Stardate 48579.4: The crew is excited about the discovery of a wormhole. As it turns out too narrow for the ship to pass through, Janeway orders the launch of a microprobe to determine where the wormhole leads. The probe gets stuck inside the wormhole, but in the following it serves as a communications relay with a Romulan ship on the other end, in the Alpha Quadrant. Janeway has the crew prepare personal messages to their families that the Romulan commander is supposed to relay to Starfleet. Torres, however, comes up with the idea to transmit a transporter beam through the wormhole that would allow to evacuate the whole crew (except for the EMH). After a series of transports of test cylinders, the Romulan commander is beamed to Voyager. While everyone is excited that the return to the Alpha Quadrant is near, Tuvok discovers that the wormhole leads 20 years to the past, which forbids a transfer of the crew. Telek R'Mor, the Romulan commander, takes the messages with him, promising that he would pass them on in 20 years. However, Tuvok knows that R'Mor would die in 2367, four years too soon. This leaves the crew with the hope that after his death someone else could relay the messages on R'Mor's behalf.

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