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- What do you mean we lost contact?
- The city is in chaos.
The uprising has mounted resistance against us.
They demand peace with Starfleet.
- No! No, no, no!
Launch the invasion. Open all rifts.
Strike every key Federation target.
- Opening up that many wormholes
will tear apart the fabric of subspace!
- Oh, our world is already tearing apart.
And if our enemies wish to join the Federation,
they can…in death!
♪ ♪
- Status report, Mr. Tysess.
- I'm detecting dozens of spacetime rifts.
More appearing every minute.
- And their trajectories lead to every major Federation
star base across three quadrants.
Yes, she did it.
This is what we've been hoping for!
- Whoa, wait, what?
You were hoping for Starfleet's annihilation?
No.
No, our chance to close the time loop,
to get the Protostar back to Tars Lamora
and fix our dying timeline.
- He's right.
Ascencia created those rifts, which means we can use them.
If we merge their energy to make a temporal wormhole,
it'll stop her invasion and we can send her ship to the past
where it belongs!
- You are suggesting we stabilize
an unstable wormhole fixed to an exact time and place?
- Yeah, that's what I said!
- With so many rifts, there's innumerable spatial variables.
The science is akin to finding a needle in a haystack
lost in the outer galaxy with only a telescope.
- Then we better start looking.
- And what if we don't find this needle?
- The paradox will unravel our reality enough
to ring the dinner bell for the Loom
to consume and erase us from existence.
- Let's try to avoid that, Mr. Crusher.
All hands, red alert.
The odds are against us.
But if we pull this off, we need to be ready.
Chakotay, take your crew to the Protostar
to prep its final voyage.
To keep history intact,
the ship must be exactly as it was
when they found it on Tars Lamora.
- We'll help Wesley figure out the spacetime coordinates.
Four heads are better than-- scratch that.
Three heads and zero.
- Much obliged.
- To create the wormhole,
the data must be entered manually
from the top of Ascencia's research spire.
- Well, that's just inconvenient.
- Gwyn and I will lead an away team to the surface
and see what we can do.
We'll need all the luck we can get.
- We'll slow Ascencia's attack on the Federation
and buy you as much time as we can.
No one else is coming to save us.
"Voyager" is our last and only defense,
and we will hold the line.
Mr. Tysess, take us in.
♪ ♪
- Ah, good to see remodulated shields
could still fool enemy sensors.
- Those old marquis tricks will only get you so far.
We almost lost a nacelle back there.
What happened to keeping the ship intact?
- I know. I'm doing my best.
I found a gap in the transporter scramblers.
This is as close as I can get.
Away team, prepare to beam down.
♪ ♪
Nice badge.
Ready when you are.
Good luck down there.
Love you!
- We love you too, Rok.
Now, let's finish what we started.
♪ ♪
- Oh, we couldn't get any closer?
Whatever the brainiacs come up with,
we gotta plug it in up there.
- Let me guess.
Ripping apart spacetime isn't the best
for somebody displaced in time?
- I'll be OK.
The mission comes first.
I just hope our friends can figure it out.
- They will. They must.
- So we're making a wormhole to the past.
This ought to be a fun challenge.
- Well, we're already time traveling aficionados.
We did it before when we saved Gwyn with the "Infinity."
- That was across timelines in one location.
We need the "Protostar" to traverse both time and space.
- All while the universe itself
is being ripped to pieces outside.
- If our numbers are off even a tiny bit,
who knows when or where the "Protostar" could wind up?
- And if the time loop remains open,
our reality will tear itself apart.
- Ugh, wow, this is giving me a headache.
- And yet, I have a feeling
the answer lies somewhere in there.
♪ ♪
- Nobody's leaving here on my watch.
I could do this all day.
- Ugh, Janeway!
- How many quantum torpedoes left?
- Not nearly enough.
- So much for your bluff, Admiral.
♪ ♪
- Ugh, the main entrance is blocked.
And here I thought it was going to be easy.
- Come on. There's another way up.
♪ ♪
- Two years ago, Chakotay was lost
in an unstable wormhole
on the "Protostar's" maiden voyage.
- Where it was flung randomly through space and time
to the delta quadrant over Solum.
- To a future 52 years from now.
- But when the "Protostar" was sent back
through that same wormhole,
it crashed landed on Tars Lamora.
- In the past at an unknown date,
where Dal and I discovered it however many years later.
- Even if we knew that date--
- Which we don't--
- The wormhole's unpredictability
makes closing the time loop a veritable shot in the dark.
- Ugh, too many unexpected variables.
- There's something we're not seeing.
Don't close your minds. Open them.
- No guards. I think we lost them.
- But how are we supposed to get to the control nexus?
It's got to be 20 stories up.
- We climb.
- Oh, climb?
Come on.
There's got to be another--
Nope! Never mind!
- I will hold them back! Go!
- Hold on. Uh…uh…ahh!
- Thank you. - Let's move it.
I got your back.
- For Solum!
♪ ♪
- I said to take evasive maneuvers. Pattern omega!
- You think I don't know that? - Sometimes I wonder.
- What's with you? You've been on me all day.
- Maybe I'm just facing facts.
- And what facts are those?
- If this ship is supposed to go back to Tars Lamora
exactly as they found it, what happens to me?
My memories, our time together--
I'll lose it all.
- We'll make a copy.
- We both know my program's too big.
- We'll find a way. We always do.
Ugh.
♪ ♪
- OK, let's go over it one more time.
2382. Chakotay and the "Protostar" first traveled
through a wormhole to…
- 2436, a future Solum destroyed by civil war.
Chakotay then sends the ship back in time…
- To Tars Lamora at an unknown time…
- Where we found it in 2383
and took it on a little joyride.
Then to save Starfleet,
we blew it up, creating a new wormhole.
- Which allowed Chakotay's future distress call
to reach Admiral Janeway.
- And why we took the "Infinity"
through that wormhole to save him…
- That's when you changed history
by sending the "Protostar" to the wrong place in time,
creating the paradox we're living in now.
- So many wormholes, but they seem to appear
randomly or by coincidence.
- The star dates, the distance, I can surmise no correlation.
- Yet every one is connected by the "Protostar."
- Oh, except here.
This is where the timeline was broken.
This wormhole never happened.
And thanks to us, it never will.
Unless we make it happen.
- What do you mean?
- What if Chakotay never sent the "Protostar"
back to Tars Lamora?
What if all this time we sent it there?
What if right now, today, the wormhole we make
is the reason the others exist
from Chakotay to Solum and everything in between?
- It's temporal mechanics 101.
Small changes to time don't matter
as long as we make sure the big stuff still occurs.
- So we would not need to know the exact moment
the "Protostar" landed in Tars Lamora.
- Because the wormholes are all one highway
connecting past and future.
- And the end of the road has always been Tars Lamora!
Computer, cross-reference all wormholes
with the "Protostar's" quantum signature
and our current spacetime coordinates.
♪ ♪
- Wow.
All these holes in the fabric of spacetime
have a common thread.
If the "Protostar" flies through now,
we can stitch them together.
- Like a needle-- the needle in the haystack!
- All we have to do is match the rift energy
to the "Protostar's" quantum variance,
time it just right-- - And we've done it!
Yip, yip! Hoot, hoot!
- Hoot, hoot indeed.
- I told you we'd figure it out.
You can put me down now.
- Zero to Mr. Pog, good news. We have the calculations.
Sending to you now.
- We'd clap if we could,
but our hands are kind of full right now.
♪ ♪
- I'm never taking a turbolift for granted again.
We can input the coordinates there.
- Jankom, get cracking.
She just fried our console.
How are we supposed to make a wormhole now?
- The console is only a conduit.
We can manual override,
but it'd have to be done from, uh…
the transceivers.
♪ ♪
- I'll deal with her.
- What? No. I'm not leaving you!
- The mission comes first.
♪ ♪
- Then let's get climbing.
- Ah, Jankom's arms are tired.
- You have something of mine, and I want it back.
- Are we feeling our whole self today?
Get the others. - Acknowledged.
- Ugh! How many times must I beat you down
for you to know your place?
What?
No impassioned speech this time?
I don't need one.
This heirloom is mine…
as is Solum.
♪ ♪
You've lost already.
Revenge only brings pointless suffering.
♪ ♪
- We can't keep this up much longer.
How close are we?
- Uh, coming along.
Just putting our theory into practice.
- Dal, not to be a nag, but our window for the wormhole
is rapidly closing.
- We're working on it!
- Temporal variance, 47 millicochrane.
Adjusting aperture and direction.
♪ ♪
- 90 seconds until the rift convergence.
- Almost.
Adding quantum variance, and here comes the light show!
♪ ♪
Ah! We got a loose connection!
- Please tell me that wasn't important.
- Ah! The rift energy's gotta converge.
If we don't connect those cables now, we're doomed.
- Double doomed.
- Do not move.
♪ ♪
- You got this, Murf.
♪ ♪
- Whoa, whoa, careful!
That temporal energy will scatter your particles
to the next century.
- I'm going to forget you said that.
- Why? It's true!
♪ ♪
Gotta keep moving.
♪ ♪
- Our mission will not be stopped.
♪ ♪
- Murf!
♪ ♪
- Why won't you die?
♪ ♪
- I won't give up on this world.
- The multiverse holds a bitter truth, girl.
My home, my Solum, was destroyed,
and it always will be.
♪ ♪
Huh?
♪ ♪
- So I will conquer this reality
until I have the Solum I want
that bends to my will.
♪ ♪
- Something's happening.
♪ ♪
- They've done it.
- What?
- It's over.
♪ ♪
- Gwyndala, my will is yours.
♪ ♪
- Gwyndala, our will is yours.
♪ ♪
Gwyndala, our will is yours.
♪ ♪
- You! You traitors!
Gwyndala, our will is yours.
♪ ♪
- I will not let Solum slip away!
♪ ♪
There is no…
barrier…
we cannot--
♪ ♪
- Wow, ain't she a sight?
- Dal?
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
- Well then, let's send that "Protostar" of yours
back where it belongs.
♪ ♪
- Yip-yip, we've done it.
- Let's not get too excited.
It ain't over yet.
- Captain, we're picking up a subspace signal.
It's from the wormhole.
- Put it through.
- No, no, no, no, it's too early.
We had time.
- What do you mean?
- What's early?
- The Loom.
They're here.