Stardate: 49373.4 Voyager's crew work on designing a small vessel capable of going Warp 10, or being everywhere in space at the same instant. Paris takes the vessel out for a test flight, and everything appears to have gone okay, until Paris later collapses in the mess hall. The Doctor finds Paris' body is mutating, but he can't find any way to stop it.
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.