Shattered ( episode ) The macroviruses , Dr . Chaotica , and Seska hinder Chakotay and Janeway ' s attempt to restore " Voyager " to its normal state after a temporal distortion shifts sections of the ship into different timeframes . Summary . is hit by an energy bolt from a spatial rift with massive amounts of chroniton s and neutrino s , which causes the ship to shatter into 37 different timeframes . Chakotay is injured by a bolt from the overloaded warp core . He ' s beamed to sickbay , where The Doctor injects him with a chroniton - infused serum which allows him to travel between the different timeframes . He goes to the bridge and selects Captain Janeway as his ally . In this timeframe , Janeway only knows of him as a leader of the Maquis cell she was ordered to capture . Despite her protests , Chakotay injects her with the chroniton serum created by The Doctor . Together , they travel through the different timeframes in order to restore the ship to the proper timeline . Teaser . Chakotay enters the cargo bay where he finds Naomi Wildman and Icheb working on an educational jigsaw puzzle . Chakotay is in a bit of a hurry , looking for his stash of Antarian cider . He wants to bring a bottle to his weekly dinner with Captain Janeway . He is in a good mood and quite amused with Icheb ' s frustration with Naomi ' s playful attitude while she is supposed to be studying . He tells Icheb not to tell Neelix of his hiding place , as he only has a couple of bottles left . Icheb suggests to hide the cider among Borg spare parts , where Neelix is sure not to snoop . While Chakotay and Captain Janeway enjoy a quiet dinner in the captain ' s quarters – or rather attempt to , since her replicator decides to burn her pot roast – " Voyager " encounters a temporal anomaly . Chakotay quickly runs down to engineering while the captain gets to the bridge . In engineering , Chakotay tries to prevent a warp core breach , but a surge of temporal energy travels through the core , and hits him . He is quickly transported to sickbay showing signs of progeria on his face and in various organs of his body . Act One . The Doctor develops a treatment for his condition , and Chakotay heads off to the bridge to find the captain after The Doctor informs him that he is not able to contact anyone else or leave sickbay . The Doctor has not heard of his mobile emitter . Once in the turbolift , a strange wave of light sweeps from above as the lift rises to the bridge , and the medkit that he was carrying vanishes . When Chakotay arrives on the bridge , he causes a stir and Janeway acts as if she doesn ' t know him . The captain ' s long hair is tied up in bun , much like when " Voyager " arrived in the Delta Quadrant . Janeway informs him that " Voyager " is pursuing the Maquis ship in the Badlands , and that Chakotay is her primary target . She orders him taken to the brig , but the officers with him vanish as they go down in the turbolift , and he arrives in engineering 5 years ago during the Kazon takeover of " Voyager " by Seska . Chakotay manages to escape through another distortion . Seska asks the rest of the Kazon in Engineering to scan for anomalies . Act Two . Chakotay manages to get back to sickbay , where he realizes that The Doctor ' s treatment allows him to pass through the time distortions . With this in mind , Chakotay takes a hypospray with the serum in it and heads back to the bridge , where he confronts the past Janeway once more . Chakotay tells her that an anomaly has hit the ship in the future causing him to shift into the past . Janeway tells him that her helmsman ( assumed to be Lieutenant Stadi , although there is no official evidence of this ) walked out of her ready room into the corridor and disappeared . However , the occurrence doesn ' t sway Janeway into believing Chakotay , so he claims the hypospray holds poison and presses it against Janeway ' s neck , threatening to kill her . Chakotay , still holding the captain , heads off in the direction that the crew member had gone before they disappeared . The two shift into another timeline , Chakotay having injected Janeway with the hypospray seconds earlier . Chakotay explains to Janeway that it is all true and that they are good friends in the future . Still skeptical , Janeway offers her help in formulating a plan , but they must get to sickbay . On the way to sickbay , they pass into another timeframe , one where two wounded crew members are laying on the ground . Chakotay theorizes that it may be either the timeframe when " Voyager " was under the influence of the dream species or when " Voyager " encountered the telepathic pitcher plant . He assures Janeway that the crew will be fine . Chakotay suggests they go to astrometrics to scan the ship for temporal fractures , surprising Janeway who doesn ' t think " Voyager " has such a lab . They enter astrometrics to find Icheb and Naomi Wildman as adult Starfleet crewmembers , surprised to see them since , in their timeline , the captain and her first officer had died seventeen years earlier . Act Three . Icheb and Naomi reveal that the ship has been fractured into thirty - seven different timeframes . Naomi wishes that Seven of Nine was there to help them but tells Chakotay and Janeway that they don ' t know when or where she is . They find her in Cargo Bay 2 , still a pure Borg drone , with the other Borg drones that beamed aboard during their alliance . She informs them that the way that Borg vessels keep in temporal sync is by projecting a chroniton field and suggests that if they modify the bio - neural gel pack s that run " Voyager " s systems , it will return " Voyager " to Chakotay ' s timeline . The Doctor modifies a pair of bandoleers to resist the temporal barriers to hold the hyposprays . The Doctor starts talking about the Delta Quadrant , but Chakotay cuts him off , not wishing to violate the Temporal Prime Directive any more than Chakotay already had . Chakotay and Janeway head off to inject the necessary packs , first passing through time into past events , although Chakotay does not realize this at first . They inject the gel pack , and narrowly escape when a macrovirus turns up . It chases them through a time distortion and disappears . They find themselves having enter the holodeck into Tom Paris ' favorite holoprogram , " Captain Proton " , where they are met by the various cheesy characters that they must get past to inject the gelpack in holodeck number two , mainly achieved by Janeway ' s reluctant impersonation of Queen Arachnia . Act Four . Janeway is strapped to a table while Chaotica is preparing to torture her . Then Janeway and Chakotay tell Chaotica that there is a danger from the 8th dimension . Chaotica is then manipulated into exposing and injecting the gelpack and they manage to convince him to release them to rid the rest of Chaotica ' s realm of those gelpacks . In the transporter room , they encounter several members of the Maquis , including B ' Elanna Torres and Ayala . They are hostile to Janeway and Chakotay , but allow them to inject the gelpack and leave . Janeway questions Torres ' s comments about stranding them in the Delta Quadrant and Chakotay assures her that she did it for a good reason . When they enter the mess hall , they find it being used as a sickbay and injured crewmen litter the floor , being treated by Tom Paris for radiation poisoning due to the temporal anomaly in Chakotay ' s timeline . Neelix gives Janeway some coffee and assures her that he has faith that they will come through this crisis like they have all others – surprising Janeway as she has obviously never met Neelix before – while Chakotay injects the gelpack . Janeway then finds a badly - injured Tuvok , who greets her before dying . In a turbolift Janeway hatches an alternative plan : to bring the entire " Voyager " into her timeframe . She discusses her plan with Chakotay , who dismisses it , telling her about some of the people that she ' s helped over the years , such as Paris and Torres ' s marriage and their rescue of Seven and Icheb , assuring her that " Voyager " will make a positive impact on the Delta Quadrant . They leave discussing Seska . She is in engineering , which is in the period that the Kazon took over the ship . She realizes that if Chakotay is there from the future , then they must have re - taken the ship from the Kazon and makes an attempt to bring the ship into sync with her timeframe . Act Five . Meanwhile Janeway , Paris and Kim watch from the higher section of engineering . Paris and Harry Kim leap onto two of the Kazon , while Naomi and Icheb correct the modification that Seska had already made . Ayala and B ' Elanna Torres disarm another Kazon guard , but Seska holds Janeway hostage . She disarms Janeway and holds a weapon to her head , forcing all of them to drop their weapons . Seska is about to kill Janeway when Seven of Nine enters engineering , repelling Seska ' s shots with a Borg force field . She slaps Seska and chokes her , forcing her to release Janeway . This means that Chakotay can initiate the pulse , thus erasing the memories of the other participants while Chakotay averts the events that caused the anomaly . Back in the present , Chakotay reminds Janeway that they have not finished their dinner . Janeway is surprised but follows Chakotay off the bridge . Back in her quarters , Janeway asks Chakotay about the experience . He declines to answer , gently reminding her of the Temporal Prime Directive . When they run out of cider , Janeway surprises Chakotay by suggesting he should go to the cargo bay to get another bottle . When Chakotay asks her how she found about it , Janeway also declines to answer , reminding him of the Temporal Prime Directive . Memorable quotes . " " There . " " " " Excellent . You recognized the complementary base pair . " " " " Actually , I just found two pieces that fit together . " " " " You ' re missing the point . " " " " I thought the point was to finish the puzzle . " " " " And to learn something about genetics . " " " " If you really want to help , find me a green piece that looks like Tuvok ' s ear . " " " " Once , a long time ago , I called this replicator a glorified toaster . It never forgave me . " " " " It ' s a fascinating story , but as the Ferengi say , a good lie is easier to believe than the truth . " " " " The Captain and I haven ' t risen from the grave . " " " " Commander , in case you were wondering . . . I never told Neelix where you hid that cider . " " " " Your plan is inefficient . " " " " Why ? " " " " There are only two of you . If I were to assimilate you into a small Borg collective , you could then assimilate others . The work would proceed more quickly . " " " " Sorry , but I like my plan better . We ' ll be back . " " " " Doesn ' t sound like Mr . Paris ' tastes are very sophisticated . " " " " That ' s why we love having him around . " " " " You ' re going to have the opportunity to study things no Human has ever seen before . " " " " Including some very large germs . " " " " If we restore the timeline , remind me to cancel Mr . Paris ' s holodeck privileges . " " " " What ' s going on , and what the hell are you doing in that uniform ? " " " " If Seven ' s idea works , Tuvok and those other crewmen will be fine . " " " " They ' ll still be stuck in the Delta Quadrant . If the temporal anomaly doesn ' t kill them something else will – the Borg , telepathic pitcher plants , macroviruses – the Delta Quadrant is a death trap ! " " " " What about the Temporal Prime Directive ? " " " " To hell with it ! " " " " That is not the future I have in mind . " " " " In that case . . . goodbye Chakotay . " " " " I ' d like to thank you now , for putting your doubts aside and helping me to put mine aside as well . Good luck to each of you . " " " " For two people who started off as enemies , it seems to get to know each other pretty well , so I ' ve been wondering . . . Just how close do we get ? " " " " Let ' s just say . . . there are some barriers we never cross . " " " " Have you ever heard of a lightning rod ? 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