EVENTS SUMMARY FOR PARTS A-O This table is not an episode guide or synopsis.
Part A	On an uninhabited planet, Janeway and Chakotay awake from stasis. to hear the Doctor has not found a cure for the virus that infects them and which, if they leave the planet, would kill them. Janeway orders Tuvok to take command of Voyager and continue homewards, and orders him not to contact the Vidiians. Although Vidiian medical science is superior, the Vidiians might try to harvest body organs from Voyager's crew. The crew's morale plummets due to the loss of the Captain and First Officer.
Part B	Janeway and Chakotay start to set up home on the planet. Kim tackles Torres about the loss of crew morale but she says there is nothing practical to be done.
Part C	Janeway starts research into the virus in the hope of finding a cure. On behalf of herself and Chakotay, Janeway makes a farewell speech to the crew as Voyager goes out of communications range.
Part D	On the planet they have christened New Earth, Janeway, while relaxing in the bathtub, is startled by the appearance of a primate. She tries to befriend it but it leaves. It becomes awkward between her and Chakotay when they realise she is standing with him while she is clad only in a towel.
Part E	Janeway tells Chakotay she might one day give up her research but for the meantime feels she needs to continue. Kim identifies Vidiian ships nearby. Tuvok orders a course laid in to avoid them. Kim protests that this is a chance to ask the Vidiians for help about the virus. Tuvok suspends him from duty. In the Messhall, Crewman Hogan and Ensign Swinn tell Kim they and the crew support him. He, they, Torres and Neelix, gather to discuss a plan of action.
Part F	Kim visits Tuvok in his quarters late at night to apologise, and to suggest a plan: they could offer the Vidiians some of Torres' DNA (proven to be phage-resistant) in exchange for help on the virus. Tuvok counters that the risk is too great, citing the time when Voyager killed some 300 Vidiians. Janeway and Chakotay note that he has been making a home on New Earth but that makes her uncomfortable. She admits she will eventually do the same but not at the moment.
Part G	While collecting a specimen from insect traps she set in the wood, Janeway sees the primate again but it is agitated by the weather and leaves. It suddenly becomes stormy. Chakotay helps her back to their home.
Part H	Kes persuades Tuvok to change his mind. He orders contact to be made with the Vidiians.
Part I	Storm damage renders it impossible for Janeway to continue her research.
Part J	Tuvok converses with Dr Danara Pel, the Vidiian scientist in love with the Doctor. She is eager to help. The Vidiians have an antidote for the virus and promises to deliver it at a rendezvous whose co-ordinates she gives. On New Earth, while clearing up from the storm damage, Janeway gives the first sign of enjoying her time there. The primate appears briefly again.
Part K	Janeway suffers neck ache from long hours of trying to reconstruct her research. Chakotay offers to massage her neck. As he does so they become aware of their physical closeness to each other, giving them both much to think about. Voyager arrives at the rendezvous points to find Vidiian warships awaiting them - it is a trap!
Part L	Janeway and Chakotay realise they are developing romantic feelings for each other.
Part M	As Tuvok devises a maneuver to extricate Voyager from the Vidiian trap, Danara Pel secretly contacts the Doctor. She did not realise her people planned to attack Voyager. She has brought the antidote. Tuvok's maneuver allows the Doctor to beam the antidote aboard whilst at the same time disabling the Vidiian ships. Voyager then sets a return course for the planet (New Earth).
Part N	Janeway and Chakotay have settled into a companionable lifestyle together. While Chakotay shows Janeway plans for a boat he plans to build Tuvok contacts them to inform them about the antidote. Voyager will arrive shortly to collect them.
Part O	Janeway and Chakotay are packed, ready to rejoin Voyager. In a way they are sad that the life they have built together and its closeness must come to an end. The primate appears. After they beam up, the primate responds as if it will miss them. Back aboard Voyager, Janeway teasingly rebukes Tuvok for disobeying her orders since he returned for them. She and Chakotay take up their ship duties again. They adopt a brisk businesslike approach. The intimate time they spent on New Earth has to be left behind as Voyager once more heads for the Alpha Quadrant.

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