The crew of Voyager thinks they've found a possible way home when Ensign Harry Kim discovers a small wormhole in space. While it turns out to be too small to travel through, a probe is sent into the hole to try and find out where it leads. The probe doesn't make it through, but it is scanned by a vessel on the other side, in the Alpha Quadrant. The vessel is a Romulan ship, and Captain Janeway opens up communication with the captain, Commander Telek. At first suspicious, Telek eventually allows himself to be beamed aboard Voyager. While a bizarre twist of fate keeps the crew of Voyager from transporting home, they do send messages through to their loved ones.

Vaughn Armstrong (Commander Telek R'Mor)
Tom Virtue (Lt. Walter Baxter)

• The wormhole has a temporal displacement of 20 years. It is the year 2351 on the Alpha Quadrant side of the wormhole, while Voyager's present is the year 2371. Telek dies before Voyager is lost, so the messages never make it to Starfleet.
  
• Telek R'Mor is a scientist with the Romulan Astrophysical Academy.
  
• Ethan Phillips (Neelix) doesn't appear in this episode.
  
• Harry Kim's age is given at 22 in this episode.
  
• This episode confirms that it's Torres's mother who is Klingon. (Her father is Human.)