Future's End
Guest stars include Sarah Silverman and Ed Begley Jr.. A small ship with a Federation signature emerges from a temporal rift in front of the starship Voyager.
Braxton crashes in 1967, where Henry Starling (Ed Begley Jr.) finds Aeon and copies its technology, allowing him to found a company, Chronowerx Industries, and start the micro-computer revolution.
In 1996, a young astronomer named Rain Robinson (Sarah Silverman) who works at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles detects Voyager in high orbit and assumes it to be extraterrestrial life.
[1] The Voyager crew tracks her location to the Observatory and Captain Janeway, Commander Chakotay, Lt. Tuvok (Tim Russ), and Lt. Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), decide to beam down to Los Angeles.
Held prisoner on Voyager, Starling admits to Janeway that he intends to travel into the future to steal more advanced technology because he has reached the limit of what he can create by studying the Aeon.
A few moments later, an alternative Captain Braxton arrives in another timeship Aeon, explaining that having detected the anomaly of their presence in the past, he has come to return them to their own time at the place they left it.
[3] Other production locations in the region include the Griffith Observatory, Jerry Moss Plaza outside The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, and Palisades Cliffside Park.
[12] Tor.com included this as one of six episodes of Star Trek: Voyager that are worth re-watching,[13] noting it was a fun time travel romp with brilliant guest casting.
[15] The filming locations in southern California have also been noted, including Santa Monica Pier, Griffith Observatory, downtown Los Angeles, and Palisades Cliffside Park, etc.
[17] The Comic Book Resources site listed the futuristic but tiny Aeon, as one of the most powerful ships in the entire Star Trek franchise.
[19] "Future's End" was released on DVD on July 6, 2004, as part of Star Trek Voyager: Complete Third Season, with Dolby 5.1 surround audio.
[22] In 2017, the complete Star Trek: Voyager television series was released in a DVD box set, which included "Future's End" as part of the season 3 discs.
