Twisted ( episode ) " Voyager " encounters an inversion field which twists and distorts the ship ' s hull . Summary . Teaser . Kes is walking purposefully through the ship and eventually enters Sandrine ' s on the holodeck . Uncharacteristically , the lights are off and no one seems to be present . Then most of the senior staff come out of hiding , including The Doctor ; they are throwing her a surprise party for her second birthday . On the bridge , Tuvok is receiving a report from Ensign Kim on the tasks he has completed . Tuvok calls him on trying to leave his post early in order to go to the holodeck , which Kim admits to , but Tuvok then assigns him to checking conduits in the holodeck systems as a reprieve . Before he can leave , however , an odd spatial anomaly is detected that they cannot identify . Back on the holodeck , Neelix reveals the cake he made for Kes ' birthday and Captain Janeway and Torres explain the wish - making tradition with the candles . Tom Paris presents Kes with a locket as a present , annoying Neelix . On the bridge , Kim and Tuvok quickly discover that the energy field has enveloped and they cannot escape . Tuvok then attempts to contact the captain , but halfway through his description of the incident , the Comm system distorts . Act One . Torres has opened an access hatch to try to figure out what ' s wrong with the comm system because the reverberating communication from Tuvok is repeating , but it soon stops on its own . Janeway knows there ' s a problem , so she orders all of the crew back to their stations . On the bridge , Tuvok sends Kim to find the captain due to the obvious malfunction with the comm system . Everyone quickly runs into issues with orientation . Janeway , Paris , and Chakotay try to verbally get the turbolift to go to the bridge and end up on deck four . Attempting to manually navigate the turbolift lands them in engineering . Kes and Neelix , walking to Kes ' quarters , find the quarters of someone else where they believe hers should be , and also notice multiple sets of quarters on the same level that should be on different decks . B ' Elanna , walking to engineering , instead ends up in the mess hall . Kim runs into a crewman who is also lost and tells him to try to report to his duty station . B ' Elanna then runs into the same crewman in a transporter room , both of them having become disoriented again . Even The Doctor cannot relocate back to sickbay electronically . Kim walks in on him attempting to fend off advances from Sandrine and agrees to try to help with relocating his program . Eventually , everyone ends up back at the holodeck . Act Two . The crew deduces that the ship is being reconfigured by the phenomenon Kim described and Janeway assigns tasks ; Paris will go with Torres to engineering since they managed to end up there when they were trying to go to the bridge , and then they ' ll try to transport onto the bridge . Janeway and Kim will try to get to the bridge via a Jefferies tube s that should lead right to it . Chakotay says he will use his tricorder to try mapping out the current layout of the ship , and Neelix volunteers to go with him . Kes remains in the holodeck to try to help The Doctor relocate ( and fend off Sandrine ) . When the ship was affected by an inversion field , the quarters were on other decks , but Kes says her quarters are on Deck 8 ; Lieutenant Hargrove ' s quarters are on Deck 7 ; Ensign ' s quarters are on Deck 6 , Susan Nicoletti ' s quarters is on Deck 4 and Ayala ' s quarters is on Deck 7 . Paris and Torres successfully end up in engineering and modifying the transporter , only encountering a slight issue when Torres tries to go through an access door and walks in on a crewman just out of the shower . Chakotay and Neelix encounter mild confusion when they seem to be doubling back on themselves . Neelix engages him in a conversation about jealousy before they run into Tuvok , who was looking for the captain and became similarly disoriented . After running into Tuvok , Neelix wanders off and disappears . Kim and Janeway are crawling through the Jefferies tube , though Kim mentions they have been doing so for much longer than they should have to . Janeway takes the opportunity to tell Kim of how impressed she is with his performance since " Voyager " got stuck in the Delta Quadrant , managing to pass all the expectations she had of him . They find what they believe is the access hatch , but when they open it , Janeway comes into contact with the anomaly . Act Three . Kim pulls Janeway out of the anomaly and she seems okay , but then becomes delirious . Chakotay and Tuvok continue trying to map out their path . They have a disagreement regarding how to proceed through the corridors , and Chakotay says they should just split up to cover more ground . Then , despite heading in nearly opposite directions , they run into each other at the next intersection , at which point Chakotay theorizes that the ship is constantly reconfiguring itself . The Doctor , meanwhile , is still unable to transfer back to sickbay and has thoroughly annoyed the other holodeck characters . B ' Elanna and Paris finish the modifications to allow them to transport to the bridge , but when they initialize it , they end up back on the holodeck again . Then Kim comes in with the captain and tells them of how she came into contact with the anomaly . The doctor and Kes take over her care . When Chakotay and Tuvok arrive back at the holodeck , Kim suggests they pool all of their tricorder data to develop a map of the ship . Once complete , it reveals that Voyager appears to be imploding . Tuvok reveals that if his calculations are correct , the anomaly will crush the entire ship in a little over an hour . Act Four . Chakotay asks for solutions . B ' Elanna says she can try to almost overload the warp core to generate a shock pulse . Tuvok suggests having someone go to the navigational controls and manually initiate " Voyager " s thrusters to move them out of the anomaly . Chakotay goes with B ' Elanna ' s plan and when Tuvok begins to object , Chakotay vehemently overrides him and asserts his command . B ' Elanna and Harry successfully initiate the shock pulse , but it doesn ' t seem to have an effect on the anomaly . Then B ' Elanna and Harry notice that the anomaly has enveloped engineering and is moving faster than before . They rush back to the holodeck and inform everyone that their plan failed . Chakotay says they should try Tuvok ' s , but then Tuvok points out they can ' t ; the anomaly has already reached the holodeck . Act Five . B ' Elanna tries containing the anomaly with a holodeck force - field , but the anomaly breaks right through it . She begins suggesting alternatives , but Tuvok impresses upon everyone to do nothing . He points out they have tried all sensible actions , and they do not know that contact with the anomaly is fatal . Janeway bolts up and shouts what the crew thinks is gibberish ( though she is actually saying " It ' s talking to me , do nothing ! " ) at that point . Chakotay agrees with Tuvok and gets B ' Elanna to go along with it as well . Chakotay and Torres try to reach their spirit guides while Kim and Paris reflect on their pasts . Everyone waits while the anomaly overruns them . Afterward , everyone seems to be fine , including the captain , who says she believed the anomaly was trying to communicate . They all ( successfully ) go to the bridge and B ' Elanna reports that 20 million gigaquads of information was uploaded to their computers , while their computer database was copied . Janeway guesses it may have been the only way the lifeform had to communicate . As the crew reflect , Neelix arrives on the bridge with Kes ' s birthday cake and the crew resume their celebrations . Memorable quotes . " " What are you still doing on the holodeck ? Besides playing doctor , that is . " " " " Jealousy ' s about the fear of losing someone we love . There ' s no pain greater than that . " " " " This is infuriating . " " " " I don ' t suppose anyone here knows the way to the bridge ? " " " " I ' m a doctor , not a bartender ! " " " " Commander , I would imagine you ' ve had some experience with women . " " " " Some . " " " " If he won ' t play pool with you and he won ' t make love to me , then as far as I ' m concerned , he can mop the floors . " " " " Do you see these hands ? These are surgeon ' s hands , created by the most sophisticated computer - imaging technology available . They do not play game s and they do " not " mop floors ! " " " " Then you are fired ! I will find a new bartender . " " " " I really wish you would ! " " " " This isn ' t engineering . " " " " Nothing makes us more vulnerable than when we love someone . We can be hurt very easily but I ' ve always believed that what you get when you love someone is greater than what you risk . " " " " Cake , anyone ? " " " " Tell me something , Tuvok : what does your logic tell you about navigating a maze that is constantly changing shape ? " " " " It ' s talking to me , do nothing ! " " Links and references . 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