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After Chakotay and Janeway
crash-land their shuttlecraft on a planet, Chakotay guesses they
may have been shot down by Vidiians. Sure enough, a group of
Vidiians arrives and attacks the pair, killing them. Suddenly,
they're back on the shuttlecraft, under attack by Vidiian
warships. The shuttle explodes before it can land. Seconds
later, they are once again sitting in their shuttle.
Believing they're trapped in a
time loop, the two officers contact Voyager and elude the
Vidiians. However, back on the ship, Chakotay refutes Janeway's
claims about the time loop. The Doctor diagnoses Janeway as
suffering from the Vidiian phage disease and euthanizes her
against her will, after which Janeway finds herself back on the
shuttle with Chakotay. As they near a strange phenomenon in
space, the shuttle explodes, and the next thing Janeway knows,
she's back on the planet, watching Chakotay grieve over her dead
body.
Returning to Voyager with Chakotay, Janeway discovers she cannot
be seen. In Sickbay, the Doctor's attempts to revive her
"corpse" are unsuccessful, but Janeway is able to get Kes to
telepathically sense her presence. As the crew wonders if the
Captain is lost in an alternate dimension, Janeway is shocked to
come face to face with her deceased father. Admiral Janeway
tells her that she really did die in the shuttle crash, and
tries to convince her she should give in to death. Meanwhile,
after days of unsuccessfully trying to reach Janeway, the crew
holds a memorial service.
Janeway tells her father that she's not ready to leave the crew
yet. Suddenly, she senses that she's still in her corporeal
body, and that the Doctor is trying to save her. Her father
tells her it's a hallucination and urges her to give up. Janeway
knows her real father wouldn't push her in this way, and
realizes that an alien has assumed his image to lure her to her
death. Indeed, an alien presence has invaded her cerebral
cortex, but now that she's aware of it, Janeway regains
consciousness on the planet's surface, where she's recovering
from injuries sustained during the crash-landing with Chakotay.
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