Stardate: 54827.7 When traveling to a conference on warp field dynamics, on a nearby planet, Chakotay and Seven of Nine do a little sight seeing in the shuttle. The shuttle is destroyed be a strange energy barrier, just after they are able to emergence beam down to the planet. As Chakotay is wounded, Seven goes alone in search of possible usable parts left over from the destroyed shuttle.

However, things get tense when Chakotay is found by the indigenous population of continent, who turn out to be in a primate state of society.