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A cloaked ship suddenly appears
with an injured female onboard hailing Chakotay. Once Kellin,
the injured woman, is beamed to sickbay, she asks the Captain
for asylum from her people. When Chakotay asks how she knows
him, she explains that she was recently on Voyager for several
weeks. No one remembers her because memories of her people
cannot be held in the minds of others for more than a few hours.
Her body produces a pheromone that blocks their long-term memory
engrams. She confesses that she has returned to Voyager because
she fell in love with Chakotay.
Chakotay informs the rest of
the senior staff that Kellin is from Ramura, a closed society
that tracks down people who leave their world. She was on
Voyager about a month ago when her bounty hunting brought her to
a stowaway on the ship. Although Kellin says a computer virus
was planted to erase all evidence of her presence, the crew is
still ordered to look through navigation logs and other outlets
that would corroborate her story. While Kellin recounts to
Chakotay how they fell in love, the Ramura begin firing at
Voyager.
Janeway gives Kellin permission to modify the ship's sensors so
they can see the cloaked ships. Once Voyager returns fire, the
Ramurans leave and Kellin says she would like to stay on the
ship permanently. Although Chakotay doesn't remember loving her,
he can't stop thinking about what she has said about their
relationship. When Kellin realizes that her people will come
back and that she is putting the crew in danger, she tells
Chakotay that she will leave if he doesn't have any feelings for
her. However, he tells Kellin to stay.
Reminiscing about their last night together, Kellin explains how
Chakotay helped her find the stowaway. They used a magneton
sweep to disrupt his cloak, and then Kellin wiped out his
memories of the outside world with a neurolytic emitter. Working
with Seven of Nine and Kim on a defense strategy against her
people, Kellin soon senses that a tracer is onboard. He suddenly
materializes, and despite her protest, the Ramuran shoots her
with the neurolytic emitter.
As Kellin's memories begin to fade, she begs Chakotay to remind
her of the love they shared, once she no longer remembers. Soon,
she does not recognize him, and Chakotay tells her about their
relationship. He asks her to stay and see if her feelings can be
rekindled, but she refuses to violate her people's edict again.
Once she and the tracer are gone, Chakotay writes about her in
his personal log so he will never fully forget her. |
