Stardate: 51762.4 Tom Paris, who has been unusually moody, has his spirits lifted after Voyager rescues a pilot and his spacecraft when it gets into trouble. Paris asks to work with Steth, the pilot, to repair the advanced co-axial warp drive on his ship. After the sip is repaired, Steth pulls a fast one by switching bodies with Paris. Paris, now unconscious, is sent away in the ship, and Steth, in Paris' body, is left to live his life out on Voyager.
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.