Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14344 in VHS
• Released on: 2004-04-01
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: NTSC

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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