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As Voyager enters a plasma cloud
to evade approaching Vidiian ships, Ensign Wildman goes into
labor and delivers a baby girl. But as the crew emerges from the
cloud, a series of astounding events occur: the warp engines
stall, the antimatter supplies drain, and proton bursts cause a
hull breach. What's more, Kim is sucked out into space, Kes
vanishes in a mysterious void, and Wildman's baby dies.
As the hull breach widens, the
ship is forced to run on emergency power. Another proton burst
hits and Chakotay orders everyone off the bridge. To her
surprise, Janeway sees herself walk across the bridge, which she
assumes is a spatial fluctuation caused by their passage through
the plasma cloud. Janeway visits Wildman in Sickbay and admires
her newborn baby, who appears to be fine. The crew also beams
aboard an unconscious patient who's identical to Kes.
This Kes "double" reports the same series of astounding
occurrences, which leads Janeway to speculate that there's
another Voyager nearby. Apparently, a divergence field has
caused all sensor readings to double and every particle on the
ship to duplicate. Unfortunately, there isn't enough antimatter
to sustain both vessels. Janeway alerts the other Voyager crew,
led by a duplicate Janeway. After a merger of the ships fails,
Janeway decides to go over to the other ship through the void
Kes disappeared into.
The two Janeways meet and strategize their options. The captain
of the more heavily damaged Voyager proposes to self-destruct
her ship and crew to save the other Voyager. With the Vidiians
closing in, the two captains know they must act quickly or both
ships and crews will be destroyed. Meanwhile, the Vidiians board
one of the Voyagers.
Desperate to steal healthy organs to help battle a plague known
as the Phage, the Vidiians begin attacking crewmembers. One of
the Janeway captains decides to act. She sets her ship on
self-destruct and orders the duplicate Kim to take Wildman's
baby through the void. The Vidiians are destroyed when the
duplicate Voyager explodes, while Kim, the baby and the other
Voyager crew are saved.
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