EPISODES 76 & 77 : PART H

Aboard the time-ship...

Paris resoundingly beats Obrist at a game who remarks that his endgame sequence was the same one favoured by his brother. Paris: "To quote a long-lost friend of mine, 'It seemed logical.'"

Obrist says that he used to honour the birthdays of his brother, parents and friends but stopped after a century passed and he realised he was celebrating birthdays for the dead, or for people who had never even existed.

Chakotay is making temporal calculations. Paris: "You can put that thing down, Chakotay. No need to strain your eyes any more. I've got a plan." Chakotay: "Let's hear it." Paris: "The ship's temporal core of the time-ship keeps the ship out of phase with normal space-time but its shields are incredibly weak. You take that core offline, a photon grenade could penetrate the hull." Chakotay: "How do you know all this?" Paris: "I've been spending time with our friend Obrist who seems more than willing to share information. And that's not all. Does the name Captain Bligh mean anything to you? This is not a happy crew. They've been at this for two hundred years now. They're tired of it, Chakotay, they want it to end."

Chakotay: "Good work, Tom, but I'm not quite ready to start a mutiny. Keep gathering information. Lie low. I'm starting to make progress on the temporal calculations. With a little time and luck I think we can get the Krenim back on their feet and Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant."
Paris: "You're starting to sound like Annorax. Always one more calculation, this time it's going to be perfect."
Chakotay: "This can work. If you take the time listen. You'd understand what Annorax is trying to do."
Paris: "What? Wipe out civilisations to help his own race. I understand perfectly."

Chakotay: "It's more complicated than that. Annorax is an enlightened man, misguided but I think he wants this to end as much as anyone." Paris: "I guess I don't have the 'instinct for time' or whatever it is Captain Nemo out there calls it. Chakotay, he's been flattering you, and it's gone to your head." Chakotay: "You're out of line, Lieutenant."

Paris: "Maybe I shouldn't start a mutiny but I might be able to get Obrist to send a message to Captain Janeway."
Chakotay: "Not yet. If you get caught, we lose everything. I can get us out of this."
Paris: "Not if I can get us out of here first."
Chakotay: "You're not doing anything against Annorax. That's an order."
Paris: "What're you going to do? Take away my holodeck privileges?"
Chakotay: "Either we maintain our command structure or else we settle our differences the old-fashioned way."

	The sound of a klaxon interrupts them and they hurry into the control room where Annorax has decided to implement an inspiration he had last night. Despite Chakotay's protest....
	....he erases the Ram Izad species from history.

Paris: "Have you seen enough yet, Chakotay? If you don't do something about this maniac, I will."

Chakotay pursues Annorax into his chambers. Chakotay: "You didn't need to fire on that planet!" Annorax: "I'm altering history on a massive scale. The destinies of countless star systems are in my hands. The fate of a single species is insignificant." Chakotay: "You're trying to rationalise genocide. One species is significant. A single life is significant." Annorax: "It seemed so easy the first time. In the blink of an eye I had changed history itself and helped my people to thrive again, but when I changed history a second time I lost more than you could imagine." Chakotay: "The colony on Kyana Prime." Annorax: "How could you know that?" Chakotay: "I've been studying your previous incursions. No matter how close you get to restoring the timeline one component is always missing, Kyana Prime. Who was on that colony? Who did you lose?" Annorax: "My wife, and with her my future, my children, grandchildren, all erased because of me. This [Annorax holds the case containing his wife's lock of hair] is all I have left of her. So many years I worked through the night while she was sleeping. How could I have known that I was calculating her fate? I cannot stop until I've restored Kyana Prime and forced time to give me back my wife." Chakotay: "Maybe it isn't possible." Annorax: "When I tell you that time has moods, a disposition to be intuited, I'm not speaking metaphorically." Chakotay: "What do you mean?" Annorax: "Anger is one of its moods, anger and the desire for retribution, vengeance. Time itself has tried to punish me for my arrogance, it has kept me from my wife, denied me my future. Obrist enters and reports to Annorax: "Sir, we've achieved a 52% restitution." Annorax: "Kyana Prime?" Obrist: "Negative, sir."

Paris: "If that little display doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. He's insane!" Chakotay: "No, he's not. Wounded, maybe, even tortured but I can still reach him, convince him to stop." Paris: "Not from what you've told me. This guy thinks that time has a personal grudge against him. That's called paranoia, Chakotay, with a hint of megalomania." Chakotay: "You've don't know what he's been through." Paris: "He's lost his family. Ok, that's a terrible thing, and so has everyone else on this ship, and frankly so have we!" Chakotay: "What kind of progress have you made?" Paris: "Obrist is coming around, and I think we can trust him. He says he'll give me access to their communications array. I can send a message to Voyager from the comfort of my own quarters." Chakotay: "And the temporal core?" Paris: "That's going to be a little trickier. With Obrist's help I'm pretty sure I can disable it but not without setting off every alarm on this ship. We're only going to have one chance." Chakotay: "It'll require precise timing, you and me working from within-" Paris: "And Captain Janeway attacking from Voyager, that is, if the Captain's still alive." Chakotay: "She's alive. Send the message. Transmit our co-ordinates." Paris: "Done." Chakotay: "And, give Kathryn my best."