Episode 63 : BEFORE AND AFTER
Part C

Kes' next "jump" finds her in a shuttlecraft with Paris delivering their child. The year is 2374. Ocampans bear their children in their backs. The baby turns out to be a girl. Kes knows this will be Linnis, whom she met as an adult "earlier". Paris: "The sac is opening." Kes: "What's happening?" Paris: "What do you mean, what's happening? You're having a baby. Hold still." Kes: "Where am I?" Paris: "Exactly where I told you not to be, on a shuttlecraft." Kes: "I have to see the Doctor."

Paris: "Well, that'd be nice if he were still around. I told you you were in no condition to come on a supply mission, but did you listen to me?! I can see the toes, it's coming - yes! It's a girl. Ah, she's beautiful."

Kes: "Yes, she is." Paris: "Yes, just like her mother." Kes: "Tom, listen." Paris: "I love you, Kes." Kes: "We need to talk."

Voyager contacts the shuttlecraft at that moment. Paris goes and answers.

Paris: "Just a minute." Kes: "What is it?" Paris: "Voyager's under attack."

Paris skilfully pilots the shuttlecraft back to Voyager, while the starship is under attack. Voyager fires phasers in return.

Neelix: "Congratulations." Paris: "Thanks, but it looks like the celebration will have to wait." Neelix: "I'll get Kes and the baby to the mess hall. Captain Chakotay wants you to go to the weapons array and modulate the targeting scanners to a parametric frequency. He's going to try to knock out the chronoton torpedo launchers before they're fired." Kes: "Chronoton torpedoes?" She surmises: "The Year of Hell." Paris: "What?" Kes: "You told me that the crew referred to this time as the Year of Hell." Paris: "When did I tell you that?" Kes: "It's a long story." Paris: "You'll have to tell me later. I've got to get to the weapons array. Neelix, get her to lie down, will you?" Paris rushes away.

Kes: "Neelix, listen very carefully. There's something very important I have to tell you."

Paris, needing to get to the conn. on the Bridge, gets Neelix to take Kes and the baby to the Messhall which has been turned into the Sickbay. Later Chakotay, Paris and Kes talk together. Kes: "We discovered that what's been happening to me is related to the chronoton poisoning I suffered during a Krenim attack. We have to determine the exact temporal variance of the torpedo, so that-" Chakotay: "Main computer's been off line for weeks. Even if the sensor logs contain that information, we can't access them." Kes: "You have to put me in the bio-temporal containment field. I know it didn't work last time, but with a few modifications-" Chakotay: "We've only got life support on three out of fourteen decks, and we've had to divert all remaining power to knock out the Krenim's torpedo launchers. We don't even have the Sickbay any more, much less the resources to create a bio-containment field. I'm sorry." Paris: "We've got to do something to help her." Chakotay: "I'm open to suggestions." Kes: "I'm cold." Paris: "I'll get you a blanket." Kes tries to call him back as he leaps up to fetch a blanket: "No, you don't understand! I'm about, I'm about-" She "jumps" back to an earlier part of her life.

Kes' next jump finds her on the Holodeck, in the Paxau resort holoprogram, in an earlier part of the year 2374. Kes goes up to Paris: "Tom." Paris: "Hey, Kes, some party, huh?" Kes: "I have to talk to you."

Suddenly Torres appears, startling Kes who realises that she has jumped back to a time when Torres is alive and therefore Kes and Paris have not yet become romantically involved. Torres, kissing him: "Tom, I'm sorry I'm late."

Kes: "You must be B'Elanna." Torres and Paris laugh at what they think is a big joke. Torres laughs: "Well, the last time I checked!" Paris: "Something wrong?" Kes: "Actually, there is something wrong." Janeway, via comms: "Red alert. All hands to battle stations." Everyone, including Kes, hurries out of the Holodeck.

Voyager is being pounded by alien weapons fire. Janeway: "Tuvok, fire phasers!" Tuvok: "Acknowledged."

Chakotay: "Who the hell are they?" Paris and Kes hurry onto the Bridge. Kes answers Chakotay's question. "They're called the Krenim." Janeway: "How do you know that?"

Kes: "Captain Janeway?" Janeway: "What is it, Kes? What do you know about them?" Tuvok: "Shields down to thirty nine%, Captain." Chakotay: "I don't understand how these torpedoes are ripping right through our shields." Janeway: "Evasive maneuvers, Mr Paris. B'Elanna, can we reroute power to the forward shields?" Torres: "Already trying." Kes: "Captain, these torpedoes are chronoton-based. They're passing through our shields because they're in a state of temporal flux."

But before Kes can explain further, a Krenim torpedo makes a direct hit. Janeway and Torres are killed when the console explodes.

Kes scans Janeway and Torres with a tricorder. "They're dead." Paris holds Torres' face, tenderly, unbelievingly: "B'Elanna!"

Kim: "Hull breach on deck seven. We're losing life support." Chakotay, who is crouching beside Paris: "Evacuate the deck. Tom, I need you at the conn." Paris, heavily: "Aye sir."

Tuvok: "Commander, they're arming their torpedo launchers again. We cannot sustain another direct hit." Chakotay: "Kes, you seem to know something about these weapons. Do you have any idea how we can stop them?" Kes: "I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with remodulating the targeting scanners."

Kim: "That could work. If we remodulate the scanners to a parametric frequency we might be able to destroy the torpedo launchers before they fire."

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

Tuvok: "Ready, Commander." Chakotay: "Fire!" The Krenim ship is hit and explodes.

Later, in Voyager's Messhall (now Sickbay). Chakotay: "Do you have a casualty report?" Kim: "Including Captain Janeway and B'Elanna, we lost eleven people." Chakotay: "What about the ship?" Kim: "Starboard shield generators and warp drive are offline, and power is down on decks 3 through 12." Chakotay: "Make deck 5 your priority. We've got to get Sickbay up and running again." Kim: "Aye sir." He leaves to obey. Chakotay: "Kes, as far as what you say is happening to you-" Kes: "I understand my condition can't be a priority now." Chakotay: "Tom, I'm going to need you to stay here and treat these people. When this is over we're all going to have a lot of grieving to do." Chakotay leaves to captain the stricken ship.

Kes: "How are you doing? Tom, I know it doesn't seem possible now, but you're going to be alright." Paris: "I wish I could believe you." Kes: "You can." Paris: "Thanks."

Neelix: "Kes, we've got radiation leakage coming from one of the Krenim torpedo fragments. People are starting to complain of nausea." Kes scans herself with the medical tricorder: "Chronoton radiation. This is it. I'm infected." To Neelix: "Where's the radiation coming from?" Neelix: "It's lodged in a Jefferies tube on deck 11 section 2." Kes: "I've got to get down there." Neelix: "You can't. The entire deck is sealed off." Kes: "I have to find the exact temporal variance of that torpedo." Neelix: "You can't go near that thing, you'll be burnt to a crisp!" Kes: "I know what I'm doing. You stay here and help Tom, alright?" Neelix: "Yes, but-" It is no use as Kes hurries out.

She climbs and crawls through the Jefferies tubes and locates the torpedo.

As the hatchway door control does not work, she fetches down a manual actuator and forces the door open, and climbs in.

She crawls along the accessway and eventually sees the wedged torpedo.

Kes' tricorder reveals that the temporal variance of the chronoton torpedo is 1.47 microseconds. She manages to take the reading before she collapses as a result of the radiation. As she collapses, she "jumps" again.

Kes' next "jump" takes her back to a time before the 'Year of Hell', arriving in Sickbay. Doctor: "Kes, how are you coming with those analgesic compounds?" Kes: "Doctor, you've lost your hair." Doctor: "I beg your pardon?" Kes: "It's a long story. The important thing is, the temporal variance of the chronoton torpedo was 1.47 microseconds." The Doctor is puzzled.