After Chakotay is marooned on a planet where two alien life forms are attempting genocide against each other, he starts to feel sympathy for the aliens who are helping him since he is not of their enemy race. Janeway and the command crew attempt to discover where Chakotay's shuttle crashed.

Seven of Nine's Borg implants begin regenerating after she experiences hallucinations and flashbacks from her life before assimilation. She flees Voyager in a shuttle to attempt rejoining the Borg. After escaping into a region of space governed by the B'omar, she discovers a wrecked Federation spaceship on an uninhabited moon. This ship is the Raven where the Borg assimilated her and her parents 20 years ago.