Stardate not given: While many of the bridge crew are on the holodeck to celebrate Kes's second birthday, Voyager runs into a spatial distortion. The anomaly causes the directions of corridors to change so no one can find the right way through the ship. The holodeck on deck 6 is still unaffected but the anomaly will soon pervade the whole ship. Captain Janeway suffers a shock when her arm gets caught in the advancing distortion field. Against Tuvok's advice, Chakotay decides to emit a warp pulse to repel the anomaly and restore the ship as it was. But this attempt is in vain. As all options are exhausted and the field has already entered the holodeck, Tuvok recommends to do nothing, and Chakotay agrees. The whole crew, including Janeway, remains unharmed as the anomaly passes through them. It turns out that it was the attempt of an unknown intelligence to communicate with the ship.

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