Stardate not given: As Voyager is about to enter Bothan space, where starships are rumored to have disappeared, Janeway takes a break and runs her holonovel. Back on duty, she suddenly encounters objects and characters from the novel on the ship. Kes seems to share her hallucinations. While the Doctor runs further examinations on Janeway, Chakotay negotiates a possible right of passage with a Bothan official. But the Bothans appear with more ships and surround Voyager. In the following, more and more crew members are incapacitated by hallucinations induced by a psionic field created by the Bothans, leaving only the Doctor and Kes. In engineering, Kes works on completing the generation of a warp pulse that B'Elanna initiated to disrupt the psionic field. But "Neelix" appears and tries to stop her. Kes manages to reflect the psionic energy and thereby disables the Bothan posing as Neelix. Janeway threatens to lock up the Bothan, but he disappears without trace.

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