Stardate 54775.4: Starfleet orders Voyager to retrieve Friendship One, a probe that was launched from Earth in 2067 and has arrived in the Delta Quadrant by now. Following traces of the probe on a planet's surface, Tom, Neelix and Lt. Carey are taken hostages by the planet's inhabitants who live in the underground. A disastrous antimatter explosion has contaminated the atmosphere. Verin, the leader of the group, blames Voyager's crew because the technology was acquired from the probe in the first place. He demands his group to be transferred to another planet and kills Carey to show his determination. After the hostages have been freed, Voyager manages to clean the planet to give its inhabitants a new life.

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