Stardate: 48975.1 Voyager comes upon, to their surprise, a vintage 1936 pickup truck floating in space. To add to the mystery, the truck's radio is receiving a distress signal, which Voyager tracks down to the source planet. The mystery deepens even more when they find people from Earth in frozen animation there.

The crew learns the planet is also inhabited by human descendents of the frozen humans. The crew must decide if they want to stay on this lone Earth-like planet, or continue on the journey back to the Alpha quadrant. Will Janeway have enough crew left, after their decisions are made, to continue Voyager's trip home?