The starship Voyager is trying to find a way home after being hurled seventy thousand light years from Earth by a technologically superior alien calling himself the Caretaker. This turned their six week mission in the Badlands into a potentially lifelong journey through the Delta Quadrant. Captain Kathryn Janeway is busy using a Starfleet protocol pertaining to shipboard fraternization to deny herself happiness, while not enforcing any such regulations with regards to the rest of the crew. First officer Commander Chakotay is a member of a fictitious Native American tribe based loosely on the Mayan. Chakotay, Henley, and several dozen other current members of the crew were previously members of the Maquis, a group of illegal freedom fighters protesting the terms of a treaty with the hostile Cardassians, which placed innocent Federation settlers in a so-called demilitarized zone and cost thousands of lives when the Cardassians proved less than honorable.
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