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Synopsis
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS from
StarTrek.com
The crew beams aboard Gath Labin, a representative from
Sikaris, a planet known for its outstanding hospitality.
Gath invites the weary travelers to take a break from their
duties on his homeworld. Knowing shore leave would do the
crew good, Janeway orders Voyager to follow Gath back to
Sikaris, where residents welcome them with open arms.
The Sikarians love to hear stories of other places and
travels from visitors, and following Gath and Janeway's
lead, the groups begin mixing. Kim is soon telling the
Voyager story to a young woman named Eudana, who suggests
they go somewhere else to be alone. Little does he realize
she means a planet more than 40,000 light years away, thanks
to the Sikarians' spatial trajector — technology which can
"fold" space to allow long-distance travel in an instant.
The Voyager crew are overjoyed, but then learn the Sikarians
have their own prime directive which prevents them from
sharing their technology with less advanced races. One
Sikarian, Jaret Otel, offers Kim the technology in exchange
for more Voyager "stories." But Janeway feels it's unethical
to accept the technology from anyone other than Gath, the
Sikarian leader. She decides to ask him to send Voyager as
far as he can in exchange for the "stories." He refuses but
invites Janeway and the crew to stay on his planet instead.
The meeting ends on a sour note, and Janeway realizes they
are no longer welcome.
After that, B'Elanna, Carey and Seska conspire to ignore
Janeway's orders and take Jaret's offer — and are shocked
when Tuvok shows up to make the exchange and sacrifice his
career if caught. The gamble is for naught when they find
the trajector is incompatible with Federation technology.
Janeway finds herself reprimanding not only her new
hot-headed Engineer but her old and logical friend Tuvok.
The Vulcan explains he sacrificed his own career so the crew
could get home without Janeway compromising her ethics, but
she rejects that "logic" and asks her confidant to never let
her down again.
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