Stardate not given: On an uninhabited moon with polyferranide deposits Chakotay finds a symbol of the Rubber Tree People, the ancestors of his tribe. When he was 15 years old, Chakotay met the Rubber Tree People on an expedition with his father Kolopak in the Central American rainforest. At that time, Chakotay wasn't fond of his father's ways. Only after Kolopak had died, Chakotay embraced his father's ideas and got his tattoo that mimicks the facial features of the Rubber Tree People. Voyager follows a warp trail that leads away from the moon to a planet. Suddenly forming turbulences do not allow to use the transporter, so Chakotay, Tuvok, Neelix and B'Elanna take shuttle to the surface. Neelix is injured by a bird similar to a hawk and is beamed up to sickbay. When the other three crew members find traces of a civilization, a storm forms and separates Chakotay from the rest. Janeway orders to land Voyager in order to find Chakotay, but the ship gets caught in a huge cyclone. Chakotay finally meets the inhabitants of the planet, the "Sky Spirits". The Sky Spirits visited Earth 45,000 years ago and gave the Rubber Tree People an "inheritance" in the form of a genetic code. When they returned to Earth twelve generations ago, they found no trace of the Rubber Tree People and believed they had been extinguished. Chakotay tells the Sky Spirits that Voyager means no harm to his culture, and the aliens release the ship.

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