Episode 63 : BEFORE AND AFTER
Part A

Kes comes to consciousness to see the blurred image of a boy she does not know. Then the Doctor (strangely he has a full head of hair) looms over her and her eyes focus. The Doctor looks down at her with concern, along with a woman crewmember she does not recognise. She hears their words but does not understand what they are talking about. The Doctor's voice is heard: "Activate the bio-temporal chamber." The place is Voyager's Sickbay. Kes does not yet realise that the year is 2379. Andrew: "Is she going to be alright?" Doctor: "Not if you don't all clear out of here and let me do my work." Linnis: "She's my mother. I'm staying." Doctor: "This is a very delicate procedure, and I could use some peace and quiet." Kim: "The Doctor's right. Let him do his work." Linnis: "Alright."

The Doctor moves round the bio-temporal chamber. The picture shows Kes' view - she can just about see part of the top end at neck level.

Doctor to Kes: "I wish I'd told you this before, but better late than never. You're the finest friend I've ever had." To Linnis: "Prepare to bring the bio-temporal chamber online. We'll begin in approximately five minutes."

A young boy comes up to Kes' bedside holding a wrapped gift: "Grandma? Are you awake? I brought you a present. Grandma Kes? I finally finished your birthday present. Sorry it's late, but I wanted to get it right." Kes: "I don't know you."

Boy: "What do you mean? I'm Andrew, your grandson." Kes: "I don't know you." Andrew: "Doctor? Doctor Van Gogh?" Doctor, arriving in response to Andrew's call: "What is it?" Andrew: "She doesn't recognise me."

Doctor: "Kes? How are you feeling?" Kes: "Where am I? What is this place?" Doctor, scanning her: "You're in Sickbay. Do you know who I am?" Kes: "No. Yes. I've seen you before." Doctor: "Do you know my name?" Kes: "The boy, he called you Doctor Van Gogh." Doctor: "That's right." Kes: "You said I was your finest friend." Doctor: "Well, I'm not sure I've ever said that, exactly, but, that doesn't mean it's not true." Kes: "How could I be your friend? I don't know you." Doctor: "Tell me what you do remember." Kes: "Er, people around me.....crowded around me.... You, the boy, a young girl. I was in a chamber, a bio-temporal chamber." Doctor: "Good." Kes: "I was inside it and you told someone to activate it." Doctor: "I'm afraid you're confused. I discussed the bio-temporal chamber with you, but we're not ready to put you inside it just yet. Can you recall anything else, besides those people you saw? Anything else about your life?"

Doctor to Andrew: "Go find the rest of your family." Andrew almost collides with Chakotay as he leaves and Chakotay enters. Chakotay to Andrew: "Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's the big hurry?" Andrew: "I'm sorry, Captain, I have to go." He hurries out.

Chakotay to the Doctor: "What was that all about?" Doctor: "I'm afraid Kes is getting worse, Captain. Her amnesia is near total. Fewer than 1% of her engrams remain intact. It's as if her memory were wiped clean." Chakotay: "Is it some sort of senility?" Doctor: "Maybe. I've never treated a nine year old Ocampan before. For all I know, it's a perfectly normal part of their aging process." Chakotay: "It's hard to believe that she performed micro-surgery on my elbow just a few weeks ago." Doctor: "A few weeks ago she was a healthy woman, but this morilogium comes on abruptly and then progresses with a rapidity I've never seen before." Chakotay: "How are you coming along with the bio-temporal chamber?" Doctor: "As I told you, it's a completely revolutionary procedure. I have no idea if it'll work. Under normal circumstances I'd want to perform extensive tests on the apparatus, but we're losing her too fast. If I don't try it now it may be too late." Chakotay: "If you really believe it will prolong her life....?" Doctor: "If we're lucky, it may buy her another year." Chakotay: "I think you have the family's consent. You should go ahead and do it."

Suddenly Kes' temperature drops. Kes: "So cold. I'm cold." Doctor: "No wonder. Your temperature has dropped to 14.8, almost two degrees below normal." Chakotay: "What does that mean?" Doctor: "I'm not sure." Chakotay: "What?" Doctor: "Her cells are in a state of bio-temporal flux. I don't understand how that could be happening before I put her in the chamber." Kes: "I'm cold."

Kes shivers with sudden cold. She experiences a white blinding flash - the Doctor and Sickbay disappear....

....and and wakes up in bed in her quarters!

By her bedside is a photograph of a younger Kes holding a baby. She does not remember the event. She is horrified to feel like this and not remember anything - she fears she is going mad.

In the next room Kes finds a young woman she does not recognise and Andrew.
Andrew: "Look mom, I'm almost finished with Grandma's present."
Linnis: "It's wonderful, sweetheart. I'm sure Grandma will think it was well worth the wait."
Andrew: "I hope so. I still feel bad for not having it ready in time for her party."

Linnis notices Kes: "Hello. How was your nap?"

Kes: "Andrew?" Andrew: "Grandma, don't look. You'll spoil the surprise."

Linnis to Kes: "Why don't you sit down? I'll get you some tea." Kes: "Where am I?" Linnis: "In your quarters." Kes: "What quarters?" Linnis: "Aboard Voyager. What's wrong?" Kes: "I don't know who you are. But you, I know who you are. Tell me what's happening. How did I get here?" Linnis: "Andrew, get your grandfather and father. Tell them to meet us in Sickbay." Kes: "Yes, Sickbay. I remember that place. I was just there." Linnis: "When?" Kes: "Just a few minutes ago. Doctor Van Gogh asked me some questions. I couldn't remember anything." Linnis: "You haven't been to Sickbay for over a week, since you stopped working there." Kes: "Working? What kind of work?" Linnis: "Don't you remember? You were one of the ship's doctors. I worked there with you." Kes: "Who are you?" Linnis: "I'm your daughter, Linnis."

The woman is Linnis, Kes' daughter. She escorts her mother to Sickbay. Kes: "But I don't remember you." Linnis: "Do you remember anything at all?" Kes: "Just people crowded around me, voices, the Doctor told everyone to leave, and then he told someone else to activate the bio-temporal chamber." Linnis: "He's been working on that. He may have mentioned it to you." Kes: "And then I woke up and there was a boy, Andrew, standing over me with a present, calling me Grandma." Linnis: "Andrew hasn't finished your present yet. You just saw him still working on it in your quarters." Kes: "But he was there! The Doctor sent him to get my family, and I was cold and I woke up in that bed in the quarters, and- Linnis: "Maybe you were dreaming." Kes: "I don't think so." Linnis: "Well, none of the things you remember before waking from your nap have happened." Kes: "How do you know?" Linnis: "Listen to me, mother. You're confused right now and I'm sure that's very frightening, but you need to trust me. I'm your daughter and I love you. Now please, come with me. Come."

Doctor: "I've been expecting this." Linnis: "The onset of morilogium." Doctor: "She's lost more than ninety eight% of her memory engrams." Kes: "Morilogium?" Linnis: "The final phase of the Ocampan lifespan, mother." Kes: "Are you saying that I'm dying?" Doctor: "Not if l can help it." Linnis: "What do you mean?" Paris: "Kes, it's me, Tom. Your husband." (Tom's rank pips show him to be a Lieutenant Commander.) Doctor: "Tom, we're losing her." Paris: "How long?" Doctor: "If we do nothing, a matter of weeks. But I'm working on something to extend her lifespan. It involves treating her with a bio-temporal field in order to push her cells back to an earlier stage of entropic decay. It's highly experimental, but if it works it might buy her some time." Linnis: "No. My mother's always accepted that she would only live nine years. If she's reaching the natural end of her life, she wouldn't want extraordinary measures taken to extend it, especially not in the state she's in now." Paris argues with her: "If the Doctor has a way to keep your mother with us, even for one more day, we have to let him try." Linnis argues back: "We're not talking about a tested medical procedure here, we're talking about a radical experiment!" Kim to Linnis: "Sweetheart, l understand how upsetting this is, but if it were you on that biobed, I'd feel just like Tom does." Kes, insistent: "Everyone listen to me, please." Andrew: "Yes, listen to her." Linnis: "Mother, tell us what you want." Kes: "I want to know what's going on here. Maybe the morilogium is causing my amnesia, but that doesn't explain how I seem to suddenly jump from Sickbay to my quarters, or how I remember being in a bio temporal chamber." Doctor: "Kes, it's possible the morilogium is causing you to experience delusions." Kes: "No! They're not delusions." Doctor: "I want you to lie down." Kes: "No." Andrew: "Leave her alone." Kim to Andrew: "Your grandmother's very sick, son." Andrew: "Maybe, but she's not delusional. She's the smartest person I know! You should listen to her!"

Kes, shivering: "I'm cold." Doctor: "Her body temperature has dropped two point seven degrees." Suddenly she "jumps" again, back to an earlier stage of her life.