Stardate: 50614.2 While in a shuttlecraft, Commander Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan receive a Federation distress signal. However, being in the Nekrit Expanse, pinpointing the signal is difficult enough, let alone trying to communicate with the person on the other end. The two manage to find the planet where the signal originated from, but are attacked when they land their shuttlecraft on the surface.
In another part of the Expanse, Voyager's sensors pick up a ship directly ahead of them. With sensors limited in range, it turns out Voyager and the unidentified ship are only a few thousand kilometers apart. Moving into visual range, the crew gazes out upon a Borg cube adrift in space.
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.