Stardate: 48975.1 Voyager comes upon, to their surprise, a vintage 1936 pickup truck floating in space. To add to the mystery, the truck's radio is receiving a distress signal, which Voyager tracks down to the source planet. The mystery deepens even more when they find people from Earth in frozen animation there.
The crew learns the planet is also inhabited by human descendents of the frozen humans. The crew must decide if they want to stay on this lone Earth-like planet, or continue on the journey back to the Alpha quadrant. Will Janeway have enough crew left, after their decisions are made, to continue Voyager's trip home?
While chasing a renegade Maquis ship in the Badlands, the USS Voyager and the Maquis ship they are chasing are pulled into a vortex, which sends them instantly to the Delta Quadrant. However, after the destruction of the device that transported them to the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager and the crew of the Maquis ship must join together to fight their way back to their home in the Alpha quadrant, which is many years away. They will meet many foes and many obstacles along the way, but they will also bond as a crew, between those of the Maquis and those of Starfleet.