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SUMMARY: As crewmembers start dying, they make a startling discovery about their true identities.
Most of the synopsis text is from source VC.
After she and Paris exchange their wedding vows, Torres discovers a problem in engineering.
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| above 4 pictures: Paris and Torres get married |
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| Torres and Seven discover a Jefferies tube is losing molecular cohesion |
Upon further investigation, she finds one of the Jefferies tubes is losing molecular cohesion due to subspace radiation from the warp drive. Suddenly, Torres becomes violently ill. When Paris brings her to sickbay, they find several more crew members in the same condition. The Doctor diagnoses Torres with acute cellular degradation and explains that her chromosomes are breaking down at the molecular level due to a reaction with the newly installed enhanced warp drive. Paris describes to Torres the wonderful honeymoon they will have together - a week in a holographic re-creation of the historic Graystone Hotel in Chicago circa 1928, but she dies during their talk.
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| above 4 pictures: Paris with Torres in sickbay |
Meanwhile, Chakotay and Tuvok pinpoint an event that could have caused their problems. Ten months ago, while on a class-Y demon planet, they had encountered a biomimetic compound that had experienced sentience for the first time upon contact with the crew. Before they left, the crew's DNA was copied by the living compound and duplicates of themselves remained on the planet creating a new population. With this information at their disposal the Doctor injects a dichromate catalyst into Torres's body and she disintegrates into the mimetic compound. After witnessing the reaction, Chakotay and Tuvok realise that they are the crew of duplicates. (This story is the sequel to [#92 Demon].)
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| above 3 pictures: the crew's true nature is revealed |
Janeway informs the crew of her decision |
As the crew begins to accept that they are living other beings' lives, they work on a plan to save themselves from decomposing in the same manner as Torres. The only solution seems to be returning to the planet from which they originated. However, unwilling to travel thousands of light-years back to the demon planet, the duplicate Janeway decides to forge ahead toward the home that she "remembers" in the Alpha Quadrant hoping to find a solution to the rapid degradation along the way.
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When sensors detect another class-Y planet, the crew readies the ship to land, knowing that the planet's atmosphere is the only thing that may keep them alive. However, a vessel suddenly appears that warns them off and begins firing. The duplicate Voyager is unable to sustain the hits from the other ship and must retreat.
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| an alien ship fires on Voyager, driving them from the class-Y planet |
When Janeway orders the crew to search for another demon planet, Chakotay tells her they are questioning her command. The crew is beginning to remember their existence before Voyager and that Earth is not their home.
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| Chakotay and Janeway argue about the course direction |
After Chakotay's neural pathways start to destabilize and he dies in sickbay, Janeway - who is close to death herself - decides to turn the ship around and set a course for the demon planet.
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| Janeway is with Chakotay when he dies |
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| Janeway dies |
As the duplicate crew dies one by one, acting Captain Kim continues their mission to the demon planet as the few survivors try to hold the ship together.
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| the duplicate Voyager is destabilising at the molecular level |
The remaining crew detects a ship, however they are unable to contact it while in warp. Kim orders Seven to eject the warp core so they can drop out of warp and hail the ship. However, the force is too great, and the ship disintegrates. They have not even been able to eject their logs so that somewhere there would be a record of their existence and deeds.
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| last moments for the duplicates |
The real Voyager comes across the mysterious debris, curious about the distress signal they received. They can only make a note of the event in their log.
the real Voyager and real crew |
seen on the real Voyager's bridge's main viewscreen is all that remains of the duplicate ship and its crew |
 | | DUPLICATE JANEWAY: I want to download the ship's database and our personal logs into a signal beacon. In the event we don't survive, there should be some record of our accomplishments. This crew's existence may have been brief, but it's been distinguished. None of you deserves to be forgotten. |
| | REAL JANEWAY: Make a note in the ship's record. We received a distress call at 0900 hours, arrived at the vessel's last known co-ordinates at 2120. The ship was destroyed, cause unknown. No survivors. |
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