Meanwhile, Ensign Harry Kim has found signs of a wormhole, and since wormholes are a potential way home, they make a detour to investigate. Paris suggests they name the wormhole after Harry, and there are no objections. When they get there, they find that it's the smallest wormhole they've ever encountered, far too small for the ship to fly into. They conclude that it's ancient and probably not too far from extinction, but they still wonder where it leads and whether they can send a message or something. They launch a probe, which gets stuck in the gravitational well.
Despair turns to hope, however, when the probe is scanned by a ship in the alpha quadrant.
Kim and Torres work on the problem, and figure out a way to open an audio channel using the probe as a relay. The other side responds, and it's a Romulan ship. Janeway tells the crew to continue hailing until the Romulans respond. Nevertheless, she's taking her job seriously, and she pulls off engineering miracles that Scotty on the original Enterprise would be proud to call his own. Functional, feminine, but not TOO sexy.