Stardate 49504.3: Voyager picks up a distress call from a Vidiian spacecraft with a single female crew member. The Doctor saves the life of the woman by transferring her synaptic patterns into a holographic body. In the following the the Doctor develops romantic feelings for the woman, Danara Pel, and the two spend a lot of time on the holodeck. When it comes to re-integrating her brain patterns into her real body, it turns out that someone poisoned the body. The Doctor is about to call Tuvok to investigate the case, but Danara admits that she herself did it, in order not to have to return to her deformed body. The Doctor succeeds in convincing her that she can only survive in her real body. Meanwhile on the bridge, the conflict of Chakotay and Paris escalates, and Paris ends up in the brig.

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