Future's End
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| Star Trek: Voyager episode | |
| "Future's End" | |
 Paris and Rain |
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| Episode no. | 50 & 51 |
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| Prod. code | 150 & 151 |
| Airdate | November 6, 1996 November 13, 1996 |
| Writer(s) | Brannon Braga Joe Menosky |
| Director | David Livingston (part I) Cliff Bole (part II) |
| Guest star(s) | Sarah Silverman as Rain Robinson Allan Royal as Braxton Ed Begley, Jr. as Henry Starling Brent Hinkley as Butch Clayton Murray as Porter |
| Year | 2373 |
| Stardate | 50312.5 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Sacred Ground" |
| Next | "Warlord" |
"Future's End" is a two-part episode from the third season of Star Trek: Voyager.
[edit] Plot
Captain Braxton from the twenty-ninth century appears before Voyager and says he must destroy them to prevent a cataclysm that will wipe out most of the Earth's solar system. Voyager fights back, resulting in a time rip that sends the future captain to the year 1967, while Voyager and her crew are sent to the year 1996.
A young hiker, Henry Starling, finds the timeship in 1967, and steals its technology to found his own company, Chronowerx, which leads to the computer revolution of the nineties. Starling, now a rich man, manages to hack into the computer on Voyager and steal many of their files, including the Doctor. Meanwhile a young astronomer named Rain Robinson has discovered Voyager in high orbit, and assumes it to be extraterrestrial life. She successfully attempts to contact Voyager, which forces the crew to do some damage control. Captain Janeway, Commander Chakotay, Tuvok, and Tom Paris, all go to Earth's surface. Tuvok and Paris go to find Rain, while Janeway and Chakotay investigate the ex-hippie, Henry Starling.
When attempting to access Henry Starling's computer files, Captain Janeway equates using a keyboard and primitive computer with using "stone knives and bearskins", which alludes to a line Spock uses in "The City on the Edge of Forever", an episode of the original Star Trek series.
Ultimately the crew figures out that Starling's attempt to travel to the future in Braxton's timeship is what caused the explosion in the future. After a failed attempt to convince him to stop before it's too late Janeway destroys the timeship by manually firing a photon torpedo into it destroying it just as it enters a temporal rift saving the future. An alternate Captain Braxton arrives having detected their presence in the past and he returns them to their own time at the place they left it but unfortunately is unable to bring them to Earth in the future as that would violate the Temporal Prime Directive.
[edit] Aftermath
The main consequence of the episode was that the Doctor gained his 29th century technology mobile emitter from Starling and thus becomes able to leave Voyager’s sickbay with its stationary holo-emitters to go wherever he likes, whether inside or outside of the ship. Because Voyager destroyed Starling's ship, the causality paradox is prevented and all returns to normal for Voyager and its crew.
[edit] External links
- "Future's End" article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- Episode synopsis at Startrek.com - Part I
- Episode synopsis at Startrek.com - Part II
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