As the USS Voyager sets off on its long journey home, its crewmembers - part-Starfleet, part-Maquis - are having trouble coming to terms with working together.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Characters 2.1 Main 2.2 Others 3 References 3.1 Starships 3.2 Locations 3.3 Species 3.4 States and Organizations 3.5 Other 4 Connections

SummaryEdit

The squabbling between the two groups has to take a back seat when Voyager encounters a strange space phenomenom. Another problem is that Commander Chakotay, the first officer, wants his fellow Maquis, B'Elanna Torres, to be appointed chief engineer.

This proposal, made during a senior officers' meeting, is met with amazement - not surprisingly, in the light of Torres' temper - by Captain Janeway, who instead favors Lieutenant Joe Carey for the post. Chakotay insists that Torres is the best person for the job and that people should be judged solely on their merits. Janeway agrees to talk to Torres, but after the meeting she feels that the half-Klingon woman's temprament is unsuitable for such a responsible role.

Meanwhile, Voyager follows a ship's distress call, which it traces to a quantum singularity - the result of a star collapsing in on itself. Voyager gets pulled into the singularity itself and heads for Illidaria for protection, but the ship keeps ending up in the same place - stuck in the singularity.

Torres impresses Janeway when she suggests a possible way out as well as a means of communicating with the other trapped vessel. Breaking through the distortion, the crew make sense of the message - it is the message sent earlier by Janeway. The ship becomes clear on the viewscreen: a mirror image of Voyager.

The crew manages to find the crack in the singularity through which they originally entered. Its a possible way out, but the hole has started to contract. Janeway and Torres set off in the shuttlecraft Sacajawea and manage to widen the rupture using a tachyon beam.

Finally, Voyager manages to break through to safety and Janeway makes her decision. Throughout Voyager's journey home, B'Elanna Torres will be serving as chief engineer.

CharactersEdit

MainEdit

• Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew)
• Chakotay (Robert Beltran)
• B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson)
• Kes (Jennifer Lien)
• Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill)
• Neelix (Ethan Phillips)
• The Doctor (Robert Picardo)
• Tuvok (Tim Russ)
• Harry Kim (Garrett Wang)

OthersEdit

• Joe Carey (Josh Clark)
• Seska (Martha Hackett)
• William Jarvin (Justin Williams)
• Ayala (Tarik Ergin)

ReferencesEdit

StarshipsEdit

• USS Voyager (NCC-74656) - Intrepid-class
• Sacajawea - Type-8 shuttlecraft
• Val Jean - Maquis raider

LocationsEdit

• Delta Quadrant
  • Illidaria
  • Keloda system

SpeciesEdit

• Bajoran
• Human
• Ocampan
• Talaxian

States and OrganizationsEdit

• Maquis
• Starfleet
  • Starfleet Academy

OtherEdit

biochemistry | black hole | cargo bay | chief engineer | chief medical officer | Deep Space 9 | dekyon | distress call | Emergency Medical Hologram | ethmoid fossa | event horizon | Feragoit goulash | holodeck | Hippocrates | hydroponics | nitrogen | nitrogenated soil | pejuta | quantum singularity | Starfleet General Orders and Regulations | subspace tractor beam | Zakarian

ConnectionsEdit

• Parallax article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

published order
Previous episode: Caretaker	Voyager episode produced	Next episode: Time and Again
Previous episode: Caretaker	Voyager episode aired	Next episode: Time and Again
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Command Code	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Escape
Previous Adventure: Command Code	The Voyages of the USS Voyager	Next Adventure: The Escape