Stardate: Unknown It's the 10th anniversary of Voyager's triumphant return to Earth from the Delta Quadrant. However, (now) Admiral Janeway is troubled by memories of the losses of friends that they suffered in the later years. Janeway can't except those losses, and has decided to take action; an action which will violate the Prime Directive and temporal directives. If she proceeds, her career will be over; if she succeeds, many lives will be restored, many years taken off the journey, and her recent career will not have existed anyway.

Accepted early to USC, Dawson finds his last night in Capeside has arrived much sooner than everyone had originally anticipated. While Dawson looks forward to spending the evening with Joey, Jack and Jen, Mitch has other ideas. Meanwhile, Dawson's not the only goodbye Jen has in store for her, as she bids farewell to the house she's been sharing with Grams. Finally, Joey says goodbye to Dawson in her own way.

Stardate: 54973.4 At the 10th anniversary of Voyager's triumphant return to Earth from the Delta Quadrant, Admiral Janeway was troubled by memories of the losses of friends that they suffered in the later years. Janeway couldn't except those losses, and had decided to take action; an action which violated the Prime Directive and temporal directives.

Janeway has used illegal means to time travel back to Voyager, and now must convince and maybe force her younger self to trust her on how to speed up their return. This is made more difficult by the younger Janeway's reluctance to believe the older Janeway's idea.

Charlie and Caitlin fight as she plans to go to the Caribbean for a week with Tim on the night of a police ride-along. On the ride-along, Charlie is shot... by Paul. Charlie fakes the severity of his injury to get Caitlin's attention. Charlie and Caitlin almost kiss, but Tim interrupts. Meanwhile, Carter and Stuart worry that they bicker like an old married couple and the Mayor hires an old prep school buddy who is now a bum.

Charlie and Caitlin double date with Tim and Charlie's crazy ex. However, Tim dumps Caitlin, who calls Charlie to come over. They kiss; he freaks out and just wants to be friends, but reconsiders and shows up on her doorstep later. The mayor remembers why he and Chad didn't get along in the first place.

An attempted murder of a tough Judge leads Briscoe and Green on a wild goose chase to track down the inimical criminal. When the perpetrator is found, Carmichael and McCoy have a difficult time making a case.

A woman's murder leads the police to discover the actual target was a reporter who did a story about improprieties in a recent senatorial election. Carmichael can't get the reporter to reveal her sources for a story containing allegations that the vote was fixed and ballots tampered with, even though the reporter's life is at risk. Without the source, McCoy and Carmichael have a difficult time making a case against the Senator, who they believe has ties to the mob and ordered the hit on the reporter. The case hinges on 2000 missing ballots from the vote that were stolen by the mob. Once the ballots are found, there is a court battle over whether or not they should be counted. McCoy believes that the ballots will show Benton's motive for ordering the hit, but an appellate court won't allow it, so their case is virtually dead. In the end, McCoy is able to convince the reporter to reveal her source and have him testify against the senator.