Stardate 607125.6: Janeway prepares a riddle for her "cadets" on the holodeck, to test their ability to work together to solve problems. They fail utterly. Nandi contacts the Diviner and reveals the location of the Protostar. Since it would take his ship, the Rev-12, months to get there, the Diviner says that there is an alternative way to make his presence known. The Protostar approaches a tachyon storm, upon which the protostar drive destabilizes. Jankom Pog rushes to engineering, but he is too late. A pulse of energy from the drive travels through the ship. This results in every one of the crew being on a different time level, depending on the distance to the engine core. Each of them is now on their own, together with a copy of the Janeway hologram. Moreover, a protostar drive core breach is imminent. Pog, who was closest to the engine core and whose time level is the fastest, has no chance. The ship explodes before he can fix the engine core. Talking to Janeway, who carries over the memory from Pog's time level, Zero thinks that a warp matrix between the protostar drive and the conventional warp drive could stabilize the system but he can't finish his work either. Dal builds the warp matrix but doesn't find a fitting dilithium coupler. Gwyn tries to continue his work but is interrupted by a copy of Drednok that has secretly been built by the vehicle replicator. Janeway recognizes that Drednok was the one who already sabotaged the previous mission of the ship and deleted her memory. Her program gets erased by him. As the robot is in engineering to stop the warp core breach, Gwyn activates the mechanism of the protostar drive, which causes an explosive decompression. Drednok is blown out into space, but so is the warp matrix. Rok-Tahk was in a minimum of the time wave when the split occurred and has accordingly much time left, but she neither has the knowledge nor the self-confidence to build another warp matrix, with instructions provided by Gwyn after Janeway is gone. It takes Rok-Tahk a long time to acquire the proficiency to construct the device and to rebuild the Janeway program. Once the connection of the engines is established, the core breach is averted and the common timeline is restored.

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