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Ensign Kim wakes up to find himself in San Fransisco. Not only is he him, but it also appears as if he has never served on board Voyager. Instead he is engaged to his girlfriend Libby and about to unveil a new design for a Starfleet runabout. Since he doesn't remember anything about the design, he complains of feeling ill and takes his leave the meeting. After accessing the Starfleet database about Voyager, Kim goes to Marseilles to ask Tom Paris, who also apparently did not join the Voyager crew, for his help. Paris refuses, and when Kim returns home, he is questioned by Starfleet for his unauthorized look at Starfleet's records of Voyager. Kim finds out from Cosimo, an alien supposed to look after him, that his shuttle craft intersected a time stream that caused him to switch into a reality of his life had he never joined the Voyager crew. Warning that there was no certain way to get home, Cosimo tells Kim on the coordinates at which he could intersect the time stream again and ...

Some of the exterior shots used in this episode are reused shots from various Star Trek movies. The scene of Ensign Kim's return to San Francisco is a re-use of the air tram flight Admiral Kirk takes to Starfleet Command in Star Trek: Der Film (1979). The exterior shot of Starfleet Headquarters is a re-use from Star Trek III: Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock (1984) and Star Trek IV: Zurück in die Gegenwart (1986). Also an exterior night shot of the Golden Gate Bridge is a re-use from Star Trek II: Der Zorn des Khan (1982).

When Kim comes up out of the subway, there are three colored shapes on the railing: a circle, triangle, and square. These were the original logo shapes for UPN and Star Trek: Voyager was one of the first flagship shows of that network.

Jennifer Gatti (Libby) also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation in Birthright: Parts I and II as Ba'el.

Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Ethan Phillips (Neelix) and Jennifer Lien (Kes) do not appear in this episode. In fact, with the exceptions of Paris and Kim, none of the main cast appear in this episode until the final minute (although Janeway's voice is heard in the beginning).

One of the possible theories of Harry's actions by Starfleet Command is that he is impersonated by an alien, which foreshadows the threat of Changelings infiltrating Earth in DS9: "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" later in the same year. Although not directly stated, it seems that Starfleet Command is already cautious about a possible Changeling threat.

Among other Star Trek appearances that Jack Shearer (Strickler) made were as Admiral Hayes in Star Trek: First Contact as well as the Star Trek: Voyager episodes "Hope and Fear" and "Life Line". The fact that Strickler's name is never said aloud during this episode caused considerable confusion among some fans due to Jack Shearer's appearances as Admiral Hayes in later episodes of the series.

According to the Stardate, 49011, the events of this episode take place at the same time as the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Way of the Warrior".

The title derives from the Latin, "It does not follow". The phrase is used in English to mean something that doesn't make sense.

There is a model of the Enterprise-D in Harry's quarters that can be seen after his meeting at Starfleet Command.

This episode marks the only appearance of a runabout on the series. The runabout in this episode appears both with and without its structural rollbar.

There is a brief glimpse of a banner advertising the Old Town Festival in the Mission District of San Francisco as occurring on August 14th. This is one of the few instances of a month (rather than a stardate) being mentioned in a 24th-century episode.

47-reference: When Harry says he has forgotten where he lives, he is directed toward his building and told he lives on the fourth floor in apartment 4G. G is the seventh letter of the alphabet, therefore 47.

This is one of nine "Star Trek" episodes with a Latin title. The others are Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dramatis Personae (1993), Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert: Sub Rosa (1994), Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager: Ex Post Facto (1995), Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager: Alter Ego (1997), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges (1999), Star Trek: Enterprise: Terra Nova (2001), Star Trek: Enterprise: Vox Sola (2002) and Star Trek: Discovery: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (2017).

Admiral Strickler's name is given in the episode's end credits but is never established in episode dialogue.

Due to the recycled footage of Starfleet Headquarters from Star Trek IV, this episode is the only time a Tellarite appears on Star Trek: Voyager.

Although Harry Kim has been established as living in the Mission District of San Francisco by the banners on the street outside, the view from his apartment window shows him living in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood. This district is close to the Transamerican Pyramid Building which is often blocked by the downtown skyscrapers when seen from the Mission District. Also, he only climbs down 4 stories using the fire escape while the window view shows the apartment nearly 3/4 the height of this skyscraper.

This takes place in 2372.

This is the first episode of the series in which Kes does not appear.

The scene when Harry Kim and Tom Paris steal the runabout and fly it out through the space dock doors is a re-used shot from Raumschiff Enterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert: Relics (1992) of the Enterprise-D escaping from the interior of the Dyson Sphere, but with the runabout superimposed over the Enterprise.

Voyager loses a second shuttlecraft, the Drake, in this episode, the first being lost in "Initiations".

47-reference: in the alternate reality, Kim's office at Starfleet Headquarters is in the main complex on level 6, subsection 47.

The shot of the runabout exploding is taken from the DS9 episode "Armageddon Game".

User reviews


  • comment
    • Author: Nagis
    Only the 2nd Season, and even though the entire premise of the series is our hapless crew flung 70,000 light years away in a completely mysterious, unknown quadrant, we have to whisk our characters back to Earth. What's the point of even putting them out there to begin with? Have we run out of mystery in the Delta?

    The episode focuses on Harry Kim. He wakes up 70,000 light years back to his warm, cozy bed, and along side his hottie! That's good, right? Well, not for Harry. He needs to find answers, even if it means sleepwalking through the rest of the episode to find them! Can a strange, compelling mystery of an altered reality also be a complete snooze-fest? Yes! Yes it can!

    Eventually, Harry learns the reason for his unusual circumstance, from a watchful alien coffee shop barista, no less (I'm sure 24th Century San Francisco has one on every street corner, if they don't currently in our century). Seems there was an unfortunate "badda bing, badda BOOM" with a shuttlecraft, and, well, you know, things went all screwy! I guess this is a more remedial version of the Q Continuum, I don't know. The Jersey Q. Forgettaboutit! Their advice? "Here kid, this is where it happened. You might make it back. Or, you might not. Rotsa ruck!"

    Oh, and by the way, did we mention that now Starfleet is suddenly convinced Kim is a spy, and must be stopped at all costs? Well, we didn't see that development coming, now did we? Starfleet is always right on top of these kinds of things. It's not difficult enough to have to pilot a Runabout in a one-in-a-million shot through a spacial anomaly. You need Starfleet's finest on your tail beating down your shield generators for some extra drama! But if anyone can do it, it's Tom Paris. That's why he's conveniently in this altered reality as well. Since the past 40 minutes of the episode has been almost completely devoid of any action, we'll go out with a bang!

    The time honored Temporal anomaly saves the day as always, and within the last few moments, everything is back to normal. Yay! Just in the nick of time, too, with absolutely no unpleasant reflection about what happened, how he touched home, his woman poised to marry him, or the strange Jersey Q beings he encountered that were a cause of it. Nope! We're just rockin' and rollin' back in the Delta Quadrant! Woo! Next please!
  • comment
    • Author: Stanober
    In this episode something strange has happened to Harry Kim; as it opens he awakens next to his fiancée in San Francisco and learns that he was never on Voyager. What is happening is a total mystery; is he on a holodeck? is he under alien mind control or has history somehow been changed? Harry isn't the only member of the Voyager crew there, Tom Paris is also there although unlike Harry he has no recollection of going to the Delta Quadrant on Voyager, in this reality he broke his parole and wasn't permitted to go on the mission. Harry's behaviour raises suspicions and he is given an electronic tag and told he can't leave the surface... this presents a problem as he believes the only way to get back to where he is meant to be is to fly a shuttle into an certain anomaly.

    At first I suspected this would be a weak episode but ended up really enjoying it. It was interesting that there weren't any scenes on Voyager until the very end meaning that it is entirely up to Harry to find a way back to Voyager and decide if he even wants to go back; after all life as successful Star Fleet engineer married to the woman he loves has certain appeals that life in the Delta Quadrant lacks. Garrett Wang does well in the role of Harry Kim as is needed as he carries the episode.
  • comment
    • Author: Usic
    Harry Kim, the equivalent of a fortune cookie without the fortune inside, awakens to find himself at home in San Francisco, his girlfriend beside him in bed. How can this be? Is this a spatial anomaly causing an alternate reality? A tear in the fabric of the space-time continuum? Yet another holodeck fantasy gone wrong? Does anybody care in the slightest?

    Harry is able to piece together most of what's going on, thanks in part to Cosimo, the local cappuccino man who makes him cappuccino every morning. He reminds Harry what planet they're on and in what century, and exactly how sweet he likes his Vulcan Mocha. Harry, who has the amazing ability to never change his facial expression, doesn't. We're led to believe that on the inside he's conflicted and confused and concerned by this alternate reality, which ironically enough is not all that alternate than the one he knows as true.

    After a trip to Marseilles to see Paris- don't ask- he returns home where he is promptly arrested by Starfleet as a spy. Yep, another warm and fuzzy waking-nightmare episode from the good folks at Hallmark. Luckily coffee man Cosimo reveals to Harry the secrets of the universe: THIS is exactly why you should always tip your Starbucks barista. Seems Harry's snagged in a temporal-inversion fold of the space-time matrix. Ah-ha. And it seems Cosimo is actually an alien sent to Earth to monitor Harry's safely from afar. Sure. Also, there's no way to ensure a return to the "correct" universe... Harry has as good a chance of restoring the time line and winding up back on Voyager as he does being re-born as a Ferengi proctologist. Harry- who doesn't seem particularly passionate about either existence- decides to return home because that's what it says in the script.

    He and Paris steal a ship and head back toward the Mystery Hole, where their one-in-a-zillion odds of restoring reality play out perfectly. Harry's back to being the brown paper bag on a starship of colorful lunch boxes and Tom is back to being the creepy, directionless lout we all know and love.

    Hooray?

    GRADE: D
  • comment
    • Author: Tuliancel
    I do not expect a sci-fi show to be 100% believable. You have to suspend disbelief and that's not normally a problem. However, with "Non Sequitur" the problems are too many--like the script needed some more work before filming started.

    The show begins with Harry Kim waking up in San Francisco. No, this is not a dream--he IS in San Francisco and it is as if he never became a member of the Voyager crew. In fact, he soon learns that Voyager WAS lost and its current whereabouts are unknown--but he didn't go on the ship! This makes no sense and throughout the show Harry tries to find out what's happening to him. The answer really doesn't make a lot of sense (after all, the folks who made this happen certainly could have done a lot more than just drop him in San Francisco). What makes FAR less sense, however, is that apparently Tom Paris didn't go aboard later and he has no recollection that anything is wrong--yet, inexplicably, Paris does a lot of insanely dangerous and illegal things because some stranger (Kim) asks him to! It's all very contrived and very illogical...even for "Star Trek: Voyager".
  • comment
    • Author: Direbringer
    Garret Wang is not a particularly compelling actor. So watching an episode that's almost 100% on him is just boring. Actually any episode that takes you away from the Voyager onto these stupid folds in the space time continuum just gets confusing and dull. Garret complains a lot in interviews about how he was a hot young star and they kept doing stories with old Mulgrew and Beltran and it's like he can't figure out he just wasn't that good to watch.
  • comment
    • Author: Yahm
    At the time this episode first aired, Star Trek fans were highly critical of Voyager. And they had plenty of good reasons.

    I suspect the producers, et. al., knew about this and gave the fans as direct a response as they could in this quote from Cosimo in the episode: "We exist in what you would call a temporal inversion fold in the space time continuum. It's not necessary to understand. It only matters that there was an accident. Your shuttle intersected one of our time streams and, BOOM, a few things were altered as a result of the accident. History and events were scrambled a bit, and you ended up here."

    The second and third sentences tell the story. It's as if the producers were saying to the fans, "Don't try to make sense of everything we do. Just go with it and enjoy the show." Pretty clever, if that's what Rick Berperson and company were trying to do.
  • comment
    • Author: Opimath
    By this point in the series, it has become pretty clear that Garrett Wang is, let's say, not the best actor in the world. What's worse, his character, Harry Kim, is very insignificant, serving the role of saying things like "attempting to compensate", and "I am detecting an anomaly". So having an episode centred on him to aid his character development was certainly necessary, but at the same time, a hard task to accomplish. To make matters worse, the episode they came up with was ST generic plot #465,5 with Kim waking up in a different reality, having never been assigned to Voyager.

    Despite the generic, uninspired plot, the story did offer a few chances to at least shape a personality for Ensign Buttonpusher. But both the script and Wang's limited abilities proved insurmountabe obstacles: a couple of scenes with potential (e.g. where he asks his fiancee to pretend like she hasn't seen him in a long time) could at the hands of a finer actor be memorable, but a real life Vulcan can't make the most of them. Meanwhile, once what transpired is revealed (anomaly, aliens), Kim is faced with an obvious dilemma. Go back to his reality, or stay where he has a good life and is not lost in space? This should be a difficult question (to say the least), even more so since the alien Italian coffee shop owner (don't ask) tells him "who knows, there is 99% chance of failure". But no, with the help of Tom who he contacted for no other reason than to have a second regular cast member appear and who pretty much kills himself in a YOLO moment, everything works out and Kim returns to his fulfilling job and life, detecting anomalies in the Delta Quadrant - without an ounce of regret for abandoning the chance to return to, presumably, the love of his life (however much someone with the personality of Harry Kim can love). There should have, obviously, been a reason to force him to go back, against his desire, but the writers could simply not bother enough. I mean, have him go to the holodeck and listen to "I left my heart in San Francisco" or something, show you care about this poor, poor excuse of a character even a tiny bit.

    There are other great moments in the episode, which show a lot of thought went into it, like when the Admiral says the next meeting has to wait since he is leaving for the Cardassian border but then he appears again the next morning. Or when they are presenting the designs for a new ship and Kim suddenly says, very convincingly, "I am very ill" so everyone is like "ok, let's do this again in a month, it's not like you wasted our time".
  • comment
    • Author: Xisyaco
    As the writers work to give full space to each of the characters, one at a time, the plots become convoluted. Here, Harry finds himself in the lap of luxury, living with his foxy girlfriend. The problem is that his profile is utterly alien to him. He is supposed to have great technological accomplishment but has no memory of any of them. Anyway, he devotes himself to getting back to Voyage, lost in space, trying to get home. The problem with this episode is that it's sort of dull. Harry is far from a dynamic presence, so his return doesn't grab us.
  • Episode cast overview:
    Kate Mulgrew Kate Mulgrew - Captain Kathryn Janeway
    Robert Beltran Robert Beltran - Commander Chakotay
    Roxann Dawson Roxann Dawson - Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
    Jennifer Lien Jennifer Lien - Kes (credit only)
    Robert Duncan McNeill Robert Duncan McNeill - Lieutenant Tom Paris
    Ethan Phillips Ethan Phillips - Neelix (credit only)
    Robert Picardo Robert Picardo - The Doctor (credit only)
    Tim Russ Tim Russ - Lieutenant Tuvok
    Garrett Wang Garrett Wang - Ensign Harry Kim
    Louis Giambalvo Louis Giambalvo - Cosimo
    Jennifer Gatti Jennifer Gatti - Libby
    Jack Shearer Jack Shearer - Admiral Strickler
    Mark Kiely Mark Kiely - Lieutenant Lasca
    Majel Barrett Majel Barrett - Voyager Computer (voice)
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