When a visitor with great computer and computational skills asks Voyager for passage onboard, they agree. They ask for his help on the scrambled incomplete Starfleet message they had previously received. The mysterious passenger proves very successful in retrieving the lost portions of the message, including the fact that the Federation has sent an unmanned vessel they need to travel to, that can return them home in no time at all. However, is this miraculous confluence of events too good to be true, and does their visitor have his own secret agenda?
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.