Gäst skådisar:
Tiny Ron as Alpha-Hirogen
Roger Morrissey as Beta-Hirogen

Voyager får äntligen kontakt med jorden, tillsammans med en massa brev till besättningen. Janeway får reda på att Mark träffat någon annan, Chakotay att hela Maquis rörelsen är förintad, Tuvok att han är farfar och inbäddat i kommunikationen var en plan för att få Voyager
tebax lite snabbare.
Tyvärr mottar ett Hirogen skepp oxå kommunikationen, och dom är inte trevliga efter vad Seven gjorde första gången dom stötte på varann. (se "Message in a Bottle")
Voyager skickar ut en skyttel för att åka närmre en kommunikationsstation som agerar flaskhals.
Tyvärr är ett par Hirogen jägare hack i häl och tillfångatar Tuvok & Seven, fast dom är besvikna över att det var så lätt att fånga dessa
trofér. Och dom har hjälp på väg för att erövra Voyager. Men Janeway kollapsar energikärnan på kommunikationsstationen som resulterar i
ett svart hål som alla skepp, utom Voyager såklart, kraschar in i. Och dom har naturligtvis beamat Tuvok och Seven tebax.
Men Hirogen-rasen kommer tebax...

Mitch Suskins, f/x supervisor :
"There are shows you love every season, and shows that are kind of awkward, and that show was awkward in many ways. We had a lot of
trouble coming up with a credible way to make the station collapse into itself and implode. We did it almost entirely at Foundation Imaging, but that went through a lot of massaging, and looking at the shot frame by frame. We wound up building a new Hirogen ship for that. The Hirogen ship design that came from Rick Sternbach was neat, but I don't know if it really looked that good from every angle. In the ebb and flow of Star Trek it's good show but not one of our greatest."

Joe Menosky :
"Brannon and Bryan Fuller were watching NFL one night, and Brannon came into the office the next day and said, 'I think we should have
some big, scary aliens." He just went on and on about how these football players are humangous. Why is it that everybody we ever see
on our show in this big wide, crazy galaxy is basically the same size as us? We got the idea of hunters, aliens who go around in pairs and
hunt. They don't have a specific territory, and they don't have a specific homeworld. They're just out there hunting things down. When
we were casting these guys for the first time, Brannon didn't want to read anyone under 6'7", 6'6". It's really difficult to find the right people for roles anyway, so when you start hamstringing yourself by saying 'We also only want people who are over 6'7"', it gets really, really tough. If you look at all these episodes you'll see a couple of big guys, but mostly they're not. You've got to realize that the inspiration was that they should all be huge."

Roxann Dawson :
"There was a really interesting scene with Robert Beltran when he reveals information to me about the Maquis. I have to spend the rest
of the show trying to deal with this information. I love that they are bringing that up again. It's one of the things that I feel was dropped
too early. I would love them to deal with it some more. There is some encrypted Starfleet message that still hasn't been decoded by the end of the episode. I would love it if they mad a choice that Starfleet comes down hard saying that 'Maybe all the Maquis should be thrown in the brig until we can get you home'. I think it would be interesting to see how Janeway deals with that, and what kind of upset it might
cause among the crew. It's an opportunity I'd hate for them to miss."

Hirogen släktet får lite hiarki som håller i sig så länge dom är med med en "Alpha" som skall vara bossen. "Alpha" var oxå varit smeknamnet på Jem'Hadar stridisar som fötts upp i Alpha-kvadranten.
Ensign Ashmore (tidigare spelad av Christine Delgado) nämns igen, men snart kommer det uppstå förvirring runt det namnet. En del andra som tidigare bara nämnts hastigast - "Kyoto", "Susan Nicoletti" och "Parsons", Janeways hund f.d fästman Mark nämns igen (senaste var väl i "Persistence of Vision"?). Han har tidigare inte haft ett efternamn, men på en padda här syns "Johnson". Påhittigt va?
Andra släktingar (Kims föräldrar, Paris admiral-farsa) nämns igen men inte mycket nytt förutom Tuvoks son som hetter Sek.
Legeringen "monotanium", som visst skall vara effektivt mot Starfleet vapen, nämns igen i "Retrospect" då dom försöker med något nytt.

Tiny Ron, som är allt annat än Tiny, spelade Hirogen krigaren i förra veckans "Message in a Bottle", men spelade oxå Grand Nagus Zeks
betjänst "Maihar'du" i DS9. Templet Amonak är döpt efter DS9s f/x supervisorn Gary Monak.

Doc: "You were suppose to report to sickbay this morning for your weekly checkup, where have you been?"
Seven: "Here, doing my job!"

Doc: "I expect I'll become quite the hero. Emergency Medical hologram instrumental in the return of the Voyager crew :) Has a nice
ring to it, don't you think ?"
Seven: "On the other hand, it is entirely possible that your program will be deleted and you will be conformed to the most recent standards."

Neelix: "You're going to wait until you finish the tactical review [to read your letter from home]?"
Tuvok: "Do you have any reason to believe the content of the letter will change during that time?"

"I don't like guessing what I put in my stomach."
- Paris

[Kim är lite besviken att Seven inte är där han är]
Torres: "Disappointed?"
Kim: "Ofcourse not. Would you stop that. I've told you, there's nothing between us!
Torres: "I know there's nothing between you, it's purely a one-way attraction :)"

Hirogen: "I'm giving you a chance to run."
Janeway: "We don't run!"