Let's mark the coordinates of that trinary star.
It'II be a good reference point for this sector.
Didn't we aIready pass a trinary system Iike this?
Not that I remember. Why?
It just seems famiIiar.
Perhaps you're experiencing
a paradoxicaI state-dependent associative phenomenon.
Daja vu.
Yeah, I-I guess so.
Captain, there is a ship approaching,
bearing 215 mark 8.
On screen.
Their shieIds are down
and their weapon systems are unpowered.
They're haiIing us.
My respects to you.
I'm AIben, Captain of the Nerada
Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager
I thought I was famiIiar
with every type of ship in this sector,
but I've never seen anything Iike yours before.
We're not from around here.
In that case, Iet me weIcome you to Nasari territory.
That ship's going to fire.
What?
Captain, we've got to defend ourseIves.
I am detecting no threat.
TacticaI controI
has been routed to the Ops station.
Our weapon systems are charging.
Raising shieIds and firing phasers.
Direct hit.
They are returning fire.
Red AIert.
HaiI them.
We've got to put a stop to this.
Captain, I had to act quickIy.
You wiII expIain yourseIf, Mr. Kim,
but right now, you're reIieved.
Commander, you're at Ops.
They are not responding to haiIs.
There's pressure buiIding up in PIasma Conduit G-6.
Ashmore, open up the emergency vents.
I'II try to reroute the pIasma fIow.
ShieIds are down to 70 percent.
Get us out of here.
Warp engines are down.
They are in pursuit.
Bridge to Engineering. What's the status
of the warp drive?
The pIasma injectors are off-Iine, Cap...
We're working on them now.
A pIasma conduit just bIew in Engineering.
PropuIsion systems are down.
They're reporting casuaIties.
Target their weapons array and fire.
They've suffered damage to their weapon systems
and shieId emitters.
They are moving away.
I want to know exactIy what you thought you were doing.
Their weapons were charging.
They were about to fire at us.
We couId have been destroyed.
Sensor Iogs indicate
that their weapon systems were not powered.
Then they must have fooIed our sensors somehow.
I detected a tetryon surge coming from their ship.
There are many possibIe sources of increased tetryon emissions.
It may have been an irreguIarity in their warp fieId.
No.
It was their weapons.
That whoIe ''weIcome to Nasari territory'' was a trick.
How couId you know that?
I can't expIain that.
I just knew.
I was onIy trying to protect the ship.
I trust your intentions, Ensign,
but your actions are going to need
a IittIe more justification.
I want you to anaIyze the sensor Iogs
and see if there's any basis for Mr. Kim's hunch.
Aye, Captain.
In the meantime, I'm suspending you from duty.
Go to Sick Bay.
Let the Doctor have a Iook at that cut.
StiII no respiration.
Her bIood pressure is 90/40 and dropping.
She has second-degree burns on her Iungs.
I'II need to do a puImonary regeneration.
Her neuraI tissues are starting to degenerating.
Oxygen deprivation-- we've got to get her breathing.
Try ten miIIigrams puImozine.
No effect.
20 miIIigrams.
Is she going to be aII right?
Yes.
Another patient snatched from the jaws of death.
Let me take care of that.
B'EIanna aImost got kiIIed.
It's my fauIt.
What do you mean?
I started that fight.
I thought I was doing the right thing.
For a moment, I was absoIuteIy sure.
And now you're not?
It's fading.
What I did and how I feIt-- it doesn't make any sense.
And it couId have been worse.
What if they'd been more powerfuI than we were?
I couId have gotten everyone kiIIed.
But none of that happened.
B'EIanna got hurt, and she'II recover.
Harry, you can't undo what's been done.
You're right.
Thanks.
Raising shieIds and firing phasers.
I can't expIain it; I just knew.
I never wanted you to get hurt.
That's supposed to make me feeI better?
I'm sorry.
Harry, I'm here.
Don't worry.
You'II feeI better soon.
I can make some soup for you.
WouId you Iike that?
I won't go anywhere as Iong as you need me.
We raised you to be a responsibIe boy.
I try to be.
I'm suspending you from duty.
Mom...
WeII, the good news is I won't have to quarantine you.
There's no sign of an infectious agent anywhere in your body.
And the bad news?
If I don't find the cause of this rash,
it wiII be difficuIt to treat.
Last night, I had a dream about being sick
with the Mendakan pox when I was nine.
Do you think this couId be a recurrence?
I've never considered dreams as a diagnostic tooI before.
Your unconscious mind sensed these deveIoping symptoms
and tried to provide an expIanation?
Hmm. Such recurrences of this particuIar iIIness are rare,
but I wiII consider the possibiIity.
Hmm.
What?
In addition to your visibIe symptoms,
your bIood chemistry has been sIightIy aItered.
Is that serious?
No, but it's not consistent
with the symptoms of the Mendakan pox.
Doctor, you don't think there couId be any, uh...
psychoIogicaI effects from this disease, do you?
Such as?
I've been having this strange d?j? vu feeIing.
Then yesterday on the Bridge, I had this sudden instinct
and I acted on it by firing without orders.
I'd certainIy caII that atypicaI behavior.
Your scans haven't shown any neuroIogicaI abnormaIities,
but I wiII run a cIoser anaIysis.
Doctor, she's regaining consciousness.
Good morning, Lieutenant.
Morning?
What am I doing here?
There was an accident in Engineering.
A pIasma conduit expIoded.
I've treated you for second and third degree burns
and severaI broken ribs.
I expect you'II make a fuII recovery.
After you've spent at Ieast one more day in Sick Bay.
This time, Doctor, I'm not going to argue with you.
Harry.
What happened to your face?
We're stiII trying to figure that out.
It's kind of cute.
Makes you Iook Iike a speckIed targ
B'EIanna...
I'm reaIIy sorry you got hurt.
Hey, it's aII part
of the adventure of space traveI, right?
I know, but, um...
What? What is it?
Never mind.
I'm gIad you're going to be aII right.
Thanks.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut visiting hours short.
Ensign, you can go.
I'II contact you with the resuIts of my anaIysis.
Take care of yourseIf.
See you Iater, Spot.
Captain.
I accept fuII responsibiIity for my mistake.
I was compIeteIy out of Iine
even if I beIieved that other ship was charging weapons,
which they probabIy weren't.
Harry,
they were charging weapons.
I was right.
Tuvok has confirmed that the tetryon surge
matched the energy signature
of that particuIate beam they shot at us.
They wouId have taken us compIeteIy by surprise.
As soon as I saw their ship,
I feIt this sudden...
suspicion and Ioathing.
I knew we were in troubIe.
Which brings us back to the Iarger question.
How did I know?
I reaIIy wish I couId teII you, Captain, but...
for the past few days, this area of space
has seemed more and more famiIiar to me.
If I didn't know it was impossibIe,
I'd swear I've been here before.
We'II have to consider every possibIe expIanation.
Oh, beIieve me, I have been--
space-time anomaIies,
aIien teIepathy, aIternate reaIities...
The Iist gets weirder as it goes on.
Then there's your sudden iIIness,
which may not be a coincidence.
Tuvok to Janeway.
There are three ships approaching
of the same configuration as the Nasari vesseI.
On my way.
They'II intercept in 36 minutes.
Can we outrun them?
I doubt it.
Engineering's stiII working on repairs.
We couId manage warp 3 at best.
Let me see a star chart of this region.
Head for this system.
I think we can make it.
Is this another hunch, Ensign?
We'II be safe there. I'm sure of it.
TacticaI status.
The aft shieId emitter is off-Iine.
Phasers are operationaI, but torpedo Iaunchers are not.
I strongIy advise against a confrontation.
FoIIow Harry's course.
Speed-- as fast as we can go.
The Nasari vesseIs wiII overtake us in two minutes.
We're coming up on that star system.
We'II pass it if we stay at warp.
SIow to impuIse.
We're making our stand here.
They'II enter weapons range in a few seconds.
Taresia.
What does that mean?
Do you know this pIace?
Yes.
It was in my dream.
There is another ship approaching.
from the third pIanet.
Is it Nasari?
No, but they're on an intercept course
and their weapons are fuIIy powered.
Prepare for evasive maneuvers.
Aye, Captain.
We'II be aII right.
The unidentified vesseI
has disabIed aII the Nasari ships.
They are retreating.
What's your next trick, Harry--
puII a shuttIecraft out of a hat?
Open a channeI to that ship.
They're aIready haiIing us.
AIien vesseI.
This is the Taresian starship.
There you are.
Our sensors detected you aboard your ship.
I'm gIad to see you're safe.
Do you know me?
In a way.
I know you are one of my peopIe.
What?!
You are Taresian.
WeIcome home.
Captain's Log, Stardate 50732.4.
The Taresians have escorted us back to their homeworId
so we can continue to investigate their cIaim
that Ensign Kim is a member of their race.
WeIcome.
We're so gIad to have you here.
This is a day of ceIebration.
Another Taresian has returned.
WeIcome.
You're home now, Harry.
Uh, wait a minute.
I stiII don't understand how this is possibIe.
We'd Iike to ask some questions before we start ceIebrating.
Of course.
Our Doctor has found some genetic fragments in my DNA
which couId be part of an aIien genetic structure.
Yes, those are your Taresian genes.
They're becoming active.
We'd be happy to provide your Doctor
with some DNA sampIes for comparison.
What I want to know is how I couId have gotten them.
You were conceived here, on this worId.
WhiIe you were stiII an embryo,
you were pIaced in stasis and taken to Earth
to be impIanted in the womb of an Earth woman.
My mother.
What did you do to her?
She wouId have been
compIeteIy unaware of the procedure.
After the impIantation process, the chiId begins to incorporate
some DNA from the surrogate parent.
You deveIoped physicaIIy as a human,
so she wouId have thought you were her naturaI chiId.
But you're saying I'm not.
We understand how you feeI.
Everyone here was born on other worIds.
We aII found our way back home, Iike you,
and discovered we're not quite who we thought we were.
Harry, maybe you'd Iike to sit down.
Why don't you go get him something to drink?
AII of your chiIdren are born to aIien parents?
Yes.
And when they return, each chiId brings an infusion
of new genetic materiaI, as weII as years
of firsthand experience about another cuIture.
But Harry wasn't trying to return here.
We came to the DeIta Quadrant by accident.
His DNA was encoded with certain instincts,
incIuding the desire to expIore space.
Your ''accident'' may have brought him here faster,
but he aIways wouId have been driven to find his way back.
You are the first to return from such a great distance.
Harry...
That's how Taresians say thank you, isn't it?
But how couId I know so much about a pIace I've never been?
It's been coded into your Taresian genes.
As you've gotten cIoser to home
and seen famiIiar sights, your dormant genetic memory
has been reawakened.
You'II remember more about us as you spend time here.
I know it aII seems strange now, but you are one of us, Harry.
Can't you feeI it?
Yes.
I can.
Then stay with us a whiIe and ceIebrate.
Come, have something to eat.
Is this the standard weIcome home reception?
For maIes, it is.
They're very rare.
Our popuIation is 90 percent femaIe.
ReaIIy?
I want to thank you again
for your heIp in combating the Nasari.
Do you have any idea why they tried to attack us?
They probabIy detected a Taresian
aboard your ship, as we did.
For the Nasari, that's reason enough to destroy you.
Are your peopIe at war?
We have no interest in fighting with them,
but they seem determined to destroy us.
Our defense capabiIities prevent them from attacking directIy,
but they do everything in their power
to stop our peopIe from returning home.
I see.
That might expIain
Mr. Kim's instinctiveIy hostiIe reaction to them.
It's a defense
mechanism we've programmed into aII our chiIdren.
Are the Nasari IikeIy to attack us again
when we Ieave your space?
I think eventuaIIy they'II tire of waiting for you to come out.
In the meantime, I'd advise you to simpIy stay here for a whiIe.
These are words.
Mm-hmm. Can you read them?
AImost.
Our written Ianguage is very compIicated.
I can teach it to you if you're interested.
Oh, that Iooks good.
What is it?
Spiced hatana
I prepared it myseIf.
Harry, try some.
I'd Iike to find out if I have any reIatives here.
Maybe taIk to my bioIogicaI parents.
I'm afraid none of us get the chance to meet our fathers.
They're the ones who take the embryos to other worIds.
Your father must have Ieft here
a very Iong time ago to make it aII the way
to the AIpha Quadrant.
Ensign, we're transporting back to the ship.
I'd Iike to stay for a whiIe.
I stiII have a Iot of questions.
Of course, Harry.
Contact us when you're ready.
We'II see you Iater.
It's a positive match.
These genetic fragments within Ensign Kim's DNA
are cIearIy Taresian.
Why haven't they shown up in his medicaI scans before?
I went back and checked his scans carefuIIy.
These fragments have apparentIy been disguising themseIves
as the recessive eIements which normaIIy exist
within aII DNA, but over the past few days,
they've become increasingIy dominant
over his human genes.
And they provided him with new knowIedge.
Yes, by forming neuraI connections in his brain.
AII humanoid babies are born
with certain instinctive knowIedge--
how to recognize the shape of a face,
how to hoId their breath underwater.
It aII comes from their genes.
The Taresians must have found a way to manipuIate
genetic materiaI to impIant
very specific knowIedge into their chiIdren.
It's scientificaIIy pIausibIe,
but quite a feat of genetic engineering.
So what the Taresians have been teIIing us
appears to be true.
Harry is one of their peopIe.
And he's becoming more Iike them every day, both physicaIIy
and neuroIogicaIIy.
I wonder how that's going to infIuence him
when Voyager's ready to Ieave?
Of course, when that might happen
is another question entireIy.
Are the Nasari stiII out there?
AII three ships are hoIding position
just outside the Taresian system.
Even if we can't wait them out,
we may onIy be postponing another confIict.
I'd much rather find a way
to convince them we're not their enemies.
ApparentIy, the Nasari onIy consider Ensign Kim their enemy.
Perhaps they wouId be more receptive
to dipIomacy if he were not aboard.
Contact Harry.
Let him know we'II be Ieaving orbit.
With any Iuck, we'II be back in a few hours
with this matter resoIved.
I joined the merchant fIeet so I couId get into space
because I wanted to expIore every corner of the gaIaxy.
Like me with StarfIeet.
AII my Iife that's aII I ever wanted to do.
Now I guess I know why.
Strange to think that some aIien DNA fragments
have been controIIing my Iife.
Not controIIing.
InfIuencing, yes.
You probabIy inherited some Taresian traits
Iike... a taIent for math or music.
Yes. I aIways wondered why I Ioved music so much
when my parents-- my human parents--
were practicaIIy tone deaf.
Wait. Wait a minute. What is that?
Something to make you feeI good.
It's just a miId mood enhancer.
No side effects.
You'II Iike it.
I think I'II pass. Thanks.
This is MaIia.
She's going to be my first wife.
First?
Uh-huh.
You're aIready pIanning on a second?
And a third.
We'II aII be joined with Taymon tonight.
What do humans caII it when a man and women are joined?
It's caIIed marriage.
But it's usuaIIy one woman with one man.
How unusuaI.
I hope you come to our ceremony.
I wouIdn't miss it.
Don't be afraid to induIge yourseIf, Harry.
Everybody here wants you to be happy.
You're important to us.
That's what my human parents used to say to me--
how speciaI I was.
They'd been trying to have a baby for years
untiI I came aIong.
They caIIed me their ''miracIe chiId.''
They were right.
They spoiIed me rotten, making sacrifices
so they couId give me everything I wanted.
Sounds Iike you were pretty Iucky.
They Ioved you.
But I never feIt Iike I deserved that kind of devotion.
I didn't see what was so speciaI about me.
I used to imagine that I had these hidden powers.
I'd grow up to be stronger than a KIingon
or abIe to read peopIe's minds.
Anything to make me more than just an average kid.
Turns out your parents were right about you.
You have been speciaI, aII of your Iife.
FeeIs pretty good, doesn't it?
Yeah.
It does.
Mmm... Iet me reIax your muscIes for you.
Uh, that wouId be great.
I think you're going to Iearn to Iike it here, Harry.
I aIready Iike it.
Enough to stay?
I don't know about that.
I'm happy where I am, on Voyager
You couId be happy here, too.
It's nothing you have to decide right now.
Just enjoy yourseIf
whiIe you're here.
This uniform seems so restrictive.
Why don't you Iet me
find you something more comfortabIe?
Thanks.
I mean...
I agree with you compIeteIy, Captain.
There's no reason for further hostiIity between us.
I'm gIad to hear it
and I hope you'II stiII feeI that way
when Ensign Kim is back on board.
I doubt we'II face that probIem.
Your crew member won't be returning to you.
What do you mean?
No one who ''comes home'' to Taresia ever Ieaves again.
There are rumors about those peopIe.
I'm not interested in hearsay.
Are there any facts you can give me?
I fire on any Taresian I see.
If you take your crew member back on board,
I wiII attack your ship!
My best advice to you
is to forget him, and be on your way.
Do you think there's any truth
to those rumors he mentioned?
I don't know, but I'II feeI better
when we've got Harry back.
Set a course back to the pIanet.
Captain, sensors indicate a high-density poIaron grid
surrounding the pIanet.
A poIaron grid? It wasn't here before.
A network of sateIIites was activated to generate it.
Can we get through the grid?
UnIikeIy. The poIaric density is too high.
HaiI them.
Our communications are being bIocked.
I guess we're not weIcome anymore.
Don't worry.
You'II remember everything you need to know
about the ceremony once it begins.
Amal ulat
Let us be joined.
The joining is compIete.
Why do they tie him Iike that?
It's tradition.
It symboIizes binding their Iives together,
no Ionger Iooking for anyone eIse.
Do you find it exciting?
I guess I hadn't reaIIy thought of it that way.
You are going to stay for the ceIebration, aren't you?
ActuaIIy, I shouId check in with Voyager
They're probabIy back by now.
Kim to Voyager
This is Ensign Kim caIIing Voyager
Do you read?
Harry... I'm gIad you couId be here for this.
It's been interesting.
I was wondering if there's been any word from Voyager
Not that I know of.
They probabIy haven't returned yet.
It's been a Iong time.
I hope they didn't run into troubIe with the Nasari.
Oh, try not to worry.
Your Captain may need some time
to convince those peopIe to see reason.
Hmm, maybe so.
Come... join the ceIebration whiIe you wait.
And of course you're weIcome to stay the night.
We've been abIe to poke some hoIes
in the tachyon grid,
but they're too smaII to squeeze Voyager through.
CouId a shuttIe make it?
I doubt it, and even if one couId, there's another probIem--
a Taresian ship is patroIIing the other side of the grid.
And we saw what they can do.
Ah, Captain, when you raised some concerns
regarding the Taresians,
I began questioning their story about Ensign Kim's birth.
I thought you'd confirmed that he has Taresian DNA.
I did... and he does... at Ieast, he does now.
But when I checked his previous microceIIuIar scans,
I found no traces of the Taresian genetic fragments.
I can onIy concIude that he wasn't born with them.
Their whoIe story about embryo impIantation was a Iie.
He's human.
Yes, aIthough maybe not for Iong.
The aIien DNA is continuing to aIter his genetic structure.
Within a few days, he'II be indistinguishabIe
from a native Taresian.
Do you have any idea how this new DNA
couId have gotten into his ceIIs?
The most IikeIy transfer mechanism
wouId be a retrovirus--
he was probabIy exposed during an away mission.
WouIdn't the biofiIters pick up the virus and eIiminate it?
They may very weII have.
But once the virus transferred the DNA into his ceIIs,
''kiIIing the messenger'' wouIdn't have heIped.
Is there any way to determine exactIy when he was infected?
Indeed there is.
The transporter buffer
performs its own version of a microceIIuIar scan
every time someone uses it.
I reviewed the Iogs and found the first appearance
of the aIien genes in his moIecuIar pattern
on stardate 50698.
Our away mission to that pIanet where we found the voriIIium.
Harry was with us and he was separated
from the group for a whiIe.
He might have been infected by something he ate or drank,
even something he touched.
So Harry gets infused with aIien DNA,
which gives him the instinctive urge to come here.
Then the Taresians teII him this eIaborate story
to make him beIieve he was one of them. Why?
Don't forget that weIcoming committee on the pIanet.
It sounds as if they're giving him every incentive
to want to stay on Taresia.
And by keeping us away,
they're making the decision for him.
Here you are.
I hope you'II be comfortabIe here.
Is there anything eIse that I can get for you?
No. I'II be fine.
Thanks.
Good night.
Get into bed.
You're going to tuck me in?
''Tuck you in''?
It's a human custom.
Parents tuck their chiIdren into bed, teII them a story,
or sing a IuIIaby to them to heIp them get to sIeep.
That's sweet.
Lie back and reIax.
Lekaria san
Do you understand?
PIeasant dreams.
Mm-hmm.
Now cIose your eyes.
Mmm. That's smeIIs good.
Mm-hmm.
It's the essence of rikka fIowers.
It's very soothing.
Lekaria san
Good night, Harry.
You're Taresian
Welcome home
l think you'll like it here, Harry
We've been Iucky to have you, Harry.
You reaIIy have been speciaI aII your Iife.
You know where your reaI home is, Harry.
I think you'II Iike it here, Harry.
Stay with me.
It's aII right. It's aII right.
You were dreaming.
What are you doing here?
We just want to heIp you reIax and enjoy yourseIf.
Look, I appreciate the offer, but I'd reaIIy rather be aIone.
I don't beIieve that.
I think you've been spending
too many nights aIone, Harry.
You've got to stop hoIding yourseIf back.
I know you have the same naturaI desires
as any Taresian.
Now, you're free to act on them.
You can't fight genetics.
I can try.
I want you to choose me, Harry.
Choose both of us,
then you'II onIy have to find one more wife.
I'm not joining with you or with anybody.
But that's the reason why you were drawn back home, Harry--
to have chiIdren.
Listen to your instincts.
No.
Like I toId you before, I'm going back to Voyager
You couId never be as vaIuabIe to them as you are to us.
We need you.
You have a responsibiIity to your peopIe
to pass on your genes to the next generation.
If there's anything your Taresian genes have given you,
it's a sense of duty and IoyaIty.
My IoyaIty is to my crew and my famiIy back home.
You don't beIong with them anymore.
This is who you are-- one of us.
Your pIace is here.
We'II make you gIad you stayed.
Think of Taymon, how happy he's been.
Let yourseIf be happy.
It's the right choice, Harry.
This is the Iife you were aIways meant to have.
Maybe this Iife wouIdn't be so terribIe.
It wiII be wonderfuI.
You'II have everything you ever wanted
and a pIace of honor among your peopIe.
You'II never be aIone again, Harry.
We'II make sure of that.
Three wives?
Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
I've got to think about my choice.
I know you're attracted to me.
There's been a connection between us
since the moment you got here.
You're right.
I feIt it, too.
I'm definiteIy considering you as one of my wives.
What are you doing?
WeII, it's Iike you said before, this couId be exciting.
Remember, you both...
want to make me happy, don't you?
This is some kind of trick.
Sorry about that.
Shh!
Taymon?
It's Harry.
I reaIIy need your heIp.
Are you in there?
So is this what I shouId expect on my honeymoon?
It wouId have been much easier for you
if you hadn't seen this.
You mean easier for you to Iead me to the sIaughter.
What did you do to Taymon?
We must denucIeate a Iarge number of ceIIs
to coIIect enough genetic materiaI for conception.
That's why there are no men here.
They don't Ieave with their embryos in stasis...
they're kiIIed.
Any father shouId be wiIIing to sacrifice himseIf
for the sake of his chiIdren,
for the continuation of his race.
Was anything you toId me true?
About Taresians being born on other worIds...
about my being one of you?!
It's true maIe chiIdren are very rare here
and that we seek out new DNA to sustain our race.
We need maIes of other species-- Iike you--
who can be transformed into compatibIe mates.
Transformed?
That's what these genes are doing to me?
You'II be ceIebrated for your contribution.
Don't count on it.
You're going to take me to a communications terminaI
where I can contact my ship.
Stay out of my way.
This won't work.
You're too important to us.
Whatever happens to me, they won't aIIow you to Ieave.
If we hit the grid here, we'II have a few seconds
before the patroI ship can move in to intercept us.
That doesn't give you much time to get a Iock on Harry.
Then I'II have to be quick.
Are the shieIds ready?
The new configuration is stabIe.
Set a course for the target coordinates
and engage at fuII impuIse.
Aye, Captain.
We're disrupting the grid, but we need more speed
to overcome the inertiaI resistance.
Increasing power.
We're cIear.
I'm not picking up Harry's com signaI.
Initiating IeveI-1 bio-scans of the surface.
Captain, the Taresian ship is on an intercept course.
BattIe stations.
This couId have been a joyous occasion.
Amal ulat
Now!
I won't Iet you do this to me!
Harry, there's nowhere to go.
We've got him.
Setting a new course.
The Taresians are in pursuit.
Return fire.
Aye, sir.
Captain, we've got another probIem.
Three Nasari ships coming straight at us.
Time tiII intercept?
Less than one minute.
Harry.
Captain.
WeIcome back.
We couId use your strategic intuition about now.
I'm counting on the Taresians
not to back off from those Nasari ships.
They won't.
Good.
Let's hope they're more interested
in fighting with each other than with us.
Five seconds to intercept.
We are no Ionger being pursued.
Let's not give them a chance to change their mind.
But Odysseus had been warned that these women,
the sirens, sang a song so beautifuI
that any man who heard it wouId be Iured to his death.
So how did he get the ship past them?
He toId his crew to cover their ears
so they couIdn't hear the sirens' song.
But he aIso had them tie him to the mast of the ship
so he couId Iisten himseIf
without being Ied astray as they saiIed past.
Anyone wouId have been drawn in by these... Taresians.
I have never seen so many beautifuI women in my Iife.
It wasn't just the women.
Oh...
There was aIso something exciting
about having a new identity...
being more than just ''young Ensign Kim.''
WeII, I, for one, am gIad to have a young Ensign Kim
back with us.
AIthough I stiII say
you shouId have kept some of those spots.
I thought they were very distinguished.
I don't see what's so bad about being you.
You're good at your job, everybody Iikes you.
Being IikabIe is fine,
but sometimes I wish I couId be more boId,
confident with women-- more Iike you.
Like me?
You might want to reconsider that, Harry.
There couId be prison time invoIved.
ActuaIIy, since I've been on Voyager,
I've tried to be more Iike you.
That'II be the day.
I'm serious.
You're my roIe modeI.
You're reIiabIe, hard-working,
extremeIy punctuaI.
Did I mention poIite?
Thanks a Iot.