Stardate 51501.4: Voyager receives a data stream from the Alpha Quadrant through the alien relay network, containing personal letters for the crew as well as an encoded message from Starfleet. But much of it was intercepted and can only be retrieved in the vicinity of a nearby relay station. On their way, Voyager runs into a ship whose crew has been killed and eviscerated. It turns out that the station uses a quantum singularity as its power source, and generates gravimetric distortions. Seven and Tuvok take a shuttle closer to the station to receive the remaining messages. However, they are captured by the Hirogen, a race of ritualistic hunters who see other species as "prey". As three more Hirogen ships approach, Janeway orders to fire an antithoron burst at the station to weaken the shielding of the quantum singularity. The heavily armored Hirogen ships are more vulnerable to the gravimetric field, and they further weaken the containment of the singularity by continuing to fire. Kim manages to beam out Tuvok and Seven, and the Hirogen ships are destroyed in the implosion of the station.

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