Voyager accidentally drifts into a sub-space corridor and is attacked by the Turei, a territorial race whose armada forces Janeway and her crew to take shelter on a ravaged planet-where they encounter another warlike species whose survivors are encased in bio-pods awaiting 're-animation.' Escaping from the superior force of the Turei, Janeway makes repairs while on a planet whose civilization lies in ruins save for a few hundred stasis chambers holding the slumbering remnants of the Vaadwaur, an ancient culture thought to be extinct. While the captain seeks to form an alliance with the Vaadwaur against the persistant Turei-and promises to find them a new home-she soon senses that her new allies within might pose a greater threat than the enemy she knows is circling above.
