Stardate 49373.4: Tom, Paris B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim are working on equipping a shuttle to reach Warp 10 - infinite speed! Although there is a slight chance that Tom could suffer brain damage, he pilots the shuttle. The experiment succeeds. Tom achieves Warp 10 and crosses the whole universe back and forth in just an instant. Some time after his safe return he doesn't feel well. He is taken to sickbay where the Doctor diagnoses a strange metamorphosis of his body. It appears that the Warp 10 flight accelerated Tom's natural evolution to a new, "more evolved" lifeform. During an unsuccessful attempt to restore Tom's original body using antiprotons, Tom breaks free. He kidnaps Janeway, takes the shuttle and goes to Warp 10 again. Voyager finds the two in a jungle on a nearby planet. They have "evolved" to amphibious creatures resembling newts and have children! The Doctor manages to restore their human nature, while their kids are left behind.

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