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Summary[]

After leaving the Kyrian-Vaskan Union, the Doctor's backup copy starts a personal log to recount his multi-year journey to the Alpha Quadrant. 26 Terran years into the trip, a the sphere of the Nouar, the Doctor encounters another copy of himself, and learns that more than one backup copy have set off on their journey from the KVU. While one Doctor remains to help the Nouar, the other moves on.

In the 31st year of the journey, the Doctor - perhaps another copy - starts recording a personal log and is filled with anticipation about crossing the border between the Alpha and Delta Quadrants in a few hours.

References[]

Characters[]

The Doctor (the Doctor (alternates))

Referenced only

Kathryn Janeway • Kes • Tom Paris • Quarren • Seven of Nine • B'Elanna Torres • Tuvok • Naomi Wildman

Starships and vehicles[]

unnamed Borg cubes (Borg cube) • The Doctor's Ship (Vaskan ship)

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Tholian Assembly starships • USS Voyager (Intrepid-class)

Races and cultures[]

Borg • Hologram • Nouar

Referenced only

Human • Kyrian • Tholian • Vaskan

Appendices[]

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• VOY episode: "Living Witness"

Background[]

• The VOY episode: "Living Witness" established 700 years had passed between "the Voyager Encounter" and the Doctor's backup module's reactivation. "Personal Log" clarifies that those were 700 Vaskan years, and the Doctor has figured out only 600 Terran years have passed.

Connections[]

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Star Trek: Explorer	"Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen" • "In Two Minds"
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline[]

published order
Previous story: Black Hats	Strange New Worlds IV	Next story: Welcome Home
Previous story: Black Hats Strange New Worlds IV	Voyager short stories	Next story: Welcome Home Strange New Worlds IV
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Kevin Killiany	Next story: The Monkey Puzzle Box Strange New Worlds V
chronological order
Previous adventure: Living Witness	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Shockwave chapters 12, 13, 15, 17 & 18