Stardate: 50836.2 While Voyager tracks a spatial anomaly that cause the destruction of a space station they were headed to, the Doctor develops a holodeck program designed to expand his programming, where he is the father of a typical normal family.
As Paris risks his life to sample a part of the spatial anomaly, Torres tinkers with the Doctor's too perfect holodeck family, and shows him what a real family's life is like.
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.