Relativity
- Episode aired May 12, 1999
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
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Federation time ship Capt Braxton pulls Seven out of her time to help identify and destroy a bomb planted aboard Voyager.Federation time ship Capt Braxton pulls Seven out of her time to help identify and destroy a bomb planted aboard Voyager.Federation time ship Capt Braxton pulls Seven out of her time to help identify and destroy a bomb planted aboard Voyager.
John Austin
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
Majel Barrett
- Voyager Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Marvin De Baca
- Ensign Patrick Gibson
- (uncredited)
Tarik Ergin
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Sylvester Foster
- Crewman Timothy Lang
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first and only "Voyager" episode to feature the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. The fleet yards were seen previously in a picture in Parallels (1993) and as a holographic simulation in Booby Trap (1989). Utopia Planitia would be seen again in three episodes of Star Trek: Picard (2020).
- GoofsWhen Seven goes back to stardate 49123, she is captured by Janeway and Tuvok. Under interrogation, Seven admits to being a member of Voyager's crew from the future. As Janeway summarizes the situation, she says, "Let's see if I've got this straight: You're a Borg drone, attempting to prevent a disaster that won't occur for another three years..." But Seven hadn't said from how far in the future she was.
- Quotes
[Paris has asked Seven to partner with him in the ping-pong doubles tournament, which she declines]
Tom Paris: Too bad. Well, I guess I'll have to tell B'Elanna that you thought you couldn't beat her.
Seven of Nine: You're attempting to appeal to my vanity.
Tom Paris: Is it working?
Seven of Nine: I will consider your request.
- ConnectionsReferences A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Featured review
May we meet again in the past
Another episode about time travel and again with Captain Braxton of the Starfleet Temporal Integrity Commission. This time, however, he's played by a different actor, which is a bit confusing - not particularly helpful in an already confusing story about time travel and alternate timelines.
This time, Seven is recruited by the Commission to prevent an attack on Voyager, which will not only destroy the entire ship and crew, but also disrupt the space-time continuum. Seven discovers that the saboteur is actually the future self of Braxton, who suffered a temporal psychosis as a result of the events in the episode "Future's End" - he spent 30 years in the past after his ship crashed on Earth by the intervention of Janeway and Voyager. In the future, he will suffer further psychological breakdowns and ultimately will lose his rank and position. He sees the only way out of this misery as erasing Voyager from the timeline once and for all.
As with all episodes about time travel, it would have been better if these stories had been planned well in advance and integrated into the earlier episodes that are now referred to. For example, the future Janeway with a shorter haircut appears on Voyager just as it is being attacked by the Kazon and meets Torres there. But she doesn't seem to notice that her captain suddenly has a different hairstyle - because at that point in this episode Janeway still had her long hair pinned up. It would have been interesting to have seen this scene in the old episode.
Furthermore, time travel paradoxes not only give Janeway a headache but also give me a headache. Actually, the catastrophe that sent Braxton into the past was prevented in the episode "Future's End" (a causal paradox). A new timeline appears to have emerged. But since Voyager and Janeway moved in the timeline that was created when the catastrophe was prevented and were sent back into the future by a Braxton who didn't spend 30 years on Earth at the end of the 20th century, it's impossible for this version of Braxton to have suffered psychosis in this exact timeline. Otherwise, the psychotic Braxton would have jumped over to the other timeline. But as always with films and episodes about time travel: Don't think too much, as you will always discover plot holes that make no sense in the end.
This time, Seven is recruited by the Commission to prevent an attack on Voyager, which will not only destroy the entire ship and crew, but also disrupt the space-time continuum. Seven discovers that the saboteur is actually the future self of Braxton, who suffered a temporal psychosis as a result of the events in the episode "Future's End" - he spent 30 years in the past after his ship crashed on Earth by the intervention of Janeway and Voyager. In the future, he will suffer further psychological breakdowns and ultimately will lose his rank and position. He sees the only way out of this misery as erasing Voyager from the timeline once and for all.
As with all episodes about time travel, it would have been better if these stories had been planned well in advance and integrated into the earlier episodes that are now referred to. For example, the future Janeway with a shorter haircut appears on Voyager just as it is being attacked by the Kazon and meets Torres there. But she doesn't seem to notice that her captain suddenly has a different hairstyle - because at that point in this episode Janeway still had her long hair pinned up. It would have been interesting to have seen this scene in the old episode.
Furthermore, time travel paradoxes not only give Janeway a headache but also give me a headache. Actually, the catastrophe that sent Braxton into the past was prevented in the episode "Future's End" (a causal paradox). A new timeline appears to have emerged. But since Voyager and Janeway moved in the timeline that was created when the catastrophe was prevented and were sent back into the future by a Braxton who didn't spend 30 years on Earth at the end of the 20th century, it's impossible for this version of Braxton to have suffered psychosis in this exact timeline. Otherwise, the psychotic Braxton would have jumped over to the other timeline. But as always with films and episodes about time travel: Don't think too much, as you will always discover plot holes that make no sense in the end.
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- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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