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The alien from the Turei vessel
tells Voyager that they are travelling in their under-space.
Captain Janeway insists that they stumbled there by accident and
she asks the Turei to help them get out of it. The Turei ship is
able to push them out of the subspace. According to Voyager's
calculations, it traveled 200 light years in just 2 minutes.
Captain Janeway asks the Turei if they could negotiate passage
through their under-space, in hopes of returning home to the
Alpha Quadrant.
The Turei are not pleased with
Captain Janeway's request and they tell Voyager to prepare to be
boarded. Captain Janeway refuses and the Turei ships begin to
power their weapons. Voyager is rocked by a round of weapons
fire. Their warp drive is down and shields are only operating at
60 percent.
Captain Janeway leads Voyager to a hot planet with a dark,
swirling atmosphere. As it begins its descent, the Turei back
off. Voyager must land in order to repair its damage. As the
ship moves closer to the planet, the crew notices a decimated
and burnt-out megalopolis. Scans indicate that the civilization
was destroyed from a bombardment of plasma-based weapons, 900
years earlier.
Faint lifesigns are also detected in a chamber beneath the
surface. Janeway, Seven of Nine and Chakotay head into the
chamber and discover stasis pods which each contain some kind of
lifeform. Apparently, each pod was programmed for only five
years. However, since 500 years have passed, some kind of
failure must have occurred.
Without receiving Captain Janeway's permission, Seven of Nine
activates one of the pod's reanimation sequence. The humanoid
inside opens his eyes and is startled by the presence of the
Voyager crew. His primary concern is to open up the other pod
that is covered with dirt and debris. Unfortunately, he
discovers that his wife didn't survive and he passes out.
The humanoid wakes up in Sickbay and he identifies himself as
Gedrin of Vaadwaur. He tells Janeway that the subspace corridors
belonged to the Vaadwaurs. It took them centuries to map out and
they used the tunnels for exploration. As a result, their
enemies combined forces and launched an attack. The Vaadwaur
designed the stasis network out of desperation in hopes of
saving their culture.
Again, the Turei begin to fire plasma charges from up above.
Gedrin then remembers that the Vaadwaur have a satellite
directly above the city. Voyager uses the satellite to get a
lock on one of the Turei vessels and launches a torpedo. It is a
direct hit and the remaining Turei ships move off.
In exchange for subspace corridor passage, Voyager decides that
it will help Gedrin and his people fight their way off the
planet against the Turei. They wake up the rest of the Vaadwaur
and reactivate their ships. Captain Janeway and Gedrin decide
that while the Turei try to anticipate when Voyager will break
for orbit, the Vaadwaur ships will head in the opposite
direction. Then, Voyager will fire at the Turei and follow the
Vaadwaur into the subspace corridor.
However, the Vaadwaur decide that they will take over Voyager
since they could survive comfortably aboard. In the meantime,
Neelix is suspicious of the Vaadwaur and their true intentions.
Captain Janeway also doesn't completely trust the Vaadwaur. Her
skepticism is confirmed when the Vaadwaur vessels begin heading
for Voyager instead of orbit. Voyager lifts off in hopes of
escaping the Vaadwaur attacks.
Gedrin tells Captain Janeway that he can stop the rest of the
Vaadwaur by taking the remaining ships off-line. The Vaadwaur
now have no choice except to retreat into a subspace corridor. |
