Maneuvers ( episode ) After Seska steals vital transporter technology from " Voyager " , Chakotay sets off on his own to recover it . Summary . Teaser . Commander Chakotay and Lieutenant B ' Elanna Torres enter a turbolift . They ' re wearing civilian clothes . It quickly becomes apparent that they have just been pulled away from a game they ' ve been playing – one that Torres insists she was winning easily . Chakotay counters that he was just letting her run up a substantial lead so she would tense up when he staged a rally . She balks at the idea , virtually proving his point . " " Easy , B ' Elanna , " " he says with a smile . " " It ' s only hoverball . " " Before she can respond , the lift halts at the bridge . There , Tuvok and Janeway explain that the is being hailed using a Federation signal emanating from a nearby beacon . Act One . Initial analysis of the beacon ' s carrier wave frequency indicates that its security code dates from a month after " Voyager " was thrown into the Delta Quadrant . Brief optimism that it might actually be from a Starfleet effort to find " Voyager " is quickly dashed by the appearance of a Kazon raider that immediately starts firing its weapons . A second , much smaller ship appears , clarifying the larger ship ' s pattern of attack . It is cutting a small hole in " Voyager " s shields so that the Kazon shuttle can breach " Voyager " s hull . The plan is successful , largely because the attack employs detailed knowledge of Starfleet vessels and security protocols . The Kazon shuttle enters the ship at cargo bay 2 on deck 4 . Once inside " Voyager " , the raiding party outruns Tuvok ' s security detail , and heads for the transporter room on the same deck . They steal a transporter module and beam back to the main Kazon vessel – after completely disabling " Voyager " s remaining transporters . The shuttle lodged in deck 4 has not only caused a dangerous hull breach , it ' s also preventing " Voyager " from establishing a stable warp field . Left with few alternatives , Janeway orders Chakotay to hold the Kazon vessel in a tractor beam . The vessel hail s , revealing First Maje Culluh . Janeway insists on the return of the module , but Culluh refuses . Instead , he shows the secret to his successful raid : Seska emerges from behind Culluh to give a special greeting to Chakotay . Now undergoing therapy to restore her Cardassian physiology , Seska seems almost disappointed with Chakotay ' s predictability . She initiates a feedback loop with her deflector shield s which disrupts the tractor beam . Free from " Voyager " , the Kazon ship quickly goes to warp . " Voyager " cannot pursue . Their heist of Federation transporter technology appears complete . Act Two . Most of the senior staff examine the damage done by the Kazon shuttle . They sort through their repair priorities following the attack and determine that the shuttle ' s removal must take priority . Without its removal , " Voyager " cannot pursue the Kazon raider . Neelix initially resists Janeway ' s plan to pursue the Kazon ship , failing to understand why the extreme danger of tangling with the Kazon again is worth the risk . Janeway is firm and she explains that the impact of stolen Federation technology will irrevocably alter the balance of power in the Kazon Collective . Neelix and the rest of the senior staff quickly fall in line behind Janeway ' s priorities . Tuvok begins planning a response immediately , suggesting that Chakotay use his intimate history with Seska against her . On the Kazon raider , Culluh indicates that he ' s not going to stop with just the transporter module . He tries to enlist the aid of Maje Haron , leader of the Kazon - Relora . The basic terms of the deal are simple : If the Relora lend their support to Culluh , the Kazon - Nistrim will share " Voyager " s technological spoils with them . Back in engineering , Torres has found the technological solution to the problem . She tells Chakotay that the stolen transporter module contains a quantum resonance oscillator . If they modify a coil scanner to detect the oscillator , it will be possible to lock onto the module and beam it out . Chakotay believes that Seska will have anticipated this move and presses for a backup plan . Chakotay recalls a move Seska once made on a Maquis mission as providing the key to the problem . If he uses an anti - proton beam he ' ll be able to destroy the module . The problem is that they have to get relatively close to the Kazon raider for the plan to work . For the moment , Chakotay doesn ' t answer how he plans to get that close . Torres notes that Chakotay is taking Seska ' s reappearance very personally . She tries to comfort him by explaining that " everyone " was fooled by Seska . When that fails to ease him , Torres echoes his own words back to him . " " Don ' t tense up " " , she says . Meanwhile , the negotiations between Majes Haron and Culluh continue . However , Haron appears to have the upper hand . He has a far greater number of troops and suggests that the only reason the Nistrim " need " help with this operation is because Culluh ' s grandfather wasted the Nistrim ' s resources . Therefore he proposes that Culluh should give the transporter to him and allow the Relora to perform the operation alone . This meets with violent objection but Seska manages to calm tensions between the two leaders temporarily . " Voyager " unwittingly discovers exactly how she was able to ease tensions between the two negotiating parties . Paris finds a gap in the raider ' s warp trail . When " Voyager " slows to investigate , they find Haron ' s body floating in space . Act Three . In sickbay , Neelix ties together evidence supplied by The Doctor and Kes , along with his own visual inspection of Haron ' s uniform . Since the uniforms betray the corpse as belonging to the Relora – known enemies of the Nistrim – he suggests that the transporter module was used to beam Haron and his guards to their death in space . Janeway convenes a meeting of the senior staff to discuss the implementation of the plan devised by Chakotay and Torres , only to discover that Chakotay is no longer on the ship . A shuttlecraft has gone missing from the shuttlebay , taken by Chakotay . Dumbfounded by the lack of adequate safety protocols that could have prevented Chakotay from leaving , Janeway tries to understand what her first officer is doing . With the coil scanner missing from engineering , it becomes apparent that Chakotay intends to effect the plan on his own . Culluh upbraids Seska for suggesting that the Relora would join them . She apologizes but spins the incident deftly . She insinuates that his decision to kill the Maje of the Relora will send shock waves through the Kazon Collective . Word will spread quickly that he is a powerful leader with superior technology . Culluh warms to the idea and theorizes that the Relora were too strong to be sufficiently interested in his newfound technology . However , weaker sects , like the Mostral and the Hobii , might now join with him . When , however , Seska says that she ' s sent messages of invitation to other Majes in his name , he becomes enraged . He angrily tells her that she has overstepped her boundaries . Only " he " leads the sect . She begs his forgiveness and his anger abates . She tells him that the other sects have responded positively to " his " invitation . He dreams of being the first leader since Sankur to unite the sects . Torres enters the captain ' s ready room to try to explain why Chakotay has behaved as he has . Since Chakotay will likely not speak on his own behalf , should he be found , Torres wants to ensure that " someone " offer a defense for his actions , before she passes judgment on him . While Janeway remains firm in her conviction that there ' s no real excuse for his open defiance of the chain of command , she partly allays Torres by insisting that they worry about finding him now , while deferring discussion about his punishment until after his safe return . Meanwhile , Chakotay ' s shuttle is now powered down and situated just off the hull of Culluh ' s Kazon raider . He uses the oscillator to locate the transporter module . Just as he ' s about to release the anti - proton beam , however , Seska unmasks his position with a coherent polaron pulse and the raider begins to fire on the shuttle . She has the shuttle tractored into the raider . When a security team opens it up , however , they discover he ' s not there . He ' s beamed himself into position near the transporter module . He destroys the module using his phaser then taps on his combadge to instruct the shuttle to begin transmitting a message from a probe he launched just prior to the attack on his shuttle . He surrenders his phaser with the words , " " Lovely to see you again . " " Act Four . " Voyager " detects the probe ' s message which Chakotay recorded to explain that the signal has only been activated because he successfully disabled the transporter module . He warns " Voyager " to avoid coming to his rescue . Seska begins an interrogation , of sorts , with Chakotay back on the Kazon raider . He ' s non - responsive to a variety of approaches , including seduction . Along the way , he explains that he ' s not only deprived her of the transporter module , but that he also completely wiped the computers on the shuttle , rendering it worthless . He still has something she wants , though : " Voyager " s command codes . He refuses . Back on " Voyager " , Tuvok , Torres and Janeway struggle with how to proceed . Tuvok recommends that they follow Chakotay ' s recorded advice , and abandon him to the Kazon . Janeway is conflicted . Her better judgment agrees with Tuvok , but her " gut reaction " is to go after him . Torres agrees with Janeway and asks her a difficult question , " " How would the loss of our first officer affect this crew ? What would it do to the morale on this ship ? " " Janeway considers for a moment , then orders Paris to lay in a course to Chakotay ' s shuttle . Meanwhile , Culluh has joined the interrogation of Chakotay . Now the questions are rougher , punctuated by hard fist blows . Chakotay responds to each punch by trying to appeal to Culluh as a man who ' s experienced Seska ' s manipulation . When he refuses to break , he is injected with a serum that affects his mind . Culluh insists on the command codes but still Chakotay doesn ' t break . Instead he says he has better information : " " When Seska ' s through with you , " " he intones , " " she ' s going to kill you . " " Seska interrupts the interrogation by claiming Chakotay is delirious . Culluh exits , promising to retun in one hour . When he ' s gone , Seska disagrees with Chakotay ' s assessment of her . She says that if she were a killer , he would have been dead long ago . Simultaneously , she pushes a needle between his shoulder blades , at the base of his neck . Act Five . Tuvok announces that the Kazon raider is now only about a half a light year away , but it has been joined by six other vessels . Neelix ponders the improbability of Culluh having that many ships , and says that they must come from rival sects . He quickly adds , though , that he ' s never known of Kazon sects to form an alliance like this . Leaving the political ramifications to one side , Tuvok says that it would be tactically unsound to proceed into an area with so many enemy ships . The only solution , Janeway asserts , is to find a way to remove Chakotay " without picking a fight " . Torres offers a radical solution . She suggests that they can beam Chakotay " while traveling at warp speed " . Kim , Tuvok and Janeway – namely , the Starfleet personnel – are dubious of Torres ' plans , mainly because it flies in the face of Starfleet safety protocols . Torres insists she " can " do it , because she " has " done it while a part of the Maquis . Meanwhile , Culluh is conducting negotiations between the various Majes – Loran of the Hobii , Surat of the Mostral , and Valek of the Oglamar . He appeals to them to make today the day that future Kazon children will remember as the day that the hegemony of the Relora and Ogla was ended . If they join together to seize " Voyager " , " they " will be the masters of the Kazon Collective . Valek is vocally opposed , and wonders whether they can actually defeat " Voyager " . Culluh claims he has " Voyager " s command codes . When Valek demands proof , Culluh at first seems slightly surprised , then has Commander Chakotay brought into the conference room . Chakotay looks like a man defeated by aggressive interrogation . As " Voyager " nears , Torres is having problems finding Chakotay ' s life signs . Tuvok reminds the captain there is no guarantee that Chakotay is still onboard the raider , or even alive . Janeway refuses to concede that point just yet and asks Torres for an update . She claims there ' s a dampening field in place which is disrupting the targeting scanner s . Janeway theorizes that Seska could be masking Chakotay ' s signal . Torres reinitializes the transporter scanners to compensate for the field and finds him . Nevertheless , the dampening field prevents accurate beaming . Valek demands that Culluh use the command codes to disable " Voyager " . Culluh hesitates and instead orders a direct assault on the Federation ship . Now that a battle has been joined , Janeway presses Torres for results . She gets a transporter lock on Chakotay , and almost pulls him through . At the last moment , though , the Kazon ship alters the frequency of its dampening field and Chakotay remains aboard the Kazon ship . As " Voyager " is impacted by more direct hits , Janeway continues to wonder whether Torres can complete the transportation of Chakotay . Back on the Kazon raider , Valek continues to demand the use of the command codes . Culluh claims that he ' s having problems interfacing with the Federation technology . With their backs turned on the other Majes , Culluh and Seska look furtively at each other . Seska decides to leave for the bridge , claiming she might have better luck interfacing with " Voyager " there . Valek moves to stop Culluh from joining her , however . With " Voyager " s shields now almost depleted , Tuvok urgently recommends retreat . Janeway holds his recommendation briefly to consult with Torres . She asks how big the dampening field actually is . Torres responds that it ' s comparatively tiny – just enough to block transport of Chakotay . Janeway thus orders a change of tactics . Back in the Kazon conference room , Valek brings the issue of the command codes to a head . He accuses Culluh of lying to the other Majes . Culluh admits as much , saying that it does not matter if they have the command codes as long as they work together to defeat " Voyager " . Angered by the response , Valek pulls his weapon on Culluh and threatens to take over the ship . Before he can make good on his words however , the Majes are beamed aboard " Voyager " instead . Their weapons disarmed by the transporter , the Majes are forced to concede to Tuvok ' s security team . Tuvok declares the terms : they will be beamed back to their ship in exchange for Chakotay and the shuttlecraft . They agree and the crisis is finally resolved . Janeway calls Chakotay into her ready room in order to discipline him . In the end , she chooses not to offer any tangible punishment , aside from putting him on report . She stresses her profound disappointment in him . " " How do you expect me to keep order , " " she asks him , " " when the first officer decides to run off like some cowboy because he believes it ' s a good idea ? " " The question goes unanswered , because the two are called to the bridge when another automated message beacon is discovered . This one is directed to Chakotay . Opting to view the message in the presence of others , Chakotay soon discovers it ' s Seska calling with some very disturbing news . She claims to have extracted his DNA in order to impregnate herself with it . She congratulates him on his impending fatherhood . Memorable quotes . " " I should have known you were involved . " " " " Yes , you should have . " " " " Flattery , devotion , sex . . . I thought she had a lot to offer a man . " " " " It ' s like they know our access codes ! " " " " When you are a Maquis , you don ' t always have the luxury of following protocols . " " " " Hello , Chakotay . Congratulations on your victory . I look forward to our next meeting . Oh , and there ' s something you should know . While you were unconscious , I took the liberty of extracting a sample of your DNA . I impregnated myself with it . So , I guess more congratulations are in order . You ' re going to be a father . " " " " I ' m putting you on report , in case that means anything anymore . " " " " It means something to me , Captain . It means I ' ve let you down . . . and for that I ' m truly sorry . 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