Course: Oblivion

Missing Scenes

This episode is one of a number in season five which were filmed for a broadcast length of approximately 44 minutes, but which were transmitted in edited form by UPN in order to slice two minutes off the running time. The transcripts below are of the scenes and scene fragments that are missing from that UPN broadcast, based on a comparison between the first airing on UPN and the full version of the episode. Please note that an entirely different set of cuts may have been made on subsequent repeats of the episode by UPN, and that syndication reruns seem to be showing the episodes intact.

Dialogue shown in italic type is only included in the full version of the episode. Dialogue shown in normal type is in both versions. Scene start timings are approximate, rounded up or down to the nearest minute, and are based on the UK PAL broadcast format (25 frames per second).

Janeway's Quarters. 25 minutes.

[It's our weekly dinner together. Don't tell me you forgot?] [We've lost three more people. We've got to head back.] [Maybe this dinner wasn't such a good idea after all.]

Some time after the scene in the Mess Hall, where Janeway broke the news about them being a cloned crew and stated her intention to continue with the original crew's mission to return to the Alpha Quadrant, a proposal that was not unanimously well received, she has dinner with Chakotay in her quarters.

Janeway:	Come in. Chicken pakrakash. My grandmother's recipe. Well, really not my grandmother, but it's still delicious. It's our weekly dinner together. Don't tell me you forgot?
Chakotay:	We've lost three more people. We've got to head back.
Janeway:	I've spent the past five years trying to get this crew home. I'm not about to quit now.
Chakotay:	Listen to yourself. You haven't even been alive for five years. Home is a Class Y planet in the Delta Quadrant. We don't belong on Earth.
Janeway:	How do you know where we belong? For all we know, the real Voyager's been destroyed and we're all that's left. For all we know, we're supposed to be living their lives.
Chakotay:	That's a pretty big assumption. And it's putting this crew in danger.
Janeway:	There's only one thing I know how to be, Chakotay. And that's Kathryn Janeway.
Chakotay:	I'd like to think I know Captain Janeway pretty well myself. And as much as she'd like to get her crew home, I don't think she'd be willing to kill them in the process.
Janeway:	Maybe this dinner wasn't such a good idea after all.

Briefing Room. 34 minutes.

[The holographic projectors in Sickbay went offline at 0300. We've lost the Doctor.] [I'm still the Captain.] [And I am the Chief Medical Officer. Don't push me to relieve you of your duties.]

Finally heading back towards the Demon planet, Voyager's crew is fast being depleted. The surviving senior staff try to make ends meet in a briefing session.

Kim:	The holographic projectors in Sickbay went offline at 0300. We've lost the Doctor.
Janeway:	What's Tom's condition?
Kim:	No change.
Janeway:	Well... hmm... looks like we're in the market for a new medical officer. Feel up to it, Neelix?
Neelix:	Well... I've only been trained as a field medic.
Janeway:	It'll have to do.
Neelix:	What about my other duties?
Janeway:	Make Sickbay your priority. At this point... morale is a luxury. How's the core holding up?
Seven:	The modified nanoprobes are still reinforcing the warp field. It should remain functioning until we reach the Demon planet. However, there is less than a twenty per cent probability that Voyager will remain intact that long.
Janeway:	Well... it won't be the first time this crew has been... up against...
Kim:	Captain?
Janeway:	It's all right, I'm just... a little tired.
Neelix:	Let Ensign Kim take command for a while.
Janeway:	I'm still the Captain.
Neelix:	And I am the Chief Medical Officer. Don't push me to relieve you of your duties.
Janeway:	Your concerns have been noted. Sir. Now... there is another matter. I want to download the ship's database, and our personal logs, into a signal beacon. In the event we don't survive, there should be some record of our accomplishments.
Kim:	A time capsule.
Janeway:	This crew's existence may have been brief... but it's been distinguished. None of you... deserves to be forgotten.
Seven:	I will use unaffected components to construct a beacon.

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