Another episode about time travel and again with Captain Braxton of the Starfleet Temporal Integrity Commission. This time, however, he's played by a different actor, which is a bit confusing - not particularly helpful in an already confusing story about time travel and alternate timelines.
This time, Seven is recruited by the Commission to prevent an attack on Voyager, which will not only destroy the entire ship and crew, but also disrupt the space-time continuum. Seven discovers that the saboteur is actually the future self of Braxton, who suffered a temporal psychosis as a result of the events in the episode "Future's End" - he spent 30 years in the past after his ship crashed on Earth by the intervention of Janeway and Voyager. In the future, he will suffer further psychological breakdowns and ultimately will lose his rank and position. He sees the only way out of this misery as erasing Voyager from the timeline once and for all.
As with all episodes about time travel, it would have been better if these stories had been planned well in advance and integrated into the earlier episodes that are now referred to. For example, the future Janeway with a shorter haircut appears on Voyager just as it is being attacked by the Kazon and meets Torres there. But she doesn't seem to notice that her captain suddenly has a different hairstyle - because at that point in this episode Janeway still had her long hair pinned up. It would have been interesting to have seen this scene in the old episode.
Furthermore, time travel paradoxes not only give Janeway a headache but also give me a headache. Actually, the catastrophe that sent Braxton into the past was prevented in the episode "Future's End" (a causal paradox). A new timeline appears to have emerged. But since Voyager and Janeway moved in the timeline that was created when the catastrophe was prevented and were sent back into the future by a Braxton who didn't spend 30 years on Earth at the end of the 20th century, it's impossible for this version of Braxton to have suffered psychosis in this exact timeline. Otherwise, the psychotic Braxton would have jumped over to the other timeline. But as always with films and episodes about time travel: Don't think too much, as you will always discover plot holes that make no sense in the end.
This time, Seven is recruited by the Commission to prevent an attack on Voyager, which will not only destroy the entire ship and crew, but also disrupt the space-time continuum. Seven discovers that the saboteur is actually the future self of Braxton, who suffered a temporal psychosis as a result of the events in the episode "Future's End" - he spent 30 years in the past after his ship crashed on Earth by the intervention of Janeway and Voyager. In the future, he will suffer further psychological breakdowns and ultimately will lose his rank and position. He sees the only way out of this misery as erasing Voyager from the timeline once and for all.
As with all episodes about time travel, it would have been better if these stories had been planned well in advance and integrated into the earlier episodes that are now referred to. For example, the future Janeway with a shorter haircut appears on Voyager just as it is being attacked by the Kazon and meets Torres there. But she doesn't seem to notice that her captain suddenly has a different hairstyle - because at that point in this episode Janeway still had her long hair pinned up. It would have been interesting to have seen this scene in the old episode.
Furthermore, time travel paradoxes not only give Janeway a headache but also give me a headache. Actually, the catastrophe that sent Braxton into the past was prevented in the episode "Future's End" (a causal paradox). A new timeline appears to have emerged. But since Voyager and Janeway moved in the timeline that was created when the catastrophe was prevented and were sent back into the future by a Braxton who didn't spend 30 years on Earth at the end of the 20th century, it's impossible for this version of Braxton to have suffered psychosis in this exact timeline. Otherwise, the psychotic Braxton would have jumped over to the other timeline. But as always with films and episodes about time travel: Don't think too much, as you will always discover plot holes that make no sense in the end.