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While routinely exploring a new
planet for foodstuffs, a cloaked Kazon-Nistrim ship is detected
in orbit. Therefore, the Away Team is recalled but Chakotay
can't find Seska. He locates her in a nearby cave, hiding from
two Kazon. She had been gathering mushrooms and wandered from
the group. Chakotay is hurt in the exchange of fire but Seska
gets them both beamed aboard safely.
Rejecting Neelix's choice of
foods and recipes, Seska and some other Maquis later break into
the food reserves and steal the mushrooms she found to make
mushroom soup. She privately brings a pot to the recuperating
Chakotay, but the romantic mood between the former Maquis lovers
is broken when Neelix reports the break-in. Chakotay angrily
reprimands everyone involved, including himself as an accessory.
Seska is stunned at his reaction and leaves, teasing him that
her eye is now on Kim.
Three days later, the U.S.S. Voyager gets a distress call from a
Kazon warship. It turns out to be the one they just encountered,
but with only one survivor amid devastation that was caused by
Federation technology. Someone on Voyager had to have given them
the technology.
Against orders, Seska beams aboard the Kazon warship to retrieve
the Federation equipment and is injured. In Sickbay, a routine
blood test reveals racial factors of Cardassian origin, not
Bajoran, but she explains a bone marrow transplant from a
Cardassian woman caused the change during a
childhood case of Orkett's Disease.
 Another Kazon ship responds to the distress call, and Janeway
allows visitors for the ailing Kazon. But the Maje and his aide
kill him and an angry Janeway sends them back, ignoring their
claims to the damaged ship so it can be checked further for
clues. Seska and Carey are now suspects in the espionage because
the technology was sent from an Engineering station they both
had access to. B'Elanna Torres retrieves the device from the
wrecked vessel: a simple food replicator that rejected a Kazon
interface with disastrous results.
Chakotay and Tuvok set a trap to find the guilty Engineer —
finally revealed to be Seska. She is indeed a cosmetically
altered Cardassian who had rejected Janeway's nobility and
instead sought allies among the powerful Kazon with the gift of
technology. Before she can be arrested, though, Seska beams
herself aboard the departing Kazon ship.
Somewhat shaken by the turn of events, Chakotay ruefully wonders
aloud about his old Maquis crew: if Tuvok spied for Starfleet
and Seska was a Cardassian, was anyone aboard working for him?
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