Janeway determines to pursue the Equinox, and Chakotay accuses her of a "personal vendetta" against the science ship's aptly named Capt. Ransom. Voyager catches up to the other ship, which is orbiting a planet while performing repairs, and there is an exchange of fire. An Equinox away team is ambushed on the planet.
Janeway's willingness to unleash the subspace aliens -- which hate the Equinox crew even more than she does -- on a captured crew member prompts Chakotay toward insubordination. She relieves him of duty, but then, as Chakotay suggested, Voyager seeks out an Ankari vessel to mediate with the "nucleogenic lifeforms" from subspace. The latter agree to cease their attacks on Voyager if Janeway delivers them the Equinox.
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Aboard the Equinox, Ransom makes ample use of a neural stimulator (the "poor man's holodeck") to evoke beach scenery, but fails to elicit Seven's cooperation, prompting belated ethical qualms. Eventually, he is overthrown in a mutiny led by the malevolent Cmdr. Max Burke.
Aided by repentant crew member Marla, Ransom contacts Janeway, and seeks to have his crew beamed to safety as the aliens step up their attack.
Voyager's
Doctor (his ethics mysteriously restored) disables his Equinox counterpart, thwarting a plan to transmit shield frequencies to the Equinox mutineers. As subspace fissures open aboard Equinox, Max runs toward a shuttle, but is intercepted by an alien and desiccated to death. Alone aboard Equinox, Ransom experiences one last virtual beach scene before the ship explodes.
On Voyager, Janeway accepts Marla and other captured Equinox personnel into the crew, but with demotions and under close supervision.
The Doctor apologizes to
Seven of Nine for the torturous procedures he had begun while ethically neutered, and the two plan to conduct a singing session together in the holodeck.
Janeway acknowledges that her single-minded pursuit of Ransom lacked ethical scruples, and tells Chakotay he may have had good reason to "stage a little mutiny of [his] own."
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