Future's End
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| Star Trek: Voyager episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 8 & 9 |
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| Featured music | Jay Chattaway |
| Cinematography by | Marvin V. Rush |
| Production code | 150 & 151 |
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"Future's End" is a two-part episode from the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the eighth and ninth of the season and the 50th and 51st overall. "Future's End" made its debut on American television in November 1996 on the UPN network.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away. In this episode, Voyager is thrown back to Earth in 1996 and must find a way back to the 24th century while making sure they don't cause a disaster in the 29th century in the process.
The crew is surprised by a small ship with a Federation signature which emerges from a temporal rift in front of the starship Voyager, and its pilot identifies himself as Captain Braxton (Allan G. Royal) from the 29th century. He shocks the crew of Voyager when he explains that he believes Voyager to be the cause of a temporal explosion which would wipe out most of the Earth's solar system in his time; therefore he must destroy them. As proof, Braxton briefly states that debris from Voyager's secondary hull will be found in the remains of the explosion. Voyager fights off Braxton's attack, resulting in the future captain being sent back through the rift to Earth in the year 1967. Voyager and its crew are also pulled into the rift and find themselves also at Earth, but in the year 1996. The starship is identified on Earth as a UFO and videotaped as such, placing the U.S. military on alert.
In 1967, a young hippie hiker, Henry Starling (Ed Begley, Jr.), finds the timeship and copies its technology, allowing him to create his own company, Chronowerx, and spark the micro-computer revolution. In 1996, a young astronomer named Rain Robinson (Sarah Silverman) who works at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles has discovered Voyager in high orbit through the ship's warp emissions and assumes it to be extraterrestrial life. Her work is funded by Starling, but against his instructions, she attempts to contact Voyager by transmitting a greeting to it, which forces the crew to do some damage control. The Voyager crew tracks her location to the Observatory and Captain Janeway, Commander Chakotay, Lt. Tuvok (Tim Russ), and Lt. Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), decide to beam down to Los Angeles. Tuvok and Paris try to find Rain, while Janeway and Chakotay attempt to investigate more on the now multi-millionaire Henry Starling. Tuvok and Paris successfully remove Rain from the observatory before she can be harmed after Starling, who fears that Rain is a security risk, dispatches a hitman to kill her.
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