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A failed attempt to return home results in Voyager crash-landing on an ice world and also in the deaths of the crew, except Chakotay and Harry Kim. Now, fifteen years later, the two men, having resigned from Starfleet, attempt to alter history to save the ship from disaster before Starfleet can stop them.
A vast, icy landscape. Two figures materialize out of a transporter beam, shielded against the cold by cold weather suits. Laden with heavy backpacks, they begin hiking across the landscape. On reaching a certain spot, they stop and stick a sensor device into the ice. They brush aside a patch of snow, revealing a clear layer of ice underneath. Something not of nature is clearly visible under it.
One of the figures taps his chest in the same spot where a Starfleet combadge would be. Sure enough, the chirp of such is heard. The figure's voice reveals him to be male. His face, like that of his companion, is hidden beneath his suit's mask. He indicates to the other that they have arrived at their destination. Beneath the thick sheet of translucent glacial ice, unmistakable markings become visible.
USS Voyager
Act OneEdit
The other figure makes scans on a tricorder and informs the first that the fractures in the glacier the ship is entombed in are stable; they can beam inside safely. Like the first, this one's voice also reveals that it is a man. The first informs a third party over his combadge that they are ready to enter. A female voice acknowledges. They beam inside.
Inside Voyager is dark and icy. The two figures, after materializing, remove their masks. They are revealed to be Voyager's First Officer, Commander Chakotay and Operations Officer Ensign Harry Kim. Both appear noticeably older. Both are very grim-faced.
Using wrist-borne lights to light their way, they walk slowly to a dark, dead, frosted-over wall console. Kim scrapes ice off of it, connects a portable power cell and activates it. The console comes to life. Kim accesses it and reports the extent of Voyager's damage: her power grid is destroyed, her bioneural gel packs are frozen solid and six of her lowermost decks are compacted. Chakotay muses that she must have crashed into the ice at full impulse. He asks about The Doctor, their EMH, who served as the ship's chief medical officer. Kim tries to access the sickbay. But the console flickers and dies, despite his attempts to keep it going, to his great frustration. They decide to split up. Kim heads for the sickbay while Chakotay goes to the bridge.
Chakotay reaches the bridge. It is frosted over and dark, like every other area on the ship. He walks among frozen bodies of crewmembers, including that of Voyager's Captain, his commanding officer and friend, Captain Kathryn Janeway. Chakotay pauses at her corpse for a long while before continuing. He is searching for something. He finds it: the corpse of the former Borg drone Seven of Nine.
He hails the third party he spoke to before, calling her "Tessa", and informs her. He instructs her to lock on to the transporter relay he places on the corpse's neck and beam the cadaver to "the lab." She acknowledges and does so. He watches grimly as the cadaver dematerializes.
Kim arrives at the sickbay. He scrapes ice off a wall console here and activates it with his power cell. He taps some controls on it. The Doctor appears, and starts his standard EMH greeting. But his words trail off as he sees what has become of the sickbay.
He looks around in utter, uncomprehending horror. Kim tersely greets him. The Doctor addresses him in shock as "Ensign!", but Kim tells him not to. He instructs him to don his mobile emitter. The Doctor does so and agitatedly asks him what has happened, but he tersely responds that there is no time for that. He orders The Doctor to follow him. The Doctor refuses, demanding an explanation. Chakotay enters and walks up to him. He provides him with a cryptic response: they are there to "change history."
Act TwoEdit
Fifteen Years Earlier: Year 2375
A great celebration is taking place in Voyager's Engineering area. Crew and officers are gathered, clapping and cheering. Confetti falls. Chief Engineer Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres grins hugely as she smashes a bottle of champagne against the rail surrounding the warp core. The core looks strange, as if it has been modified.
Captain Janeway calls for quiet and gives a speech. She proudly introduces the modified warp core as the "quantum slipstream drive", to cheers and applause. She speaks of the time Voyager has been lost in the Delta Quadrant: four years, two months, 11 days. To more cheers and applause, she then announces that "now it is time to go home." The quantum slipstream drive, should it work, will accomplish this; very much faster than warp drive, it would allow Voyager to cross the many tens of thousands of light years between here and Earth in mere hours as opposed to the several decades that warp drive would take.
Janeway exhorts everyone to enjoy the party, but reminds them of the final work that needs to be done; the flight using the drive is scheduled for the next morning. Everyone mingles happily. Champagne flows. Seven of Nine, amusingly, becomes drunk from a single glass. Neelix, the Talaxian chef, gives Torres a good luck charm for the drive: a Talaxian fur fly, which he had kept hung in the engine room of his own small ship while he was a trader, before he joined Voyager. All enjoy themselves.
But Lieutenant Tom Paris does not take part. Instead, he is seen at a console, running tests. Harry Kim, the main designer of the drive, finds him and, surprised, asks him why. Paris' expression when he turns to face Kim is one of great worry. He gives Kim his opinion of the thing: it is an Edsel, a potential disaster. He explains that he has found a 0.42 phase variance in the drive's system; a very small phase variance, but enough to possibly bring the flight to a catastrophic end by causing Voyager to get knocked out of the slipstream in mid-flight. This would almost certainly destroy her, and them with her.
Kim dismisses his concerns, saying that such a small variance is probably due to a sensor glitch. But Paris will not be soothed. Kim then invites him to one of the ship's two holodecks to run simulations and ease his fears. Paris agrees and they leave together.
The two men run a holodeck simulation of Voyager with Kim at the auxiliary Tactical console, while Paris mans his conn console. They begin the simulation. At first, all goes well; Paris engages the simulated drive, and, on the viewscreen, the view of normal space explodes into the gray, tunnel-like form of slipstream space. But then the bridge starts to vibrate as the phase variance Paris detected begins to manifest itself. It begins to increase. The vibration worsens. Kim tries stabilization measures, but none work. Hull breaches occur. Structural integrity rapidly falls and then fails; Voyager is tearing apart. The slipstream starts to collapse.
Paris tensely orders the computer to cease the simulation. But Kim doggedly refuses to give up; he suggests yet another idea for stabilization, but Paris tells him it will not work. Kim tries to get the computer to run the simulation again, but Paris stops him: this is their 23rd consecutive simulation, and, like the 22 before it, it has ended in calamity. This is not a sensor glitch, he insists; the others must be told. Kim agrees with a sad sigh.
In Engineering, only the senior staff is now present. The air of joyous celebration has been replaced by somberness; Paris and Kim have reported the results of their simulations to them. Torres cannot believe it; she angrily protests that they have tested the drive "molecule by molecule". Seven informs Paris that she wants to examine the results herself. Paris somberly invites her to do so. Chakotay, however, has seen the results and gives Captain Janeway, who is pacing in silence, his considered opinion: if they attempt this flight the next morning, the crew will find themselves in escape pods that very afternoon. Tuvok opines that there is no choice but to cancel.
But then Paris informs them that Kim has a suggestion. Attention turns to him as he outlines it: if a shuttlecraft were to "ride the rapids in front of Voyager", so to speak, then it could map the slipstream threshold as it forms and transmit phase corrections back to Voyager. The corrections would compensate for the phase variance, preventing a catastrophic collapse of the slipstream.
The idea is theoretically sound, but very risky; the shuttle would only be at most a couple of seconds ahead of Voyager, and the auto-navigational system might not be able to make the adjustments quickly enough. But Kim, sensing the reluctance, begins a vehement plea for the idea to be tried. He points out the amount of time and effort that has been put into the project, and the decay of certain crystalline components of the drive that has already begun; components that would take years to re-synthesize.
He walks from each to each, looking into their faces hotly, proclaiming that he did not "do all this work just to be stopped by a 0.42 phase variance...!" He finds himself shouting into Captain Janeway's face, and immediately apologizes. He begs her to let him try, confidently insisting that he will get them through the slipstream. She takes no offense, and orders him to submit a flight plan to her within the hour; she will let them know her decision. Extremely pleased, Kim acknowledges. The officers disperse.
Janeway and Chakotay have dinner in the former's quarters. As they sit at the table, with Intermezzo op.117 no.1 by Brahms playing in the background, she makes her decision known to Chakotay; she has approved the attempt. Chakotay acknowledges, but voices his disagreement. He holds up a PADD containing Kim's flight plan. He has looked at it; the theory is sound, but there are simply too many variables. But Janeway responds that they have waited long enough to get home; they may never have this chance again. With a smile, Chakotay assures her of his support of her, though he does not agree with her decision. He sets the PADD down.
The same PADD, frost-covered and long inoperative, is seen on the floor of Voyager's frozen, entombed wreckage.
Act ThreeEdit
Kim, Chakotay, and The Doctor are on the Delta Flyer, a unique shuttlecraft Voyager had built. They fill The Doctor in. It is fifteen years after the attempted slipstream flight. They are in the Takara sector, just outside the Alpha Quadrant. The rest of the crew is dead; Voyager crashed into the ice planet, killing all aboard. The Doctor recalls that Kim and Chakotay were on the Delta Flyer at the time; they had been the ones mapping the slipstream and sending phase corrections to Voyager. Kim bitterly confirms this, commenting that they indeed made it back to Earth, with the only cost being the death of all whom they cared about.
They further inform The Doctor that their finding of Voyager's grave is not a Starfleet-sanctioned endeavor. The service ended its search for Voyager nine years ago; they continued on their own. Chakotay explains his comment to him in the remains of Voyager's sickbay: they are embarked on an attempt to change history, preventing Voyager's destruction from ever occurring.
Stone-faced, his bitterness extreme, Kim elucidates: the blame for Voyager's destruction rests squarely on his shoulders. During the flight, he, as planned and agreed, sent phase corrections back to Voyager to compensate for the phase variance. But his corrections proved to be wrong; instead, they increased the variance, so much so that the disaster he was trying to prevent was immediately precipitated. Voyager was knocked out of the slipstream and the crew was sent "to an icy death".
However, having fifteen years to think about his mistake, he has gone over the phase calculations from that day and has come up with a set of new corrections. The plan is to send the corrections back through time to Voyager, so that she actually makes it through and back to Earth instead of being destroyed. They intend to use three things, two of which they need The Doctor and Seven of Nine's corpse for, which is why they found and reactivated him, and found and retrieved the corpse.
The first thing is a device they stole from Starfleet authorities: a Borg temporal transmitter, salvaged by Starfleet from the wreck of a Borg cube. The Doctor's job is to extract the other two items from Seven's cadaver: her interplexing beacon and her chronometric node. The final translink frequency registered by the interplexing beacon at the time of Seven's death will tell them exactly where she, and hence, Voyager, was before the catastrophe. The chronometric node will tell her actual time of death, when her Borg implants disengaged from her organic systems.
A young woman then enters. This is the third party Chakotay was talking to. She alerts Chakotay of a Federation starship fast approaching. She informs them of measures she has taken to delay it from finding them, but warns that they will not work for long. They have six hours at most.
At first, The Doctor is confused by this. But then he suddenly realizes what she means: they are, in fact, fugitives. Kim confirms it, listing the charges their plan has brought on their heads: high treason and conspiracy to violate the Temporal Prime Directive. Then Chakotay instructs him to begin work. He tells the woman to get ready to beam back down to Voyager's remains with him, to retrieve the ship's sensor logs. He then leaves to get himself ready.
The woman smiles and introduces herself to The Doctor as Tessa Omond. Kim informs him that she is Chakotay's lover. She explains that she is there to help them carry out their plan. Chakotay returns for her, and they leave together.
Returning to Voyager's bridge, Chakotay accesses the computer using his old first officer's command codes and begins downloading the sensor logs. As he sits in the first officer's seat next to the captain's, his pain of loss is evident. It is exacerbated when he finds a still-active file. It turns out to be Captain Janeway's last log entry, in which she states for the record, should the flight end in disaster, that the crew acted with "distinction and valor." Tessa, seeing his pain, immediately comforts him, reminding him that if they are successful, Janeway and everyone else will be alive and well. Chakotay does indeed take comfort in this.
But then another thought occurs to him: Tessa. If he is successful, he will lose her; they will never have met. This, despite his intense desire to have Voyager and her crew, his friends, restored, makes him pause: can he give her up, even though it means he will get them back? He takes her hands in his and asks her if she is sure she wants to do this, given what it will mean for the two of them. Her answer, however, settles the question: no matter how happy he is with her, his heart is, and would always be, on Voyager. She loves him enough to put his happiness first and help him fulfill his heart's desire and get them back, even if it erases what they have together. He accepts this gladly.
Aboard the Delta Flyer, The Doctor works as Kim records a message to someone. The Doctor calls him to assist him. As they work, The Doctor asks him about his and Chakotay's homecoming. His extreme bitterness is made evident again as he recalls the reception they got: parades, antimatter fireworks, serenades by a Vulcan children's choir, speeches, and medals. The Doctor jokes that at least he was not buried under ice.
This earns him a deathly glare from Kim, who responds coldly that he wished that he had been, many times. The Doctor sympathizes with him. Kim then, with intense sarcasm, recalls the therapy sessions he was forced to endure; these were supposed to help him get over his survivor's guilt. He recalls that he signed onto the first deep space vessel he could and worked manically at finding where Voyager had crashed, until Starfleet, after four years of searching, called off the search, citing 'low probability of success'. He begged them to continue, but they refused. So, he and Chakotay resigned their commissions, devised their plan and enacted it, stealing the Delta Flyer to do so.
The Doctor succeeds in extracting the interplexing beacon from Seven's cadaver and reads out the interlink frequency. Kim encodes it into the Borg temporal transmitter. But The Doctor then cautiously asks him a question: is he sure about this course of action? Suppose it causes a timeline in which things are worse? But Kim's response is a look as deathly as his first, and a harsh reply that the only reason this timeline exists is because of his error. "The crew trusted me and I let them down!" he spits. Then the computer sounds an alarm, and announces a warning of a vessel approaching. Kim checks the scanners and sees that it is the Starfleet vessel. He hails Chakotay and Tessa and alerts them. They acknowledge and prepare to return immediately.
Kim then turns his attention back to The Doctor. He has a question of his own: given the criminal nature of their action, does he want to be a part of it? If not, then Kim will take him off-line, not as a punishment or sanction, but as a friend, keeping him from being involved in something he is against. The Doctor considers and agrees to help willingly: he wants Voyager back as much as they do. Kim smiles and pats him on the shoulder.
Act FourEdit
Aboard Voyager, all is in readiness for the slipstream. Janeway records a log entry in which she states for the record, should the attempt end in disaster, that the crew acted with distinction and valor. Aboard the Delta Flyer, some distance ahead of Voyager, Commander Chakotay and Ensign Kim are also ready. After a pre-flight checklist, a telemetry link is established between the two vessels. Janeway gives the order to begin.
The Federation starship arrives and closes on the Flyer. It is a Galaxy-class starship. The Flyer flees at top speed, and the ship pursues them. Chakotay and Tessa pilot the Flyer, while Kim works in the lab with The Doctor to send the new phase corrections.
The Federation ship hails. Chakotay answers. The captain appears on the small viewscreen. It is none other than Geordi La Forge, previously the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise-E. He identifies himself, and his ship as the USS Challenger and calmly instructs them to stand down. Chakotay and Tessa refuse. La Forge then presents to them a deal offered by the Federation Council: if they stand down and return the temporal transmitter, the charge of conspiracy will be dropped.
Chakotay and Tessa reject the offer. La Forge understands, admitting he would likely be attempting the same thing in Chakotay's position. But he is a Starfleet captain, and as such, his duty is to try to stop them. Chakotay understands this. They genuinely wish each other luck and end the communication. Tessa reports the Challenger is targeting the Flyer's engines and Chakotay orders deflector shields raised and weapons readied.
On Voyager's bridge, Captain Janeway hails the Delta Flyer and orders Chakotay and Kim to prepare for engagement of the slipstream drive. They acknowledge. Janeway orders Paris to engage the drive. Paris counts down. At zero, he engages the drive. Normal space explodes into a slipstream tunnel as the two ships enter slipstream space. They are on their way.
The Flyer is hammered by the Challenger's weapons. Chakotay fires back, but of course, the shuttle's weapons have no effect against the starship's shields. In the lab, The Doctor quickly works to extract Seven's chronometric node from her cadaver, to give Kim the needed time index to send new phase corrections to.
On Voyager's bridge, Seven of Nine, at the auxiliary tactical console, detects the phase variance. Ensign Kim, on the Delta Flyer, quickly calculates the compensatory corrections to send back to Paris at the conn console. He sends the corrections. Paris inputs them. The variance decreases. All seems to be going well.
But then Seven reports the variance is increasing again. The increase is now more rapid than before. Voyager is shaken and begins to vibrate. Janeway hails Kim for an explanation. Kim becomes fearful. He is at a complete loss; the corrections should be working, he insists. He begins to quickly review them, fighting to control his fear.
Then the com link between the ships fails, followed by the telemetry link. Paris reports tensely that the slipstream is destabilizing. Janeway orders him to shut the drive down. Paris tries to do so, but fails.
The Doctor succeeds in extracting the needed time index from Seven's chronometric node. He reads it out to Kim, who quickly inputs it into the transmitter. He calls up the new corrections on the computer, interfaces the computer with the transmitter, and activates the transmitter, confidently telling The Doctor that this time, he will be successful.
Seven of Nine suddenly looks perturbed. She reports to Janeway that she is receiving new phase corrections, even though the com link is down. Janeway surmises that Ensign Kim must have found a way to access her Borg implants to send the corrections. She orders them used.
Seven does so. But they do not work; instead the variance increases even more rapidly. All hell breaks loose. Paris reports the hull is buckling. Janeway orders deflector shields at maximum. She orders Paris to hold her steady. He tries, but fails. The ship explodes back into normal space. Amid the alarms, Paris shouts that inertial dampers are offline. There is no sign of the Flyer.
Aboard the Flyer, still in the slipstream, Kim is shocked and horrified to see what has happened. He tells Chakotay to alter course to return to where Voyager was thrown out. But Chakotay tells him that that the Flyer would not survive falling out, even if Voyager did. Panicked, Kim insists, but Chakotay sternly tells him they have no choice. Kim sinks to the floor, as the full enormity of his failure starts to sink in.
Voyager spins and careens, completely out of control. Paris informs Janeway that they are but a few parsecs from the Alpha Quadrant. Tuvok reports extensive hull breaches; if they do not land immediately, Voyager will be torn apart. Paris then reports a planet nearby, Class L, covered with snow and ice. Janeway orders him to attempt to land.
Voyager enters the planet's atmosphere, but fails to slow down and approaches the surface at full impulse. Janeway orders full reverse thrusters, but this avails them naught. She orders all hands to brace for impact.
Voyager crashes belly-first into the solid, icy surface of the planet at high speed. The ship careens violently along the surface with one of the warp nacelles being destroyed upon impact with a patch of rocky terrain. Without inertial dampers, the crew of Voyager are killed immediately.
Act FiveEdit
On the Flyer, Kim is shocked and very much dismayed to find that nothing has changed. If Voyager had been saved, then this entire timeline would have been erased, and they would not be there still trying to save her. His new corrections did not work. He checks the equipment, and hails Chakotay, informing him of the failure.
The Flyer's engines fail. The Challenger catches it in a tractor beam. Chakotay suggests a dangerous method of escape: sending a plasma surge through the beam to break its grip on them. Tessa confirms that this can be done, but warns him that their heavily damaged EPS relays might cause their warp core to destabilize, destroying them. Chakotay gently tells her she can leave and beam to the Challenger if she so desires, but she refuses with an equally gentle smile. He returns it and hails Kim, informing him that they have a few more minutes.
In the lab, Kim feverishly checks his calculations, but cannot see why they did not work. The Flyer escapes from the tractor beam but, as Tessa warned, the warp core begins to destabilize. Chakotay hails Kim and alerts him that they have three minutes until they are destroyed. Kim begins to panic. He checks and rechecks his calculations, but to no avail; he simply cannot find the reason why they failed. The Doctor sternly tells him to keep trying. He does for a few seconds more, but gets nowhere.
He falls apart. The fifteen years of guilt and self-loathing he has been carrying suddenly boil over in a tide. He steps away, his back to The Doctor, screaming, anguished: "I killed them! They trusted me and I KILLED THEM!" The Doctor becomes furious. He spins him around to face him and shouts at him into his face to control himself and stop wallowing in self-pity. Kim hysterically tells him he is repeating history, destroying Voyager once again. The Doctor sternly retorts that he, Kim, is the only one who can change history to save her and the crew. Kim steps away from him, tearfully insisting that it is impossible.
But then The Doctor, countering that he had merely said that he couldn't keep the ship in the slipstream, gives him an idea that, with all his guilt, he had not even considered: while he must accept that he was unable to get Voyager home, could he not send them a warning to stop the flight or not attempt it at all? Kim seizes upon this: he could send a set of calculations that would cause the slipstream to harmlessly dissipate, depositing them back into normal space and shutting down the drive. Reinvigorated by the knowledge that he could still save the ship, he rushes back to the equipment and begins making the calculations, as the computer counts down the final 60 seconds before the warp core breaches.
Chakotay asks Tessa if the core can be ejected. She responds no. Captain La Forge hails them. The Challenger's sensors have detected the imminent core breach; he offers to beam all of them off. Chakotay politely thanks him, but refuses and suggests he move his ship a safe distance away.
Kim completes the calculations. But then he notices with horror the transmitter's power source is nearly depleted; the transmitter is shutting down. He looks desperately for an alternative and finds one: The Doctor's mobile emitter. The Doctor gladly surrenders it. He and Kim exchange comradely smiles and pats on the shoulder, then he dematerializes. Kim attaches the emitter to the transmitter, informing Chakotay that he is giving it one more try.
The time runs down. Chakotay and Tessa, in the final ten seconds, hold hands. Kim works feverishly. At the very last second, he succeeds in transmitting the calculations. His last act, before the Flyer explodes, killing them, is to scream an elated, victorious "YES!"
Seven of Nine suddenly looks perturbed. She reports to Janeway that she is receiving new phase corrections, even though the com link is down. Janeway surmises that Ensign Kim must have found a way to access her Borg implants to send the corrections. She orders them used. The corrections cause the drive to shut down. Paris reports the slipstream is dissipating. Both Voyager and the Flyer emerge from slipstream space back into normal space, unharmed.
Communications between the two ships comes back online. Ensign Kim hails Voyager, confused, and asks what happened. Captain Janeway, looking very displeased, tells him that he made a mistake: the phase corrections, which he sent to Seven shut the drive down. This confuses Kim even more; he responds that he sent no corrections to Seven. This stuns Janeway and the bridge crew. She informs him that Seven received a set of corrections through her implants. "It wasn't you?" she asks. He repeats that it was not. Janeway and the bridge officers look at each other, dumbfounded.
Janeway notes in her log that she has ordered the quantum slipstream drive dismantled. A disappointed Chief Engineer Torres is seen overseeing this. But Janeway also notes that the little time they spent in the slipstream shaved a solid ten years off their journey. Now, she comments, it seems to be a matter of when they get home, rather than if.
Ensign Kim sits glumly alone in the darkened mess hall with a desktop monitor. Janeway enters and sits with him. He sadly tells her what he has discovered: the phase corrections he had sent were wrong; their use would have severely damaged or even destroyed Voyager. It is evident that he is deeply ashamed of himself.
But, he continues, he cannot fathom where the other corrections came from, or who sent them. Janeway enigmatically tells him that they came from a "guardian angel named Harry Kim." She explains to him as he regards her, dumbfounded, that Seven found a Starfleet security code in the transmission: his. Further, the transmission had a temporal displacement, showing that it originated between 10 and 20 years in the future.
Kim ponders aloud on the paradox of this: how could he have sent the message from the future to change the past if by changing the past, that future was erased? Janeway gently advises him not to try to figure it out; all that matters, she insists, is that "somewhere, somehow, sometime, you'll come through for us." She then invites him to listen to it from his own mouth if he does not believe her, and hands him a tricorder. On it, she tells him, is a video message his future self also sent with the transmission, to him here, in the past, now the present. She then leaves him, but not before smiling at him sweetly and proudly.Kim slowly interfaces the monitor and the tricorder and plays the message. The image of the future, older Harry Kim gazes at him with a small smile. It is the same message the future Kim was seen recording. He tells him that if he is seeing this, then the mistake he made fifteen years ago (sending the erroneous phase corrections) has been corrected. "You owe me one," he finishes. Kim stares at the image in wonder.
Log entries Edit
- Captain's log, Stardate 52143.6. With any luck, my next log entry will be made in the Alpha Quadrant, but should our luck run out, I'd like to say for the record that the crew of Voyager acted with distinction and valor.
- Captain's log, supplemental. Our Slipstream flight may have been brief but it took nearly ten years off our journey. I've given the order to dismantle the Quantum Drive until the technology can be perfected. Despite the setback, we have a renewed sense of momentum. It no longer seems a question of if we get home, but when.
Memorable quotesEdit
"Mr. Neelix, you are an unending source of astonishment."
"Why, thank you, Mr. Vulcan!"
- - Tuvok and Neelix, in reference to Neelix's gift of the stuffed Talaxian fur fly.
"Decks Nine through Fourteen are now... Deck Ten. They've been compacted."
- - Harry Kim, inspecting the damaged ship
"How many glasses of champagne did you consume?"
"Obviously the Borg can't hold their liquor."
- - The Doctor and Seven
"You see, Doc, fifteen years ago, I miscalculated the slipstream threshold and transmitted the wrong phase corrections to Voyager. Boom! They were knocked out of the slipstream and sent to an icy death; 'Thank you, Ensign Kim.'"
- - Harry Kim, to The Doctor
"But I've had a long time to rethink my mistake, and now I know how to fix it. So...we're going to send Voyager a new set of phase corrections."
"Isn't it a little late for that...?"
- - Harry Kim and The Doctor
"And how did you get involved with Bonnie and Clyde here?"
"I've been interested in Voyager for a long time."
"They're having sex."
- - The Doctor, Tessa Omond, and Harry Kim
"Shield Generators?"
"Plasma flow?"
"Comm. link?"
"(pause) Salami sandwiches."
- - Harry Kim and Chakotay, just before entering the slipstream in the Delta Flyer
"I killed them!"
"Control yourself!"
"They trusted me and I KILLED THEM!"
"MR. KIM! I didn't spend all those years in an ice bucket so I could listen to you berate yourself! If you want to wallow in self-pity, fine! DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME!"
- - Harry Kim and The Doctor
To aid an honorable thief or to spend eternity in cybernetic oblivion.. (pause) Let's tempt fate.
- - The Doctor to Harry Kim (regarding changing the timeline, at threat of having his program shut off)
"This is no ordinary phone call, Doc, we're talking to yesterday. Timing is everything."
- - Harry Kim to The Doctor
"I'm no time travel expert, but can't we just call Voyager again? The past isn't going anywhere."
- - The Doctor
"Don't you see? History is repeating itself! I destroyed Voyager once and I'm doing it again!"
"Someone has got to knuckle down and change history, and that someone is you."
"It can't be done, Doc - I told you..."
"No - you told me you can't correct their phase variance. Alright - we have to accept that. But what about sending Voyager a warning? Is there a way to get them to abort the slipstream flight?"
(Scientifically) "Yes...(Excitedly, realizing all is not lost)...YES! I could send a phase correction which would disperse the slipstream entirely!"
"If we can't get the crew home, at least we can save their lives!"
- - Harry Kim and The Doctor
"Warning: Warp core breach in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two…"
- - The computer, counting down the final seconds before the Delta Flyer would experience a warp core breach; and Harry Kim, knowing his message got through
"The corrections I sent you were wrong - if you had used them, Voyager would've been heavily damaged - maybe even destroyed. What I can't figure out is who sent the other phase corrections to Seven of Nine."
"Looks like we've got a guardian angel."
"Oh, I wish I could believe that..."
"Believe it: his name is Harry Kim... Seven found a Starfleet security code embedded in the transmission - yours."
- - Harry Kim and Captain Janeway
"If I sent a message from the future, and changed the past, then that future would no longer exist - right?...So, how could I have sent the message in the first place - am I making any sense?"
"My advice in making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: Don't even try...To me, all that matters is that somewhere, somehow, sometime, you'll come through for us."
- - Harry Kim and Captain Janeway, after realizing that "he" saved Voyager
"Hello, Harry. I don't have much time, so listen to me. Fifteen years ago, I made a mistake and 150 people died. I've spent every day since then regretting that mistake. But if you're watching this right now, that means all of that has changed. You owe me one."
- - Harry Kim (2390) to Harry Kim (2375)
Background informationEdit
Story and Script Edit
- As was often the case during story development, executive producer Brannon Braga's first idea for this particular episode was visual, as the initial inspiration was the thought of Voyager buried under ice. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40) In a retrospective interview, former staff writer Bryan Fuller recalled, "It was very exciting. You know, that episode really started with an image. We were all in the break room, we were talking with Joe Menosky and Brannon Braga, and the central image of that show was Voyager crashing in the ice and sinking and finding the crew frozen, decades later." (Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities, "Alternate Lives: Part 2")
- The fact that this is Star Trek: Voyager's 100th episode motivated the show's writers. Actor/director LeVar Burton observed, "They felt excited about it [....] They felt there was an opportunity to see something special, but you never know. It all boils down to the script." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40) The party that the crew of Voyager have in this episode may be considered a parallel to the celebratory mood of the production staff, regarding the episode's status as a notable milestone.
- Brannon Braga specifically chose not to have the story become a two-parter. Kim actor Garrett Wang reflected, "Brannon's comment on that was that he wanted the episode to stand alone, as if it was a 'City on the Edge of Forever' episode." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- While the installment was under development, co-writers Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky tried to differentiate the episode's plot from the clichéd "twists and turns" (in Menosky's words) of a typical time travel story. Menosky believed that this concern had a visible impact on the installment's plot. "'Timeless' is like a post-modern time travel story, because nobody is actually traveling through time," he observed. "There's [only] a message sent through time." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky also took a minimalist approach to the writing of the episode's beginning. Menosky reflected, "When we were initially talking about it, we were trying to figure out a way to do it with no dialogue at all, and do the teaser and Act One absolutely silent, which is pretty impossible to pull off." Nonetheless, because of this effort, there is not much dialogue in the teaser and first act, as Menosky also noted. He concluded, "I think we did it as well as we could." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- The script of this episode specified how much ice Brannon Braga thought there should be between the buried Voyager and the frozen planet that served as its resting place. Visual effects supervisor Mitch Suskin remembered this description from the episode's teaser: "The script said, 'They see Voyager under tens of meters of ice.'" (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- The scripted description of the sequence wherein Voyager crashes on the frozen planet was very short. "[It's] almost like nothing," Joe Menosky commented. "It's something we barely scripted, when Voyager plunges out of space, down through the atmosphere of this ice planet, and then does a belly flop on this glacier and crashes into the screen. [In] the script it's like half a page, nothing." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- The episode's focus on the character of Harry Kim was one of several instances where the writing staff tried to feature lesser-seen main characters. Story editor Nick Sagan offered, "There was definitely that mindset, especially at the very beginning of the [fifth] season, with 'Timeless' and Harry Kim, which gave him an opportunity to shine." [1]
- The persona of the future Kim was conceptually influenced by how the character had been portrayed in a previous two-parter. Explained Joe Menosky, "The future Kim in 'Timeless' was directly inspired by the belted-around Kim and edgy Kim from 'The Killing Game'." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- The addition of Captain Geordi La Forge was made to the script shortly after a draft of the teleplay was released to the production company. LeVar Burton, who reprised the role here, remembered, "We had a draft, and then I got a call one Sunday afternoon from Brannon, who said, 'I'm just kicking around an idea, but before I start running with this, I want to know how you would feel about making a cameo appearance as Captain La Forge.' I laughed and said, 'I don't know. You write it, and we'll talk.'" (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- According to the unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 265), the USS Challenger was named for the space shuttle orbiter Challenger. Indeed, the two spacecrafts have similar registry numbers.
Cast and Characters Edit
- During the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager, Joe Menosky never imagined that the character of Harry Kim might serve as the protagonist in such a landmark episode as this. "If someone would have said to me, 'The hundredth episode, next season, is going to feature Garrett [Wang] and Ensign Kim,' I just would have laughed," Menosky speculated. "It was just inconceivable." Consequently, Menosky thought that the way in which Kim's portrayal in the two-parter "The Killing Game" and "The Killing Game, Part II" inspired the creation of the future Kim here was "funny". (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 41)
- Garrett Wang approached the character of the older Harry Kim by seeking a well-known movie role as a reference. The actor remembered, "When I originally spoke with Brannon Braga about the episode, I said, 'What do you see out of the older Kim? Give me something from pop culture that will clue me in a little more.' He said, 'I see him as the character from the original Lethal Weapon, the character that Mel Gibson played, [who] doesn't care about what's going on, about his own life. He's kind of wacked out, that kind of character.' I see where he is coming from, but I just made sure that what I brought to the older Kim was somebody who had been completely focused, or obsessed really, with saving the crew, changing the timeline." Wang also tried to imbue the future Kim with a sense that he was a very pained character, having carried a mix of guilt, bitterness and generally unhappy feelings over many years. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 41)
- Garrett Wang had hopes of this episode being made into a film or at least a two-parter. "It could have been a feature," he theorized. "The way it was shot, and just the whole idea, it definitely could have been a feature. I was hoping that it was going to be a two-parter [....] and I was ready to do it, too." Wang reckoned that much of the exposition here about Kim and Chakotay's homecoming, such as them having received medals and Kim having been asked to marry Admiral MacIntyre's daughter, could have been shown in such a two-parter. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- Joe Menosky was enthusiastic about Garrett Wang's performance here, stating, "Garrett was great." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- LeVar Burton found that reprising his own role of Geordi La Forge here was enjoyable. "It was fun," he enthused. "It was a nice little opportunity to put a spacesuit on." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
Production Edit
- This was the first time that LeVar Burton had directed an episode of Star Trek in which he appeared since TNG: "The Pegasus" in 1994. He was requested to direct this episode by Brannon Braga. "Brannon [...] called me and asked me to do the 100th episode," Burton remembered, "and I said, 'I'd be happy to.'" According to Burton, it was "right before we started shooting" that he okayed the possibility of him appearing in a cameo as Captain Geordi La Forge. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- The set of the Delta Flyer's interior, notably its rear door, was modified for its appearance in the alternate future. (Delta Quadrant, p. 265)
- Filming on this episode ran from 6 August 1998 to 18 August 1998. The first day's filming took place on the "frozen" bridge. The redressing of that set began after the final bridge scene for "Nothing Human" was filmed on 29 July 1998 – the filming schedule was arranged to allow the prep time needed. The set was returned to normal for the pre-crash sequences three working days later. The brief scene in Sickbay was prepared and filmed on 12 August 1998, with the "frozen" corridor and Jefferies tube scenes filmed on 18 August. (Star Trek Magazine issue 139)
- LeVar Burton found the installment's production somewhat challenging. He commented, "I don't think it was any harder than a normal episode, necessarily. [But] there were some really serious challenges, in terms of freezing some of the permanent sets, and then having to turn them around in the same episode and shoot them normal. That was harder on the art department and set dressing [crew] than anybody else." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- Despite the difficulties of production, LeVar Burton had fun during the filming. "I had a great time shooting it," he said. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- Garrett Wang noted that he managed his difficult job of portraying the older Kim "with the help of LeVar Burton" as director. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- During the episode's production, the shooting company held a party to commemorate the 100th episode. Bryan Fuller reminisced, "It was a big celebration for the crew and the cast and the writers, because [...] it's a huge landmark to actually have 100 episodes in the can and a benchmark that a lot of shows don't get to, so there was quite a big celebration. On the set, we had a huge cake [....] The entire cast was there, writers from past and present, cast members that had come and gone [....] All came down to tip their hat to the 100th episode of Voyager." (Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities, "Alternate Lives: Part 2")
Effects Edit
- The Foundation Imaging staffers who worked on the computer generated effects of this show included both Foundation visual effects supervisor Robert Bonchune and director of animation John Teska. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40) This was, in fact, the first episode for which Bonchune supervised Foundation's output. (Star Trek Monthly issue 80, p. 75)
- Even though the requirements of this episode's visual effects represented a challenge, the effects artists persisted with their work on the installment. "Everyone just said, 'Ok, we're gonna do it,'" recounted Rob Bonchune. "We made that decision, and everything just kept rolling until it was done." (Star Trek Monthly issue 80, p. 75)
- Visualizing the shot of Voyager buried under the ice turned out to be a particularly difficult task. Mitch Suskin noted, "The biggest problem with that was a conceptual problem." Even though Brannon Braga had imagined the ship being shown under "tens of meters of ice," nothing would actually be visible from the planet's surface if the vessel was under that depth. Illustrations were used to examine this issue. Suskin continued, "We talked to Brannon Braga about it, and Steve Burg did sketches of the problems inherent with seeing Voyager under the ice [....] We did some concept art showing the Voyager halfway sticking out of the glacier, half covered up. We thought it was really dramatic." However, Braga maintained that he wanted to see the ship entirely under the ice. The shot was finally realized with a digital matte painting illustrated by Eric Chauvin. Suskin opined that, in the final version of the shot, the ice looks "more like water than ice." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- The sequence showing Voyager crash-landing on the icy planet was planned with concept artwork designed by illustrator Steve Burg. [X]wbm The same sequence was originally visualized by a different CGI effects company than Foundation Imaging. Mitch Suskin recalled, "We had approached the crash sequence with particle animation, with another group doing it first. They did a really good job, but in the end it didn't come up to our standard. It just wasn't good enough. We decided to do the combination of CG crash, and actual filmed elements." The sequence, in whose development Foundation Imaging ultimately did play a part, specifically involved a mixture of CGI and real baking soda. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40) Robert Legato specified that the special effects team for Star Trek: Voyager used the baking soda to represent snow sprayed by the CGI-rendered USS Voyager. [X]wbm In summation, Mitch Suskin noted about the task of capturing the sequence, "To some degree, that challenge is what made it so much fun." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40)
- Foundation Imaging's work on this episode took slightly longer than a fortnight. Rob Bonchune commented, "We did all of that, the whole show, in two weeks and two days. From nothing to that." (Star Trek Monthly issue 80, p. 75)
Reception and AftermathEdit
- Joe Menosky remarked, "In some ways I think 'Timeless' captures perfectly the new style of Voyager." He especially liked the crash sequence, regarding it as "my favorite moment of the year." Menosky went on to speak fondly of the effects work in the sequence and raved, "I couldn't stop watching it. I probably watched that sequence 50 times. It was like a nonstop, roller coaster rush for me." Menosky additionally enthused, "What I think made 'Timeless' work was the imagery, The Doctor up in the Delta Flyer holding Seven's skull, and the kind of mussed-up Kim. The mussed-up, tough, cynical Kim, things like this are the things that I think carried that episode." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 40) Menosky also found the installment's conclusion to be emotionally effective. "I had a little tear in my eye at the end, and that was a very earned emotion. That little goodbye message from [Kim's] future self was very interesting and evocative and emotional, without quite telling you what to think, which I think is a very cool thing to be able to do." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- Executive producer Rick Berman was likewise happy with this outing, ranking it (in 2003) among his favorites from the entirety of Voyager (along with "Scorpion, I and II" and "Someone to Watch Over Me"). He stated, "I thought 'Timeless' was a great high-concept sci-fi episode and it had a great teaser." (Star Trek Monthly issue 105, p. 18)
- Brannon Braga was also proud of this time-related outing. "It was a perfect episode," he remarked. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42) In a 2011 interview, he spoke very fondly of the installment and offered, "'Timeless' was specific to Voyager. It couldn't really have been done on any of the other shows. I thought it was really good." [2] In a 2013 interview, Braga again referred to being "enormously proud of" this episode and went on to say, "It's relatively simple, but it's filled with striking imagery and character moments. The image of a frozen ship is just perfect [....] If that had been a Next Generation episode, it would be a classic. It would be 'one of the good ones." [3]
- Another member of Star Trek: Voyager's writing staff who thought highly of this episode was Bryan Fuller. "I think it was one of our best episodes," he enthused. "It hit on all cylinders." Fuller also believed that the story tapped into a widespread wish of being able to correct a regretful action in the past. "That's something, I think, that is a fantasy of everybody when we've made a mistake," commented Fuller, "especially a costly mistake that has killed hundreds of people." (Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities, "Alternate Lives: Part 2")
- LeVar Burton, Garrett Wang and Mitch Suskin each had high praise for the writing of the episode. Burton reminisced, "In the end, Brannon wrote an incredible script. I thought the first draft was pretty good, and then with every set of revisions, it just got better, and better, and better." Wang offered, "I thought the transitions joined the way that you got to see the original accident happening when it happened for the second time, how it skipped back and forth between present and past. I often tell people that the name of that episode, the way it was written at least, should be [...] 'Seamless' instead of 'Timeless'. To me it was definitely just seamless transitions." Enthused Suskin, "'Timeless' was serious, had a great, well-balanced script, and the visual effects were very nicely integrated into the show." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42)
- In common with Garrett Wang, Rob Bonchune slightly regretted that the episode was not a two-parter. "I almost wish it was," he said. Bonchune also related that he had actually expected the production crew to film Chakotay and Kim stealing the Delta Flyer from a Federation drydock and embarking on their mission to change history by saving Voyager. He commented, "That would have been nice." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 31, No. 11, p. 42) Bonchune was, on the other hand, satisfied with the visual effects of this outing, "shamelessly" citing the episode as his favorite of Star Trek: Voyager's entire run. He noted, "I'm probably most proud of the work from everybody [at Foundation Imaging] for that one." (Star Trek Monthly issue 80, p. 75)
- Joe Menosky and Rob Bonchune were not alone in liking the visual effects of this episode. Bonchune observed, "A lot of people thought it was better than the stuff they'd seen on film – in movies – where they've had months to do something like that." (Star Trek Monthly issue 80, p. 75) Hence, the episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. Star Trek nearly swept the nominees that year; also nominated were VOY: "Dark Frontier", "Thirty Days" and DS9: "What You Leave Behind". "Dark Frontier" won.
- The book Star Trek 101, by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: Voyager.
- Among the items, props, and costumes from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay were the boots of Christine Harnos. [4]
Continuity and Trivia Edit
- In this episode, Captain La Forge wears the Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek Nemesis and later DS9 variant of uniform, with the red divisional color denoting command similar to the division color he wore in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the variant of combadge previously shown in both TNG: "All Good Things..." and DS9: "The Visitor". The cold weather suits were previously seen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Ascent".
- This episode marks one of the few times that the Beta Quadrant is named in dialogue, as the salvage location of the temporal transmitter.
- The episode's inclusion of the USS Challenger marks the first appearance of a Galaxy-class starship on the series.
- The events of this episode represent the eighth time (aside from the series premiere) that the Voyager crew has a possibility of returning home and is the third time in the series Voyager is destroyed. "Timeless" also includes the sixth of many times Janeway "dies" in the series – on this occasion, when Voyager crash lands in the Beta Quadrant. Finally, it marks the third time Harry Kim "dies" in the series, in which case his future self dies in the explosion of the Delta Flyer.
- The events of this episode cut ten years off of Voyager's trip home.
- According to Janeway, this episode takes place four years, two months and eleven days since the events of the pilot episode "Caretaker".
- The events of this episode are similar to that of the series finale "Endgame" in which a future former crew member from the starship Voyager (Admiral Janeway) attempts to change time in order to have Voyager return to the Alpha Quadrant sooner. In both cases, the Galaxy-class starship USS Challenger makes an appearance.
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 5.3, 3 May 1999.
- As part of the VOY Season 5 DVD collection.
- As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities collection.
Links and referencesEdit
Also starringEdit
- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok
- Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
Guest StarEdit
Special Appearance ByEdit
- Majel Barrett as the computer voice
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- David Keith Anderson as Ashmore
- Christine Delgado as Susan Nicoletti
- Brian Donofrio as science division officer
- Tarik Ergin as Ayala
- Richard Sarstedt as William McKenzie
- Unknown actress as science division ensign
Stand-ins Edit
- Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
acceptance speech; Alpha Quadrant; alternate timelines; Baxial; benamite; Beta Quadrant; bio-neural circuitry; bio-neural gel packs; Borg; Challenger, USS; champagne; choir; class L; Cochrane Medal of Honor; cold weather suit; confetti; cortical node; Delta Flyer; Delta Quadrant; Earth; Edsel; emergency power; evasive maneuvers; Federation; Galaxy-class; hip; holodeck; inaprovaline; Intermezzo op.117 no.1; intoxication; kilometer; lemon; MacIntyre; meter; Milky Way Galaxy; Mister Vulcan; mobile emitter; motor cortex; phase variance; phase correction; power cell; power grid; quantum field; quantum slipstream drive; Siamese twins; synthehol; Talaxian fur fly; Takara sector; temporal transmitter; time index; translink frequency; transporter relay; tricorder; vegetable biryani; visual processor; Vulcan; warp matrix
External linksEdit
- "Timeless" at FiveMinute.net
- "Report: Visual Effects Magic Not Always High-Tech"wbm, 6 July 2001, StarTrek.com (2 January 2007)
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Toy Story 3 - To EIFF and beyond!
EIFF and The Walt Disney Company are delighted to announce that Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3 will have a Special 3D Gala screening at this year's Festival on Saturday 19 June.
The audience in Edinburgh will be the first to see Toy Story 3 following its opening in the United States the previous day.
Greeting audiences at the red carpet will be the film's exuberant rough-and-tumble cowgirl Jessie and the toys' dependable leader and everyone's favourite cowboy, Woody.
Toy Story 3 welcomes Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen) and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in… daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape get underway.
A few new faces - some plastic, some plush - join the adventure, including iconic swinging bachelor and Barbie's counterpart Ken (Michael Keaton) a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy Dalton) and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear (Ned Beatty).
Directed by Lee Unkrich (co-director of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo), produced by Pixar veteran Darla K. Anderson (Cars; Monsters Inc.), and written by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine), Toy Story 3 is a comical new adventure in Disney Digital 3D™.
The exclusive Special 3D Gala will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Toy Story trilogy.
The first Toy Story film, directed by John Lasseter in 1995, was a phenomenal success and set an industry precedent as the first full-length feature film created entirely with CG animation, and when Toy Story 2 opened five years later, it was the biggest box office hit of the year.
The Gala builds on Disney's long-standing relationship with EIFF that has produced Festival premieres including Disney•Pixar's Academy Award®-winning WALL•E and Ratatouille in recent years.
Artistic Director Hannah McGill was delighted to welcome the latest instalment of the trilogy.
"I'm excited about Toy Story 3 on so many levels. It's fantastic to continue our relationship with Pixar. It's a great thrill to have a key 3D film in the Festival, and to be able to provide such a treat for our younger audience members.
"And to have the first screening after it's unveiled in the US is an incredible honour for us. This is going to be one of the highlights of the Festival, and I'm looking forward to working with our friends at Disney to make it truly spectacular!"
Tickets for the Special Gala screening will go on sale from midday on Thursday 3 June.
Be sure to visit the official Toy Story 3 website to see more – www.disney.co.uk/toystory.
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Constitutional Rights, Balancing, and Rationality
Abstract.The article begins with an outline of the balancing construction as developed by the German Federal Constitutional court since the Lüth decision in 1958. It then takes up two objections to this approach raised by Jürgen Habermas. The first maintains that balancing is both irrational and a danger for rights, depriving them of their normative power. The second is that balancing takes one out of the realm of right and wrong, correctness and incorrectness, and justification, and, thus, out of the realm of the law. The article attempts to counter these objections by showing that there exists a rational structure of balancing that can be made explicit by a "Law of Balancing" and a "Disproportionality Rule." These rules show, first, that balancing is not a danger for rights but, on the contrary, a necessary means of lending them protection, and second, that balancing is not an alternative to argumentation but an indispensable form of rational practical discourse.
Document Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9337.00228
Affiliations: Christian Albrechts University, Germany
Publication date: 2003-06-01


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- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup minced fresh cilantro
- In a large saucepan, saute onion in oil until tender. Add rice; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Add the broth, chilies, jalapeno, cumin, garlic powder and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until liquid is absorbed.
- Stir in cheese and cilantro. Transfer to a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Cover and bake at 375° for 14-16 minutes or until rice is tender. Yield: 6 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Originally published as Green Rice Pilaf in Healthy Cooking
August/September 2010, p14
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"was a very good side dish.May try cheddar cheese next time but definitely will make again"


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This title had made a huge sensation when it originally aired. It was an interesting for its time take on a dystopia, along with fan catering to draw in even the less demanding audience. It was let's say the NGE or Ghost in the Shell of the 80's. With far less context though. It received two different versions, one in the 80's and one in the 90's, both of which will be reviewed here.
ART SECTION: 80's: 6/10, 90's: 7/10 [Robocop grew tits.]
The graphics in the first version are obviously aged. Since they are mostly hand-made, the colors are dark and the visual effects are cheesy. The way machines and robots are drawn is detailed, but otherwise not special in any way. The way the world is depicted is the average dystopian, claustrophobic megacity almost all sci-fi series seem to depict. In general, the artwork and backgrounds are quite good for their time but far from great. The heroines have the "80's look" on them (dumb expressions, huge eyes, Barbie-like hairstyles), which is hard to accept if you are accustomed to the far more realistic and vamp looks of recent series. In some cases, the shadowing on them is almost absent, giving a silly cartoon feeling in an otherwise half-serious story. Plus, the Knight Saber suits, although quite practical in appearance and way of donning, they will feel very unrealistic during action scenes. The battles have no real choreography and body movements lack proper fluidity. Characters and motion will feel average at best. There is a rather high factor of fan service in it, as 80% of the cast is pretty girls undressing or moving around in underwear. This may make you forget about the glitches.
The second version improves several glitches of the initial premise and offers a generally better feeling of the same story. The graphics are far better than before. Since computers were used in the production, the colors are lighter and the visual effects are more realistic; especially the computer statistic screens. They still miss the "magic touch" that would earn them a perfect score. The heroines had a face lift and now have the "90's look" on them. Their more realistic looks make them far more likable to the average viewer, not accustomed to retro series. Plus, their seriousness during dramatic scenes is far more believable. Shadowing effects on them are now consistent all the time and the Knight Saber suits have slightly different colors for a more uniform palette feeling. Choreography still lacks and fan service is still there.
SOUND SECTION: 6/10 [Singer by day, heroine by night.]
Voice Acting is decent but not great. The way the characters talk is mixed. Half the time is gibberish; half the other is serious and philosophical. The music themes are quite good but not memorable. This series has the honor for being the first title to use voice actors both for voicing characters and singing the songs. Yes, I'm talking about Priss. Sound Effects are nothing great to write something about.
STORY SECTION: 80's: 4/10, 90's: 6/10 [Chicks kicking cyborg butt and then ponder about the meaning of life.]
The story is rather typical. There is crime, corruption and crazed androids running around in a futuristic city. The normal police have their hands full, until a group of vigilante super chicks, called the Knight Sabers, storm in and save the day. Their identities are hidden, their motives are unknown. So far, the story is like watching Batman. But under the surface, every girl has its reasons for being in the team and there are several secrets behind the origin of the berserked robots.
Although not really multi-layered or original, the story is simple to follow and spicy enough as not to get tiresome. Megalomaniac corporation suits and a quest for perfection are nice ideas that are used to give you something to think about, other than chicks fighting robots.
There is an ongoing-story but in the 80's version the ties amongst most episodes are quite loose. You can view most of them as stand-alones or in not arithmetical order without much trouble. In the 90's version, there is more on-going plot but escalates in slow motion. You can skip every other episode without much trouble. Half the time, it will feel like wasted time and not really a build-up towards some showdown.
Most things are explained and all characters have goals. It is a character-driven story and does a rather good job at it. The explanations are not thorough and the motives are not exactly believable but there are plenty of those around to not pay much attention.
The conclusion in the 80's version will feel like the ending of a normal episode. There is no solid ending, nothing major is resolved; which was also the reason there are so many side stories and follow-ups to the series. Originally, there were 13 episodes planned for the series but the company ran out of money and had to cut the last five episodes, which explains the end open. Bubblegum Crash! is a follow-up to the original but it doesn't actually offer anything more to the lot; it is just 3 more episodes of loose plot and half-serious stand-alone missions. The producers realized that the franchise had a lot of milking before drying up, so they made something extra for the raging fans. And guess what! A recurring villain is back from the dead, which as tv reality demands, must be far stronger than before. Beyond all this fuss, the story there is even looser than before but the characters are colorized further.
In the 90's version, there is an ending but it will feel silly. We have this world-shaking event and the heroines are more troubled staying dressed rather than saving humanity. So, ok, the main "villain" in the story has a very good reason for doing all that mess but it will all be resolved in an almost fairy-tale fashion. Not to mention the naked chicks! As a symbolism for purity, they are stripped of their gear and just smile while starring at the sky. Very poetic as a picture but also very stupid as a gullible ending.
CHARACTER SECTION: 80's: 6/10, 90's: 7/10 [I am who I am. Nothing more.]
As I said, it is a character-driven story. All of them are there for a reason; even the comic relief stunts and the dramatic side characters that die in the same episode they appear in. This is the good part. The bad is, they are not imposing in any way, they don't look special, their personalities are blunt, and most have one line of backdrop story. Character development is loose and doesn't affect their personalities. Plus, the open ending leaves out any kind of real catharsis. So, they are just a bit better than average.
In the 90's version their personalities are more fleshed-out and their actions more reasonable. The silly ending makes you wander if it counts as catharsis at all. So, they are above average but not great.
VALUE SECTION: 4/10 [Knight Sabers save the day and yet there is a bounty for their heads.]
Rather famous but not a classic. Rewatchability is low since there isn't exactly much worth remembering or revisiting.
ENJOYMENT SECTION: 4/10 [Slicing the Boomer's head in half.]
The story is half-serious, the plot is loose or slowm, the ending is open or silly. The main idea of the series is used in better ways elsewhere. Fan service wasn't that great. Action scenes weren't that great. I generally didn't like the franchise much.
VERDICT: 80's: 5/10, 90's: 5.5 / 10
Quite a famous series, this title made a steer when it went into market. It made such an impact that several remakes and side stories followed the originals premise for over a decade. It was indeed a pretty ok watch back in the 90's. Now that many years went by, though, its glamour has been taken over by other, newer series. Its catchy elements have been used in far better ways in other masterwork titles. The only thing that remains of it, is the sweet memory of its initial viewing.
This series is better than:
Totally Spies. An American cartoon with anime overtones with a trio of spy girls. Too fake and stupid.
Charlie's Angels. An old American series and recent movies with a trio of spy girls. Too fake and stupid, as well... Nice asses, by the way.
This series is worse than:
009-1. A sci-fi anime with a team of anti-terrorist girls. Rather boring but also with nice asses.
R.O.D. OVA. A sci-fi anime with a team of anti-terrorist paper-controlling girls. Great action scenes.
Gunslinger Girls. No sci-fi but it has little girls, brainwashed to become assassins. WAY better characters.
Ghost In The Shell (both the series, the movies and the manga). It also has sci-fi and a woman assassin/swat member in it, but the story is a billion times better and is brimming with issues around humanity, soul, technology and politics. Graphics and sound kick ass!
Battle Angel Alita (the manga). It also has sci-fi and a woman warrior in it, but the story is a billion times better and is brimming with issues around humanity, soul, technology and politics. The battles and the cyberpunk atmosphere are awesome!
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This Week's Northwest Iowa Fishing Report From The Iowa DNR
Date posted - November 14, 2013
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issues a weekly fishing report on Thursdays in an effort to provide the latest information heading into the weekend. The weekly fishing report is compiled from information gathered from local bait shops, angler creel surveys, and county and state parks staff. For more information contact the Spirit Lake Hatchery at 712-336-1840.
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With the cold temperature early in the week skim ice formed along the edges and in the ends of the bays but has since melted. Walleye – Slow: With the water temperature falling, slower presentations have been better producers. Wader fishermen continue having the best luck around sunset and into the night. Boat fishing has been difficult.
East Okoboji Lake
Much of the north end of the lake froze Monday night but is likely to be open once the weather warms. Yellow Bass – No Report: Look for yellow bass on the rock piles and drop-offs action should be good once a school is located.
West Okoboji Lake
Bluegill – Slow: Look for bluegills in and around the weeds try using small jigs tipped with wigglers or wax worms. Yellow Perch – Slow: Small fish seem to dominate the catch but bigger fish can be found with some effort. Try a pilkie tipped with wigglers.
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We are very happy to welcome Béatrice Peltre back to the column after two and a half years! As always, she has shared the perfect autumn recipe with beautiful colors and rich flavors (and it's gluten free!). This would be absolutely perfect for Thanksgiving, or even better, reheated until good and crispy at the edges on the day after. If you're interested in more great recipes by Béa in addition to her blog La Tartine Gourmande, mark your calendars. She's just finished writing a cookbook with her own recipes, styling and photographs, which will be published next fall! Congrats Béa! — Kristina
About Béatrice: Béatrice Peltre, author of the food blog La Tartine Gourmande, is a French expatriate who works as a freelance food writer, stylist and photographer. She particularly loves to highlight the natural beauty of food and has a strong interest in food and travel stories. Her clients include Boston Magazine, Chronicle Books and Trader Joe's; she is also a regular contributor to the Boston Globe food section. Béatrice's work has been featured in many magazines and on French television, and she recently won Saveur's Best Interest Food Blog award. She currently lives in Boston with her husband and 22-month-old daughter, Lulu.
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Sage-Flavored Gratin Dauphinois with Potato, Sweet Potato and Pink Turnips
Serves 4 to 6 people
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and halved
- unsalted butter, for the baking dish
- 1 cup (240 ml) whole milk
- 1 cup (240 ml) heavy cream
- 1 twig of thyme
- 1 lb and 9 oz (700 g) Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and sliced finely with a mandolin
- 1 large sweet potato, peeled and sliced finely with a mandolin
- 5 small pink turnips, peeled and sliced finely with a mandolin
- 6 sage leaves, chopped finely
- sea salt and pepper
- pinch of nutmeg
- 1 oz finely grated Comté cheese
1. Rub a 12 x 8.5-inch baking dish with two halves of one garlic clove. Butter the dish generously. Slice the halves of garlic and place them at the bottom of the dish. Set aside.
2. Preheat the oven to 400 F.
3. In a pot, heat the milk and heavy cream with the remaining garlic halves and the thyme. Bring to a simmer and then stop the heat. Cover and let infuse for 30 minutes. Strain, discarding the garlic and thyme, and reheat.
4. Tightly arrange the slices of vegetables at the bottom of the dish, alternating between one layer of potato slices, one layer of sweet potatoes and one layer of turnips. Repeat until you run out of ingredients.
5. Add the sage and then pour the milk/cream batter over the vegetables — the milk should cover the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with the nutmeg. Top with the grated cheese.
6. Bake the gratin for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until the top has a nice golden color. Serve warm as a side dish.
Why Béa Chose This Recipe
I chose to prepare a gratin dauphinois because it's the kind of dish that brings me back to my childhood and French roots, one that I keep reinventing like in this recipe, one that my husband P. and I — and friends when they come around — always fight over for the last piece. Traditionally, a gratin dauphinois would not have cheese and would only use potatoes, but I find the flavors of [the] root vegetables and Comté cheese in the dish completely irresistible. It's the most delicious, comfy food you can imagine. Elegant when served in small individual ramekins. Casual and unpretentious when baked in a large dish. And always very French, either way!
Félicitations Béa !!!
Being a southern girl, I looked at this recipe first with bemused wonder. I could not see how the sweet potatoes would work next to turnip and potato.
But, you know, the more that I think about it, the better is sounds. I am usually the Queen of the Candied Sweet Potatoes in my house, and I don't know how the family will react, but I am going to give this recipe a try for Thanksgiving–even though I have absolutely no idea where one purchases such a thing as pink turnips.
WOW! These pictures are super delectible, á lá Marie Antoinette!!
What is Comte cheese? What can I substitute if I can't find it?
I LOVE Bea's blog. I follow her and she has the most beautiful pictures and most wonderful recipes. Lulu is sure one lucky kid. Warning: her blog will make you super hungry! Can't wait for her book.
Thank you for having me back!
Teresa, if you have a local farmer's market, try there. This is where I've found the most beautiful pink turnips! I hope you and your family enjoy the recipe.
Wow is right! Looks so beautiful and delicious! I may need to fold this into my thanksgiving menu!!
I've never seen pink turnips either – you could probably use white and then large radishes for the color – same family.
Such a beautiful dish and so fantastically photographed –with pink turnip matching table cloth and all! I will try this myself so I can enjoy the taste as well. Thank you!
Thank you!
Luna Fire, Comté cheese is made from an unpasteurized cow's milk cheese, nutty and slightly sweet in taste. I always keep some in my fridge. Indispensable for a French girl living in America! :-) That said, if you cannot find it (Whole Foods carries it, for example), I would suggest a rich cheddar cheese. Some people would also use Emmenthal instead.
Gorgeous photos! And I love your plum knife! :) Thanks for the treat.
Thank you! I have turnip overload right now, going to make this for dinner tonight.
This is a lovely variation of a French classic! A colorful potato bake like this one is hard to resist. Congratulations Béa for your stunning pictures and beutiful blog, that I enjoy so much reading.
I studied in France and, although my host mother nearly starved me to death, one of my best memories is of eating this very dish at a quaint cafe in Grenoble. Thank you for this. Lovely!
Oh my gosh these pictures are SO CUTE.
Merci for sharing and making me discover la tartine gourmande!
The photos are as nourishing as the recipe I think! Sandrine x -
Trader Joe's has Comte.
WOW, so simple, so gorgeous.
… talk about food-porn :) im just drooling in my office, hoping nobody walks in!
Thanks for sharing. I will have a new dish for the family to try out this thursday :P
do you know about the black flatware in the last shot? wondering where it came from…
Such fantastic timing, as I am looking for great recipes to celebrate my in-laws' 40th anniversary. I am so excited to make this for them!
It looks very delicious. I'll tell my wife to prepare it for the next dish.
I purchased the black flatware at DWR.
This gratin sounds very easy and delicious and yes, as you said, comfy food!! I would like to try it soon… Bea's pictures are so perfect and lovely.
Thank you for sharing this recipe. Can't wait to sample it. Try watermelon radishes for the pink turnips, beautiful color and something you may be able to get at your local farmers market this time of year. .
The lovley pics and soft colors of this dish pulled me right in. I made this today for Thanksgiving and it was sooooo delicious!
thanks for sharing~
This recipe looks wonderful & the photos are delightful! Love all the pinks used :)
Oh, those colors! So gorgeous.
I was drawn in by the gorgeous photographs, but the recipe–OH YUM! My husband and I were fighting over the leftovers the next night. I'm new to your work and will be making a few more of your recipes very soon! (Especially the gluten-free). Thanks for sharing!
A gorgeous recipe. And correct, the turnips and sweet potato really make the dish. I made it with Harvarti cheese, as could not find Comte cheese. Its so good, I'm making it for Christmas Lunch at my mother-in-laws. Thank you!
This is gorgeous and sounds amazing!
I made this tonight. Delicious!!!
This looks like fun to do and tasty. I'll make this one and thanks for this.
since seeing this over the summer i still cant get it out of my head! my oh my the gorgeous colors! i think i'm going to try to make this in a pie pan for thanksgiving as a wonderful colorful addition to the meal… practicing soon-eeek! fingers crossed i can find pretty turnips!


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according to n. duran miller an old entity on earth for countless lives she insists these ufos are living machines from our future the have lifeforce energy which gives them the ability to vanish & go in & out of universe galaxies time travel get her documentary on you tube. this is amazing camera work over shanghai no earthly advanced jet could do these manoevers very highly intelligent
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From listening to the sound, it really feels like this might be a small remote control helicopter, hexa-copter or octacopter.
They have a distinctive noise that can clearly be heard in this video. Also, there are simple LED kits now that are lightweight enough to be on such a helicopter.

Please, listen again.. you can hear the high pitched whirring of the small blades and the
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Patricia Aurand of Findlay, Ohio shares her warm, comforting cider with a twist of pineapple and citrus that's just perfect for the season. And this tangy treat will warm hands of all sizes, big or small.
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