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ABOUT THE
SHOW |
SHIPS & CHARACTERS
SEASON
1 |
SEASON 2 |
SEASON
3 |
SEASON 4 |
SEASON
5 |
SEASON 6 |
SEASON
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While Paris, Tuvok and Ensign
Wildman are on an away mission, their shuttle runs into an ion
storm and suffers severe damage. Voyager tracks their distress
call to a nearby planetary system, but another storm is blocking
their path. As the crew prepares to go after the Delta Flyer,
Neelix is in charge of keeping Ensign Wildman's daughter Naomi
occupied and unaware of her mother's predicament. When Paris
finally crash-lands the shuttle onto a planetoid, Wildman is
seriously hurt.
Buried three kilometers under the rock surface, Wildman is
bleeding internally and needs surgery. Back on Voyager, Kim
tracks the Delta Flyer's coordinates on the planetoid. There are
no lifesigns, but rescue teams are dispatched to the crater in
search of the lost crew. Naomi is worried when her mother
doesn't call, but Neelix tries to distract her with a holodeck
fairytale called "The Adventures of Flotter."
The prospect of telling Naomi that her mother is lost brings
back sad memories for Neelix of losing his own family. Although
Janeway urges him to be honest with the little girl, he wants to
wait until the away teams find the shuttle. When Naomi wakes up
in the middle of the night and goes to the bridge in search of
Neelix, she overhears talk of the crash and the lost crew.
Neelix finds Naomi in the holodeck with Flotter and Trevis,
characters in the interactive fairytale, and tries to comfort
her about her mother's situation. He also tells her about losing
his own parents and sisters when he was very young. As their
life support system begins to fail, Paris, Tuvok and Wildman
record goodbye messages to their loved ones. Above them,
Chakotay and Seven of Nine locate the shuttle buried underneath
the rock. A massive digging effort begins, but an ion storm is
approaching, and they don't have much time before it hits.
With two minutes to go until their oxygen is depleted, the Delta
Flyer crew hears the rescue team digging above them. Kim is able
to get a transporter lock on the shuttle, and it is transported
to Voyager just before the storm hits. Once Wildman's injuries
are treated in sickbay, she and Naomi are reunited, and mother
and daughter pay a visit to the "Forest of Forever" together. |
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