Synopsis:
The crew realizes there's a traitor on board after
Federation technology turns up on an enemy warship.
While routinely exploring a new planet for foodstuffs, a
cloaked Kazon-Nistrim ship is detected in orbit. Therefore, the
Away Team is recalled but Chakotay can't find Seska. He locates
her in a nearby cave, hiding from two Kazon. She had been
gathering mushrooms and wandered from the group. Chakotay is
hurt in the exchange of fire but Seska gets them both beamed
aboard safely.
Rejecting Neelix's choice of foods and recipes, Seska and
some other Maquis later break into the food reserves and steal
the mushrooms she found to make mushroom soup. She privately
brings a pot to the recuperating Chakotay, but the romantic mood
between the former Maquis lovers is broken when Neelix reports
the break-in. Chakotay angrily reprimands everyone involved,
including himself as an accessory. Seska is stunned at his
reaction and leaves, teasing him that her eye is now on Kim.
Three days later, Voyager gets a distress call from a Kazon
warship. It turns out to be the one they just encountered, but
with only one survivor amid devastation that was caused by
Federation technology. Someone on Voyager had to have given them
the technology.
Against orders, Seska beams aboard the Kazon warship to
retrieve the Federation equipment and is injured. In Sickbay, a
routine blood test reveals racial factors of Cardassian origin,
not Bajoran, but she explains a bone marrow transplant from a
Cardassian woman caused the change during a childhood case of
Orkett's Disease.
Another Kazon ship responds to the distress call, and Janeway
allows visitors for the ailing Kazon. But the Maje and his aide
kill him and an angry Janeway sends them back, ignoring their
claims to the damaged ship so it can be checked further for
clues. Seska and Carey are now suspects in the espionage because
the technology was sent from an Engineering station they both
had access to. B'Elanna retrieves the device from the wrecked
vessel: a simple food replicator that rejected a Kazon interface
with disastrous results.
Chakotay and Tuvok set a trap to find the guilty
Engineer--finally revealed to be Seska. She is indeed a
cosmetically altered Cardassian who had rejected Janeway's
nobility and instead sought allies among the powerful Kazon with
the gift of technology. Before she can be arrested, though,
Seska beams herself aboard the departing Kazon ship.
Somewhat shaken by the turn of events, Chakotay ruefully
wonders aloud about his old Maquis crew: if Tuvok spied for
Starfleet and Seska was a Cardassian, was anyone aboard working
for him?
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Cast:
Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway™
Robert Beltran as Chakotay™
Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres™
Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris™
Jennifer Lien as Kes™
Ethan Phillips as Neelix™
Robert Picardo as The Doctor
Tim Russ as Tuvok™
Garrett Wang as Harry Kim™
Guest Cast:
Martha Hackett as Seska
Josh Clark as Carey
Anthony De Longis as Culluh
Creative staff:
Director: Robert Scheerer
Story By: Paul Robert Coyle
Teleplay By: Chris Abbott
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