Janeway, Tuvok and B'Elanna materialize in the caves by where they had been drilling. Ensign Ladise was standing by to escort them down to the door. "Sorry Capt., the ships sensors can't penetrate the refractory metals below here so this is as close as you can get. But follow me and I will show you how to get there." Janeway nods as they head into a passage and deeper down into the earth. After several long minutes they emerge into a hallway, the hallway runs forward 3 meters and stops due to a collapsed ceiling, the hallway runs to the right as they make their way they can hear Harry and the others talking quietly.

Coming around a corner they find Harry and the rest of the mining team at the door. Janeway gestures to Tuvok and he steps up to the door and looks to Harry. Harry presses a button on the tricorder and the door unlatches and slowly opens. Tuvok steps in with phaser out and looks about the room, stepping in behind him comes Janeway, B'Elanna and Harry. B'Elanna sticks an instrument to the wall and pushes a button which causes the lights to come on. The room is about 15 meters across with a number of electronics along the walls. Harry walks over to one section, "This is the device Capt., looks like it has been left on, I guess that is why this happened." B'Elanna moved over to examine the device as Janeway and Tuvok looked around some more.

Janeway walks over to a desk with papers on it. Most of them quite old and dusty, she gently moves the papers until she sees a book. Picking it up she began to glance through it, "This looks like some kind of diary or journal perhaps. Ensign Ladise, please take this up to Voyager and get someone to go over this. See what they can figure out." Ladise nodded and took the book and left the chamber.

"Capt., this looks like the problem here." Tuvok called to Janeway. Janeway quickly moved over and next to Tuvok she sees a small chamber big enough for about 12 people to stand in, the ceiling had collapsed inside.

"You think this chamber was used to send people through time, and because of the damaged ceiling, the energy escaped upwards?" Janeway nods, "Not a bad theory, Tuvok, makes sense to me." She turns to B'Elanna and Harry, "Any ideas B'Elanna?"

B'Elanna looks up and over to Janeway, "Capt., I'm not sure, but I think something bad happened on this planet, I think it was so bad that when this was last used, there was no one left to turn it off. I think the builders used it to escape some calamity, perhaps with more time in the past they were able to build star ships and leave the planet which is why we are not seeing any signs of a previous civilization on the planet. I'm not sure but I think they went back a long ways into the planet's past."

Janeway looked confused at B'Elanna, "But if that is the case, why did it only send Tom and Kes back 20 years or so?"

Tuvok spoke up, "Perhaps it has to do with how far Mr. Paris and Kes walked through the field. Not properly contained it required them walking through the field to travel back and either they stopped after a short distance, or because the field didn't last long enough they didn't go far through time."

B'Elanna spun towards Tuvok, "Not far? Not far? Far enough to find hardship and death, isn't that far enough?"

Tuvok's eyebrow rose and Janeway quickly stepped between them, "Lt. that is enough. You know Tuvok didn't mean anything with that."

B'Elanna had instantly looked down realizing she never meant to say what she just did, "I'm sorry Capt., please forgive me Tuvok, I didn't mean to say that."

Looking back at Tuvok, Janeway placed her hand on B'Elanna's arm, "So is everything functional? Could we activate this, and use the ship's scanners to look back and find Tom and Kes and then pull them back through with the transporter?"

Looking still like she was embarrassed, B'Elanna turned to look at Harry and Harry just kind of shrugged, "Yes! Yes we can, the machine is set to send people back much further then Tom and Kes could have walked, we can use the tricorder data to send a scanning beam back to about the same time they entered the field and beam them back to the ship!" B'Elanna was flushed with hope and determination.

Janeway smiled, "Good, let's get a power cell down here to supply power, I want to at least test it before we go any further. But I want it set up so we can do it remotely so it doesn't happen to anyone else." Everyone nodded and they left to go back to the ship.

Eugene walked into Sickbay and quickly the Dr. is activated, "Oh, welcome Eugene, my apologies, I need to deactivate my routine to activate me when Kes comes in, for a moment I thought Kes was back. How can I help you?"

Eugene smiled at the Dr., "Its okay Doc, I understand, I was hoping I could ask you something since you were so important to my mother and knew my father."

The Dr. turned towards his office, "Of course Eugene, please step into my office."

Eugene sat down across the desk from the Dr., "What do you think my mother and father would say if I gave my life to let them be brought back from the past?"

The Dr. sat back looking at Eugene, "May I ask what inspired this thought?"

Eugene looked out over the sickbay, "Capt. Janeway is leaning towards leaving my parents in the past because of me, I told her I didn't want me to be a factor in the decision, I wanted her to bring them back, they deserve their life here."

Eugene could see the pained expression on the Dr.'s face when he mentioned them leaving his parents in the planet's past. "I'm, I'm not sure Eugene. I am very sure your mother would be against it, Mr. Paris was for the most part a pleasure seeker, but becoming a father could have changed his outlook on life and I believe he would be against the idea as well."

Eugene nodded "Thank you Dr., I'm actually looking for people to support my decision."

The Dr. interrupts Eugene, "But that isn't what you asked. You asked what I thought your parents would think about it. As a Dr. I recognize that in some circumstances, suicide might be acceptable in cases of extreme uncontrollable pain and infirmary, with no help in sight. But human history is filled with examples of people giving their lives to save family/friends and even strangers. While I don't agree with it, I would support your decision."

Eugene looked up with hope at the Dr., "Thank you Doc, thank you so much." Eugene nearly ran out of Sickbay. Looking down the hallway he stopped. "Computer, what is the location of Capt., Janeway." With a chirp the computer answers "Capt., Janeway is on route to the Bridge." Eugene made a quick trip to the turbo lift and stepped in when it stopped. Inside stands Harry Kim.

Startled Harry starts to ask, "Tom? Oh right, you must be Eugene then. I'm Ensign Kim, well Harry to you."

Eugene smiled and took Harry's hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you Harry, my Father spoke very highly of you."

Harry smiled, "Your dad and I were pretty close and he saved my butt a time or 3. I'm on my way to Engineering, we're going to conduct a test to see if we can open the time field and find your parents in it."

Eugene smiled broadly, "I was on my way to speak with Capt. Janeway, but that can wait a bit. Did the Capt. decide to rescue them?"

Harry shook his head, "I don't think so, I think she just wants to make sure it is possible before deciding." The lift doors opened and Eugene followed Harry out into Engineering. Eugene was astounded by the Engine room, the number of people moving about. He walked over to a corner that no one seemed to really use and watched, not wishing to interfere, but also gave him the ability to open his mind completely, taking in everyone and their thoughts at once. The strain on his ability was enormous, and he had a hard time maintaining thought, but this was important and he had to be sure he got it right.

One by one he eliminated people from his scanning down to just 3, Harry, Lt. Carey and B'Elanna, he increased his scanning of their thoughts until he heard or rather felt Lt. Carey feel a stabbing pain, almost feeling like he needed to go to Sickbay. At that point he backed off and resumed a more passive reception from them.

B'Elanna taps her combadge, "Engineering to the Bridge."

"Janeway here B"Elanna, go ahead."

"Capt., we are ready to give this a try, we're adjusting the scanners to a high band frequency. I believe it will afford the best chance of scanning into the Chronometric field."

"Very well B'Elanna, you may proceed."

"Thank you Capt., here we go. Bringing remote power supply online, Chronometric field is building, Harry, begin scan."

Harry turns to his control panel in Engineering, "Bringing lateral sensors online, confirming frequency band. Scanning the field, we're getting a bit of feedback B'Elanna."

Swearing, B"Elanna replies "Increase the bandwidth higher by a factor of 2 that should cut out the feedback."

Punching several buttons Harry adjusts the bandwidth, "Re-initializing sensors, confirmed, feedback has been minimized. I have confirmation of Kes and Tom Capt., we did it!" Eugene almost cries in relief as he listens to the crew cheer in Engineering.

"Well done everyone, have you scanned back through the entire field for when they first entered Harry?"

"I am scanning deeper into the field Capt., wait I am beginning to pick up wave distortion Capt., B'Elanna any ideas? Wait, distortion is beginning to increase feedback exponentially, we got to stop."

B'Elanna hits the control to shutoff the remote power supply as Harry turns off the scanner.

Silence reigned for several moments when Janeway broke that silence, "Okay, B'Elanna, Harry, go through the data we collected in the scan, try and figure out what caused the distortion, if we can stop it from happening and see where that leaves us with Tom and Kes. I want a staff meeting in 1 hour."

B'Elanna, Harry and Carey slumped over their terminals almost feeling like failures. Eugene quietly slipped out of Engineering his elations had been quickly dashed like everyone else's. He made his way back up to the Mess Hall and slipped quietly into the corner to look down at his home.

Neelix being also observant of the coming and going of his Mess hall, he saw Eugene almost instantly and watched puzzled at his actions. Waiting a few moments, he walked over to where Eugene stood. He asked, "Bad news Eugene?"

Eugene kind of nodded. "The first test into seeing if we could get mom and dad back failed."

Neelix nodded, "Well I am sure that they will figure out if it is possible before long. But I thought we had this talk and you understood your parents wouldn't want to come back at your expense."

Eugene smiled at Neelix, "Oh we did, and I do understand, it's just this is the last step before the Capt., decides if she will bring them back or not. I almost wish she would just say we won't or will as the anticipation is killing me. You know?"

Neelix laughs, "Oh I understand anticipation quite well. This will be settled soon, it might help to repeat that over and over." Neelix laughed again as he moved back into the kitchen.

Janeway walked into the Mess hall and looked about. Seeing Eugene in the corner she made her way over. Janeway asked, "Penny for your thoughts Eugene?"

Eugene turned puzzled at her question, "Oh, I see, that's funny. Sorry, I was just thinking about the failed test to scan the field for my parents."

Janeway looked about the room, "I see good news travels fast, thought I would be the first to tell you."

Eugene laughed, "I was actually in Engineering with Harry when they tried Capt., other then the Bridge and Engineering crew I think Neelix and I are the only ones who know."

Janeway smiled, "Well I don't know if I would call it a failed test, it worked to a degree, and we got a lot of data that should help in figuring it out."

Eugene nodded, "Well I am certainly thankful you are all trying so hard to figure it out."

Janeway looked at the planet, "I just wanted to be sure you knew what was going on, I got some reports to go through of my own plus a staff meeting. If you need me or anything, don't forget to call or drop by."

Eugene smiled as Janeway left. Eugene walked over to the kitchen, "Neelix, I have another question for you." Neelix turned to look at him, "I know how you believe my parents would feel about sacrificing my life to get them back, but, how do you feel about it?"

Neelix stood slack jawed for a moment, "Well to be honest Eugene, if my death would bring back my parents, I would gladly sacrifice it. But that said, I could never face your mother and father again if we did."

Eugene decided he wasn't going to get anywhere this way, nodding his head in understanding he turns to go to his dad's quarters, since he was there with Cmdr. Chakotay, he found he no longer dreaded the place.

The senior staff had arrived at the conference room as the Dr. was the last to arrive, Janeway spoke up, "As most of you know, we made our first attempt at opening the Chronometric field, while that succeeded we had limited success in scanning it for Tom and Kes. We did find them, but exactly where in the time field we found them we aren't sure. B'Elanna, would you like to bring us up to date on what you have found out?"

B'Elanna nodded and stood up, walking over to the Comm panel and punched a few buttons. "We began to experience a distortion wave the further back in time we scanned. The distortion wave started causing exponentially increasing feedback so we had to stop. We haven't found out yet how to stop it, but we are sure that the longer it takes us to figure this out decreases how far back currently we can clearly pull them back from. I ran a correlation trace between the field we created and the field recorded by our sensors and the tricorder Tom had. We think at the time we scanned back to about 9 months after they had arrived in the past. It wouldn't be the best result, but at this point, we don't think we can do any better due to the distortion."

Janeway was stunned by the news; she never thought that they wouldn't have figured this out. She looked at Harry and feeling embarrassed at having failed Harry just kind of tucked his head and nodded. "Okay, give me a copy of your data and let's pull in every department and get any other ideas. If this is the best we can do, I don't think bringing them back is viable. Let's meet again in 18 hours to see where we are, dismissed."

"Neelix to Eugene, if you are hungry, lunch is being served in the Mess hall."

Eugene started laughing he had just lain down to take a short nap, he tapped his badge, "Thanks Neelix, I am actually feeling pretty hungry, I'll be right there." He was instantly surprised by the number of groups of people in there, most of them looking over pads rather then eating. Walking up to Neelix, "You did say food was being served here didn't you?"

Neelix laughed, "Oh don't mind them, they are brain storming, apparently they are trying to help figure out how to get around, or stop the distortion wave that is causing the scanning problem on the planet. I haven't seen so many pads in all my days on this ship. As for dinner let me get you a plate, pick a spot and I'll bring it out to you." Eugene made his way over to a table that wasn't being used and sat down. He smiled and marveled at how everyone was so animated about figuring out the problem, well except for one voice in his head, it didn't exactly seem like malice, but the owner definitely seemed high on himself.

The thoughts were making fun of everyone and their fantastic ideas, they couldn't see the answer because they were too busy making it complicated. Eugene looked about the room trying to put a face with the thoughts, finally settling on a lone figure close by the opposite doors. As Neelix sat the food down on his table Eugene turned back to face Neelix, "Neelix, who is that crewman by himself by the other doors?"

Neelix glanced over and kind of snorted, "Crewman Mortimer Harren, one of the least liked members of the crew. Why do you ask?"

Eugene shook his head, "No particular reason Neelix, just odd seeing all these people together and him by himself. Maybe I should join him."

"I wouldn't recommend it, but the decision is yours to make, just don't say I didn't warn you." Neelix replied. Eugene smiled, but decided to stay put, but he began to probe deeper into Mortimer's mind. Eugene began to see why he was so arrogant; he was quite bright, but so reclusive. Putting that aside he probed on and finally found what he had discovered, they had jumped too high on the bandwidth on their first test, a bandwidth a quarter greater then the original would have worked fine. He quickly began scanning everyone nearby to see if anyone was working towards this thought, but very few if any were questioning the frequency, most were looking at different modulations or radically different bandwidths.

Closing his eyes he reached out of the room, searching the ship, looking for B'Elanna. He finally located her in Engineering; lightly he delved into her mind then he placed inside of her subconscious so that she wouldn't just 'see' what was wrong, it would take a little time for the thought of changing the bandwidth as Mortimer had figured out to come to her. "Eugene, Eugene you okay?" Eugene was startled back by Neelix.

Smiling Eugene nodded, "Sorry Neelix, I'm fine, was just thinking. Wondering what life will be like on this ship."

Smiling Neelix turned, "Just let me know if you want any thing else."

Eugene sat silently eating, though mostly watching everyone talk, argue and discuss the current problem of the distortion wave. "Excuse me, do you mind if I sit with you?"

Eugene was a bit startled as his attention had been so focused on the others. Smiling, "Please, do sit down. I'm Eugene."

The young woman sat down at the table with her plate, "Thank you, I am Tal Celes." She extends her hand to Eugene; he encloses his around hers for a moment.

"You aren't human are you?" Eugene asked. With a mouth full of food Tal shakes her head, after a moment and a drink of water "I'm Bajoran, our planet is a fair distance from Earth."

"Are you not participating in the distortion wave problem Tal? Or should I call you something else?" Eugene asked.

Tal shook her head no as she finished a bite, "If you want them to succeed, you best keep me away from them, any calculations I perform I promise you they will be messed up. I'm a grade 'A' misfit."

Eugene was truly shocked; he could sense she was being completely serious, he expected her to be joking, but her thoughts and emotions told him she wasn't. "Did you know my parents?" Eugene asked.

"Not socially, or personally, I knew of them of course and your father has several nice holo-deck programs he created for the crew."

Eugene blinked, "Holo-deck? Oh, I think I remember Father talking about them a few times, I didn't really understand what he meant. Suppose to be something like the Dr?"

Smiling Tal took a drink of water, "I'm off duty, if you want I can take you down and see if one of the holo-decks are open and show you."

Eugene smiled, "I think I would like that Tal, thank you."

Tal and Eugene stood up and moved towards the door, Eugene paused long enough to wave at Neelix, Neelix returned the wave while thinking, 'Like Father like son,' then laughing softly as he kept an eye on the stove. After a moment, his head came up and the laughing stopped. Neelix pulled his apron off and asked a near by crewman to watch over things as he hurriedly left.

Tal and Eugene made small talk as they walked the corridors of Voyager, the first holo-deck was in operation, but the second one was open, so Tal reserved it for them. When they arrived Tal pulled up all the public programs Tom had in the computer data banks. "Let's see, what would be a good one, oh, Sandrine's that is a crew favorite." Punching a few buttons, the computer chirped back that the program was ready and so they walked up to the doors and as they walked in Eugene was greeted by Sandrine, "'Ello Tom, it's been so long since last we saw you, your friends were in here last night telling stories about you."

Eugene looked at Sandrine, "I'm sorry, my name is Eugene."

A silly smile played on her lips, "Well, in that case, my name is Ricky," as Sandrine hugged up to Eugene.

Eugene could feel Tal was retreating from the situation as she felt threatened, "I'm sorry 'Ricky', but I am here with this lovely young woman, please excuse us," Eugene said as he stepped back towards Tal. Sandrine gave them both kind of a disdainful look as she turned and walked towards the bar. A number of holo-characters all waved and called out to Eugene, calling him Tom. Eugene looked at Tal, "There seems to be a bit of a problem here, would you like to stay or go somewhere else?"

Tal felt better after Eugene put Sandrine in her place. "Well we could have a drink if you like, your father always liked to shoot pool, or throw some darts, or after the drink we could try another program if you want.

B'Elanna was becoming a bit irritated, a thought kept running around in the back of her mind, finally it clawed enough at her that her conscious mind finally became aware of it. It took a moment for it to come to her completely, but when it did she nearly leaped from her chair. "Harry!" Harry was in the middle of a day dream of Captain Proton when B'Elanna's voice pierced through the fog.

Eugene nodded, "Okay, let's have a drink and we can check out something else then, how about this table in the corner?" Tal looked over at the table, it was a bit more intimate then she originally thought of, but it was the furthest from the bar. "I think that would be fine." Eugene smiled as he allowed her to turn and walk towards the table first. Eugene's stomach was in knots, but thankfully his telepathic abilities enabled him to sense what Tal did and didn't expect. He felt pulling the chair out for her was expected, so he did before taking his own seat.

The waiter came over to take their order, "Actually, I don't have an idea what to order here Tal, what do you like?"

Tal looked at the menu then remembered something, "You know, I believe your father has Sandrine keep a special drink behind the bar for him, I believe it is a bottle of '46 Saint Emilion." The waiter bowed his head and took the menu back with him.

Eugene looked about; "I think I can see why so many like this place, it certainly is charming."

Tal smiled, "I don't come here a lot, but the crew love it, so I try to come here occasionally. I'm not a huge holo-deck fan, but it certainly helps to get away from constant Star Fleet."

B'Elanna practically ran over to Harry, dodging a couple of surprised crewmen on her way to the diagnostic station, as she began changing settings for the scanning beam, mean while Harry finally realized what was going on, "Okay, what have you got B'Elanna?"

B'Elanna half turns to Harry. "It's the weirdest thing, I was getting so frustrated over this problem when it dawned on me, the reason we're getting the distortion wave is the frequency band we are using, I had you double it, I should have only had you increase it maybe 20-30% at most."

Eugene sat back as the waiter stepped up and poured them both a glass, then left the bottle and walked away. Eugene smiled as he lifted the glass, "You almost sound like you wish you weren't in Star Fleet."

Taking a sip Tal half nodded her head, "Well in a way, I do. Don't get me wrong, I love space exploration, I really like this ship and the crew, but, I feel so out classed in a lot of ways. I struggle so hard to do my job. But my superiors have to constantly double check my work, I'm almost more of a detriment to the crew then a help. I'd probably make a better waitress in the galley."

Eugene was looking at his glass as he listened; he had taken a normal drink from it and had almost choked on it. 'People really drink this stuff?' he thought to himself.

Harry nodded his head, "Not bad B'Elanna, I don't think I would have thought of the frequency actually causing the problem. So how can I help?"

"See if you can set up a simulation, so when I get the new settings done, we can test it and see what happens," B'Elanna responded. Harry nodded and began setting up the diagnostic computer with the previous data, waiting on the final frequency setting from B'Elanna.

Sitting the glass down he looked at Tal, "I understand you feel that way, but I seriously doubt anyone on the ship feels that way about you. I think maybe you just have to find some more confidence and I bet you will be fine.

Tal smiled, "Thank you for saying that, but I don't think so. Is something wrong with your drink?"

Eugene kind of laughed, "Well it certainly isn't what I expected. It has a 'bite' to it I wasn't prepared for."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I should have warned you, I forget you aren't use to this, it helps to take small sips. You really won't want to try anything hard then. Even synthehol has a kick if you aren't use to it," Tal warned.

Capt., Janeway sat in her office going over the data from the test for the fifth time and it was beginning to give her a headache, she had went through every idea she had but nothing seemed very likely to influence the scan in a more positive direction. She finally decided a break was in order when "B'Elanna to the Capt."

Looking up at the ceiling, "Go ahead B'Elanna."

"Sorry to disturb you Capt., I had an idea, Harry and I are down here working on it now to try a simulation test, we just wanted to let you know."

Smiling Janeway got up, "Good work B'Elanna, I'm on my way, Janeway out."

Walking onto the bridge she walked over and sat down in her chair and leaned over to Chakotay, "B'Elanna just called me, apparently she has an idea and her and Harry are working on a simulation, so I thought I would head down and check it out."

Chakotay nodded, "Have you given anymore thought to Eugene's request?"

Janeway shook her head, "No, I am trying to stay away from that thought for now; I'll be in Engineering if you need me." Chakotay nodded as he watched her get up and leave.

Eugene picked up the glass and tried a small sip and while it was still strong, it was easier to handle. "I'm not a big drinker either; real alcohol is a lot stronger then this stuff though." Unknown to Tal, the drink was programmed as real alcohol, a little joke Tom had set up in the program for anyone ordering it but him. Eugene and Tal continued their small talk as they enjoyed their first glass. By the bottom of the second glass Eugene was feeling a bit tipsy and kept touching the tip of his nose. Tal couldn't help but giggle at him, "I think maybe you had enough and to be honest I think I have too. What say we try another program?" Eugene kind of swayed his head on purpose and enjoyed the feeling of almost like floating. Looking at Tal he had to concentrate a bit to get her back in focus, smiled and nodded his head.

B'Elanna looks towards Harry, "There, the sensor array has been recalibrated for the new frequency, if the test works, we'll be ready to try the real thing, how's the simulation coming Harry?"

"Just about done here, just need the values for the sensor scan," Harry looked back at B'Elanna as she nodded and tapped a few controls and inputted the new frequency. Just then the Engineering doors opened as Janeway walked in.

"What's the word B'Elanna?"

Both Harry and B'Elanna turned to Janeway, "We've got the simulation ready with the new frequency, and I set up the sensors with the new frequency to conduct a real test if this goes well."

Janeway smiled at them both, "Well done both of you, let's give it a shot then." Harry nods and reaches down and pushes a few buttons and the simulation begins.

Tal stood up a tad more off balance then she thought she should be, Eugene followed suit and found it was a challenge, he had to lean his hand on the table for balance for a few moments until the wave passed. Tal looked to the ceiling, "Computer, pause program, and show the arch please." All the holo-characters froze in place as the computer chirped then the computer arch appeared by the door way. Tal and Eugene made their way over to it, "Computer show us programs by Lt. Paris." A list of program names came up on the screen, a number of them were some variation of Captain Proton which Tal quickly passed through then stopped on one. "This sounds interesting, Martian Earth View. Wanna try it?"

Eugene was still touching his nose, "Sure, what's a Martian?"

Tal laughed, "Mars is a planet in Earth's solar system, so this is probably a stellar object program of Earth's solar system."

Eugene nodded, sounded okay to him. Tal punched up the buttons after a few mis-keys; a moment later the bar dissolved away and was replaced with an orange colored ground, some scrub brush on a hill over looking a facility of some kind in the distance with a strange object next to them.

Eugene nearly fell down when the scene changed due to the disorientation from the drink. "Thank goodness this was sitting here," he told Tal as he held onto the object. "What exactly is it?"

Tal looked up, "Computer identify object."

"The object you are by is a 1957 Chevy, a primitive Earth land based vehicle meant to transport people from place to place, and some like this one either were a status symbol when made, or rose up in status to become one by fans of the car."

After a few moments of examination, they figured out how to open the door and got into the car. As the door closed the radio came on and a soft melody started playing, kind of shocking them. Looking about the car they finally figure out where the music was coming from. "Computer, identify music," Tal asked.

"This is an instrumental version of a song by music group called Air Supply; the song is entitled 'Nothing's Going to Change My Love for You.'"

Eugene sat there looking slightly blurry at the sky, "This is pretty nice, you said this is called Martian Earth View? So is there a specific object we're supposed to see?"

Tal nodded her head, the warm feeling from the alcohol and the breeze and music had relaxed her quite a bit. Looking out into the sky, "Computer, give us a momentary outline of Earth." She raised her right arm and pointed at the small bluish ball of light highlighted by the computer.

Janeway, B'Elanna and Harry all seemed to be holding their breath as the simulation numbers began scrolling across the computer screen. A waveform began forming on another screen, "The chronometric field is building now, simulation should start 'scanning' it shortly", Harry commented. Almost before he was done, a second series of numbers began scrolling in the opposite computer screen, they watched as the numbers scrolled, then looked to the other screen, to see the very minor looking distortion in chronometric field.

"Yes," B'Elanna nearly shouted, as they watched, the slight distortion didn't rise any higher.

"B'Elanna, Harry, I think you did it, if the numbers bear out what we are seeing, I think we can try another test, well done."

Harry clapped B'Elanna on the shoulder, "This is all B'Elanna Capt., she's just letting me ride along."

Janeway smiled and touched Harry's arm, "Very well, let me know as soon as you verify the numbers and we'll give it another test."

Leaning in to try and look up her arm at what she was pointing at Eugene found his senses intrigued by her perfume. "You have a very pleasing scent about you." Tal looked down at Eugene as he turned his head back towards Tal inhaling her perfume, his eyes closed as he did so when suddenly his head tilted and their lips met. At first their kiss was tender, a bit playful, kind of embrace and pull back a bit, for the other to chase. Eugene's passion increased dramatically, which unintentionally spilled over through his telepathic ability into Tal and while Tal was a willing participant at this point it fanned her own passion and their kiss became more fierce and aggressive.

Their lips parting and tongues entwining, Eugene's hands seemed to have a mind of their own as they pulled Tal around sideways more. Wrapping his left around about her, he caressed her up and down her spine, his right hand pulling the collar of her uniform down, he kissed across her cheek and paused long enough to inhale the scent of her hair, then placed several kisses down her ear and onto her neck, gently he kissed and bit her up and down her neck and shoulder.

As the Engineering doors closed behind her Janeway asked "Computer, location of Eugene." "Eugene is currently in holo-deck 2." The computer answered. Nodding to a passing crewman Janeway made her way to a turbolift and ordered it to holo-deck 2.

As she walked the corridor from the lift she came around a corner and saw Neelix not far from the holo-deck, "Ah Neelix, just coming out or about to go in?"

Neelix nearly jumped out of his skin, "Ah, Cap-Capt., uh no, I-I was just standing here, waiting."

Janeway's left eyebrow rose quizzically, "Waiting? For what?"

Neelix was becoming a bit more nervous, and his cheeks reddened a bit more, "Ah, yes, what indeed, uh, well, Eugene is in the holo-deck with Crewman Tal Celes." Neelix prayed that was enough, but clearly from the puzzlement on her face the Capt., wasn't catching on, he kind of wrung his hands as he continued, "I would go so far as to say Eugene is his father's son."

Janeway was still very puzzled, "Oh?," then she saw his cheeks get even redder, and she turned to look at the program playing, "Oh," Janeway blushed just a bit herself, "Ah, well I do need to be on the Bridge, if you will excuse me Neelix," and Janeway left fairly quickly as Neelix closed his eyes and bowed in relief as Janeway walked off.