[Holodeck]

(Pastoral scene. Dal is holding a chicken upside down.)
DAL: Urgh, this is a waste of time.
JANEWAY: This is a riddle that needs to be solved. You must work together to get a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain safely across.
POG: Oh, why can't we just row 'em all across and get this over with?
GWYN: Because if they're all in the same boat, the chicken will eat the grain and the fox will eat the chicken.
ZERO: If you take the grain first, that leaves the chicken and the fox. Oh dear, that won't work.
ROK: Mister Foxy wouldn't hurt a feather.
POG: Jankom's hungry. Let's eat the fox.
DAL: It's my duty as captain to listen to my crew, but when they say stuff like that, gonna ignore it.
ZERO: If we take one across, there's no rule to say we couldn't take another back.
JANEWAY: Getting warm. Imagine if you tried working together.
(The chicken and fox escape from Dal and Rok.)
DAL: Ah, ah!
ROK: Bad, Mister Foxy, bad!
DAL: Ahh!
GWYN: Who had the boat?
POG: Not me. Greatest show ever.
GWYN: If you just... ah! Hey, Security Officer, could you please keep the fox from eating the feathered thing?
ROK: Stop calling me that. I don't wanna be Security Officer.
DAL: Ahh! Computer, end simulation. We can't do the impossible.
JANEWAY: Impossible? You have everything to solve this problem, if only you would solve it together. You can't let failure tear your crew apart.
DAL: Well, maybe we aren't a crew.
POG: Careful, Cap. You make it sound like we're not Starfleet cadets. Dot, dot, dot.
DAL: That's because I'm not. I lied. I made us all lie. We aren't Starfleet. We aren't a crew. Who are we kidding? We're a bunch of strangers who stole a ship.
JANEWAY: You stole this ship?
DAL: It's time to come clean.
POG: Oh, great. Jankom take a ship? It doesn't even matter. Urgh.
ZERO: Perhaps I should explain.

[REV-12]

DREDNOK: Our Diviner. There is another inquiry pertaining to the reward for information about the Protostar.
SOLUM: Another inquiry? Or is it another grifter who knows nothing, calling to waste our time?
DREDNOK: This inquiry appears to be promising.
NANDI [on screen]: Salutations. I hear you're in the market for a certain ship, if the reward is still available.
SOLUM: My patience grows thin, Ferengi. Speak, and be wary of spewing lies.
NANDI [on screen]: Your fugitive vessel contained chimerium, did it not? I'm sending the coordinates.
DREDNOK: The Protostar jumped too far, Our Diviner. It would take months for the REV-12 to catch them.
SOLUM: But if we have their location, there are other ways to make our presence known.

[Cargo bay]

COMPUTER: Vehicle replicator activated.

[Observation deck]

POG: Telling all our secrets. Ruining all the fun. What in the name is that?
GWYN: It's a tachyon storm.
POG: Jankom was afraid it was a physical manifestation of how he feels.
GWYN: You didn't like Janeway finding out the truth?
POG: Then we could've gone to the Federation. We could have had a better life. But now who knows where we're going, aimlessly heading towards the tachyon storm, whatever that is.
GWYN: Keep your boots to the ground because it might mess with our gravity. Huh, the one thing holding us together.
POG: Wait, what, gravity? Gravity's the only thing keeping the Proto-Drive stable.

[Engineering]

JANEWAY: What's going on? I'm reading incredible power influxes.
POG: We may not be cadets, but believe me, Jankom's trying to fix it.
JANEWAY: As I explained to Zero, cadets or not, you are still my crew, and I'm programmed to help.
POG: Uh-oh. That ain't good.
(A purple pulse comes out from the drive core and goes through the ship.)
(GWYN: Oh!
DAL: Huh?)
POG: Why does the alarm sound funny? Ah, great, now the lights are broken, too?
JANEWAY: Hmm, my temporal settings are all over the place. What's happening?
POG: Stupid tachyon storm.
JANEWAY: Janeway to crew. Did anyone else feel that? Computer's saying there's no other lifeforms on board. That can't be.
POG: Oh no, core breach? There's been a rupture.
JANEWAY: If the core's breached, the engine can't equalise the gravity shell of the Proto-Drive.
POG: And that gravity is what keeps that star from exploding. That alarm tells me we've got ten minutes to fix this. I just need to recalibrate the warp...
(KaBOOM!)

[Bridge]

JANEWAY: Ah, ah! The ship, it exploded. But we still had ten minutes. Yet I'm here. And everything appears to be in order. And still only one lifeform aboard.

[Bunk room]

JANEWAY: Engineering. Jankom, come in.
ROK: Janeway!
JANEWAY: What happened? Where is everyone?
ROK: There was this weird purple ripple, then everyone vanished. And now everyone's moving weird. I've been alone ever since. Where were you?
JANEWAY: I was with Jankom after we entered the Tachyon storm. There was an alarm, and then the Proto-Drive...
(Pots and pans are floating.)
ROK: The Proto-Drive what?
JANEWAY: We need to see the engine.

[Engineering]

ROK: I've never seen it do that.
JANEWAY: The ripple that passed through us all, it was some kind of Time anomaly. Fortunately, I can adjust the speed of my settings to be here, but everyone must be stuck in their own temporal phases. That's why with Jankom, everything was sped up. But here, everything is slowed down.
ROK: Temporal what?
JANEWAY: We were once all in one ship, yes? When we went through the tachyon storm, something unusual happened. Though it appears you are alone, everyone is still in the same ship, just moving through Time at different speeds. Like, for Jankom, time moves faster, but for you...
ROK: Time goes by really slow.
JANEWAY: Yes. But there is a problem on this ship, you see, and if it's not fixed in ten minutes something terrible will happen.
ROK: Oh no.
JANEWAY: You'll be okay, because remember, Time moves differently. For some, ten minutes can go by in an instant. But lucky for you, it will feel like an eternity.
ROK: But what about my friends?
JANEWAY: Rok, you must listen to me. You have to repair the warp containment to prevent a core breach.
ROK: Core breach?
JANEWAY: I know it's a lot, but you have to get our ship's warp containment balance right, or else the Proto-Drive star will be released all at once, almost like a supernova.
ROK: Stop it! I don't understand.
JANEWAY: You have to try.
ROK: Computer, make Janeway go away.
JANEWAY: No!
(Vanishes, then reappears in Engineering in another time zone.)
ZERO: Ah, there you are. I see you've adjusted your temporal settings.
JANEWAY: And I see you've figured out time phases. Talk to me.
ZERO: Once I realised the warp core was damaged, I deduced the only way to restore gravitational balance was to reroute power from the primary warp drive directly to the Proto-Drive using a Warp Matrix, which I am currently creating.
JANEWAY: I like it. A Warp Matrix will normalise our Time component and stabilise these fractures.
ZERO: And better yet, save everyone. But to know how much time I have, I need one piece of data. Was Rok's time faster or slower than mine?
JANEWAY: Slower, much slower.
ZERO: Fascinating. We're trapped in oscillating Time. Time works like a damped sine wave. Those closest to the blast are most affected in alternating patterns, fastest and slowest, then faster and slower, then fast and slow.
JANEWAY: Jankom was closest to the Proto-Drive, so he was the fastest. Rok was next in line, so she was the slowest. That means...
ZERO: I don't have nearly enough time.
JANEWAY: The core breach alarm. It's going to explode.
ZERO: I may not be able to build a Warp Matrix, but I can do the next best thing.
JANEWAY: You're drawing up schematics so I can pass them onto someone else.
ZERO: This mission cannot be done alone. And though we are divided by Time, we can work together. My regret is that I cannot do more. Oh, if only I had better control of my hands. I wish I could tell everyone how much they mean...
(KaBOOM! and down the sine wave to the next crewmember.) Whoever's here, Zero's given me schematics to build a Warp Matrix. It's up to you to save us all.
(Turns to see Morf.)
JANEWAY: Oh, no.

[Dal's quarters]

DAL: Urgh. Why can't I get past this level?
JANEWAY: Dal.
DAL: Hey, Janeway. Here to chew me out?
JANEWAY: I don't mean to alarm you, but there's a temporal catastrophe on our hands.
DAL: Right.
JANEWAY: I have a schematic of a Warp Matrix from Zero for you to build that will save the life of everyone onboard.
DAL: Mm-hmm, whatever. This game suddenly got faster.
(Janeway snaps her fingers, the game goes.)
DAL: Too far.
JANEWAY: Have you noticed everyone is gone?
DAL: Hmm? Gwyn, you there? Dal to crew, anyone?

[Bridge]

DAL: I'm supposed to make that? In how much time?
JANEWAY: T-Minus not very much.
DAL: Good thing we have a Vehicle Replicator.

[Cargo bay]

DAL: Fatal error? Someone loaded some giant file, and it's all out of whack.
JANEWAY: Seems the temporal anomaly has disabled the Vehicle Replicator. Too bad, it was a good idea. Clock's ticking.
DAL: Argh. Okay, sure. Zero drew up schematics, but we don't have the parts. I don't how to make that thing. You know me, I'll only mess it up. I can't.
JANEWAY: You can. When humans first went into space, there was a mission aboard a ship called Apollo 13. Its crew was in a jam, not unlike your own. While their ship wasn't equipped with what they needed, they didn't give up. They used whatever they had onboard to get back home. And you, Dal, have a little something they did have.
DAL: A warp matrix?
JANEWAY: Ingenuity. Now, what do you wanna do with the time you have left, play some silly snake game or get to building?
(He gets to building.)
JANEWAY: That looks like a Warp Matrix.
(The alarm starts.)

[Engineering]

DAL: Okay, here goes nothing.
JANEWAY: More like everything.
DAL: It won't connect. I'm missing a dilithium coupler. I need the right coupler. I told you I'd mess it up.
JANEWAY: You didn't. You added a piece to the puzzle. It may not be finished, but you're all in this together.
DAL: Hmm? What happens next?
JANEWAY: We trust each other.
(KaBOOM! The vehicle replicator starts building a Drednok.)

[Bridge]

GWYN: Dilithium coupler. Dilithium coupler. I need a dilithium coupler.
JANEWAY: Perhaps in his computer console?
GWYN: Grr. Wrong size.
JANEWAY: Hurry, Gwyn, you only have...
GWYN: Don't tell me. It never helps.
(The Drednok is finished. Janeway spots it on a screen.)
JANEWAY: What is that?
GWYN: A gift from my father.
JANEWAY: Can we return it?
GWYN: How did he get on the ship?
JANEWAY: The Vehicle Replicator. It couldn't be completed on the other timelines due to the temporal distortion, but since we're closest to normal time...
GWYN: He's headed this way.
(Drednok enters.)
JANEWAY: I've seen you before. You attacked my former crew.
DREDNOK: Janeway. I'm surprised you remember.
JANEWAY: You corrupted my files. You erased my memory.
DREDNOK: Close, but not quite. Where is your crew now?
(Gwyn attacks.)
GWYN: Ahh!
(Drednok bats her away.)
DREDNOK: You will regret interfering, Progeny.
JANEWAY: Computer...
DREDNOK: Computer, erase Captain Janeway holo-program. Authorisation Chakotay, Zulu, X-ray, X-ray, dash, four, seven, five.
GWYN: No!
DREDNOK: Commit.
JANEWAY: What... what's happening to me? Gwyn!
GWYN: No!
DREDNOK: Now bear witness as I return the Protostar to its rightful master.
GWYN: The core is breached. No one's getting this ship. What's the matter? Missing a piece?

[Protostar]

GWYN: I've already looked everywhere. You're never gonna find one the right... size. You have the right coupler. So what? You gonna get rid of me, and then take the ship?
DREDNOK: That is against my master's wishes. He cannot see what I know to be true. You are his greatest mistake.

[Engineering]

GWYN [on screen]: I won't let you steal this ship.
(She ejects the warp core.)
GWYN: Who's your master now?
(Drednok gets sucked out into space too. And then...)
GWYN: The Warp Matrix, no!

[Bridge]

GWYN: Computer, record Captain's Log.

[Mess hall]

ROK: Computer, bring back Janeway.
COMPUTER: That program has been terminated.

[Bunk room]

ROK: Good night, Gwyn. Good night, Murf. Good night, Jankom. Good night, Zero. Good night, Dal.
POG [memory]: Jankom's hungry. Let's eat the fox.
ZERO [memory]: I figured it out. Though required to only take one across, she never said we couldn't take one back.
ROK: Should have listened to Zero.

[Bridge]

ROK: Ah, ah! A message!
GWYN [on screen]: Hey, Rok, how are ya?
ROK: Lonely.
GWYN [on screen]: I don't have much time, so I'll get right to it. I'm sorry we all pushed you to be Security Officer. I've been told what to do and who to be my whole life, too. I know you're young. You're capable of so much. I want you to be the best at whatever you want. But, to have that chance, I need for you to pay close attention. I attached files with schematics to build a Warp Matrix and where to find the right dilithium coupler.
ROK: No, I can't, Gwyn. I can't.
GWYN [on screen]: I tried to do it, but things got complicated, so it's up to you. I know you can do it. The crew believes in you.
ROK: Gwyn, I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

[Mess hall]

JANEWAY: I'm... I'm back, but how?
ROK: Your memory buffers never got overwritten, so I rebuilt your programme. It only took 276 tries. I wish I could hug you.
JANEWAY: Look at you, kid. You haven't aged, but you've certainly matured. But if you could make a Warp Matrix, why did you need me?
ROK: No one told me where it goes.

[Engineering]

ROK: What if it doesn't work?
JANEWAY: Whatever happens, I'm proud of you.
(The purple pulse comes back into the warp core and Time resets.)
ROK: Huh? Hmm? Oh!
(DAL: What just happened?
GWYN: I'm back.)

[Bridge]

DAL: What just happened?
GWYN: We're alive.
POG: Jankom distinctly remembers not being alive.
ZERO: Me too. How is this possible?
JANEWAY: She's how.
ROK: We should talk about my job title.
GWYN: You did it.
JANEWAY: There's the hug you wanted.
ROK: Murf!
GWYN: How long was she alone?
JANEWAY: Too long.
ZERO: How did you do it?
ROK: I couldn't have done it without all of you. I just followed your instructions and taught myself quantum science, computer engineering, and so much math.
POG: Look at you, kid, brawn and brains.
GWYN: In all that time, she found more than her friends. She may have found her calling.
DAL: Where did you find the dilithium coupler?
ROK: To accommodate the axial misalignment of the Warp Matrix? If you can believe it, Drednok found it.
ZERO + POG: Drednok?
JANEWAY: You may not think you're a crew, but you sure look like one.
(Down in the cargo bay, in the Vehicle Replicator, Drednok's eye glows again.)