 Seven of Nine upgrades her Borg alcove to assimilate mass amounts of data in short periods of time. The data leads Seven to theorize a several conspiracies aboard Voyager involving their presence in the Delta Quadrant as an intentional act. Voyager meets Tash, an alien far from home building a catapult capable of launching ships hundreds of light-years in an instant. As Seven assimilates inconclusive data, her paranoia and imagination fills in the gaps and plants the seed of doubt among the crew.