Stardate 49485.2: Neelix hat set up a shipwide daily video broadcast, "A Briefing With Neelix", in which he presents news about the ship and interviews with the crew. Kim tells him that for the program to remain interesting, he has to watch out for more exciting news. The big news comes sooner than Neelix thinks when Talaxian Commander Laxeth tells him that one of Voyager's crew is about to leave the ship and join his convoy. It turns out that this person is Tom Paris, who has been malcontent for quite a while. Just after Tom has left, an apparent malfunction disables Voyager's warp drive. Michael Jonas and two other engineers are hurt when a console explodes. Moreover, Tom is abducted by the Kazon when they attack the Talaxian convoy, obviously because Jonas was able to inform Seska of Paris's departure. Neelix investigates the subspace communication logs with Ensign Hogan's help. They find that portions were erased, and the trace leads to Tom Paris's quarters. After Neelix has publicly made Tom responsible in his broadcast, he is called to the ready room. Janeway reveals to Neelix and to the astonished Chakotay that Tom isn't the traitor. Actually, he misbehaved and eventually left the ship as a part of a plan devised by Tuvok and Janeway to find the true traitor from the Kazon ship. Indeed, on the Kazon ship, Tom finds out about Jonas's communication with Seska. He ignites an explosive device and escapes with a shuttle. On Voyager, Neelix is in engineering with Jonas who sabotages the ship's weapons but pretends to work on the transporter to be able to beam out Paris. Neelix gets into a fight with Jonas, and Jonas is killed when he falls into a plasma stream. Paris can be beamed out in time before the shuttle explodes, and Voyager's weapons come back online to fend off the Kazon ship. In the next episode of "A Briefing With Neelix" there is an exclusive interview with Tom Paris, who also apologizes for being a jerk.

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