 With power reserves running low, the crew of the voyager alter course to enter a nebula in which there is a useable power source or  Coffee  as Captain Janeway puts it. However once they enter the nebula they encounter numerous problems; they are attacked my an un known substance that cripples every defence system on the ship, this causes the crew to retreat out of the nebula and losing 11% of there power reserves. They crew later discover that the nebula was no nebular and was infect a life form, the crew returned to the nebula to help the creature recover after the damage that they caused to it while trying to escape from it the first time. In is the first time that we are introduced to  Sandrine s  a holodeck program created my Tom Paris.