On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes.On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes.On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes.
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
- Andrew Kim
- (as Christopher Aguilar)
- Voyager Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Science Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Foster
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Russell
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst appearance of Kes's longer hair style instead of the very short hair style from seasons 1, 2, and part of 3. Jennifer Lien, the actress who played Kes, was apparently sensitive to the make-up and adhesive used to apply her Ocampa ears. With the longer hairstyle, it was no longer necessary to apply the Ocampa ears each time she was filmed.
- GoofsThe Doctor says there are no other Ocampans on board to compare with, although there are two others, Kes's daughter Linnis and her grandson Andrew; however, the Doctor was referring to the symptoms of the morilogium - which only affects Ocampa in the final stage of their lives - he had no other Ocampa to compare them with. Since Linnis and Andrew haven't reached that stage yet, the Doctor's statement is quite correct. Furthermore, Linnis and Andrew are both only part Ocampan, so their genetic structure is likely to be different anyway.
- Quotes
Neelix: So, I'm going to become a security officer. How about that?
Lieutenant Tuvok: Fortunately, Mr. Neelix, what Kes has been describing is merely one possible future. On each occasion that she jumped to a previous time, her subsequent actions most likely altered the future from that moment on.
Neelix: Good point, Tuvok. Maybe I'll turn out to be Chief Security Officer.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Voyager: Year of Hell (1997)
I'll be blunt. While I love the "Star Trek" shows, "Star Trek: Voyager" clearly is its weakest series. While it had some very good shows, too often they were just junk---and I honestly think junk is the way to describe "Before and After". Now if you ONLY saw this one, it might not seem that bad...heck, it might even seem good. However, time and time and time again, this series obviously ran out of ideas and when this happened they did an episode involving 'temporal flux' or 'temporal shifts'. In other words, for some bull#@$% reason that they pull out of a hat at the end of the episode to explain it, folks go bouncing back and forth in time. It happened so much that it became a cliché--a very bad cliché.
If anyone thinks that the MANY temporal shift episodes are good and would like to explain it to my, go ahead. But I contend that one or two would be fine....a dozen or so simply represents laziness and contempt for the fans.
- planktonrules
- Feb 19, 2015
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3