Stardate 50732.4: Ensign Harry Kim feels a strange familiarity with the region of space Voyager has entered. When Voyager encounters a ship of the Nasari, Kim suddenly fires at them without being authorized, saying the Nasari were about to activate their weapons. B'Elanna Torres is severely hurt during the battle but will recover. Janeway puts Kim under arrest but then finds out that the Nasari were indeed powering up their weapons. How could Harry anticipate that? Moreover, the ensign seems to suffer from an illness that rewrites his DNA. When three Nasari ships approach, Voyager escapes to a planet that Kim recognizes as Taresia. On Taresia, he is welcomed by a number of beautiful women who tell him that he is actually Taresian. According to them, male Taresians grow up on other planets, but with an urge to return home some day. Harry becomes friends with Taymon, another male Taresian who returned. He decides to stay for a while and to attend Taymon's wedding ceremony with no less than three women, while Janeway decides to contact the Nasari again. She learns that purportedly terrible things happen to returning Taresian males. Moreover, the Doctor, who has investigated old scans of Harry's DNA, tells her that Harry is not a Taresian. When Voyager arrives at Taresia again, a forcefield has been erected around the planet. Harry enjoys his stay on Taresia but nonetheless decides to return to Voyager. Then he finds the dead body of Taymon, who was killed in his wedding night because Taresian women need a large number of cells for conception. Harry tries to escape but is soon surrounded by the Taresian women. In the meantime Voyager has broken through the forcefield and beams out Harry.

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