakotay: "At least the storm seems to be dying." Janeway: "What were you looking at?" Chakotay: "There are phaser burns on the hull. I don't think it was lightning strikes that hit us. I think we were shot down." Janeway: "By whom?" Chakotay: "I don't know. I'm going back to see if I can get an energy signature from the burns." Janeway: "Chakotay. The homing signal. We might be telling someone just where to find us." Chakotay: "Disconnect it while I scan the shuttle."

Chakotay returns to the shuttlecraft and comes back again a moment later.

Janeway: "Can you tell anything?" Chakotay, reading from the tricorder: "The signatures are Vidiian." Janeway: "Vidiian. I thought we'd moved beyond their space." Chakotay: "If they shot us down you can be sure they'll be coming for us. We need to find a hiding place." Janeway: "What is it?" Chakotay: "Lifeforms. Fifty metres from here. Coming this way." Janeway: "Let's go." Chakotay: "There's another group in this direction. We're surrounded." Janeway: "Let's take cover. We'll have to fight."

They move quickly but cautiously, phasers at the ready. They enter a cave. Two armed Vidiians appear ahead of them.

But Chakotay and Janeway are cornered. Janeway aims a phaser as a Vidiian bears down on her. "Back off now. We'll fire if we have to. Back off!"

Vidiians appear from the other direction and open fire. Chakotay is hit!

The death of Chakotay.

Janeway calls his name but she is then borne to the ground and throttled to death.

Janeway, dead.

Janeway and Chakotay are on the shuttlecraft discussing Talent Night! Chakotay: "Harry's clarinet solo was ok. I could've done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the dying swan." Janeway: "I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure-" Suddenly she stops.

Janeway: "Wait a minute. What's happening here?" Chakotay: "You're right. We have been here before." Janeway: "Do you remember Vidiians?"

Chakotay: "Yes. They shot us down and attacked us." Janeway: "We may have wandered into some kind of repeating time loop. I'm going to scan for temporal anomalies."

the shuttlecraft alters course (pop-up window)

Chakotay: "Whatever's going on, let's change tactics this time. Let's not try to land on that planet." Janeway: "Agreed." Referring to the monitor readings: "I don't see any evidence of temporal flux or any kind of anomaly for that matter." Chakotay: "Or of Vidiian ships?" Janeway: "So far so good." Chakotay: "Chakotay to Voyager. Chakotay to Voyager. Do you read us?" Janeway: "We're out of range. I'd still like to figure out what happened to us. Send a subspace message that we won't be landing on the planet. Tell them that we'll be looking for evidence of temporal anomalies. I see a ship approaching on high impulse. It's on an intercept course." Chakotay: "Is it Vidiian?" Janeway: "Yes." Chakotay: "I've got it. It's a warship, loaded with weaponry. It's closing fast." Janeway: "Can we outrun it?" Chakotay: "We can try." Janeway: "They're 200,000 kilometres away and gaining." Chakotay: "Setting evasive pattern delta four." Janeway: "They're powering weapons. Shields up. Stand by all phaser arrays." Chakotay: "Shields down to eighty-four per cent." Janeway: "Returning fire." Chakotay: "Nice aim." Janeway: "It didn't stop them." Chakotay: "We've lost shields!" Janeway: "Firing starboard array." Chakotay: "That one hit the reactant injectors." Janeway: "Shut them down. They'll leak antimatter." Chakotay: "The magnetic fields are failing. The gas flow separators are down." Janeway: "Dump the core!" The shuttlecraft explodes!