Episode complete credited cast: | |||
Kate Mulgrew | ... | Capt. Kathryn Janeway | |
Robert Beltran | ... | Cmdr. Chakotay | |
Roxann Dawson | ... | Lt. B'Elanna Torres (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson) | |
Jennifer Lien | ... | Kes (credit only) | |
Robert Duncan McNeill | ... | Lt. Tom Paris | |
Ethan Phillips | ... | Neelix (credit only) | |
Robert Picardo | ... | The Doctor (credit only) | |
Tim Russ | ... | Lt. Tuvok | |
Garrett Wang | ... | Ensign Harry Kim | |
Louis Giambalvo | ... | Cosimo | |
Jennifer Gatti | ... | Libby | |
Jack Shearer | ... | Adm. Strickler | |
Mark Kiely | ... | Lieutenant Lasca | |
Majel Barrett | ... | Voyager Computer (voice) |
Ensign Kim wakes up to find himself in San Fransisco. Not only is he him, but it also appears as if he has never served on board Voyager. Instead he is engaged to his girlfriend Libby and about to unveil a new design for a Starfleet runabout. Since he doesn't remember anything about the design, he complains of feeling ill and takes his leave the meeting. After accessing the Starfleet database about Voyager, Kim goes to Marseilles to ask Tom Paris, who also apparently did not join the Voyager crew, for his help. Paris refuses, and when Kim returns home, he is questioned by Starfleet for his unauthorized look at Starfleet's records of Voyager. Kim finds out from Cosimo, an alien supposed to look after him, that his shuttle craft intersected a time stream that caused him to switch into a reality of his life had he never joined the Voyager crew. Warning that there was no certain way to get home, Cosimo tells Kim on the coordinates at which he could intersect the time stream again and ... Written by Anonymous
This episode outright proves 1 of two things: 1)cannot give us a character that is interesting or 2) The writers cannot give us a character of Ensign Kim that is interesting. It is possible Wang is only working from the script and the director. However I don't think I want to lay blame on the writer and director when I see a story that could have been interesting, but turns out to be rather boring. Actually i blame both.
Non Sequitur is an episode that puts Ensign into a situation where it appears he is back in San Francisco with his girlfriend and back in Starfleet. He discovers that he was never assigned to Voyager and doesn't know what any of this means. The first thing Kim does is try to communicate with whomever he thinks is in control of this reality only to realize that everything seems to be real.
So would be the logical next step here? Well, Kim isn't in any danger, Kim isn't held hostage, Kim isn't hurt or injured or does any injury seem to be forthcoming to him. In seeing this, my first response to Kim was "why not just play along?". It was something that I honestly didn't understand why Kim decided to proceed as if he was in danger. Also Kim when he finds the Voyager logs classified, proceeds to enter his authorization code. If Kim suspected that he was still under alien influence entering that code was a large character error.
For an episode that could have explored the acting of Wang and character of Kim this episode falls very short. McNeill gave an interesting character but it all falls flat with a rather odd and typical Star Trek ending.
Can be skipped.