Stardate: Unknown Entering a possible dangerous area of space because of the Bothan race who control it, Captain Janeway begins to succumb to exhaustion. On the Doctor's orders, she takes some time off to play out more of her holosuite novel. Upon exiting and handling a first contact meeting with a Bothan, she begins to see the characters in her program around the ship.
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.