A special corridor provides Voyager with a 200 light year jump in a matter of seconds, but they also confront a species that claims ownership of the corridor and insists they leave – and then be boarded to have their computer records of the experience wiped. When Janeway refuses, three other ships appear and begin attacking. To escape them, Voyager lands on a nearby planet, decimated and made toxic by a war 900 years earlier. Beneath the surface, faint life signs are found. The stasis inhabitants, the Vhadwar, are revived. 900 years earlier, their planet was wiped out by an alliance intent on destroying them. This alliance now claims ownership of the corridors. The Vhadwar ask for help to leave the planet and find another world to settle. They have about 600 people, one batallion, and 100 attack vessels, all with 900 year old technology. On the surface, it seems a good alliance. Neelix, however, does a little digging when he remembers that ‘vhadwar’ in the old Talax tongue means ‘foolish’. He finds fables about a mystical army that suddenly appears, attacks, and disappears. Confronting the Vhadwar leader, he admits that they used the special corridors to expand their territory. Now he agrees to cooperate with Voyager, but more militant members of the Vhadwar have other plans – to capture Voyager and begin raiding again. With help from the leader and from the other species, Voyager is able to escape and leave the others to continue fighting.
Comment: Okay, what’s going on with Chakotay? This guy gets one line per episode now! Did he have a fight with the writers?
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