Plot
A small ship with a Federation signature emerges from a temporal rift in front of the starship Voyager, and its pilot identifies himself as Captain Braxton from the 29th century. He says he must destroy them to prevent a cataclysm he believes that Voyager is the cause of which would wipe out most of the Earth's solar system in his time. Voyager fights off Braxton's attack, resulting in the future captain being sent back through the rift to the year 1967. Voyager and its crew are also pulled into the rift and find themselves in the year 1996. The starship is identified on Earth as a UFO and videotaped as such, placing the U.S. military on alert.
A young hippie hiker, Henry Starling (Ed Begley, Jr.), finds the timeship in 1967 and copies its technology, allowing him to found his own company, Chronowerx, and spark the micro-computer revolution of the 1990s. When Janeway and Chakotay beam up to the ship after confronting Starling, he uses the transporter downlink to hack into the computer on Voyager, stealing many of their files, including the Doctor. Meanwhile, a young astronomer named Rain Robinson (Sarah Silverman) has discovered Voyager in high orbit and assumes it to be extraterrestrial life. She successfully attempts to contact Voyager, which forces the crew to do some damage control. Captain Janeway, Commander Chakotay, Tuvok, and Tom Paris, all go to Earth's surface. Tuvok and Paris go to find Rain, while Janeway and Chakotay investigate the ex-hippie, Henry Starling.
Ultimately, the Voyager crew discover that Starling's planned attempt to travel into the future in the 29th century timeship is the true cause of that time's explosive catastrophe since it ultimately resulted in a temporal rift. The temporal rift unleashed a cataclysm that engulfed Earth's solar system in that time and eliminated most life on Earth. After a failed attempt to convince Starling to stop his time travel before it's too late, Janeway destroys the timeship by manually firing a photon torpedo into it, destroying it just as it enters a temporal rift, and saving the future. An alternative Captain Braxton arrives, having detected their presence in the past, and returns them to their own time at the place they left it. He is unwilling to bring them to their Earth as that would violate the Temporal Prime Directive.
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