Voyager comes to rescue of a wounded female in a ship with a cloaking device. The alien, Kellin, immediately asks for asylum from her people. She also tells them that she has been on board Voyager before, but that they can't remember her because her xenophobic race secrete a pheromone the causes a loss of short term memories in others.
Soon, her people come looking for her, firing on Voyager from their cloaked ships. They are determined not to allow any members of their society to ever leave permanently. Can Voyager risk the ship and crew for this one lone asylum seeker?
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.