SPIRIT FOLK Episode 137 Part F   Sullivan: "So, this is really is a starship! But how can that be possible?" Janeway: "Have you ever read 'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells?" Sullivan: "Are you telling me you've travelled back through time?" Janeway: "In a manner of speaking." Two crewmembers go past. The one in the scarlet uniform nods a greeting to Janeway. Sullivan recognises them. "That's Patrick Gibson and his cousin Frank! They work on the wharf. They're in my pub every Saturday night for the rings tournament." As their gazes follow the two crewmembers, Janeway tells Sullivan: "You'll find a lot of familiar faces on Voyager. We've been visiting your town for months." Sullivan: "Why?" Janeway: "We're explorers." Sullivan: "Ah, I'm not letting you off the hook that easy, Kathryn Janeway. There must be more interesting places to explore than Fair Haven." Janeway: "Can you think of any place you'd rather be?" Sullivan: "I guess that leaves but one question: how long are you planning on staying?" Janeway: "Well, that depends if we're still welcome." Sullivan: "My door is always open. But you're the captain of a starship. I'm a barkeep." Janeway: "Just because we're from different worlds doesn't mean we can't care for each other." The com. signal sounds. comms. signal "Tuvok to Janeway." Janeway looks away in order to answer, via comms: "Go ahead." Tuvok, via comms: "The situation has escalated. The townsfolk have started to pile kindling at the base of three lamp posts in the village square." Janeway, via comms: "Stand by." She looks back at Sullivan. In St Mary's, as Seamus orders: "Take them outside now!" the mob prepares to drag their prisoners to the square to be burned alive. Suddenly Janeway and Sullivan enter the church, to be faced with a hostile Milo brandishing a rifle. "Stay back!" Doc Fitzgerald: "What are you doing?!" Milo: "That might not be Michael Sullivan. A demon could have taken his shape." Sullivan reassures Milo: "It's me, Milo." To everyone: " I've been to the place they called Voyager and I've brought Katie back with me." Janeway announces: "I come in hopes that we can resolve our differences peacefully." Seamus: "Peacefully? I'm sure that's what you told the people of Kilmanin." Janeway does not know what he is talking about. Sullivan comes to her rescue. "They had nothing to do with what happened in Kilmanin, if it happened at all." Janeway: "We're truly sorry for what's happened here. We never meant to frighten anyone." Sullivan: "Seamus, you were right about one thing. They are quite different from us, but not in so many ways that we can't be friends." Janeway walks over to Seamus: "And we're not spirit folk. Some of our technology may seem like magic, but I assure you it's not." Sullivan: "Katie showed me things that are beyond our comprehension. They have machines that I can't begin to describe, but not once have they used them against us. Quite the opposite, in fact. Milo, you said you didn't like the rain and young Harry Kim made it go away. Edith Mulchaey herself said that Katie pulled her daughter from the well and out of harm's way. These are not the deeds of spirits and mischief-makers." Seamus: "Well, they turned Maggie into a cow!" Paris says quickly: "But that'll never happen again, I swear." Sullivan: "There, you see, we have his word. And if we can't trust a man's word in Fair Haven, what can we trust?" Janeway: "If you want, we'll leave and never bother you again. But we'd prefer to find some way to keep our friendship alive." She steps up to the Doctor and transfers the mobile emitter from Sullivan to the Doctor. The Doctor's program is transferred to the mobile emitter, isolating him from the Fair Haven matrix, which brings him out of his trance. The Doctor is confused. "Captain?" Janeway puts her finger to her lips to hush him. She will explain to him later. Sullivan: "I for one would like to keep playing rings with Harry and Tom, keep having Neelix's steamed cabbage at The Ox & Lamb, keep taking walks with Katie. Let's not turn our backs on these good people. If we do, we're only punishing ourselves." Echoing Janeway's words to him earlier: "Just because we're from different worlds, doesn't mean we can't care from each other." The townsfolk take his words to heart and indicate their approval. Janeway and Sullivan smile at each other - the peace has been made, and they know their own special friendship will be allowed to endure. In Voyager's engineering, they are examining the Fair Haven program. Torres: "If we're going to retain the program, we can't keep running it around the clock." Paris: "Not until we've repaired these damaged systems." Torres: "Not ever. We've pushed the limits of holotechnology and they pushed back. If we try it again we're just asking for trouble." Janeway tells Paris: "I'm afraid we're going to have to close your open door policy." Paris is disappointed but he accepts why. "Yes, ma'am." Torres asks Janeway: "What about the characters? Should I purge their memories of the last few days?" Janeway: "No, leave them." Doctor: "They think we're spacemen from the future. It won't exactly be like old times." Janeway: "We've learned to accept alien species with new technology. Let's hope the people of Fair Haven will learn to accept us. But before we shut down the program and begin repairs, what do you say to one more round at Sullivan's? My treat." In Fair Haven, Milo catches up with Paris and Kim. "You may be from the Moon, Tommy boy, but I've got 3 shillings that says I can still," doing an exuberant little skip, "whip you at rings." Paris laughs. "Oh! You're on." Milo joins them on their way to the pub. Maggie coyly calls to Kim as they reach her flower stall. "Hello, Harry." Kim to Paris: "I'll catch up with you later." He stops to talk with her. The attraction is still there between them. Seamus comes up. "Tommy boy! I've been told there's a pot of gold somewhere in Glen Abbey. Would you be able to find it with one of those fancy machines of yours?" Paris: "Just follow the rainbow, Seamus." Seamus: "Rainbow, eh?" Milo, Paris and Seamus disappear inside Sullivan's for a drink and a chat. Kim to Maggie: "I didn't think you'd ever speak to me again." Maggie: "Well, I suppose I can forgive and forget. It's not often you meet a handsome man from outer space." and she puts a flower in his buttonhole. Janeway and Sullivan are also en route to the pub. She hands him a gift-wrapped parcel. Sullivan: "What's this? Christmas come early?" Janeway: "It has for you. Open it." While he does so, she smiles at two of the townsfolk as they pass by. The gift turns out to be a book - he gave her 'The Faerie Queene' and now she has given him a book. He reads the title from the book's spine: "'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' by Mark Twain." He tells her: "I've read some of his books but not this one." Janeway: "It's about two people from different times who fall in love, among other things." Sullivan: "Sounds familiar. Maybe I have read it." He is pleased with the gift. "Thank you, Katie; or 'Kathryn' now, is it?" As they head towards Sullivan's Pub, he says: "They say that if you know a spirit's true name that it renders impervious against her charms. Think there's any truth in that?" Janeway: "Not one word." Sullivan: "I'm glad to hear it." They enter the pub together. They close the door. Inside, the good times continue. Thanks to for the page backgrounds and buttons from the set Shamrock. TOP BACK PREVIOUS SEARCH EPISODE INDEX SEASON INDEX BRIDGE