Before And After

Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.

This is a great episode, and one of the too few that focused on Kes. Her character was never used or explored properly.

Real Life

The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.

The end is very sad. The Doctor has a wife, a teenage son, and a preteen girl. The girl is fatally injured while playing Paresi Squares.

The son wants to be a Klingon.

But that is life in a family....

This is one of my very favorites. It was written well. Loved the sub plot with Tom Paris stuck in subspace in a shuttle.

"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.