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When Starfleet Command sends a
transmission to the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, the
bulk of it gets lodged in one of the Hirogen relay stations.
Janeway immediately sets a course for it, and the Hirogens
prepare to intercept them. Along the way, Voyager finds a ship
adrift in space with one dead humanoid aboard. They beam the
body to Sickbay and discover that it's been gutted. As they near
the relay station, sensors begin to pick up increasing
gravimetric forces. Apparently, the Hirogen station is using a
quantum singularity — a black hole — as its power source!
Downloading more of the
Starfleet transmission, Janeway realizes it contains letters
from home. The letters bring both good and bad news: Tuvok finds
he has become a grandfather, but Chakotay learns that all of
Maquis back home have either been killed or imprisoned. When the
transmission begins degrading, Tuvok and Seven of Nine try to
stabilize the signal by taking a shuttle closer to the relay
station. But after they carry out their assignment, they are
captured by the Hirogen and taken to their ship.
Back on Voyager, Janeway struggles to accept the news that her
fiancé has married another woman. Suddenly, Kim receives an
automated distress signal from the shuttle, and sensors reveal
that no one is on board. The Hirogen leader plans to remove
Tuvok and Seven's skeletons and keep them as relics. Kim locates
the enemy ship on Voyager's sensors. Janeway refuses to heed the
Hirogen leader's warning to disconnect her link to the module
and leave without Tuvok and Seven, despite the fact that more
Hirogen ships are on the way. Instead, her crew prepares for
battle.
Janeway realizes if they boost the effect of the singularity,
they can increase its gravitational pull and trap the enemy
ships. When the aliens begin firing on Voyager, the containment
field around the station is destabilized. Once the singularity
is exposed, everything around it is sucked into the black hole.
Kim manages to beam Tuvok and Seven safely aboard just before
Janeway orders a dangerous maneuver to free Voyager from the
grip of the singularity. Unfortunately, the entire network of
relay stations is disabled, leaving the crew once again without
a link to home.
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