[s2e5] Non Sequitur -

The phrase "" (Latin for "it does not follow") most famously serves as the title for Season 2, Episode 5 of Star Trek: Voyager . The episode explores the unsettling nature of an existence where one's reality suddenly lacks a logical connection to the past. Plot Summary: A Life That "Does Not Follow"

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: Kim's attempts to explain his situation lead Starfleet Security to suspect him of being a Maquis spy. He eventually discovers that a "time-stream" accident involving a shuttlecraft caused him to switch places with his counterpart in this timeline. The phrase "" (Latin for "it does not

: In this timeline, Kim was never assigned to Voyager ; he is a design engineer working at Starfleet Headquarters. He has a beautiful fiancée, Libby, and a prestigious career, yet he remembers every detail of his "real" life on the ship. : Kim's attempts to explain his situation lead

: The episode poses a classic sci-fi dilemma: should Kim stay in a comfortable, safe life with the woman he loves, or return to a dangerous, stranded existence for the sake of his "true" identity and duty?

In this episode, wakes up in a reality entirely different from the one he knows. Instead of being stranded in the Delta Quadrant aboard the USS Voyager , he finds himself in 24th-century San Francisco.

: With the help of Cosimo , an alien who watches over these time-streams, and Tom Paris —who in this reality is a disgraced civilian—Kim must find a way to recreate the accident to return to his proper place on Voyager . The Meaning of the Title