Stardate not given: As Ensign Wildman is going to give birth to her baby, Voyager enters a nebula to avoid Vidiian territory. Inside the nebula, the antimatter supply of the ship gets drained, and Janeway orders to fire proton bursts to infuse the ship's warp coils. But the ship itself gets hit by proton bursts of unknown origin that cause heavy casualties and damage. Ensign Wildman's baby and Ensign Kim die, and Kes vanishes in a spatial rift. As the attacks on the ship continue, Janeway has to abandon the bridge. Just as she leaves, she glimpses an intact bridge with another version of Janeway. On the other Voyager, everything is largely intact, only the antimatter supply has been depleted. And there is a guest from the other ship - Kes. It turns out that Voyager was doubled in a subspace divergence field, and now the two ships occupy the same spatial coordinates. The Janeway of the intact Voyager orders to stop the proton bursts that damage the other ship. The two Janeways establish a communication link and coordinate a plan to merge the ships again, by recreating the divergence field. But the plan fails and can't be repeated due to the low energy level on the damaged ship. Janeway and Kes enter the spatial rift to the damaged Voyager, whose captain decides to self-destruct her ship in order to save the one that is in better shape. But then a Vidiian ship approaches, and organ hunters board the intact Voyager. The Janeway of this ship sends Harry with Wildman's baby to the damaged Voyager and blows up her own vessel, together with the Vidiian attackers.

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