It's not that "Non Sequitur" was a bad episode. It just wasn't anything
special. They could've done some really weird stuff with it, but in the
end, they took the safe route. For anybody who doesn't know what I'm
talking about, here's an episode summary:
After a strange shuttlecraft accident, Harry Kim wakes up to find himself in San Francisco. Even though he clearly remembers being lost in the Delta Quadrant with Voyager, everybody else around him knows he's a Starfleet design specialist, engaged to his beautiful girlfriend Libby, and was never assigned to Voyager. He's torn between being happy that he's together with Libby, and being angry that everything seems wrong, and not the way it's "supposed to be."
He eventually contacts Tom Paris, who also never left with Voyager. Tom doesn't know Harry or anything about Voyager, and seems happily miserable as a drunk and a loser.
Starfleet finds out he's been breaking into classified files on Voyager, and talking to Tom, a former Maquis. At best, they think he's deranged. At worst, they think he's a spy. After being given electronic anklet that lets Starfleet monitor his every moment, Harry meets up with Cosimo, the coffee shop owner who seems to know him.
Cosimo admits that during the shuttlecraft accident, Harry somehow intersected with a "time-stream", and ended up in San Franisico with a changed history. Cosimo is actually an alien, sent to make sure Harry's okay. Since he's clearly not, Cosimo gives him a device that can locate the time-stream, and if Harry can somehow recreate the shuttle accident, he can get back to Voyager. Maybe.
Determined to return to his own time, Harry runs from Starfleet. Tom, who's decided that his own life would be much better if Harry's right, helps Harry steal a shuttle prototype. Their shuttle is attacked by a ship sent to bring them back. With a warp-core breach imminent, they intersect with the time-stream. Nothing happens. Harry then remembers that Voyager tried to beam him out of the shuttle during the accident. He realizes Tom has to beam him out of the shuttle, straight into the time-stream. Tom does so, at the cost of his own life, as the shuttle's warp core breaches.
Harry blinks, and finds himself back at the moment of the accident. This time, though, Voyager manages to beam him back safely. Everything is completely back to normal.
END SUMMARY
Okay, keep everything up to the point where Tom beams Harry out of the shuttle. After that, things go a little differently..
DISCLAIMER: Voyager and everything on it belongs to other people who make a lot of money off of it. I'm just messing with it for fun. And the idea behind this story has been done many times before, by better writers than I. Why yes, I'd love some feedback, thanks!
After a strange shuttlecraft accident, Harry Kim wakes up to find himself in San Francisco. Even though he clearly remembers being lost in the Delta Quadrant with Voyager, everybody else around him knows he's a Starfleet design specialist, engaged to his beautiful girlfriend Libby, and was never assigned to Voyager. He's torn between being happy that he's together with Libby, and being angry that everything seems wrong, and not the way it's "supposed to be."
He eventually contacts Tom Paris, who also never left with Voyager. Tom doesn't know Harry or anything about Voyager, and seems happily miserable as a drunk and a loser.
Starfleet finds out he's been breaking into classified files on Voyager, and talking to Tom, a former Maquis. At best, they think he's deranged. At worst, they think he's a spy. After being given electronic anklet that lets Starfleet monitor his every moment, Harry meets up with Cosimo, the coffee shop owner who seems to know him.
Cosimo admits that during the shuttlecraft accident, Harry somehow intersected with a "time-stream", and ended up in San Franisico with a changed history. Cosimo is actually an alien, sent to make sure Harry's okay. Since he's clearly not, Cosimo gives him a device that can locate the time-stream, and if Harry can somehow recreate the shuttle accident, he can get back to Voyager. Maybe.
Determined to return to his own time, Harry runs from Starfleet. Tom, who's decided that his own life would be much better if Harry's right, helps Harry steal a shuttle prototype. Their shuttle is attacked by a ship sent to bring them back. With a warp-core breach imminent, they intersect with the time-stream. Nothing happens. Harry then remembers that Voyager tried to beam him out of the shuttle during the accident. He realizes Tom has to beam him out of the shuttle, straight into the time-stream. Tom does so, at the cost of his own life, as the shuttle's warp core breaches.
Harry blinks, and finds himself back at the moment of the accident. This time, though, Voyager manages to beam him back safely. Everything is completely back to normal.
END SUMMARY
Okay, keep everything up to the point where Tom beams Harry out of the shuttle. After that, things go a little differently..
DISCLAIMER: Voyager and everything on it belongs to other people who make a lot of money off of it. I'm just messing with it for fun. And the idea behind this story has been done many times before, by better writers than I. Why yes, I'd love some feedback, thanks!
