While Voyager's warp core is down undergoing extensive maintenance, Harry Kim searches for dilithium in the Delta Flyer with Neelix and Seven of Nine. When a Kraylor ship ostensibly on a humanitarian mission is brutally attacked by the warring Annari, Harry Kim intercedes in the conflict between the two Delta Quadrant races. Kim is granted permission to take the helm of the cripped vessel and, with the assistance of Seven of Nine, help her on her voyage home. Kim's new position, however, goes to his head, and he finds himself learning a lesson in leadership while under the Annari guns.

Ron Glass (Loken)
Manu Intiraymi (Icheb)
Beverly Leech (Dayla)
Paul F. O'Brien (Captain Geral)
Scott Miles (Terek)
Alan Brooks (Annari Commander)
Bob Rudd (Brell)

• Voyager sets down on an uninhabited planet to make their repairs.
  
• Janeway assigns Icheb to Engineering during the repairs. Seeing his potential, B'Elanna takes an interest in him, which Icheb mistakes for romantic interest.
  
• The Kraylor ship is not delivering medical supplies. It is a prototype for cloaking technology. Loken and Dayla are engineers, not medical doctors.