When Janeway is told by representatives of the B'omar Sovereignty that Voyager has been given permission to enter their territory, she says that will cut three months off Voyager's journey. However, the B'omar stipulate: "While in our space, your vessel will not exceed warp three, and your weapons systems will remain offline. You will avoid unnecessary scans and you will not conduct surveys of any kind. You will make no attempt to explore our space, and you will avoid all communications with non-military craft. We've also plotted the course your vessel is to follow. We've designated this course so your ship would avoid our populated systems and industrial areas. Deviation is not recommended. There are a total of seventeen checkpoints where you'll submit your vessel for inspection." All this means a longer journey, but still less than if Voyager travels around B'omar space.

Dumah presents the visual representation of the specified route

As regards Voyager's current location, this can be roughly gauged from the B'omar reply to Chakotay's suggested shortened route. His is a marginal adjustment to that required by the B'omar, passing more than three light-years from the nearest populated system, but the B'omar refuse, stating that that route would take Voyager directly through the Agrat-mot Nebula, a key resource in the B'omar trade negotiations with the Nassordin.

Some of the Borg-modified equipment was left active aboard Seven's parents' ship, the Raven, after their capture by the Borg, including the beacon that now, in 2374, causes her return. Seven's departure from Voyager heading for the Raven, and Voyager's despatch of spacecraft to intercept her and also the two Voyager shuttlecraft sent after her, result in Voyager not being welcome in B'omar space any more so that the ship must travel around B'omar space. It can be assumed from Janeway's mention of "three months" that this would take weeks or months. It is possible to penetrate the B'omar perimeter grid (which identifies and traces every vessel, object, and particle of dust that crosses their borders) by recalibrating shields to match its frequency, but Voyager's energy signature is too large to hide, hence Paris being sent in a shuttlecraft instead, but the B'omar detect Seven and Paris.

There is an armoury on Deck 6.

The shuttlebay, which is on Deck 10, is near junction 32-Alpha.

Seven remodulates the shield harmonics of the shuttlecraft she commandeers (see SHUTTLECRAFT) so that Voyager's tractor beam is ineffective.

Janeway has the crew calibrate long-range sensors to scan for any Federation signature other than the two shuttlecraft. The crew scan space for a distance of forty light-years but there are no sign of Borg ships.

Ensign Brooks looks through some boxes in cargo bay 2

Seven blasts through the shuttlebay door, fleeing in a type-6 shuttlecraft. Her attack on Paris's Type-9 shuttlecraft takes his propulsion systems and warp engines offline and reduces shields to fifty percent.

Seven's shuttlecraft's shield harmonics. See STATUS REPORT.

When Seven flees Voyager in a Type-6 shuttlecraft, she causes damage to the shuttlebay door as she blasts her way out through it.

Seven blasts a way through the shuttlebay door