[Nate the Great]

KES: I have to go with you.
CHAKOTAY: There's nothing down there you want to see, Kes.
NEELIX: That's what I told her.
KES: I've already seen it. I have to go.

Using Kes in a Troi-like role as telepathic Swiss Army Knife is a bad idea. It pigeonholes her character up front and makes the show look like even more of a TNG ripoff. Her powers should be distinctly different from Troi and her other characteristics should be emphasized first. For example, it's the third episode and she should've started her medical training by now.

KIM: The comm. badge is designed to self-activate when the casing is destroyed to help searchers locate victims.

This is reasonable, I just wish that it was set up to activate for things much less than a destroyed case. Sensing excessive pressure or temperature changes, etc. Having a few circuits that only activate when the air has dangerous stuff in it, etc.

JANEWAY: Think about it, Tom. Before we got involved, these people were planning to commit some kind of sabotage next week. We were the ones who forced a change in their schedule. Because of us, they decided to begin today at four hundred rotations, and we know the detonation takes place today at just after four hundred and one .
PARIS: Four oh one twenty two eighty four. Wait a minute. You're saying we're responsible for an explosion even though it occurred before our ship arrived here.
JANEWAY: We've travelled back to a point in time before the explosion, so, yes, we can be responsible for it.

You know what quote from "Time's End" I'm thinking of, so let's move on...

(Makull opens the bag and Janeway takes out a phaser. She fires it at the growing wormhole.) [Ruined corridor]
TORRES: I'm getting nadion particle resistance from the other side.

I'm always glad when Voyager is actually consistent with the Treknobabble. We learned that phasers use nadion beams back in "The Mind's Eye".

(The wormhole is defeated by Janeway's phaser, blowing the away team backwards in slow motion. All the crewmembers disappear from the planet surface.)

And here's the big problem. The episode never happened. I remember when Jim Wright over at Delta Blues recapped "Year of Hell" with just the first and last scenes because nothing else happened. I really should be recapping Delta Blues as well in this retrospective, come to think of it.

The Fiver

Paris: Hurry up, the Delaney twins are waiting.
Kim: Not interested.
Paris: Come on -- if you don't start having romances, you'll never get to star in "The Disease."
Kim: This is a bad thing?

Yeah, we'd all be happier if "The Disease" never happened.

Neelix: Don't worry, your vision was probably just a bad dream.
Kes: Sorry, Neelix, this ain't "Waking Moments."

I'm not seeing enough of a parallel to justify this joke.

Paris: Uh oh -- looks like the planet blows up tomorrow.
Janeway: Well, at least we have these local clothes.
Paris: Wait -- the store's selling two Starfleet uniforms now! I want one.

Tom can act like an eager kid sometimes, can't he?

Doctor: Let me get this straight -- you two are unknown aliens, there's an entire Maquis crew aboard, and the captain is missing? I really hate this ship.

A great line, I remember adding it to our TV Tropes page.

Memory Alpha

* First of nine episode where a version of Janeway dies.

Nitpicker's Guide

* The local clocks use Arabic numerals. I'm fine with this one since we already know that the Universal Translator can project an image of the local's lips forming English sounds.
* Doc scanned Kes in Caretaker and knew about the Maquis, yet in this episode he's forgotten. Oops.
* Why are they afraid of damaging subspace with their gadget when the explosion already damaged subspace? That's how Janeway and Paris were sent back in time!
* How convenient that the locals happen to look like humans so Janeway and Paris can blend in.
* If Janeway and Paris were on the surface with active commbadges yesterday, why didn't the ship's sensors detect them yesterday?
* The cop points out how weird our heroe's clothes are, yet doesn't notice the holstered weapons. Oops.