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How's our engine holding up with the new Protostar?
Plasma injector is at maximum efficiency.
All systems humming just like new.
And you are sure the ship is able to sustain this speed?
Ha-ha! Sustain?
Speed is what this baby's built for.
Nothing to fear.
The protowarp is merely bending spacetime
around us, making our considerable journey
go by in a flash.
We're approaching "Voyager" at zero mark three five.
Take us out of protowarp, Z.
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You OK?
Just been a while since I did that.
"Voyager,"
so glad to see her again with new eyes.
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She's a whole lot different than the one I remember.
Oh, looks like someone's ready to be sent
to the admiral's ready room.
Heh-heh-heh. Ahh!
- Great. - Ow.
You look great.
Do I look like I'm trying too hard?
Is that a bad thing?
I only wish I would have come back sooner.
I'd have fewer gray hairs.
No use dwelling on what could have been.
We're approved to beam aboard.
Ha-ha, yeah!
- Hee-hee. - Ha-ha-ha.
Janeway, I know you're not technically a pet sitter,
but--
I'd be happy to watch over Bribble,
even if I am more of a dog person.
I believe this will entertain me more than it will you.
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Oh, my stars!
My young protégés.
But you were gone.
How?
Captain Chakotay, I never thought I'd-- that you--
That makes two of us, Doctor.
The admiral will be very pleased to see you.
Not more than I will be to see her.
Her?
Admiral Jellico?
Chakotay?
How-- how is this possible?
Hold on.
Where's Janeway?
Admiral Janeway gave her life trying to rescue
Captain Chakotay from the wormhole.
She perished in the "Infinity" along with Commander
Tysess and Counselor Noum.
Not one of you remembers?
We need to get you to sickbay for further analysis.
I don't understand.
You're telling me Kathryn is gone?
But that isn't what happened.
We took the "Infinity," not Janeway!
The fact that you all remember
the same incorrect reality suggests
you may be experiencing a shared psychosis, unless--
did you pass through any tachyon
storms or cosmic anomalies?
These logs confirm Janeway did perish on the "Infinity."
So either we are experiencing shared psychosis,
or we are on the wrong "Voyager."
Let's pretend for a moment that what you say is true.
That would mean you're from an alternate reality,
one where Admiral Janeway is still alive.
If that's true, then, well, it's my duty to reunite
a crew with their captain.
You believe us?
Believe?
Maybe.
Can I help in an emergency?
That's my job.
But first, meet me in sickbay.
I need to rule out all other explanations.
I trust the doctor will get to the bottom of this.
We'll take another and meet you there.
See you in sickbay.
What's wrong?
It's like a wave came over me.
Oh, they really let this deck go.
Jankom approves.
Ahh!
Hey, Doc, you in here?
Is anyone in here?
Ahh!
Back off!
I found it first!
Okona?
Hey, I know you guys.
You are familiar with this disheveled man?
He ditched us on Noble Isle.
Ditched?
I left to get you guys help.
But had I known how dangerous you all were,
I'd have split earlier.
Hey, where's the big rock girl?
I liked her.
Rok, Zero.
Where are you?
Someone alert Captain Tuvix.
Oh, dear, perhaps we took the wrong turbolift.
Chakotay to Rok and Zero.
Janeway, do you read me?
I suspect you will not reach them,
because we may have unknowingly stepped into a new reality.
Back up.
What did you mean, how dangerous we all really were?
The secret weapon on your ship,
that thing infected every Starfleet
vessel in the quadrant.
I'm amazed you guys made it out alive.
Don't play dumb with me.
You guys tore the whole Federation apart.
Admiral Janeway, did she come through here?
Sorry, friend.
You're the only Starfleet officer I've come across.
This ship was left for scrap.
If Rok and Zero took the other turbolift,
they should be here by now.
Unless it sent them to some other crazy parallel universe.
Rok and Zero are intelligent and capable.
And given we are in no immediate danger,
we need not assume they are in harm's way.
No harm?
We are stuck in an alternate reality with this guy.
Hey, hey, let me take your temp.
I love your vintage Starfleet uniforms.
We can get a pretty sweet price for that on the black market
if we just--
No!
I'm just throwing it out there.
I've been through something like this before.
Somehow, we're moving through different realities.
If we can find a way back to our own,
we should be able to reunite everyone.
What do you mean, should?
We can't fix anything until we
understand how this happened.
Uh, how do we fix that?
Remember how Wesley said the paradox created
by the "Protostar" being lost in time
weakened the fabric of the universe?
Well, I think when we protowarped,
we punched a hole right through that fabric.
And now, that interphasic rift is
splintering through this ship.
Oh, great!
So all our past mistakes are coming back to haunt us?
Not mistakes, different choices.
You two could be on to something.
From the "Protostar" we beamed aboard deck nine to a reality
where Janeway went through the wormhole.
Then we took the turbolift up to sickbay on deck eight
to a reality where we didn't stop
the "Protostar" from destroying the Federation.
Two realities both connected to what we did and didn't do.
If we follow that pattern, every deck
could be a new reality.
Why is this only happening to us?
We created the anomaly.
It must be tied to our quantum signatures.
Perhaps we can use the deflector dish,
create a broad-spectrum warp field with
an inverse tachyon pulse and--
Yes, that would seal the rift and untangle this mess
we're in.
I don't know what you're saying,
but I like the way you're saying it.
Fix the rift, and we all bounce back to our universe.
We just need to get to the bridge and the deflector dish
to do it.
Oh, please tell me Vulcans just
have a hard time being happy.
The bridge is eight decks above us.
Oof, that's a lot of realities.
Too many for Gwyn to survive.
I saw the coordinates change on her armband in the turbolift.
She's right.
They're different.
Her armband was built to keep her
in one reality, not dozens.
So that's why she felt faint.
And will continue to grow fainter.
I can handle eight levels.
If Zero and Rok are OK, maybe you can stay here and--
You might need me.
I said I can handle it.
We stick together.
Or we could take a shortcut and just have Captain Ponytail
over there beam us to the top.
Huh?
What?
Thanks for indulging us.
Yeah, I still don't totally get this reality-hopping,
but I hope you find what you're looking for.
Uh-oh.
Hold on!
There it goes.
I sold a few parts to the Andorians.
- It should still work. - Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Should?
Good luck, wherever you're going.
I'm OK.
And everyone else?
Hey, Maj'el got left behind!
And this isn't the bridge.
Should work!
Should have said, "Doesn't work."
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Kathryn?
Chakotay.
Pinch me.
I'm seeing double.
When did you get a twin?
With whiskers.
What nightmare are we in now?
The mirror universe.
This is the last dimension I wanted to visit.
You know this place?
Starfleet's had run-ins with the mirror universe before.
And it's always bad news.
Mirror, like a reflection?
An opposite reflection.
What's this place have to do with the "Protostar"?
We can figure that out once we escape.
This dark universe is dangerous.
Humanity is bent on galactic conquest
instead of exploration.
And the locals are anything but friendly.
I'd listen to your dashing captain.
You've slithered right into the viper's nest.
Starfleet.
I thought we installed new safeguards to prevent
travel between our universes.
Ha-ha! If mere children found a way here,
that's a security breach for the new Terran Armada.
You won't get anything out of us!
Oh, won't I?
I'm sure the Agonizer will loosen their tongues.
Ha! Agonizer?
Was Mean Machine taken?
Enjoy.
I know how you love your interrogations.
Who to agonize first?
Take me.
So chivalrous.
But no, I think I'll start with
the cute one.
Everyone else, hands to the wall!
Oh, no!
Not the cute one!
Ahh!
Ugh! Augh! Ugh!
Nice work, security officer.
Never trust the cute ones.
Pose as my prisoners, and I'll get us to the bridge.
What about the whiskers?
- Hey, hands off Jankom Pog's thorium grease!
And now, you're evil.
Not exactly needed, Murf, but I like the enthusiasm.
Commander.
As you were, soldiers!
That was too close.
So far, so good.
Janeway.
They don't look very interrogated to me.
They were easy to break.
I was escorting them to the bridge
so they can show us how they got here.
What is that, some kind of spy device?
Remove it, alien.
Now!
I can't.
I'll die.
Excuse me?
She said, no.
Ah-ah-ah, this is my ship.
She takes it off, or you both take a trip out the airlock.
I already examined the device.
It's no threat.
Trust me.
Oh, I always trust my first officer.
But he's not here!
Run!
Sorry, Chakotay.
I know that wasn't the reunion you were hoping for.
I should have kept my mouth shut.
But I couldn't just let her--
Don't apologize.
Some people are worth fighting for,
no matter how many realities you fight
through to get back to them.
Ahh!
Just a whale.
- Security, the intruders are here.
Even the whales are evil?
All hail the Terran Empire.
Check in there!
Sweep the perimeter!
He's got my uniform.
Come out.
Come out wherever you are.
Uh.
I always hated children.
Move now.
Drip, drip.
- Water breach protocol engaged.
Activating emergency force field.
Stop them!
Don't let them out of here alive!
Override this force field, or I'll have your head!
The bridge should be just ahead.
Are we going to another reality?
Thankfully, no.
It's on this deck.
The admiral is in danger!
Anyone who doesn't protect her will face the Agonizer!
Computer, seal bridge doors!
Do not open again without my command!
Voice authorized.
Affirmative.
Recalibrating the deflector dish.
Oh, no.
Is that--
The Loom.
Wesley said he'd keep them away.
But that was in our reality.
This is somewhere else.
They are much worse than you described.
So stop staring and do something!
It's still recalibrating!
I can remodulate the shields to match
the Loom's phase variants.
You sure that'll stop them?
Slow, not stop.
In there!
Drop it, goobag.
If you do this, none of us survive.
Why should I believe you?
Because no matter what reality we're in,
I could never hurt you.
What are those things?
The Loom.
They hunt and erase any kind of paradox,
like the one we're in now.
But if you let us fix that rift, they should go away.
We go back to our reality.
And we can pretend like none of us ever met.
Should?
Or we get eaten by time monsters.
They're breaking through!
This doesn't mean we're friends.
No, but I'll take what I can get.
The deflector dish!
Ahh...ugh!
We did it.
Yes, we're back!
But how?
And I was just growing used to Captain
Tuvix's Vulcan-Talaxian fusion cuisine.
That was highly outrageous.
Oh, my stars!
My young protégés!
But you were gone!
How?
Captain Chakotay, I never thought I'd see you again.
Good to see you, Doc.
Chakotay?
Is it really you?
Oh, what's on your face?
I've thought about this moment for what
feels like an eternity.
But now, it's like I never left.
Because you're home.
Yeah!
I told you I could handle it.
It wasn't you I was worried about.
You went to the mirror universe?
You're not gonna believe this.
Even the whales were evil!
Whatever our reality throws at us,
I'm glad I'm in this one with you.
Me, too.