Year of Hell 1+2 are great action packed episodes. If Voyager ever had a cinematic appearance, then this story would have been great to be told with great special effects on the big screen. Instead they decided for such boring movies like Insurrection or Nemesis.
A Krenim scientist on board a huge time vessel has used a time weapon 200 years ago to wipe a whole civilization from existence and thus making the Krenim empire from one second to the other huge and powerful. Unfortunately, the colony where he and his wife lived was wiped during this attempt, too. Since then he used his weapon multiple times to correct this mistake by wiping other civilizations from existence, hoping for a better outcome. While Voyager is in Krenim space it is attacked by Krenim ships that use chrono torpedos to breach the shields. In the coming days Voyager is hunted by ships and barely can escape. After the crew modulates the shields to prevent the chrono torpedos from breaching through, this chrono field around Voyager disturbs the use of the time weapon and its calculated outcome. The scientist then seeks Voyager, beams Chakotay and Paris on board and tries to convince them that they help each other achieving their goals. Janeway on the other hand can escape with Voyager and plans the big strike against the science vessel.
Unfortunately the writers have forgotten to put Kes into this episode. She has foreseen these events and she was the one that found out the variance of the chrono torpedo - not Seven of Nine. Maybe they filmed those two episodes before the other one? I don't know but it really hurts the story. Also, when Janeway rams the ship in a last suicidal attempt, it ends all too well. Why is suddenly everything back to normal?
A Krenim scientist on board a huge time vessel has used a time weapon 200 years ago to wipe a whole civilization from existence and thus making the Krenim empire from one second to the other huge and powerful. Unfortunately, the colony where he and his wife lived was wiped during this attempt, too. Since then he used his weapon multiple times to correct this mistake by wiping other civilizations from existence, hoping for a better outcome. While Voyager is in Krenim space it is attacked by Krenim ships that use chrono torpedos to breach the shields. In the coming days Voyager is hunted by ships and barely can escape. After the crew modulates the shields to prevent the chrono torpedos from breaching through, this chrono field around Voyager disturbs the use of the time weapon and its calculated outcome. The scientist then seeks Voyager, beams Chakotay and Paris on board and tries to convince them that they help each other achieving their goals. Janeway on the other hand can escape with Voyager and plans the big strike against the science vessel.
Unfortunately the writers have forgotten to put Kes into this episode. She has foreseen these events and she was the one that found out the variance of the chrono torpedo - not Seven of Nine. Maybe they filmed those two episodes before the other one? I don't know but it really hurts the story. Also, when Janeway rams the ship in a last suicidal attempt, it ends all too well. Why is suddenly everything back to normal?