stardate 51186.2. Lieutenant Tuvok is promoted to Lieutenant Commander Tuvok. The celebration is interrupted by a distress call from a hologram telling them his crew has been killed and needs assistance. B'Elanna and The Doctor are assigned to assist the situation but their kindness puts B'Elanna in danger when she finds out the hologram's revulsion towards humans.

stardate: unknown. Janeway progresses in helping Seven come to terms with her humanity and the adjustment to the new individuality she now faces. But when her nanoprobes start to regenerate causing hallucinations of the Borg in which calls her to rejoin the collective. Heeding she attempts return, but the call leads her to a wreckage of a familiar ship called the 'Raven'.