With the surviving members of the Maquis and Starfleet crews both safely aboard Voyager вЂ“ and with Kes and Neelix in tow вЂ“ the ship sets a course back home, E.T.A.: 75 yearsвЂ¦

The Kazons swear vengeance should they encounter Voyager again. Janeway beams back to the Voyager and destroys the array herself, though it could have sent her and her crew back to the Alpha Quadrant. In the fierce battle with the Kazons, ChakotayвЂ™s Maquis ship is destroyed when he rams it into the lead Kazon ship, which then collides with the array, disabling the self-destruct sequence. The Caretaker decides to set the array to self-destruct to avoid allowing the Ocampa to be enslaved by the Kazons. The Caretaker must be succeeded by another and has been trying to find a replacement for decades, but so far all of those tested for their suitability вЂ“ such as Kim and Torres вЂ“ have not proven adequate to the task. The Kazons make a gambit to claim the array for themselves, but Chakotay and Tom Paris, a dishonored former Maquis member aboard Voyager, battle the scavengers off with their respective starships as Janeway and Tuvok beam to the array and find the elderly and dying Caretaker, whose race accidentally destroyed the Ocampan ecosphere and then built the subterranean habitat and the power array so the Ocampa could survive. Shortly after Kes leads the crew to Kim and Torres, the energy array shuts down after transmitting a final burst of power to Ocampa. They hand over a captive Ocampa named Kes in exchange for some water from Voyager. The crew is also introduced to the Kazons, who roam the surface of Ocampa foraging a meager existence. His knowledge of the local area is invaluable, such as the revelation that water is a rarity and is valuable currency here. VoyagerвЂ™s crew track their missing comrades to Ocampa and encounter the scavenger Neelix, who offers to be the crewвЂ™s guide through this part of space. There they are attended to by the Ocampa, who have been instructed by the Caretaker to look after the two visitors since they have somehow become infected with a terminal illness.

Ensign Kim and Maquis engineer BвЂ™Elanna Torres, in the meantime, have been beamed to the planet Ocampa, a barren wasteland of a world whose short-lived inhabitants live underground. A tenuous truce is arranged so that both crews can recover their missing comrades. Making contact with the Maquis crew commanded by Chakotay, Janeway discovers that the same tests were forced upon the renegades and that one of their number has also been abducted. While repairs are being made, Janeway and her crew are kidnapped from the ship via transporter and deposited in a virtual reality, the inhabitants of which conduct experiments on the Alpha Quadrant visitors and then return them вЂ“ minus helmsman Ensign Kim. Voyager ends up in an unexplored part of the galaxy where the first thing the crew sees is an enegry collection array. Arriving in the Badlands, the Voyager is scanned by an unknown presence and then ripped out of the Alpha Quadrant by a subspace phenomenon that causes heavy damage and kills many of the crew. Voyager, commanded by Captain Janeway, is dispatched from DS9 to the Badlands to find out where the Maquis ship went, especially since a Starfleet security operative, Vulcan Lt. Stardate 48315.6: A starship controlled by the Maquis mysteriously disappears in the Badlands, a charged energy field near the demilitarized zone, after being pursued by a Cardassian ship.

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