Ep 6. Timeless

In this episode of Star Trek: Voyager, entitled "Timeless," the crew of the USS Voyager faces a difficult decision when they discover a way to travel back in time and prevent their ship from crashing on an ice planet, which resulted in the deaths of several crew members, such as Tuvok, Chakotay, and Harry Kim, including their beloved captain Kathryn Janeway.

The episode begins with Harry Kim, alone in a small ship flying through the icy tundra of an alien planet, trying to retrieve “dilithium” crystals from the debris of the USS Voyager wreckage. It's been fourteen years since Voyager crashed on this planet and Harry has been working on a plan to send a message back in time to prevent the accident and save the crew.

Harry contacts the Federation and asks for their aid in launching a modified version of a Starfleet probe, hoping it will have enough power to send the message back through time. However, the process is risky, and the team has to rely on their starship, the Challenger, and its captain Geordi La Forge to ensure the probe's safety and success.

As soon as Harry sends the message back through time, he realizes that he has made a mistake in the calculations, and the team has sent the Voyager crashing anyway. Harry faces the tough and hard feeling of trying to maintain his promise to the lost crew and tries to understand the consequences of his mistake if he should tell the current crew, including the Captain himself, about his catastrophic error.

Captain Janeway demands an explanation for what happened when she receives Harry's message about the probe's failure. She resets time to the point before they crashed and sets on a mission to fix the mistake before returning to the planet, hoping to save themselves and recover the crew that died. Her team includes Chakotay, Tuvok, and her before the crash.

The new mission puts Janeway and her team in constant danger, given that the instability of the space-time continuum is still a threat. The captain also has to face her own past and her relationship with Chakotay--who remained deeply affected by her death, and she's looking over Starfleet's plan to take her as an academy cadet.

As the crew face different challenges and cut through space-time to avoid a massive asteroid, Janeway decides to take a risky move by stealing the Borg's transwarp drive to supplement Voyager's engines, enabling them to gather enough speed to outrun the asteroid.

Though the solutions come with their respective risks, the team deals with every challenge thrown at them with intelligence and bravery, all while hoping to undo their previous mistake.

Finally, the team manages to return to the planet, using the transwarp drive as their speed boost. However, they find that their final actions have created alternate timelines and complications that they have to deal with--ones that they may not have the power to fix.

The episode's plotline shows an emotional theme of facing consequences for our actions and living with the choices that we make. “Timeless” not only highlights Voyager's struggling crew to return to their lost loved ones but also focuses on the essence of sacrifice and the difficulty of coming to terms with the reality of loss.

Overall, this episode serves as a thrilling adventure-filled with creative solutions to space-time challenges and personal difficulties, guaranteeing viewers will enjoy the journey and learn valuable lessons.