Relativity

If you think too much about most time travel stories you can fly a galaxy class starship through the plot holes, and this one prompts many questions. However, if you suspend the disbelief and go with the flow, this one is pretty enjoyable. I like the pace of the story and how it builds to a good reveal.

Seven of Nine is the main focus and this works well. Jeri Ryan leads the relatively exciting sci-fi adventure charismatically and uses the no nonsense persona very well.

It is also a good Janeway episode and the numerous versions of the character contribute well in all scenes. Katie Mulgrew is great as always.

The guest character Braxon is written in a fairly silly way, but the performance by Bruce McGill lifts it significantly.

It is one of the stronger episodes for visual storytelling, with the cinematography and editing combining nicely.

For me it's a 7.5/10, but I round upwards.

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.

Forget plot holes and this one is fun.

As Kate said "lets just get on with it before my headache gets any worse."

Likely one of Kate's best performances even though it is a Jeri episode.

I usually do not like Trek episodes about temporal distortions and the like. However, there have been a few exceptional ones--such as "Star Trek: Deep Space 9" and their "Trouble and Tribble-ations" episode. While this one isn't nearly as good, it is a good episode involving time distortions and time travel.

The show consists of Seven of Nine being recruited by time cops of the 29th century. They know that SOMEONE is going to sabotage Voyager with a temporal device--meaning that someone is playing games with time and is traveling through time without permission.

The show is good but it's made a bit better because it has a nice sense of humor and never takes itself very seriously. Worth seeing.

It is always best not to take these time travel episodes too seriously and just get swept along with the momentum of the story. I find the concept of time travel fascinating but like Captain Janeway it can be extremely confusing. This episode is one of the more interesting ones and is good viewing for any Star Trek Voyager fan.

One of my favourite scenes is near the end of the episode and is extremely subtle, As the present time Janeway is hiding from past self Janeway the camera shows a close up of her face, where she shakes her head in confusion at the paradox and If you blink you would miss it. I do not know if this was scripted or was an ad lib by Kate Mulgrew either way it made me smile.

All in all a interesting and exceptionally written episode all round.