screenshots of Star Trek Voyager, USS Voyager, Ex Post Facto, Tom Paris, Lt. Tom Paris, Lt Tom Paris, Thomas Eugene Paris, Lt Paris, Lt. Paris, Kathryn Janeway, Captain Janeway. Starfleet, Star Trek, Banean, Baneans, Lidell Ren, Tolen Ren, Numiri, Robin McKee as Lidell Ren, Ray Reinhardt as Tolen Ren, Aaron Lustig as Banean doctor, Francis Guinan as Minister Kray (name appeared in the script only), Henry Brown as Numiri captain, in the Star Trek Voyager story EX POST FACTO. This is Star Trek, Star Trek Voyager.

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On the planet named Banea, Paris sees the scene in his mind as he enters a house. Banean Doctor: "What do you see, Mr Paris?" Paris: "Shoes, muddy shoes. The dog." Banean Doctor: "Good, and that's exactly what you should see." Though he is familiar with the place and even recognises the dog, Paris is moving through it and seeing it from another's viewpoint. The person sees Tom Paris in the atrium where he is in a woman's embrace. Paris: "But that isn't possible." Banean Doctor: "I'm sure it's disorienting to see yourself through another man's eyes." Paris: "No, no, I-" The woman looks up as he enters, and exclaims: "Tolen!" Paris, who is seeing things from Tolen's viewpoint, hears Tolen say: "Now I understand." Paris: "I better be on my way." Woman: "You don't have to go, Tom. He's got no right." Tolen: "No right? This is my home. You come into my home and steal my wife, and I have no right?" Paris to Tolen: "That's not the way it happened." Paris to Banean Doctor: "This isn't the way it happened." Banean Doctor: "The trial's over, Mr Paris. There's no point to further denials." Tolen: "I know about you, Paris. I know you were in prison." Paris: "That has nothing to do with-" Tolen: "We'll see what your Captain has to say about this. When I'm finished with you, you'll never wear that uniform again." Paris: "I can't let you do that." He grabs a knife and goes for the woman's husband. Woman: "No, Tom, don't! Stop, no!" Paris stabs her husband and he collapses - dead!

Horrified and very shaken by the experience, Paris becomes aware again that he is in a room. Present are the Banean Doctor and a security guard.

Banean Doctor: "Let the records show that the sentence of the court has been carried out. For the rest of his natural life, once every 14 hours, Thomas Eugene Paris will relive the last moments of his victim's life. May the fates have mercy on you, sir." The guard escorts a very shaky Paris from the room.

Aboard USS Voyager, in Sickbay Kes and the Doctor each have a personal computer, and are going through an exercise in medical training for Kes. Kes: "If the hydroxy-prolene level is elevated this high then you'd probably call for a pancreatic scan." Doctor: "That's exactly what I'd call for. Alright then, let's run through the osteographic series again. Just enter the responses you're sure about." Kes: "So have you given any more thought to a name?" Doctor: "I asked the Captain for one." Kes: "Why don't you choose one yourself?" Doctor: "Choose one myself? Me? Well, that just isn't- Holograms are programmed, Kes. They don't choose anything for themselves." Kes: "Why not?" Doctor: "Because we're not capable of choosing." Kes: "Well, you choose what medical treatment to give someone." Doctor: "I'm programmed with over 5 million possible treatments, with contingency programs and adaptive programs, but it's all programs upon programs upon programs. There's no independent decision-making." Kes: "I don't see the difference." Doctor: "The difference is-" Kes: "I base decisions upon information stored inside my brain. How's that so different from the way you access your programs?" Doctor: "Well, if you put it that way-" Kes: "Do your programs have any names in them?" Doctor: "Certainly. I have the names of Starfleet doctors, their patients, medical personnel in historical and literary contexts." Kes: "So pick a name." Doctor: "Just pick one?" Kes: "Pick a name you like, perhaps from someone who inspires you." Doctor: "Dr, Dr Galen. Dr Salk. Dr-" Kes: "Those are good." Doctor: "-Spock." Kes: "Can you see yourself with any of those names?" Doctor: "Not exactly." Kes: "Take your time. After all, you will be that name for the rest of your life." Doctor: "I'd never even considered that I had a 'life'." The comms. signal sounds. comms. signal "Janeway to Sickbay. Activate Emergency Medical Holographic program." Doctor, via comms: "I'm already on, Captain. What can I do for you?" Janeway, via comms: "We've got an incoming shuttle with an injured crewman on board." Doctor, via comms: "Any details?" Janeway, via comms: "It's either Ensign Kim or Lieutenant Paris. We haven't been able to raise them." On the Bridge, Tuvok reports: "Sensors indicate damage to various subsystems." Janeway: "You're sure there's only one lifesign aboard?" Tuvok: "That is confirmed, Captain." Janeway addresses an order towards Chakotay's chair: "Transport him to Sickbay. I'll be down there." She heads for the turbolift, indicating with, "Mr Tuvok." that Tuvok should accompany her.

	Sickbay. Kim: "They made me leave without him." He's severely dehydrated." Kim: "Sleep." Kes: "Neo-dextraline solution?" Doctor to Kes: "Prepare an IV."
	Tuvok and Janeway enter. Janeway: "Can you tell us what happened to Paris, Mr Kim?" Kim: "They made me leave without him. They said he'd committed a murder."
	Janeway: "Do you have any idea who the victim was?" Kim: "An engineering physicist we were working with. His name was Tolen Ren. The Banean Minister of Science introduced us to him just after we'd arrived."
	The Minister introduces first Kim then Paris to Tolen Ren. Tolen: "So, you're from the other side of the galaxy." 70,000 light-years, give or take a few." Tolen: "It's a long trip home with a damaged collimator."
	Minister: "If anybody on this world can help you on this world, Professor Ren can. He's developed four generations of navigational arrays for our ships."
	Tolen: "We have to stay one step ahead of our neighbours, the Numiri." To Paris and Kim: "Did you bring your ship's specifications with you?"
	Kim, indicating a PADD: "It's all here." Tolen: "Splendid. Why don't we begin to look it over at my home this evening? My wife would be delighted to have company for supper."

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