Basics , Part II ( episode ) With the Kazon - Nistrim in control of " Voyager " , the crew must return to basics in order to survive on a harsh world inhabited by alien natives and vicious predators . Meanwhile , Suder and The Doctor assist Paris ' s attempts to retake " Voyager " . ( " Season premiere " ) Summary . Teaser . Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew are struggling to survive on the desolate planet on which the Kazon have abandoned them . It becomes immediately clear that their number one priority is to seek shelter from the elements . They move into one of the caves that appears to provide adequate protection given their circumstances . While Captain Janeway ' s team makes camp in that cave , one of the other teams , led by Neelix , is searching the surrounding area for food and supplies . Near the entrance of a cave , he and Hogan find humanoid bones . Neelix orders Hogan to gather the bones up so they can use them for tools and weapons . As Neelix goes to help another crewmember , Hogan gets attacked and dragged into the tunnel by an unknown predator . They rush to save him , but are too late and only find a few scraps of his uniform . Act One . Lt . Tom Paris tries to repair the shuttlecraft he escaped in and fends off a Kazon patrol ship that has been sent to find him , destroying it . Back in the cave , Neelix is upset , blaming himself , thinking that if he hadn ' t ordered Hogan to collect those bones , he wouldn ' t be dead now . Janeway , who herself is deeply saddened by the news of Hogan ' s death , tells him that there is no time to worry about blame ; Hogan was a fine officer , and she wants to make sure that his death was the last one for a long time . She orders her crew to be more careful and to hold on , as she will not allow them to be destroyed by this planet . She declares the tunnels off - limits and wants clear safety protocols established . Lieutenant Tuvok informs her that he has already begun to design some rudimentary weapons . When Neelix informs her that their search for food and water is less than successful , she tells the crew to start turning over rocks and eat insects if need be , doing so herself to set an example . Back on the , Seska goes to sickbay to have The Doctor examine her child . She also informs him that the Kazon have taken over the ship and wonders if he has a problem with that change of command . The Doctor lies and tells her that he couldn ' t care less about who is running the ship for he is there to provide medical treatment to whoever needs it . He also tells her that lying and blunt deception are not part of his programming . After he finishes examining the baby he informs Seska that the DNA scan proves that her baby is not Commander Chakotay ' s son as she thought he was . Seska doesn ' t believe him at first given the child ' s appearance , but The Doctor explains that the baby is the first Cardassian - Kazon hybrid and therefore there is no reference in regards to his appearance but will likely develop more Kazon features as he grows . Visibly upset about the news The Doctor has given her , Seska rushes out of sickbay and deactivates the EMH . The Doctor , however , manages to reactivate himself again as Seska leaves and begins conducting some research of his own . As he asks the computer for the crew complement , he finds out that in addition to the 89 Kazon , there is also one Betazoid , Lon Suder , on board . He contacts Suder and informs him about the situation . He tells him to make it to sickbay and asks the computer to delete the signature of Suder ' s combadge from the system to ensure he isn ' t counted among the crew complement and therefore be hidden from the Kazon . Back on the planet , the crew is still struggling with meeting their basic needs . Night has fallen and temperatures have plummeted and they are forced to huddle together for warmth . Ensign Harry Kim and Lt . jg B ' Elanna Torres return with eggs and some equivalent of cucumbers they found only two kilometer s from where they found shelter . Samantha Wildman ' s newborn baby , Naomi Wildman , is having difficulty coping with the planet ' s environment as she is not doing well . Chakotay is upset at himself for not being able to start a fire , but recalling some survival advice taught by his father , later manages to do so when using Janeway ' s and other crew members ' donated hair as kindling . Later in the evening , while sitting around a fire to warm up , Neelix suggests putting some rocks around it to reflect the heat better . He sets off looking for more rocks , but disappears in the dark . When Kes follows him , she is captured by one of the natives . Act Two . Tom Paris contacts the Talaxian s who inform him that " Voyager " has been taken over by the Kazon - Nistrim , who have been flooding every subspace frequency with the news . Despite initial misgivings and hesitation to help Paris and " Voyager " , Commander Paxim is persuaded to help Tom with his mission to make repairs to the shuttle - craft and rescue " Voyager " s crew . Back on " Voyager " , The Doctor and Suder attempt to plan a way of retaking the ship – a plan which , much to the dismay of Suder , may involve the use of violence and even necessitate killing . Suder feels uneasy about such prospects , especially after he has worked so hard over the past few months to control his violent impulses . But The Doctor tells him that even Tuvok would agree that there are times where violence is required to defend one ' s ship and one ' s crew . He asks Suder to trust him and promises to help him in any way he can : one hologram and one sociopath may not be much of a match for the Kazon , says The Doctor , but it will have to do . Down on the planet , Chakotay informs Janeway of signs of a struggle near the edge of the camp and of Neelix ' and Kes ' disappearance . Janeway decides that they cannot wait until the morning to look for them and sends out search parties right away . Chakotay ' s party finds them and he tries to communicate with the leader of the group . The elderly leader tries to appease Chakotay by letting him have Neelix but he and the group are reluctant to hand Kes back because they obviously think of her as a suitable and desirable mate , going so far as to fight over her amongst each other . Chakotay and Neelix refuse to leave without her and the leader offers one of the group ' s young females in exchange for Kes . Neelix is angered by the offer , but Chakotay tells him to stay calm . He tries to reason with the leader by telling him that the girl belongs with them and that Kes must go with him and Neelix . He tells Kes to calmly get up and walk away with him and Neelix . But this enrages the natives even more and they start to chase them . Even as Tuvok and others try to fight them , they are forced to enter one of the caves in the hopes that the natives know of the dangerous creatures inside them and will not follow them in . Act Three . Back on " Voyager " , Culluh ' s men have trouble completing repairs to the ship . Seska suspects sabotage and orders a ship - wide search for an intruder , including the use of Starfleet tricorders . The Doctor and Suder , in sickbay , are listening to Seska ' s orders on a monitor . Suder decides to use a thoron generator to mask his lifesigns from the tricorders as he proceeds back into hiding . Meanwhile , the natives force Chakotay ' s team deeper into the cave where they are forced to struggle with one of the ferocious creatures and even lose one of their crew members to it . Outside , Janeway and her group attempt to distract the natives away from the tunnels so that Chakotay and his crew can come back out . Torres and two other crew members manage to distract the natives away from the cave entrance , while Janeway and the remainder of her team move near the cave entrance for a rescue attempt . She is able to reach Chakotay and his search party , who have barely escaped the creature within the cave . Chakotay , Tuvok and Kim are the last ones who manage to make it out of the cave just in time , but not before they collapse the tunnel entrance with falling rocks and debris to keep the creature away . Act Four . Back on " Voyager " , The Doctor receives a masked subspace message from Tom Paris , who informs him that he is bringing help but that he needs The Doctor to block the discharge from the back - up phaser power couplings when the attack begins , he needs those backups to overload when the Kazon switch to them . Just then , Suder returns with a dead Kazon , whom he was forced to kill before he could alert Seska to his location . After doing this , he returns to sickbay , visibly distraught over what he was forced to do . The Doctor tries to calm him down by telling him that he did what needed to be done and offers him drugs to calm him down , but Suder refuses wanting to do it on his own . Meanwhile , Culluh gets a fake message ( courtesy of Tom Paris ) claiming that the shuttle has been destroyed , but Seska reminds him that two crewmembers were unaccounted for when the ship was captured . Culluh tells her that the search for an intruder has been slowed by a thoron leak , which makes Seska certain there ' s an intruder as she remembers that the Maquis used thoron particles to fool tricorder s . Seska storms into sickbay , asking The Doctor about the thoron generator . He tells her that it was damaged on a recent away mission , but Seska doesn ' t believe him . She says she knows that a Maquis is involved in the sabotage , but The Doctor claims full responsibility for it all , stating that he has been the one sabotaging the ship all along , together with the computer , and that he in fact was forced to kill one of the Kazon who walked in on him and caught him in the act . Seska still doesn ' t believe him , no matter what he says . Angrily , she rushes out of sickbay , telling the computer not to accept any more voice commands by Starfleet personnel and then damages sickbay ' s holoemitters , thus taking The Doctor offline . Successful at escaping both the savage natives and the creature in the cave , the senior officers begin debating as to whether they should prepare to engage the natives again . Meanwhile Wildman ' s baby is deteriorating and is now having trouble breathing . However , priorities shift quickly when seismic activity increases rapidly and a nearby volcano begins to erupt . Act Five . Suder comes out of hiding and unsuccessfully tries to access the EMH . However , The Doctor , who has programmed a message to play for him in case he is disabled , tells Suder that the fate of " Voyager " solely depends on him . He tells him that he has full confidence in Suder ' s abilities and that he is fully confident that Suder will do the right thing . On the bridge , the Kazon follow the attacking Talaxians into a nebula , in order to teach them a lesson . Commander Paxim informs Tom that the Kazon are following them as planned . As " Voyager " enters the nebula , Tom follows through with his plan of attacking the phaser power couplings . Back on the planet , the crew flees in search of higher ground and encounter the group of natives once more . However , Chakotay manages to gain the group ' s trust by saving one of the young female natives from a lava stream . The leader of the natives leads the crew to safer ground and as Naomi is nearing death , the tribe leader saves her life by treating her . In main engineering , Suder sets out to follow through with his plan , attacking and killing all the Kazon in engineering . Just as he finishes up to execute Paris ' plan , he is fatally shot by one of the Kazon from behind . Slumping against the console and collapsing to the floor , Suder manages to execute the settings , his last act as he dies . On the bridge , the Kazon identify their mystery attacker : the Federation shuttlecraft they thought they had destroyed . Culluh orders it destroyed with the ship ' s phasers but the attack has knocked the primary phaser power off - line . Seska barks an order to switch to backup systems , restoring power . Culluh opens fire , but , an alarm sounds on the bridge . Before the Kazon can react , the overloaded power couplings short out all the consoles on " Voyager " , disabling the Kazon crew . Hearing her baby ' s cries from the ready room , Seska struggles to her feet to answer the child . As she enters the ready room , she barely has enough strength left to reach out to her baby before dying . Culluh , overcome with grief over the loss of Seska , takes the child in arm and orders the Nistrim to abandon " Voyager " upon hearing a report that they are being boarded by the Talaxians . Paris and the Talaxians beam into the bridge and set to work repairing the ship , allowing the Kazon to escape via the escape pods and their shuttles . On the planet , the crew has finally made peace with the natives with one of them giving Naomi a herb that helps her to breath better . Everyone ' s attention is suddenly drawn to the sky as " Voyager " arrives on the horizon , much to the surprise of Janeway and Chakotay . Assuming command once again , Paris welcomes the Captain back aboard , congratulating him on his successful retaking of " Voyager " . Paris remarks he had help from the Talaxians , The Doctor and Suder , informing Janeway that Suder died in his heroic attempt to disable the phasers before being killed by the Kazon . In sickbay , The Doctor also commends the actions of Suder to Tuvok , who offers a Vulcan prayer to the Betazoid in the hopes that he has finally managed to find the peace he so desired . On another biobed , Chakotay also bids farewell to Seska despite all the havoc she had wrought upon him and the " Voyager " crew . With " Voyager " capable of sustained flight , Janeway orders Paris to take them away from their " new home " and to set a course for the old one . After two years of sustained hostilities , " Voyager " finally moves beyond Kazon space and deeper into the Delta Quadrant . Log entries . " " Medical log , stardate 50032 . 7 . I have determined that Commander Chakotay is not the father of Seska ' s child . I only wish there was some way to inform him . What am I supposed to do ? Lead a revolt with a gang from Sandrine ' s ? Conjure up hologram s of Nathan Hale and Che Guevara ? I ' m a doctor , not a counterinsurgent . Get hold of yourself . You ' re not just a hologram . You ' re a Starfleet hologram . Maybe . . . maybe I could access a tactical database , teach myself guerrilla warfare . But that would take time . " " Memorable quotes . " " Don ' t push yourself . That goes for everyone . Perspiring wastes water . " " " " I don ' t have time for this ! " " " " I told you I don ' t have time for this ! " " " " It ' s my fault . If I hadn ' t told Hogan to pick up those bones . " " " " You shouldn ' t blame yourself . " " " " Stop it . There is no time to worry about blame . Hogan was a fine officer and a good man . And our job is to make sure that his death is the last one for a very long time . I will not let this planet destroy my crew . " " " " I ' m a doctor , not a counter - insurgent . Get a hold of yourself . You ' re not just a hologram , you ' re a Starfleet hologram ! " " " " Huddle together in groups , that ' ll preserve body heat . This is no time to be shy . " " " " Trapped on a barren planet , and you ' re stuck with the only Indian in the universe who can ' t start a fire by rubbing two sticks together . " " " " If you can help me with repairs , we can be on our way in a few hours . " " " " Lieutenant , our ships are no match for " Voyager " and your shuttlecraft can hardly – " " " " Commander Paxim , my people are counting on you ! Look , no one knows " Voyager " like I do . I know every vulnerability , every blind spot . Don ' t worry , I have a plan . " " ( sigh ) " " Very well . We ' ll rendezvous in an hour . Paxim out . " " ( to himself ) " " One hour . I should be able to come up with some kind of plan in one hour . " " " " One hologram and one sociopath may not be much of a match for the Kazon , but . . . we ' ll have to do . " " " " You ' re more talented in the art of deception than you led me to believe . " " " " I was inspired by the presence of a master . " " " " I won ' t play these games with a trick of light . " " " " Sticks and stones won ' t break my bones , so you can imagine how I feel about being called names . " " " " The other two seem to be trying to figure out what to make of us . . . In a manner of speaking , not in a culinary sense , I hope . " " " " Engineering to Maje Culluh ! We ' re being boarded ! " " " " Abandon ship . " " " " You would have been proud of him , Mr . Tuvok . " " " " I offer you a Vulcan prayer , Mr . Suder . May your death bring you the peace you never found in life . " " Links and references . References . 47 references ; Alpha Quadrant ; bedside manner ; Betazoid ; blind spot ; bowels ; cave ; Che Guevara ; Class 2 shuttle ; combadge ; decathlon ; egg ; Emergency medical holographic channel ; escape pod ; Federation ; fever ; Hale , Nathan ; Hanon IV ; Hanonian ; Hanonian land eel ; " I ' m a doctor , not a . . . 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