[.ca] Star Trek Voyager:E #22

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Original airdate: 9/25/95. Stardate: 49011. Series producer Brannon Braga contributes yet another "alternate reality" episode, contriving an alien time stream to catapult Ensign Kim (Garrett Wang) back home to 24th-century San Francisco, where he can find no record of his service on Voyager. As far as everyone else is concerned--including his beautiful girlfriend--Kim is an ace design specialist, nearly late for an important presentation at Starfleet headquarters. Unable to comprehend this shift of identity, he locates Tom Paris in France (allowing an obvious dialogue pun), but Paris is also living a different role, and to him, his one-time crewmate is now a total stranger. When everything is explained by an alien posing as the proprietor of a San Francisco espresso stand (no, we're not joking), Kim--now a Starfleet fugitive--must re-create the conditions that caused this jumble of parallel timelines, and restore himself and Paris to their normal duty aboard Voyager. Not bad as puzzle-solving goes, and the digital vistas of 24th-century Earth are a welcomed sight. Still, Braga's premise has grown too familiar: toss a Voyager crewmember into an alternate reality, and put them through a rat's maze to find their way home. It's fun, however, to see Paris as he might have been, had Janeway and Voyager not liberated him from his dubious past. --Jeff Shannon

Kim in Alternative Timeline:
I liked this episode since I like the character of Harry Kim...but I wouldn't say that this episode is a "must see" in terms of understanding the overall story arc of the show. I give it four stars because it was an enjoyable episode and I felt that Garrett Wang did an excellent job developing his character. But I held back on five stars because this particular episode didn't really contribute much to the overall epic storyline of Voyager.

Harry Kim gets his wish and wakes up back home:
Nobody on "Voyager" was more desperate to return home than Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wong), so when he wakes up in San Francisco you would think this would be a good thing. But the strange thing is that his girlfriend Libby (Jennifer Gatti) acts as if he has not been lost in the Delta Quadrant for over a year and neither does his friend Lt. Lasca (Mark Kiely) at the design lab at Starfleet Headquarters. When Kim checks Starfleet records they indicate that "Voyager" did indeed disappear in the Badlands and that he was never assigned to the lost ship-and neither was Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), who is out on parole and now living in Marseilles (What? Are you telling me that you did not know that Paris was in France? What universe are you from?). Episode 22 of "Star Trek: Voyager", "Non Sequiter" (Written by Brannon Braga, Aired September 25, 1995) is another in a long tradition of "Star Trek" episodes where a crew member wakes up and finds everything is completely different. Of course Kim is desperate to believe this is really happening, but his sense of duty keeps intruding. When Kim tracks down Paris and learns that his best friend has no idea who he is, Paris is still interested in the story. But his questioning gets him arrested as a Maquis spy, which leads Kim closer to the truth. The explanation, of course, is rather confusing, but what makes this a decent "Voyager" episode is how Paris responds to Kim's insistence that they are friends and the idea that in a quadrant far, far away he is not a worthless disgrace that washed out of Starfleet. The ending of "Non Sequiter" plays out along those lines and the episode has some resonance in the series in that it does end up helping Harry Kim get his head straightened a bit regarding how his duty might be more important than his plight.

Exclusively Harry Kim Episode:
Harry Kim is on a damaged shuttlecraft on his way back to Voyager when he encounters a temporal anomaly that sends him to Earth. But it is not the Earth he knows. Instead, he finds himself on an altered-reality Earth where he and Tom Paris were never assigned to Voyager. In this reality, Harry is a starship design specialist in the Starfleet Engineering Corp in San Francisco, and Tom Paris is a drunk who never accomplished anything in life except to be regarded as a member of the Maquis. Harry's attempts to unravel the mystery of his altered life leads to trouble with Starfleet. They think he is a spy for the Maquis because of his dealings with Tom and the admiral places a security anklet on Harry's leg to monitor his movements while the investigation proceeds. The questions regarding Harry's new life are answered when a friendly coffee shop owner, Cosimo, comes to his aid and explains the temporal anomaly mishap that led to his altered life. Cosimo explains that he was sent to keep an eye on Harry; that his species exist in a temporal inversion fold in the space-time matrix. He goes on to say that Harry entered one of their time streams and, as a result, history and events were scrambled. Unfortunately, Harry learns that there is only one possible way back to his own reality, but there is no guarantee that he will survive the trip. He decides that he must make the attempt so that he can set things right with his life and with Tom's as well. The scene where Tom and Harry are on the stolen shuttlecraft (right before it explodes) entering the time stream is a good one as we witness that their friendship has transcended time and alternate reality. This is my second favorite Garrett Wang episode; the first being "Timeless." Throughout the seven years Voyager was on the air, I couldn't count the number of times Harry Kim saved someone's life or saved Voyager. However, he was still an ensign when the show ended. That never made sense to me. In "Timeless" we got to see a guilt ridden, troubled side of Harry; in "Non Sequitur" we get to witness his strong values and beliefs. In both episodes he displays his loyalty to Voyager and her crew.

Boring!:
I bought this episode because it sounded interesting. It really fell flat. It's slow-moving, and the solution is confusing. I didn't like how we didn't see the rest of the crew at all until the end. I guess I don't like Harry Kim enough to put up with just him for an entire episode!

A very good Star Trek: Voyager episode:
This is a very good Star Trek : Voyager episode. Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) suddenly wakes up in San Fransico with his long lost girlfriend Libby (Jenifer Gattie). He is unaware how he got back to the Alpha quatrant and Earth at the sametime. Afterwondering around the town he meets Casimo, Coffee shop owner. He tells him he is proud of him for designing the ship the Runabout,Yellowstone. Kim askes his questions about his life here on Earth because he just found out from Libby he is in present day Starfleet command. Casimo assures him everything will be fine and that he and Libby are engaged. Kim encounters more Starfleet officers and Starfleet officials and gets more confused about how got to Earth. At some point Harry Kim decides he doesn't belong in this reality and finds who else from Voyager is here on Earth. He locates Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeil) and finds out that his reality was changed as well. He never left on Voyager with Captin Janeway and others. Instead, He was send to the Brig on DS9. After many explanations Kim tells him they are both not from this reality and askes him to fly shuttle simulation to figure out how they got here and how they can get back. Because of the altered reality Paris doesn't reconize his duties to Voyager and tells Kim to leave him alone. Kim not understanding what is going on must find away to get back to Voyager and to the Delta Quatrant because he feels he doesn't belong here on Earth. He is also in toruble with Star Fleet who suspects Kim of Being a Maqui Spy! Can Harry find away to convice Paris to help them get back to Voyager, even if it means he can not be with the love his life Libby? Findout! Buy this video! What is true identity of Casimo the coffee shop owner who has been watching Kim through his time on Earth? This is my one of my Personal favorite Star Trek: Voyager episodes ever!!! Buy it!