Time and Again

This is pretty good high concept Voyager. Though, were they shooting on a really tight budget this early on? The veritable ghost town the characters walk through in the third act and the power station have a glaring lack of background people.

A cave system under a city/on a planet (too many to mention) or a not so straight forward time travel episode.

This is one of the latter.

I do wonder if one of the writers read a classic 2000AD Future Shock story from about 1979 or 1980, which postulated that the massive explosion that happened in Tunguska in 1908 was caused by the craft sent from the future to see what caused the explosion in the first place.

My first time travel paradox right there, it blew my mind.

Still does.

Similar logic to the story here. I like how Janeway and Paris don't exactly see eye to eye, the friction between them and different idelogies is very clear-so its nice they went onto have a family together.

A good episode but with a somewhat rushed conclusion.

This is a great early episode of Voyager. Several elements made me think of the original Star Trek with the Captain leading the away team and a Vulcan officer leading the rescue team. Some of the clothes worn on the planet look like they came from the 60's as well. There is also some Next Generation influence with the empathic female Kes discovering her expanded mental abilities.

The actors have settled into their characters after the pilot and the story is well-written. The crew finds a planet that has recently destroyed itself due to a huge energy explosion. When visiting the surface Captain Janeway and Lt. Paris end up trapped 2 days in the planets past, just before the explosion. Should they try and stop the incident that leads to the explosion, and can the Voyager crew find a way to rescue them? The classic Star Trek Time Travel Parradox.

A great example of this series potential.

After having seen hundreds of Star Trek series episodes, I noticed that many of the shows about time distortions are awfully weak. Sure, there are some exceptions (such as "Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever") but many of these shows just seem too cerebral and you wonder how many times they can beat this plot half to death...and this certainly is true with "Time and Again".

The Voyager comes upon an M-class planet that SHOULD support life. However, the entire planet is 100% dead--bereft of all life. How could this be?! So, a landing party goes down to explore--and soon a couple crew members disappear--sucked into the planet's past just a day earlier. However, NOW the planet is full of people! It seems that somehow the arrival of the Voyager led to a chain of events that wiped out everything living. So, it's up to Janeway to try to figure out how to prevent this.

This is an okay episode but the resolution was the biggest problem. It just seemed contrived and the ending was not especially memorable.

I'm sure we can destroy every vestige of reality by thinking too much. The fact of the matter is that going back in time has only one ultimate result. It will have to be erased or the results are catastrophic. I do appreciate the efforts of the Star Trek writers to delve into this. In "Time and Again," the crew discovers a planet that has been scorched and all life ended. While investigating, Paris and Janeway enter the planet the day before the moment of final destruction. Unfortunately they become complicit in the destruction. I thought it was well conceived and carried out, even though impossibilities present themselves.