 Captain Janeway is sent on her first mission as Captain off the USS Voyager, a Starfleet intrepid class vessel. There mission is to find out what happened to a small maquis ship on which captain Janeway s chief of security Lieutenant Tuvok has infiltrated. The crew begins by tracking the ship by starting at there last known location and tracking there engine emissions, this leads them in to a very turbulent and un predictable area of space known as the Bad Lands. Whilst still tracking the missing maquis ship voyager is pulled in to an unknown anomaly which transports them to the delta quadrant, 75,000 light years from home on the other side of the galaxy. If that isn t bad enough a lot of crew members are seriously injured or killed in this little trip including Voyagers first officer, doctor, Nurse and chief engineering. after stopping a potential breech of the warp core the entire crew of the USS voyager is transported to a large array like device. on board a suitable environment is created for them to wait, however being typical Starfleet officer captain Janeway is unable to just sit and wait she wants to know what exactly is going on and who has brought her and her crew to the other side of the galaxy. whilst poking around lieutenant Paris and ensign Kim discover a strange energy signature in a barn, when the rest of the crew arrive the pretences are dropped and the crew is subjected to a DNA test and then returned to voyager. When they are returned they discover that one crew member Ensign Harry Kim is missing, they when realise that the maquis ship that they where sent to find has been transported to the delta quadrant as well. When they make contact they discover that one of there crew members Torres is missing as well, they both agree to launch a joint rescue mission. they then transport back to the array the last place that they where both scene, they then encounter an old man who won t give them a straight answer the only thing that they can get out of him that there  isn t enough time left . He then transports them back to Voyager, once there a crew member reports that the array is acting strange and the intermittent energy pulses that it has been sending out. The crew then track these energy pulses to a near by star system but there is something very peculiar about the plant that is receiving them. There are no nucleogenic particles in the atmosphere and apparently you can t have an atmosphere with out them. Captain Janeway then decides to set a course for the planet as it may hold clues to what is going on and if they have any idea about where there missing crew members are. Whilst this is happening the two missing crew members Ensign Harry Kim and Torres both wake up to find themselves in a white room and covered in strange lumps, when Torres tries to escape she is restrained. To give her some credit takes three of the aliens to do it, when she regains conscious her and Harry are taken on a tour of where they are. They are underground! If that s not bad enough Harry discovers that previous people who have been sent there with the same condition have died he also discovers that these people the Ocampa are complete reliant on another alien life form to whom they refer to as the care taker he provided them with this city and according to the ancient text he  opened a great whole in the ground which led to this great city  and he has taken care of them ever since.