Stardate: 50537.2 Arrivng at a planet that contains a rare mineral that will greatly help with Voyager's warp coils, Torres begins to come up with an away team to examine the area. One of her engineers, the Vulcan Vorik, offers to go beyond the call of duty and join the mission, which Torres accepts.
Vorik then asks Torres to mate with him, as he is experiencing the pon farr. When Torres refuses him, Vorik must seek other means to quench his sexual desires.
Beaming down to the planet, for the long haul underground to retrieve the mineral, Torres begins to act aggressively, and then, in a tense moment, bites Paris. With the mission in jeopardy, the situation is further complicated when Chakotay, Tuvok, Paris, and Torres discover that they are not alone on the planet.
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.