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** Apparently Tom's confrontation with Quark went a bit differently, and he got thrown into the brig by Odo, so didn't go on Voyager's mission.

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** Apparently Tom's confrontation with Quark in the pilot episode went a bit differently, and he got thrown into the brig by Odo, so didn't go on Voyager's mission.
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* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Literally. Harry removes his anklet and has Starfleet Security teleporting right to his location, requiring immediate hand-to-hand combat.

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* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Literally. Harry removes Harry's attempt to remove his anklet and has Starfleet Security teleporting right to his location, requiring immediate hand-to-hand combat.him to immediately run.



* ModestyTowel: Libby wears one.

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* ModestyTowel: Libby wears one.is wearing one when Harry returns from his canceled meeting.



-->'''Paris:''' Might?

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-->'''Paris:''' Might?''Might?''

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* ForWantOfANail: Because Harry Kim was never chosen to be part of the ''Voyager'' crew, Tom Paris was also left behind after an incident at Quark's and ended up spending his free time at Sandrine's.



* PointOfDivergence: Because Harry Kim was never chosen to be part of the ''Voyager'' crew, Tom Paris was also left behind after an incident at Quark's and ended up spending his free time at Sandrine's.



* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Harry to Starfleet and Libby.

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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Harry to Starfleet and Libby.Libby.

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* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: Averted; when Harry realises he's suspected of treason, he refuses to continue without legal counsel.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tom Paris refuses to believe Harry's loony story or help in any way, eventually taking a swing at him. Harry takes him down easily. "Funny, I remember you being quicker. I guess in this timeline you'll always be a loser".



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tom Paris refuses to believe Harry's loony story or help in any way, eventually taking a swing at him. Harry takes him down easily. "Funny, I remember you being quicker. I guess in this timeline you'll always be a loser."

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* InfiniteSupplies: Another shuttle down.



* InfiniteSupplies: Another shuttle down.
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Kim meets Lieutenant Lasca, his partner in his important meeting. It turns out to be a presentation for a new shuttlecraft they've designed, but Kim has no idea how to answer the presiding admiral's questions, so he claims he's sick. He returns home and spends some quality time with Libby after so long apart, but he remains restless. He looks up ''Voyager'''s crew manifest and finds that Tom Paris was never stationed on the ship either, so he travels to Marseilles to find him. In the real Chez Sandrine's, Paris turns out to be a drunken wastrel whose life spiraled downward since getting rejected for duty aboard ''Voyager''. As Kim leaves, he fails to notice Cosimo sitting at the bar.

Returning home, Kim finds security personnel there to arrest him. He's brought before the admiral and accused of using "stolen" codes to look up ''Voyager'''s crew and associating with a known Maquis sympathizer: Paris, making Kim look like a spy. Kim finally spills the beans on his situation, but he has no proof, so he's fitted with an ankle bracelet pending investigation. Kim wanders around the city until he bumps into Cosimo, who admits that he's an interdimensional being who is responsible for his situation. Kim's shuttlecraft bumped into a "time stream" and caused his timeline to get altered. He urges Kim to make a life here, but Kim feels honor-bound to return to his own timeline. Cosimo warns him that flying back into the time stream could pop him anywhere on the timeline of the universe, but Kim is determined.

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Kim meets Lieutenant Lasca, his partner in his important meeting. It turns out to be a presentation for a new shuttlecraft they've designed, but Kim has no idea how to answer the presiding admiral's questions, so he claims he's sick. He returns home and spends some quality time with Libby after so long apart, but he remains restless. He looks up ''Voyager'''s crew manifest and finds that Tom Paris was never stationed on the ship either, so he travels to Marseilles to find him. In the real Chez Sandrine's, Paris turns out to be a drunken wastrel whose life spiraled downward since getting rejected for duty aboard ''Voyager''. He rejects Kim's request for help. As Kim the ensign leaves, he fails to notice Cosimo sitting at the bar.

Returning home, Kim finds security personnel there to arrest him. He's brought before the admiral and accused of using "stolen" codes to look up ''Voyager'''s crew and associating with a known Maquis sympathizer: sympathizer, Paris, making Kim look like a spy. Kim finally spills the beans on his situation, but he has no proof, so he's fitted with an ankle bracelet pending investigation. Kim wanders around the city until he bumps into Cosimo, who Cosimo catches up with him for an InfoDump. He admits that he's from an interdimensional being race who is are responsible for his Kim's situation. Kim's The ensign's shuttlecraft bumped into a their "time stream" and caused his timeline to get altered. He stream," which sent him into a new timeline. Cosimo urges Kim to make a life here, but Kim feels honor-bound to return to his own timeline. Cosimo warns him that flying back into the time stream could pop him anywhere on the timeline of the universe, but Kim is determined.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Jeez, Harry, you made it home! You'd think you'd be a lot happier!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Jeez, Harry, you made it home! You'd think you'd be a lot happier!]][[caption-width-right:350:Kim finds himself in another part of the galaxy.]]
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* PlotArmor: Cosimo tells Kim that he could end up in some far distant point in time, but of course, that simply doesn't happen.
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* WeirdnessSearchAndRescue: Averted; Cosimo doesn't know how to send Harry back to his own timeline, saying he only got there by accident in the first place.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: If Kim had come clean to Starfleet authorities right from the very beginning rather than keep his experiences a secret, he might not have had to steal a runabout and get Paris killed in order to return to his timeline.

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* TheAce: This timeline's Harry has won the Cochrane Prize for Engineering, and is designing a new runabout.



* FutureLoser: Or in this case an Alternate Timeline Loser with Tom Paris.

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* FutureLoser: Or in this case an Alternate Timeline Loser with Tom Paris.Paris, who's become a drunken loser.



* ModestyTowel: Libby
* MyGirlBackHome: Libby

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* ModestyTowel: Libby
Libby wears one.
* MyGirlBackHome: LibbyAfter Kim has made several references to his undying loyalty to his girl back home, Libby, we finally meet her.



* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: Averted; when Harry realises he's suspected of treason, he refuses to continue without legal counsel. This is likely a ContinuityNod to TNG's "The Drumhead", which had AnAesop about legal rights.

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Harry Kim finds himself back on Earth with his girlfriend Libby instead of on ''Voyager'', and must find out what happened.

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Harry Kim is asleep, and we hear Captain Janeway calling for an emergency transport. He awakens and finds himself back on Earth with in his old apartment in San Francisco, beside his girlfriend Libby Libby. Struggling to make sense of what's going on, he learns that he's in the present, that his friend Danny was stationed on ''Voyager'' instead of on ''Voyager'', him, and must as far as everyone else knows, the ship was destroyed. Libby hurries him off to an important meeting. Along the way, he bumps into Cosimo, a friendly coffee shop owner, who treats him like a regular customer.

Kim meets Lieutenant Lasca, his partner in his important meeting. It turns out to be a presentation for a new shuttlecraft they've designed, but Kim has no idea how to answer the presiding admiral's questions, so he claims he's sick. He returns home and spends some quality time with Libby after so long apart, but he remains restless. He looks up ''Voyager'''s crew manifest and finds that Tom Paris was never stationed on the ship either, so he travels to Marseilles to
find him. In the real Chez Sandrine's, Paris turns out what happened.to be a drunken wastrel whose life spiraled downward since getting rejected for duty aboard ''Voyager''. As Kim leaves, he fails to notice Cosimo sitting at the bar.

Returning home, Kim finds security personnel there to arrest him. He's brought before the admiral and accused of using "stolen" codes to look up ''Voyager'''s crew and associating with a known Maquis sympathizer: Paris, making Kim look like a spy. Kim finally spills the beans on his situation, but he has no proof, so he's fitted with an ankle bracelet pending investigation. Kim wanders around the city until he bumps into Cosimo, who admits that he's an interdimensional being who is responsible for his situation. Kim's shuttlecraft bumped into a "time stream" and caused his timeline to get altered. He urges Kim to make a life here, but Kim feels honor-bound to return to his own timeline. Cosimo warns him that flying back into the time stream could pop him anywhere on the timeline of the universe, but Kim is determined.

Libby catches Kim tampering with the ankle monitor and tells him she barely recognized him anymore. Kim asserts that he's the same person who fell in love with her. When security forces arrive to arrest Kim for his tampering, he flees, and Libby helps stall the guards. One of them catches up to him anyway, but Paris arrives and knocks the guard out. He's decided to help out Kim. They fly out in Kim's new shuttlecraft with a ''Nebula''-class starship in hot pursuit. By the time the ship reaches the time stream, it's going into core breach. Paris shoves Kim into the transporter pad and transports him just before the ship explodes. In his own timeline, Kim is successfully transported onto ''Voyager''. Finally home, he promises to tell Janeway the whole story. Later, he tells a befuddled Paris that he owes him one.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Tom chooses to die heroically on the off chance of helping Harry, rather than live as a loser on Earth.

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* HeroicSacrifice: HeroicSacrifice:
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Tom chooses to die heroically on the off chance of helping Harry, rather than live as a loser on Earth.Earth.
** Harry himself makes a non-lethal one, choosing to save his old friend Danny Bird from being lost in the Delta Quadrant in his place and Tom Paris from becoming a washed-out, drunken ex-con, at the price of stranding himself on the other side of the galaxy (and being separated from Libby) once more.


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* TimeTravelersAreSpies: Or in this case, accidental timeline hoppers. Harry's efforts to find out what's going on end up convincing Starfleet that he's a Maquis spy.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Garrett Wang complained that his character should have more romance and action. So Brannon Braga decided to put it all in this one episode.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: Garrett Wang Creator/GarrettWang complained that his character should have more romance and action. So Brannon Braga Creator/BrannonBraga decided to put it all in this one episode.
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* FutureLoser: Or in this case an Alternate Timeline Loser with Tom Paris.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Albeit an unseen one.
-->'''Cosmo:''' We exist in what you would call a temporal inversion fold in the space-time matrix. [[TechnoBabble It's not necessary to understand.]]

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* NowDoItAgainBackwards
-->'''Kim:''' The alien said that if I recreate the conditions of the accident and fly into the timestream, there's a chance I might be able to get back into my reality.
-->'''Paris:''' Might?

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* NowDoItAgainBackwards
NowDoItAgainBackwards:
-->'''Kim:''' The alien said that if I recreate the conditions of the accident and fly into the timestream, there's a chance I might be able to get back into my reality.
reality.
-->'''Paris:''' Might? Might?



* ThrowTheDogABone: Garrett Wang complained that his character should have more romance and action. So Brannon Braga decided to put in all in this one episode.

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* ThrowTheDogABone: Garrett Wang complained that his character should have more romance and action. So Brannon Braga decided to put in it all in this one episode.



* WakingUpElsewhere / BedmateReveal: The opening shot.

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* WakingUpElsewhere / BedmateReveal: WakingUpElsewhere[=/=]BedmateReveal: The opening shot.


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* WhosOnFirst:
-->'''Libby:''' Where are you going?
-->'''Harry:''' Marseille, France.
-->'''Libby:''' What for?
-->'''Harry:''' I've got to see [Tom] Paris.
-->'''Libby:''' But, you just said... you were going to Marseille.
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->''And you may find yourself in a beautiful house''\\
''With a beautiful wife''\\
''And you may ask yourself''\\
''[[Music/TalkingHeads "How did I get here?"]]''
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** The runabout take-off also reuses the DysonSphere door from TNG's [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics "Relics"]].
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* StockFootage:
** A matte painting of the Golden Gate Bridge is taken from ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''.
** An establishing shot of Starfleet Command (a combination of miniatures, matte painting and live action extras) is recycled from ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome''.
** Another (night time) matte painting of the bridge, along with Starfleet Headquarters is lifted from ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Garrett Wang complained that his character should have more romance and action. So Brannon Braga decided to put in all in this one episode.

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* CallBack: Apparently Tom's confrontation with Quark went a bit differently, and he got thrown into the brig by Odo, so didn't go on Voyager's mission. Also the Cochrane Prize relates to Zephram Cochrane, inventor of the first warp engine.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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Apparently Tom's confrontation with Quark went a bit differently, and he got thrown into the brig by Odo, so didn't go on Voyager's mission. Also the mission.
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Cochrane Prize relates to Zephram Cochrane, inventor of the first warp engine.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Libby gets confused when her boyfriend says he's going to Marseilles to see Paris.

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* AmbiguousSyntax: Well, ambiguous phrasing, anyway; Libby gets confused when her boyfriend Harry says he's going to Marseilles to see Paris.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: Libby gets confused when her boyfriend says he's going to Marseilles to see Paris.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Harry accessing the classified files on Voyager, as he's not supposed to have those access codes in this timeline. [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Contacting Tom Paris]] makes him look like a [[TheMole Maquis sympathiser]] passing on that classified information]].

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* NotHelpingYourCase: Harry accessing the classified files on Voyager, as he's not supposed to have those access codes in this timeline. [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Contacting Tom Paris]] makes him look like a [[TheMole Maquis sympathiser]] passing on that classified information]].information.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Harry accessing the classified files on Voyager, as he's not supposed to have those access codes in this timeline. Contacting Tom Paris makes him look like a [[TheMole Maquis sympathiser passing on that classified information]].

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* NotHelpingYourCase: Harry accessing the classified files on Voyager, as he's not supposed to have those access codes in this timeline. [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Contacting Tom Paris Paris]] makes him look like a [[TheMole Maquis sympathiser sympathiser]] passing on that classified information]].
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Starfleet promises they will look into Harry's story of alternate timelines, but point out that the facts also fit the far-more-likely explanation of Harry being a Maquis spy.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Starfleet promises they will look into Harry's story of alternate timelines, but point out that [[OccamsRazor the facts also fit the far-more-likely explanation explanation]] of Harry being a Maquis spy.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voy_nonsequitur018.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Jeez, Harry, you made it home! You'd think you'd be a lot happier!]]
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: After stealing the runabout, Tom and Harry are pursued and fired upon by a starship which almost knocks out their shields in mere seconds. The two then spend a full minute brainstorming how they might buy themselves more time.

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