Stardate 50836.2: While the crew is investigating the destruction of a Vostigye space station, the Doctor has created a holographic family to improve his social skills. Kes and B'Elanna join his family for dinner. B'Elanna finds that they are ridiculously perfect and stops the program. With the Doctor's consent, she reprograms the family with random behavioral algorithms, so they would act more like real human beings. Henceforth, the Doctor's wife Charlene has a life of her own, his son Jeffrey is under the bad influence of Klingon friends, and his daughter Belle is mad about the dangerous sport parrises squares. The Doctor tries to come to terms with his new family. But then Belle suffers brain damage in an accident during a parrises squares match. The Doctor is unable to cope with this situation and interrupts the program. The reason for the destruction of the station was a subspace eddy. Tom approaches a newly formed eddy in a shuttle, in order to collect plasma. But his shuttle vanishes together with the eddy, leaving him trapped in a layer between space and subspace. The only chance to escape is to follow one of the eddies back into normal space. Back on Voyager in sickbay, he can convince the Doctor to resume his holodeck program and say farewell to his deadly injured daughter.

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