Episode 156: Shattered

Chakotay goes to the cargo bay to get his Antarian Cider. He asks Icheb, who’s there, to keep it a secret. Chakotay takes the cider to his weekly dinner with Janeway, who somehow manages to burn a roast despite it being made with a replicator. They’re called away as Voyager finds a temporal anomaly. I wonder how many times I’ve typed that now. Chakotay is injured after the temporal energy hits him. Oh god, it’s a Chakotay episode. He wakes in the sickbay where the Doctor has given him an anti-temporal serum but Chakotay quickly realises that the Doctor is from the past. After visiting different areas of the ship they’re all in different time zones. Voyager, has if you will, become shattered. See what they did there? In engineering Seska and the Kazon are hanging out. Unfortunately it’s not a cover band. He tells her there’s a temporal anomaly and she hits him. At least she can. On the bridge Chakotay finds Janeway from before Voyager was in the Delta Quadrant. He eventually persuades her to both travel around the ship to try and fix it by using the serum on gelpack. In Astrometrics they find a grown-up Icheb and Naomi. Icheb tells Chakotay he never did tell anyone about his cider because after seventeen years that’s the only thing he can remember about it. Eventually they get to Seven as a Borg and the Captain Proton holodeck program. Is this a clip show? Finally in engineering again a fight ensues against Seska and the Kazon which the Borg Seven ends quite quickly. Chakotay initiates a pulse via the deflector dish or something. I don’t know, do you think they did? But anyway everything’s restored and the present day Janeway wants to know what happened. Don’t we all? Chakotay can’t tell her though because of the Temporal Prime Directive. Never mind that he’s been telling her all kinds of crap throughout the episode.

I’ll leave the last words to Robert Beltran: “I hated that episode!”