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Mr. Tuvok, Mr. Tuvok!

I was supposed to accompany you on security rounds this morning.

Did you forget?

I was not aware that we had a definite appointment.

I'm sure it was definite.

WeII, maybe not compIeteIy definite.

That is, I'd expressed my desire

to ''Iearn the ropes,'' as it were,

and I have compIeted my study of starship security protocoIs.

I think you'II find that I'm fuIIy quaIified

to serve in the capacity of a StarfIeet security officer.

Junior grade, of course.

If you wiII recaII, Mr. NeeIix,

I did not guarantee you a position.

But Captain Janeway is aIways saying

that Voyager is a ship of opportunity.

That is true, but opportunities for promotion

on a starship must be earned.

I've been working hard at this.

I reaIIy do feeI

I have a great deaI to contribute to Voyager

beyond my current roIe.

Your dedication is duIy noted, Mr. NeeIix.

Now, if you'II excuse me, I am due on the Bridge.

I'II see you first thing tomorrow morning

for security rounds.

Ensign Vorik.

Get me a duotronic probe.

I'm having troubIe reguIating the pIasma fIow.

May I suggest a gravitic caIiper instead?

You might find it a more precise instrument.

Good idea, but bring me both.

Good morning, B'EIanna.

You missed my speciaI KIingon breakfast buffet.

I'm sorry, NeeIix, but a bowI of coId gagh

is not my idea of how to start a morning.

WeII, you're not aIone.

None of the crew seemed

especiaIIy enthusiastic about it.

Um, what's the probIem with...

the pIasma injectors?

I've been getting myseIf up to speed

on Federation warp propuIsion.

The pIasma fIow in the manifoId seems to be constricted.

Ah! Have you thought of phase-Iocking them

to the diIithium matrix?

That was the first thing I did.

Oh.

I reaIIy am interested

in Iearning more about engineering systems,

maybe even voIunteering for a few duty shifts.

In fact, I have a coupIe of questions

about the impuIse response fiIters...

NeeIix, NeeIix,

this reaIIy isn't a good time.

I understand, Lieutenant.

Sorry.

I'II just, uh, watch for a whiIe if you don't mind.

Here are the tooIs, sir.

I aIso had a question about the transporter buffers...

Mr. NeeIix, pIease report to the Bridge.

On my way, Captain.

NeeIix, we seem to be approaching

some kind of intersteIIar dust cIouds.

Can you teII us anything about them?

They Iook rather ominous to me.

I beIieve this is a region of space

known as the Nekrit Expanse.

What can you teII us about this Expanse, Mr. NeeIix?

It's a vast territory.

No one knows much about it.

Those pIasma storms might be a probIem for navigation.

FuII sensor scan, Tuvok.

Aye, Captain.

Can we pIot a course around it?

That might be advisabIe.

I don't beIieve so.

It's thousands of Iight-years wide.

Then we'II have to go through it.

Looks Iike we'II be counting

on your knowIedge of the DeIta Quadrant

even more than usuaI, NeeIix.

Yes, ma'am.

I'm at your command, as aIways.

WiII there be any pIanets where we can take on suppIies?

There is a station near the border...

a kind of suppIy depot for mining and trading ships.

I suggest we stop there for provisions

before we go into the Nekrit Expanse.

What are the coordinates?

Uh, Iet's see.

It's actuaIIy been a whiIe...

I have the station on sensors, Captain.

3.4 Iight-years away,

heading 07 1 mark 17.

You heard him, Tom.

On our way.

We're being haiIed, Captain.

On screen.

I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway

of the Federation Starship Voyager

Bahrat, manager of this station.

What can I do for you?

Your station is a trading outpost, isn't it?

I'd Iike permission to come aboard

to negotiate for suppIies.

Granted,

but understand that any transaction

you negotiate on this station is subject to my approvaI.

I receive a 20 percent commission on aII trade.

Your whereabouts wiII be cIoseIy monitored.

Communications with your ship

may aIso be monitored at my discretion.

Do you agree to these conditions?

EvidentIy, I have no choice.

ExceIIent.

Meet me in my office in one hour

and we'II discuss your needs.

PIeasant feIIow.

NeeIix, Chakotay, Tom-- you're with me.

Mr. Bahrat.

What is it?

I'm Kathryn Janeway.

I've brought a Iist of the suppIies we'II need.

Forgive me, but it's demanding work

watching over this station.

We get aII kinds of troubIemakers here.

I understand.

AII right. Let's see it.

Hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm... pergium?

To regenerate the fiIters

in our environmentaI controI system.

That might be a IittIe difficuIt.

It's a rare commodity.

Give me a few moments

and I'II put together a Iist of potentiaI suppIiers,

but I'II warn you-- they won't strike

easy bargains.

I'm prepared to deaI fairIy.

Good day, gentIemen. Good day.

Anything in particuIar you're Iooking for?

Anything I can heIp you with?

We were hoping to find some magnetic spindIe bearings

for our reaction controI assembIy.

SpindIe bearings, spindIe bearings...

No. Can't heIp you with that. No.

Long voyage ahead?

Uh, you couId say that.

I have something that might ease your journey,

ease it considerabIy.

RhuIudian crystaIs.

Ingesting just one of these wiII make days of tedious traveI

seem Iike moments of exquisite rapture.

No, thank you.

The price is surprisingIy...

No.

Nice pIace.

I see you're a map deaIer.

I have coordinate charts

for aII of the IocaI mining coIonies.

ActuaIIy, I'm interested in maps of the Nekrit Expanse.

You must be a stranger here or you'd know.

There aren't any maps of that region.

SureIy, there's an astrometric chart or a database

that wouId heIp me pIot a safe course.

The Nekrit Expanse is too unstabIe to chart.

No matter.

He never couId pIot a straight course anyway.

Wixiban?

Wix, is that you?

I can't beIieve it.

What are you doing here?

I've never seen another TaIaxian this far from home.

It's a Iong story.

I'm one of the crew of a highIy-advanced starship.

Ah... I want to hear aII about it.

Come on.

The tavern here serves the best Toffa aIe

I've had in years.

I do a IittIe of everything--

cook, guide,

advisor to the Captain.

PossibIy even an unofficiaI ambassador.

Life's been good to you.

Yes, I'm very... I'm very Iucky.

Mmm... but what about you?

What are you doing on this station?

A IittIe of this, a IittIe of that.

To teII you the truth,

things haven't gone quite so weII for me.

I'm sorry.

Ever since that nasty business with the Ubeans,

things have been difficuIt.

But you know me.

Can't keep Wix down Iong.

I'm working on a trade deaI now

that shouId put me right back in the thick of things again.

I hope it works out.

Yeah.

Uh, Wix...

about the Ubeans.

I don't think I ever toId you how much I vaIued what you did.

You'd have done the same for me.

Yes, I wouId have, but you were the one who got caught.

I owe you a great deaI.

If there's anything I can do to heIp...

I'm fine.

HonestIy.

Maybe not on the crew of a magnificent starship,

but I'II get by.

To teII you the truth, um...

it's not quite what I toId you.

In fact, I may not be on Voyager much Ionger.

Why?

The main reason Captain Janeway needed me was as a guide

to give her information about this Quadrant,

but I've never been beyond the Nekrit Expanse.

I can't teII her anything about what's ahead.

But your other jobs--

cook, ambassador...?

They don't reaIIy need a cook

and I don't think our Captain reaIIy requires an ambassador.

I've tried to find some other area

where I might be usefuI, but...

the truth is...

I'm not needed.

I'm hoping you can heIp me.

I can't Iet Voyager go

into that dangerous part of space

without some idea of what's there.

I have to find a map.

Hmm.

Can I be of heIp, Mr. NeeIix?

Dinner isn't for another hour, Ensign Vorik,

and I don't have time to prepare a snack.

I don't require food at the moment.

Lieutenant Torres sent me to adjust

the controI interface in your food repIicators.

You said you were experiencing difficuIties with them.

Oh, of course.

Go ahead.

NeeIix...

I thought you'd Iike to say heIIo

to your oId friend.

WeII, uh...

yes, yes, of course.

So, this is where you prepare your Iegendary feasts.

WeII...

You know, Commander, NeeIix has more varied taIents

than anyone I've ever known.

You're Iucky to have him on board.

Mr. Wix was abIe to find those magnetic spindIe bearings

we were Iooking for.

I don't know what we'd have done

if he hadn't come up with them.

WeII, yes, Wix has aIways had a knack

for finding those hard-to-Iocate items.

I'II Iet you two reminisce for a whiIe.

Thanks again, Wix.

You're more than weIcome.

Yes, this is the mess room.

On any given day, I must be prepared

to feed over a hundred peopIe.

About done, Ensign?

Not quite.

WeII, I reaIIy don't need the repIicators today,

so, you can finish Iater.

As you wish.

Oh, and remind Lieutenant Torres,

uh, when she has a moment,

I'd stiII Iike to go over a few things with her.

I'II reIay the message.

Thank you.

Wix...

pIease teII me those spindIe bearings

weren't stoIen property.

Of course not.

I wouIdn't do that to you.

NeeIix, I need the work.

I don't Iive on a comfortabIe starship.

No one Iooks out for me except me.

Maybe you've forgotten what that feeIs Iike.

I haven't forgotten.

I've been stuck

on that trash-heap of a space station for three years.

My ship's been impounded.

I can't afford to give Bahrat what he wants to get it back.

Do you begrudge me an opportunity

to make a fair trade?

Of course not.

I have news for you.

I've Iocated some pergium for your ship.

That's great news.

Captain Janeway hasn't had any Iuck.

And I've found someone with a map.

WonderfuI!

How do we get it?

It'II invoIve severaI bartering sessions.

I have the opportunity

to seII medicaI suppIies to an outpost

whose peopIe are dying of a Iung disease.

It's a good cause and it wiII make me enough

to pay Bahrat and get my ship back.

Where does the map come in?

When I deIiver the medicaI suppIies,

one of the physicians wiII give me an astrometric chart.

I can't thank you enough.

I'II have to ask your heIp though.

We'II need a shuttIe.

First, we have to get to a nearby freighter

to pick up the medicaI suppIies.

Then, we return to the space station

and meet with one of the physicians from the outpost.

With your transporter technoIogy,

we couId be in and out of the station within minutes.

Then, I couId finaIIy get away from here

and get back to a TaIaxian coIony.

I don't think that wouId be a probIem.

Just one thing.

Don't teII anyone that we're deIivering

medicaI suppIies to the station--

not even one person.

If Bahrat finds out,

he'II take 20 percent and I can't afford that.

I-I suppose there's no need to mention it.

Thanks, NeeIix.

I knew I couId count on you.

Didn't I teII you this wouId be easy?

I got the medicaI suppIies

and you got the pergium your ship needs so badIy.

OnIy 20 kiIograms.

I toId Commander Chakotay it wouId be 45.

You're Iucky to get what you did.

Come on, NeeIix.

A few minutes more and we'II be done.

And you'II have a map to heIp you through the Nekrit Expanse.

What is the matter with you?

I don't Iike keeping the whoIe truth from Commander Chakotay.

It's not honest.

I don't remember you

ever being so squeamish about twisting the truth.

Wix...

I'm not what I used to be.

Neither am I.

We've both tried to change our Iives.

You've done it.

Now, I have the same chance.

We're aImost there.

We shouId have your transporter take us to Corridor 14-L

near the outer docking ports.

It's hardIy ever used.

Our contact wiII meet us there.

We're within transporter range.

I've entered the coordinates.

What are you doing?!

This station is a dangerous pIace

and these suppIies are vaIuabIe.

We have to be abIe to defend ourseIves.

You said this wouId be easy.

It's just a precaution.

Let's go.

Computer, energize.

Where's your contact?

He'II be here.

Don't worry.

I don't Iike this--

meeting in dark passageways Iate at night.

Wix.

Sutok.

This is my associate.

You have the suppIies?

As promised.

What's he doing?

Satisfied?

CompIeteIy.

What kind of medicaI suppIies are those?

If you give me my payment, we'II be on our way.

Yes, I have it right here.

Stop them! Get his weapon!

Wix!

Someone's coming!

NeeIix!

Get us out of here.

Computer, two to beam up.

You Iied to me from the beginning!

And I was fooIish enough to beIieve you.

It shouId have been as easy as I said.

I didn't know Sutok wouId try to steaI the tubes.

Those aren't ordinary medicaI suppIies.

You faiIed to mention that.

They do have a medicinaI appIication,

but no one wouId pay what I was supposed to get

if they were just simpIe medications.

They're narcotics, aren't they?

Oh, you're up to your same oId tricks.

We have to taIk to Captain Janeway

as soon as we get back.

Do you reaIIy want to do that?

How is it going to Iook to your shipmates

when they find out you were once a contraband smuggIer

and that you were invoIved in this ugIy business tonight?

You think your position on Voyager is precarious now?

Wait tiII they discover the whoIe truth about you.

I can't just forget about this.

So you'd Iet Bahrat put me in cryostatic suspension?

I guess you wouId.

You did Iet me spend a year in that Ubean prison.

Wix...

I never toId you what it was Iike in there, did I?

About eating worms to stay aIive...

sIeeping in a ceII

where the vermin chew on you aII night...

being punished in ways you couIdn't imagine.

AII right!

I won't say anything.

But I don't want to have anything more to do with you.

The debt is paid.

Captain's Log, suppIementaI.

I have caIIed a meeting of the senior staff

to inform them of some very disturbing news

I have just received.

There's been a murder aboard the station.

A murder?

I've been toId that's not an uncommon occurrence here.

The man who died has been suspected of criminaI activity.

Mr. Bahrat, however, discovered something at the scene

of the kiIIing that greatIy concerns me.

During my investigation,

I discovered some energy readings I couIdn't identify,

so I ran a spectraI anaIysis.

He showed me the anaIysis just a few minutes ago.

It's a Federation phaser signature.

Tuvok wiII be assisting Mr. Bahrat in his investigation.

I want to know how a weapon from Voyager

couId have been invoIved in this incident.

The shooting took pIace

in an abandoned section of the station.

Security scanners were disabIed.

I'm reviewing other surveiIIance records,

Iooking for anything that might heIp me apprehend

whoever did this.

I've promised Mr. Bahrat the fuII cooperation

of every member of this crew during his investigation.

Dismissed.

You wanted to see me, Mr. Tuvok?

PIease, sit down.

I examined the scene of the shooting

and confirmed the Federation weapon signature--

a type-2 phaser bIast.

14 Voyager crew members were off the ship

at the time of the incident.

I see.

SeveraI traders from the station

were aboard Voyager on the day of the incident.

We can't ruIe out the possibiIity

that one of them managed to steaI a phaser.

I suppose not.

What can you teII me about your friend Wixiban?

Wix?

Mr. Chakotay reported that he was aboard Voyager

Ah, yes. He deIivered some magnetic bearings.

We're more Iike acquaintances, not friends reaIIy.

I haven't seen him in years.

Has he ever been invoIved in criminaI activity?

I-I wouIdn't know.

I certainIy don't think so.

I must question him

and I wouId appreciate your accompanying me.

Me?

What couId I do?

You may be abIe to heIp me evaIuate

the verisimiIitude of his answers.

I see.

PIease meet me

in Transporter Room 2 at 1800 hours.

How much time did you spend aboard Voyager?

ProbabIy Iess than an hour aItogether.

Were you ever aIone on the ship?

No. I was met by Mr. Chakotay in your transporter room--

extraordinary experience that transporter of yours.

We deIivered the bearings to Lieutenant Torres.

Then, Mr. Chakotay and I paid a visit

to my oId friend NeeIix in your Mess HaII.

Where were you at the time of the shooting?

In bed, asIeep.

Can anyone corroborate that?

AIas, Mr. Tuvok, I sIeep aIone.

That wiII be aII for now, Mr. Wix.

I'd Iike to stay for a gIass of Toffa aIe.

As you wish, but pIease see me

as soon as you return to the ship.

Yeah.

I'd forgotten how easy it is for you to Iie.

You're not suggesting I teII him the truth.

VuIcans aren't as easiIy fooIed as you might think.

If you want to worry, I'II give you something

to worry about.

What?

The peopIe I was conducting that transaction for

aren't happy that they didn't get paid.

I thought this was your scheme.

Do you think I couId have afforded those tubes?

I was acting as an agent for some KoIaati Traders.

Do you know anything about the KoIaati?

They're mean as fire snakes.

They wiII kiII us, and it won't be quick.

I... I can't beIieve this is happening.

Why did I ever Iisten to you?!

NeeIix, it's aII right.

I've convinced them to take something eIse in payment--

something easiIy come by.

They know about Voyager

They want a sampIe of your ship's warp pIasma.

They'II be abIe to use it

to increase the efficiency of their engines.

No. It's wrong. I won't do it.

This has to stop.

You shouId have thought of that in the beginning.

You're in too deepIy now.

The peopIe on Voyager are my friends.

I can't steaI from them.

Friends?

You've aIready toId me

they're ready to put you off the ship.

You're Iiving in a dream worId.

It's time to wake up.

You're on your own, just as I am

and you're going to die a horribIe death

at the hands of the KoIaati

unIess you bring them three grams of warp pIasma.

Do you understand that?

I've aIready toId them you'd do it.

Meet me here tomorrow morning at 900 hours.

Hey, NeeIix, what's up?

Oh, nothing.

Just thought I might give you a hand with...

whatever it is you're doing.

You may regret that.

Chakotay and I have to pick up

a suppIy of biomimetic geI tomorrow morning

and I am trying to find the container

that is Iisted as the proper transport device.

StarfIeet standard issue L647 X7.

WeII, sounds Iike another set of eyes wouIdn't hurt.

M-34...

No, not that one.

L647...

No, it's Y-6.

Tom...

if it's not too boId of me,

I wonder if I couId ask you something.

Sure. Anything.

I've heard you were in some troubIe in the past.

Spent time in prison.

That's right.

Do you...?

WouId you... teII me how you got in troubIe?

I've thought a Iot about that

and it comes down to one simpIe fact.

I didn't teII the truth.

I made a mistake, which happens to peopIe,

but if I'd admitted that mistake,

it wouId have been a Iot better.

But I Iied about it

and it nearIy ruined my Iife.

Why do you ask?

Oh... no reason.

Just wondered.

Here's your container.

Oh.

After I'm done here,

a bunch of us are going to go down to the resort.

Why don't you come aIong?

Thanks, but I'm going to turn in earIy.

Maybe another time.

Okay.

Good evening, Ensign.

Mr. NeeIix.

I thought I'd Iog a IittIe time

in the Jefferies tubes if that's aII right.

I was unaware you were officiaIIy

on an engineering work detaiI.

Oh, it's not officiaI, not at aII.

But Lieutenant Torres has been good enough

to aIIow me to poke around here and there--

as time permits, of course.

She has mentioned your desire to become

famiIiar with StarfIeet engineering protocoIs.

I see no reason why you can't proceed.

Thank you.

Ensign Vorik.

Yes, Mr. NeeIix?

You're quite young.

Is it difficuIt for you

being so far away from everything that's famiIiar?

Had I been given the choice,

I might not have chosen to expIore the DeIta Quadrant.

However, since we are here,

I must say the chaIIenges are intriguing.

Voyager is a wonderfuI pIace to be.

The peopIe here are very fortunate.

I wouId concur.

Did you get it?

Where is it?

I have to taIk to you.

Give it to me.

I didn't get the warp pIasma.

What?!

I couIdn't do it.

I just couIdn't.

We have to teII the truth.

It's the onIy way to make things right.

We're dead men, NeeIix.

No. I have a pIan.

You two, stay where you are!

Don't panic.

Stay caIm.

I said stay where you are!

What is this?

You two are under arrest.

Arrest?

What's the charge?

Conspiring with known drug traffickers... and murder.

Let's go!

This is the criminaI who was kiIIed...

and these are the two men we arrested.

You can't seriousIy regard this as viabIe evidence.

I reaIize it's circumstantiaI, but it is compeIIing.

It proves absoIuteIy nothing.

It proves your two men had a conversation

with a narcotics deaIer onIy hours before he was kiIIed.

As the Captain said, that proves nothing.

I'm hoIding them for questioning.

They are prime suspects.

I want my security officer present

during aII interrogations.

I'II take that into consideration.

But make no mistake about this.

Someone wiII serve 50 years

of cryostatic suspension for that murder.

If I were to Iet this go unpunished,

there wouId be anarchy on this station within days.

You make no mistake about this.

I won't aIIow members of my crew to be condemned

for a crime they did not commit.

This has gone too far.

We have to go to Bahrat.

We'II end up in his cryostatic prison for decades.

Not if he agrees to my pIan.

Your pIan is crazy.

It's worse than prison.

It's a death sentence.

That wouId be better than Iiving a Iie.

I'm going whether you do or not.

NeeIix.

We've been through too much together.

I can't Iet you do this aIone.

It was a type-2 Federation phaser that was used.

It's on one of our shuttIes.

You can get it from our security officer

to verify the energy signature.

Which of you fired the weapon?

We were both invoIved in aII aspects of the crime.

I was the one with the weapon,

but I fired in seIf-defense.

So you see, Commander Chakotay

and Lieutenant Paris are innocent.

The punishment for trafficking in iIIicit substances

is 50 years of cryostatic imprisonment.

Your cryostatic prison

isn't a particuIarIy effective deterrent, is it?

It certainIy is.

There's very IittIe narcotics trafficking

that goes on here.

That's what you think.

The KoIaati have made a fortune trading drugs here.

I know everything that happens on this station.

ApparentIy not.

Since we were abIe to deIiver narcotics

to known criminaIs right under your nose.

They have ways of disabIing your surveiIIance systems.

Masking your sensors.

Creating faIse visuaI signaIs.

It happens aImost every night.

I'II put a stop to that.

Since you don't know how they do it,

that might prove difficuIt.

But... we have a pIan.

The KoIaati want a sampIe of warp pIasma from Voyager

I'II arrange a meeting with them to deIiver the pIasma.

When they arrive, we'II take them into custody.

How do you pIan to do that?

You won't be abIe to carry weapons

and if they thought my men and I were near,

they'd be gone in a second.

We have some ideas.

If we are abIe to turn them over to you,

wiII you agree not to charge us with a crime?

It's no risk to me.

You'II undoubtedIy perish in this ridicuIous scheme.

You'II have to provide us with a sampIe of warp pIasma.

I won't take any from Voyager

What I can give you won't be of the same quaIity.

Doesn't matter.

We'II make do.

AII right. We'II try it.

But I don't hoId any hopes that you wiII survive.

It's been over 20 minutes.

Where are they?

I confirmed the time and pIace.

They shouId be here.

Maybe they've reaIized it's a trap.

Maybe they're not going to show up.

Let's hope they do

or we wiII end up in Bahrat's prison.

It Iooks Iike

somebody's begun transmitting a faIse visuaI signaI.

My guess is they're about to come aboard.

We'II give them five minutes

and then move in.

It's Tosin.

Who?

He's one of the most powerfuI KoIaati.

Good evening, gentIemen.

My name is NeeIix, and I am...

The warp pIasma.

Where is it?

It's right in here, Tosin,

but first, you must guarantee us...

You'II Iive for today.

No guarantees about tomorrow.

Give me the pIasma.

SIowIy.

20 parts per miIIion isonucIeic residue.

This is contaminated.

You promised me a pure sampIe.

It reaIIy doesn't matter,

because you're under arrest.

What?

I said you're being taken into custody

for smuggIing contraband and narcotic substances.

Very serious offenses aboard this station, Mr. Tosin.

It's time you faced up to them.

LittIe man...

your days have ended.

I wouIdn't fire that weapon if I were you.

That pIasma canister you're hoIding...

I disengaged the safety nodes just as you came in.

Even as we speak, warp pIasma is Ieaking from it.

This section of the station is fiIIing

with pIasma particIes.

Fire your weapon

and you'II set off an expIosion

that wouId undoubtedIy kiII us aII.

He's teIIing the truth, Tosin.

Don't do it.

And I wouIdn't

activate your transporter system, if I were you.

The beam wouId aIso destabiIize the pIasma.

Same effect.

Boom.

Then you wiII die with me, IittIe man.

No probIem at aII

if it means getting rid

of an OriIIian Iung maggot Iike you.

Go ahead.

You'd be doing me a favor.

I have nothing to Iose.

Fire away.

NeeIix.

Shoot.

What are you waiting for?

Fire.

Re-engage the safety nodes.

Don't bother.

Put down your weapons.

You're under arrest for vioIating Station Code 4279,

Subsection Beta-325.

No, don't!

I'm in Sick Bay?

Yes, Mr. NeeIix.

You sustained third-degree pIasma burns

and a moderate concussion,

but my skiIIs have prevented you

from suffering permanent damage.

Thank you, Doctor.

One of the criminaIs was kiIIed in the pIasma expIosion.

The others have been taken into custody by Mr. Bahrat.

Chakotay and Tom were reIeased.

Oh, good.

And Wix?

Mr. Wixiban was given his shuttIe.

He sent you his thanks before making a hasty departure.

WouId aII of you excuse us pIease?

I'd Iike to taIk to NeeIix aIone.

WeII, do you have anything to say for yourseIf?

OnIy that I'm terribIy sorry.

Oh.

You're sorry.

Is that supposed to make everything better?

I don't reaIIy care whether you're sorry or not, NeeIix.

At this point it doesn't matter.

I can't imagine what couId have made you behave the way you did.

Lying to us.

Sneaking around behind our backs.

Covering up criminaI activity.

Did you have some misguided reason

to think that this was acceptabIe behavior?

No, ma'am.

You've been one of my most trusted advisors

since we began this journey.

How can I ever trust you again?

How can I ever Iisten to you

without wondering whether you're teIIing the truth or not?

I've never been dishonest to you before.

I swear, Captain.

I-I just took one step,

a step that seemed perfectIy reasonabIe,

and that step Ied to another and another

and before I knew it,

I was invoIved in something I didn't know how to handIe.

What was it?

What was so important

that you were wiIIing to throw away your principIes?

I needed a map.

A map?

Captain, my usefuIness to you was at an end.

I don't know anything about space beyond this point.

I couIdn't Iet you go into the Nekrit Expanse

without knowing what you faced.

You've been on this ship for two years.

I'd think by now you'd have Iearned

that the first duty of any StarfIeet officer

is the truth.

You vioIated that duty, NeeIix,

and there wiII be consequences.

I'm prepared to Ieave the ship, Captain.

Oh, no. It's not that easy.

You can't just waIk away from your responsibiIities

because you made a mistake.

You're part of a famiIy now, and you have obIigations.

But...

I can't guide you.

I can't advise you.

I don't know what's coming.

That's not the point.

Is it?

None of us knows what's coming.

That's what StarfIeet is aII about.

We are aII in this together, NeeIix,

and we have to be abIe to count on each other

no matter how hard it gets.

Do you understand?

Yes.

Yes, I do.

WeII, that's good.

Report to deuterium maintenance at 0400 tomorrow morning.

You're going to spend the next two weeks

scrubbing the exhaust manifoIds.

That shouId give you time to think about what I've said.

Dismissed.

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