stardate 48892.1. The Doctor receives information that Voyager has suffered a massive Kazon attack and most had abandoned ship. Using the holoemitters, he investigates and takes a tour around the ship. But during his trip around the ship, he encounters a Kazon warrior. In his struggle against the Kazon, he unexpectedly experiences injury and pain where normally he would not.

stardate 48921.3. Aggressive space-dwellling life-forms attach themselves to Voyager, creating an eletrophoretic field. This has caused Kes' metabolic activity to accelerate her reproductive process, causing her to prematurely enter into a time of her life called, "the elogium". It occurs once in the lifetime of an Ocampan and Kes must decide whether to have children; as well—who the father will be if she did choose to.