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Before and After (Star Trek: Voyager)
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"Before and After" is an episode of the science-fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager
, and the 21st episode of the third season. It has an average fan rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September 2009 and foreshadows events seen in a later episode, "Year of Hell".
lies on a bed in Sickbay, elderly and confused. A little boy is keeping vigil at her bedside, but she doesn't know him. He's her grandson Andrew, and he offers her a present that he's just made for her, but becomes upset when he realizes she just does not remember him. The Doctor
prepares to extend Kes' dwindling lifespan in a biotemporal chamber.
In a flash, Kes awakens in her own bed back in her quarters. Andrew is there, working on a present for her. A young woman is there with him, but a disoriented Kes must be reminded about who she is. It's Linnis, Andrew's mother and Kes' grown daughter. A concerned Linnis guides Kes to Sickbay where the Doctor breaks the bad news. Kes is experiencing mental deterioration because she has reached the morilogium - the final weeks of life. Kes is nine years old, which is a ripe old age for an Ocampa
n. Tom Paris
and Harry Kim
rush in. Tom must remind her that he is her husband. Harry is married to Linnis and is Andrew's father. As the family squabbles over Kes' end-of-life decisions, she flashes out of the room and new surroundings appear around her.
It's her birthday party. She is turning nine and her grandson Andrew is planning to make her a special present. He apologizes for not having started it yet, but Kes expects him to say something like that. She seeks out the Doctor and explains the strange things going on. She remembers things that have not happened yet, and everyone else seems to remember years' worth of events she never saw. As she works with husband Tom to figure out what has happened to her, he reminisces about the happy marriage Kes doesn't seem to remember. He fills her in as best he can. Tom fell in love with Kes after she helped him recover from the death of his lover, B'Elanna Torres
. She was killed during the "Year of Hell", a time when Voyager was struggling through a hostile territory of a race called the Krenim and endured constant attacks. Captain Janeway
and many other members of the crew also died. As he remembers this painful time Tom recalls that the weapons being used against Voyager during these battles soaked the ship with chroniton radiation, a form of energy with temporal properties. Just as they suspect a link between these temporal weapons and Kes' temporal jumps, she flashes into a new room on a different day.
Andrew has just been born. A younger Kes is clear-headed enough to begin to put the pieces together. She rushes to the Doctor and pours out her story. They understand that she is hopping back through time and the biotemporal chamber in which the Doctor treated her on the day she died has reactivated her life - only in reverse.
Suddenly, Kes is giving birth. Linnis is born during a fierce space battle that Voyager barely survives. As Kes holds her new daughter in the wreckage of the ship and considers what to do, she flashes out once more.
She finds herself at a cheerful party on the holodeck. Tom is there, but she can see that he is not yet her husband when he sweeps B'Elanna into an embrace and kisses her. The party is cut short when Voyager is attacked out of nowhere by an unidentified force firing chroniton-based weapons. The crew race to the bridge and Kes tries to tell Captain Janeway what's going on but has no time to explain how she knows. Janeway joins B'Elanna at her work station where they try to defend the ship against the attack. An explosion rocks the bridge and both are killed. As Kes weathers the crew's grief and the ship's damage, she calculates the temporal variance of the weapon that caused all her troubles — it is 1.47 — and memorizes it before her next jump.
She arrives at a time when the crew is alive and well, and free to help her. Before they put her in the biotemporal chamber to reverse her problem, Kes tells Janeway about the Krenim and to be careful.
She eventually meets up with her father during one of these jumps, who talks to her about being late to the dinner table. Kes's father is played by Michael Maguire.
". This is the third known instance of The Doctor having chosen a name for himself. Other instances include the final episode of the series when he informs Tom Paris that he has chosen the name Joe, and "Heroes and Demons," in which he choses the name "Schweitzer
". Other people have chosen names for him in the past (for example, see “Lifesigns
”).
Additionally, in all of the scenes that take place in the "future," The Doctor's mobile emitter is not seen while he was outside sickbay.
Also in this episode, Kes is seen wearing her hair down and it is now more red. She will keep this hairstyle for the rest of her time on the series.
Furthermore, in the episode "Elogium" it was unknown if Kes would be able to procreate again since she decided not to have a baby with Neelix
because she was too young. It is implied that she was able to have a family with her then husband, Tom Paris.
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...
, and the 21st episode of the third season. It has an average fan rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September 2009 and foreshadows events seen in a later episode, "Year of Hell".
Synopsis
KesKes (Star Trek)
Kes is a character in the television series Star Trek: Voyager, played by Jennifer Lien.She was a regular for the first three seasons, leaving the show in the season four episode "The Gift". She made one guest appearance two seasons later....
lies on a bed in Sickbay, elderly and confused. A little boy is keeping vigil at her bedside, but she doesn't know him. He's her grandson Andrew, and he offers her a present that he's just made for her, but becomes upset when he realizes she just does not remember him. The Doctor
Doctor (Star Trek)
The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I , is a fictional character from the television series Star Trek: Voyager, played by actor Robert Picardo...
prepares to extend Kes' dwindling lifespan in a biotemporal chamber.
In a flash, Kes awakens in her own bed back in her quarters. Andrew is there, working on a present for her. A young woman is there with him, but a disoriented Kes must be reminded about who she is. It's Linnis, Andrew's mother and Kes' grown daughter. A concerned Linnis guides Kes to Sickbay where the Doctor breaks the bad news. Kes is experiencing mental deterioration because she has reached the morilogium - the final weeks of life. Kes is nine years old, which is a ripe old age for an Ocampa
Ocampa
Ocampa is the fictional home planet of the Ocampa, a fictional race of elf-like humanoids in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager....
n. Tom Paris
Tom Paris
Thomas Eugene "Tom" Paris, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, is a character in the television series Star Trek: Voyager. Paris serves as the chief helmsman and an auxiliary medic aboard the USS Voyager...
and Harry Kim
Harry Kim (Star Trek)
Ensign Harry S. L. Kim, played by Garrett Wang, is a character in the television series Star Trek: Voyager. He serves as the USS Voyagers operations officer.-Depiction:...
rush in. Tom must remind her that he is her husband. Harry is married to Linnis and is Andrew's father. As the family squabbles over Kes' end-of-life decisions, she flashes out of the room and new surroundings appear around her.
It's her birthday party. She is turning nine and her grandson Andrew is planning to make her a special present. He apologizes for not having started it yet, but Kes expects him to say something like that. She seeks out the Doctor and explains the strange things going on. She remembers things that have not happened yet, and everyone else seems to remember years' worth of events she never saw. As she works with husband Tom to figure out what has happened to her, he reminisces about the happy marriage Kes doesn't seem to remember. He fills her in as best he can. Tom fell in love with Kes after she helped him recover from the death of his lover, B'Elanna Torres
B'Elanna Torres
B'Elanna Torres is a main character in Star Trek: Voyager played by Roxann Dawson. She is portrayed as a half-human half-Klingon born in 2349 on the Federation colony Kessik IV. Torres joined the Maquis in 2370 and was serving on the Val Jean when brought to the Delta Quadrant...
. She was killed during the "Year of Hell", a time when Voyager was struggling through a hostile territory of a race called the Krenim and endured constant attacks. Captain Janeway
Kathryn Janeway
Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. As the captain of the Starfleet starship USS Voyager, she was the lead character on the television series Star Trek: Voyager, and later, a Starfleet admiral, as seen in the 2002 feature film Star Trek...
and many other members of the crew also died. As he remembers this painful time Tom recalls that the weapons being used against Voyager during these battles soaked the ship with chroniton radiation, a form of energy with temporal properties. Just as they suspect a link between these temporal weapons and Kes' temporal jumps, she flashes into a new room on a different day.
Andrew has just been born. A younger Kes is clear-headed enough to begin to put the pieces together. She rushes to the Doctor and pours out her story. They understand that she is hopping back through time and the biotemporal chamber in which the Doctor treated her on the day she died has reactivated her life - only in reverse.
Suddenly, Kes is giving birth. Linnis is born during a fierce space battle that Voyager barely survives. As Kes holds her new daughter in the wreckage of the ship and considers what to do, she flashes out once more.
She finds herself at a cheerful party on the holodeck. Tom is there, but she can see that he is not yet her husband when he sweeps B'Elanna into an embrace and kisses her. The party is cut short when Voyager is attacked out of nowhere by an unidentified force firing chroniton-based weapons. The crew race to the bridge and Kes tries to tell Captain Janeway what's going on but has no time to explain how she knows. Janeway joins B'Elanna at her work station where they try to defend the ship against the attack. An explosion rocks the bridge and both are killed. As Kes weathers the crew's grief and the ship's damage, she calculates the temporal variance of the weapon that caused all her troubles — it is 1.47 — and memorizes it before her next jump.
She arrives at a time when the crew is alive and well, and free to help her. Before they put her in the biotemporal chamber to reverse her problem, Kes tells Janeway about the Krenim and to be careful.
She eventually meets up with her father during one of these jumps, who talks to her about being late to the dinner table. Kes's father is played by Michael Maguire.
Significance
In one of Kes's time jumps, The Doctor has chosen the name "Van GoghVincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
". This is the third known instance of The Doctor having chosen a name for himself. Other instances include the final episode of the series when he informs Tom Paris that he has chosen the name Joe, and "Heroes and Demons," in which he choses the name "Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...
". Other people have chosen names for him in the past (for example, see “Lifesigns
Lifesigns
"Lifesigns" is the 35th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 19th episode of the second season. It has an average fan rating of 4.2/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009.-Plot:...
”).
Additionally, in all of the scenes that take place in the "future," The Doctor's mobile emitter is not seen while he was outside sickbay.
Also in this episode, Kes is seen wearing her hair down and it is now more red. She will keep this hairstyle for the rest of her time on the series.
Furthermore, in the episode "Elogium" it was unknown if Kes would be able to procreate again since she decided not to have a baby with Neelix
Neelix
Mr. Neelix is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Voyager. He is played by actor Ethan Phillips.-Fictional Biography:Mr. Neelix is a Talaxian originally from Rinax, a moon of the planet Talax, in the Delta quadrant, although his great-grandfather was Mylean. His entire family...
because she was too young. It is implied that she was able to have a family with her then husband, Tom Paris.