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While on an away mission, Chakotay and Janeway are infected with a virus that will kill them if they leave the planet and return to the ship. With the doctor unable to find a cure, Janeway has no choice but to ask Voyager to leave them there and continue heading for the Alpha Quadrant. Voyager beams them down everything they need for an extended stay. Janeway continues to search wholeheartedly for a cure, while Chakotay tries to make the place a home, building headboards, a bathtub for Katherine, etc. When Janeway’s lab materials are destroyed by a violent storm, she has no choice but to accept fate. She also has to deal with the obvious attraction Chakotay has for her – and she for him. When he rubs her shoulders, it’s a little too much for both of them, and Chakotay tells her an old story about an angry warrior who, after joining forces with a brave, intelligent, and beautiful woman and vowing to stay by her side and ease her burden, finally begins to know peace. Of course, it is about him.

Meanwhile, the crew of Voyager, led by Harry Kim, is very upset that Tuvok is so unemotional about leaving Janeway and Chakotay behind. The Vidiians may have an antidote to the disease, but Janeway gave orders for Tuvok not to contact them because of the risk. However, the crew wants Tuvok to ignore the order since he is now captain. Kim rallies the crew and devises a plan to bargain Torres’ DNA with the Vidiians for an antidote, but once again Tuvok does not want to listen – he says his first responsibility is to protect the crew, not to try to get Janeway back. But Kes explains it in a different light – after first breaking Tuvok down by comparing him to her father – she tells him that the emotional state of the crew is also Tuvok’s concern. Tuvok springs into action and agrees to contact the Vidiians. But it is a trap. Deanna Pell, the doctor’s friend, is unknowingly used as a pawn to lure Voyager into the center of four Vidiian ships. When the shields go down to 49%, Tuvok devises a plan to eject an antimatter chamber, lower the shields, beam the antidote in from Pell, and detonate the chamber with a photon torpedo, which disables all four ships. Janeway and Chakotay, enjoying their new life, are somewhat thrown off course when they hear Tuvok’s crackly voice coming through their communicators, but they don their uniforms and fall back into their familiar roles.