Non Sequitur ( episode ) Harry Kim is placed in an alternate timeline where he was never assigned to " Voyager " . Summary . Teaser . As Harry Kim wakes up , he can hear the distant voice of Captain Janeway , who says something about an emergency transport . She calls out his name several times as her voice transitions into that of his girlfriend Libby , who wakes him gently . Kim stares out the window of his apartment , which shows a panoramic cityscape , including the Transamerica Pyramid building and a Type 8 shuttlecraft flying by , as he discovers that he is back on Earth , in the city of San Francisco . Act One . A disbelieving Kim cannot believe that he is back on Earth , with Libby . She reminds him he has an important meeting and rushes a still stunned Kim to shower and get dressed . Kim emerges from the bathroom dressed in his standard operations Starfleet uniform and is obviously still trying to process exactly what happened . He asks her the stardate : 49011 . He realizes it ' s not the past , but the present , and that he isn ' t dreaming . He runs through the other possibilities : holodeck ? hallucination ? Libby , exasperated , tells him they both have long days ahead of them and they need to get to work . He responds to her like he would if he were facing an alien interrogation , and tells her he is from . She is not amused , telling him the memorial service was two months ago and he shouldn ' t joke about it , given that his friend Danny was aboard when it went missing in the Badlands . Kim leaves his apartment and continues to look around the area with disbelief . From a coffee shop named Cosimo ' s he gets what he has apparently been drinking for eight months , a Vulcan mocha , from Cosimo . From him , Kim learns that he is giving the presentation of the new ship design he – Harry Kim – has created . Kim asks the man how long he has been coming to this shop , and Cosimo tells him that it ' s been nearly every day since he graduated from Starfleet Academy . Kim also learns that he and Libby are engaged , but before he can ask more questions , Lieutenant Lasca arrives and hurries him to the important meeting . Lasca and Kim have been working on an experimental runabout , the " Yellowstone " , but since Kim has no idea what it is , he does not have the warp coil schematic he needed for their presentation to Admiral and company . Lasca starts to explain the new design of the runabout they have been working on . It has tetryon - based plasma warp nacelle s . The admiral interrupts , asking how they will address the dilithium fracture problem , since tetryon plasma can disrupt subspace . Lasca confidently introduces Kim to answer that problem , while Kim sits in his chair with a panicked look on his face – he has no idea what Lasca is talking about . Act Two . The admiral and his staff wait impatiently as Kim struggles to come up with an answer . He finally feigns illness and asks if the presentation can be continued at a later date . The admiral , however , is leaving on a three - week tour of the Cardassian border in a few days , so the presentation will have to wait until after then . Lasca leaves , disgusted with Kim for blowing the meeting . Kim enters what is apparently his office in headquarters . He sees his diploma from Starfleet Academy and the design schematics for the " Yellowstone " . Kim looks up information on himself and " Voyager " . He finds that , perhaps in this timeline , his request for a posting aboard " Voyager " was denied . Instead , Kim transferred to the Starfleet Engineering Corps . He learns that he is a starship design specialist and has had a short but so far distinguished career with them . He asks the computer if any temporal anomalies have been reported in the last 48 hours , and finds that there were none . He also tries to find information on the loss of " Voyager " , but that information is classified security level 3 or above . Kim , however , has no problem accessing the information since he is , or rather was , a member of " Voyager " s crew . He finds that his friend Danny Byrd took what would have been his place as operations officer of " Voyager " . Kim leaves his office more confused than ever . He returns to his neighborhood , but forgets where his apartment was . Cosimo points him in the right direction , and tells him everything will be fine . However , after Kim leaves , Cosimo watches him with a concerned yet knowing look – there appears to be more to the middle - aged man than meets the eye . Returning " home " , he finds Libby taking a shower . She exits the bathroom in a towel and asks if he is okay . She is concerned when he is still confused about what is going on . He asks her to tell him she loves him , like they haven ' t seen each other for months . He spins her a story much like what happened to " Voyager " . Their conversation becomes more intimate as the two kiss passionately . Later , it has grown dark and Libby sleeps in Kim ' s arms . He is lying awake and finally gets out of bed and smiles upon finding his familiar clarinet . He goes to the computer and looks up " Voyager " s crew manifest . He finds that Tom Paris is also not listed , unaware that Libby has awakened behind him and is coming over to investigate . He finds that Paris was paroled on stardate 48702 and is now living in Marseille , France . Libby wants to know what is going on . He tries to tell her nothing is going on , but she tells him he is a bad liar , and that he is acting strange , even to the point where Lasca called and wanted to know if something was going on . Kim tells her to trust him , and then tells her that he shouldn ' t be here ( in this reality ) . She thinks that he is getting cold feet about getting married , and thinks he should talk to a counselor or a neurologist . Kim tells her he has something to do first and leaves for Marseilles to find Tom Paris , leaving a confused and hurt Libby behind . In Marseilles , Kim finds Paris wearing civilian clothes and playing pool in the real - life Chez Sandríne ' s . Kim greets Paris as a friend , but Paris doesn ' t even recognize Kim , asking the ensign who the hell he is . Act Three . Kim tries to convince Paris that they served together on " Voyager " , but Paris tells a different story . After he got to Deep Space 9 , he was involved in a bar fight with Quark , and was arrested by Odo . Starfleet revoked his parole , and Paris never went on " Voyager " . He isn ' t sorry about that , considering what happened to it , but Kim remembers the story differently . " He " was the one who was nearly swindled by the Ferengi over the Lobi crystal s , and Paris " did " lead " Voyager " into the Badlands . Paris , of course , remembers no such events . Kim wants Paris to return to Starfleet HQ with him and run a simulation of what happened during his shuttle accident . Paris laughs at the idea , and tells Kim to go back to Starfleet and tell his superiors that he is not interested in being a pawn in their game . Kim tells Paris that Paris once told him he treated life as one big game – rules , players , winners and losers – and he never worried about the rules until he lost the game . He then tells Paris what Paris had told him what he thought would have happened if he hadn ' t gone on " Voyager " : that he would have become a loser and a drunk – and that is exactly what has happened . Enraged , Paris takes a swing at him , but in his half - drunken state Kim is easily able to subdue him . Kim storms out , leaving an embarrassed Paris face down on the pool table . As he leaves , Kim doesn ' t notice one of the bar patrons who watches as he leaves – it is Cosimo . Kim returns to his apartment , but there are security personnel in his apartment , and Lasca informs him that Starfleet knows what he had been doing – breaking into classified files using forged security access codes ( his own , from " Voyager " ) . Kim tries to explain , but he is ordered by Lasca to go to Starfleet HQ under escort . Admiral Strickler questions how Kim can have access to classified " Voyager " s information , and is skeptical about Kim ' s claim that he was assigned to " Voyager " since he is on Earth . Kim tries to explain that reality has been altered somehow and he needs to attempt to restore it , but nobody is willing to believe him . The admiral wonders why he went to see Tom Paris , a convicted traitor and Maquis sympathizer . Kim finally realizes that they think he is a Maquis spy , and he refuses to answer any further questions without counsel present . Kim is placed under house arrest , and is then given an anklet and is informed he is prohibited from off - world travel . Kim is dismissed with a warning from the admiral . Act Four . Returning to his neighborhood , he meets Cosimo , who reveals that Kim is not imagining that reality had been altered . He , Cosimo , was sent to Earth to watch Kim and make sure everything was all right , but now it is clear that it ' s not . He tells Kim that his people exist in what Kim would call a temporal inversion fold of the space - time matrix . He informs Kim that his shuttle collided with their timestream , causing some of reality to be altered . Kim asks for help in restoring the proper reality , but Cosimo admits that they don ' t know how . The events happened by accident and the conditions that existed before the accident may be impossible to re - create and that there is no guarantee what will happen if he does – he could end up anywhere in the space - time continuum . Cosimo asks him if he really wants to give up his life here – he has a successful Starfleet career and a beautiful woman who loves him . Kim asks him what about Danny Byrd and Tom Paris , whose lives were changed for the worse as a result of the altered timeline . Cosimo relents and gives him coordinates of the time stream in this region of space , and wishes him luck if he goes through with his plan . In his apartment , Kim attempts to remove the anklet . Libby catches him , and asks him if he wants to go to prison . She tells him she hardly knows him any more , but he assures her that he is still the guy who was in her seat at the Ktarian music festival , and the guy who took three weeks to work up the courage to ask her out , and who still wakes up at night calling her name . She wonders , then why he is trying to get away from her . He tells her he wants to stay more than anything , but that he needs to restore the correct timeline , and that he wouldn ' t be the Kim she loves otherwise . Suddenly , the tampering alarm on the bracelet goes off , and Starfleet Security is alerted . Two security officers beam in , and Kim escapes out the window while Libby closes it behind him and blocks them . Kim runs down the fire escape , almost getting caught in the process . He is chased across the plaza by a security officer who tackles him to the ground , but this reality ' s Tom Paris punches the security guard and they both walk away quickly . Act Five . After their escape , Paris and Kim take temporary shelter in a service alleyway . Kim tells Paris that he has a plan to restore the correct reality , but he will need a ship and a good pilot . They can break the " Yellowstone " out of spacedock , and Paris can fly it . Paris beams them to Kim ' s office using a hand - portable site - to - site transport er . In Kim ' s office , Kim accesses the runabout ' s access codes , and they beam to the " Yellowstone " just prior to almost being captured by Starfleet security . Paris flies them through the rapidly closing spacedock doors , and they head for the time - stream coordinates . A starship is pursuing them , thinking the two are trying to steal the prototype runabout . The starship fires , knocking out their shields with just a few shots . The prototype was not yet complete , and many of the safety interlocks were not installed . The ship begins to lose anti - matter containment . Kim gets the idea to vent the tetryon plasma , which disrupts subspace , from the ship ' s warp nacelles , which would cause the pursuing ship to stall when it hit the resulting plasma cloud . They do , and the pursuing starship is slowed , but their joy is short - lived when the warp core begins to overload . Kim desperately tries to recreate all the conditions that were in place before his accident as best he can remember , such as running a polaron scan . They impact the time stream , but nothing happens , and Kim remembers that he was in the midst of an emergency transport . The ship loses antimatter containment , and the core will breach in twenty - five seconds . Paris orders Kim to get onto the transporter pad , but Kim doesn ' t want to go until they can contain the breach . Paris tells him that if this works , everything will be back to the way it should be and he ' ll find Paris back on " Voyager " . He then shoves Kim onto the transporter pad and beams him into the time stream , just as the ship explodes . Kim opens his eyes and finds he is back in his correct reality , and Captain Janeway is still hailing him , telling him to drop the shields of his shuttle and prepare for emergency beam - out . " Voyager " manages to beam Kim out of his shuttle , the " " , just before it suffers a hull breach , and Kim , back on " Voyager " , is relieved to find Tom Paris alive and on the bridge , manning the helm . He tells Paris he owes him one , much to Paris ' bewilderment . Memorable quotes . " " Where are you going ? " " " " Marseille , France . " " " " What for ? " " " " I ' ve got to see Paris . " " " " But you just said you were going to Marseille . " " " " Hey , watch it , will ya ? ! I ' m trying to set up a shot here . " " " " Tom ! " " " " Who the hell are you ? " " " " Excuse me . . . Ow ! There goes my bank shot ! " " " " Anyway , I got as far as Deep Space 9 , where I got into a bar fight with a Ferengi and I was thrown into the brig by a very unpleasant shapeshifter . " " " " Harry . . . you better be dying . " " " " Why does everyone say relax when they ' re about to do something terrible ? " " Links and references . 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