An alien visitor named Arturis (virtually a living universal translator) interprets a damaged five-month-old data stream message from Starfleet Command, leading Voyager's crew to the Dauntless, an unmanned Starfleet rescue ship. Its novel "quantum slipstream drive" offers a quick trip home to Earth. This sudden all-too-convenient ability to return to Earth (and Seven of Nine's decision to stay in the Delta Quadrant) leaves Capt. Janeway wary, and her decryption of the full message proves her right to be.
—statmanjeff