Stardate: 48546.2. In the search for omicron particles to boost the ship's energy supplies, Voyager inadvertently injures a space-faring life form.

Stardate: Unknown. A spatial distortion ring begins to reconfigure the internal layout of Voyager. With the crew unable to get to vital systems, and the captain injured after coming into contact with the anomaly, the ship is slowly twisted as the ring implodes and endangers the crew.