Before and After

Kestra finds herself in temporal flux with her consciousness moving back in time through various episodes in her life up until her birth.
==Plot==
Kestra finds herself living short periods of time in reverse order. She first gains consciousness in sickbay as an elderly woman, surrounded by her Inarian family born on Valiant. Lt. Lillian Crusher is able to put her into a biotemporal chamber to try to extend Kestra's normally short life-span. Her next period of consciousness occurs some days before, where Lillian has affirmed that Kestra is suffering from mental deterioration due to her old age and his plans to use the biotemporal chamber. Kestra finds it difficult to be around the members of her family who she doesn't know. During these periods, she comes to learn that Valiant had suffered a "Year of Hell" some years before when facing a race called the Krenim that repeatedly assaulted the ship as it crossed their space, costing the life of Captain Tim Watters along with significant damage to the ship. As her periods of consciousness approach that point, she is able to work with the crew to postulate the nature of the Krenim temporal-based weapons and how to reverse the effects Kestra is experiencing with a biotemporal chamber. Lillian surmises that if Kestra can obtain the temporal phase shift that affected her, she would be able to stop her backwards progression in time.
Soon, Kestra finds herself experiencing the period of the Year of Hell. The ship is significantly damaged, and an undetonated Krenim torpedo is lodged in the ship. Kestra witnesses the death of Watters, and convinces Karen Farris to let her examine the dangerous weapon. She discovers the phase shift before passing out and coming to at an earlier period. Realizing she is getting near the time she first joined the Valiant crew, she is able to convince Crusher of her symptoms and the means to stop it using the Kremin phase shift. However, even in the biotemporal chamber, she continues to flash back, soon finding herself back with the Inarian and still growing younger. She regresses further to an infant, then to a fetus, before she suddenly starts moving forward in time.
She eventually comes to in the present, two years since she joined Valiant and before the Year of Hell. Crusher acknowledges the biotemporal chamber a success and Kestra is cured. Despite a celebration in the holodeck for 18th birthday, she wants to document her memories of the future, particularly the Year of Hell, to help Watters and her crew, before she forgets them.
==Cast==
Starring
*Ryan Merriman as Captain Timothy Watters
Also Starring
*Kirsten Prout as Commander Karen Farris
*Christopher Massey as Lt. Cmdr. Savok
*Samantha Munro as Kestra
*Matt Angel as Lt. Riley Shepard
*Garrett Lopez as Ensign Lucas Parton
and
*Shenae Grimes as Lt. Lillian Crusher