Four more months have passed since the new passengers had joined them. They have started getting used to life with the new people. Rex and Wolffe are both in engineering and work well as a team as they once did before.
It didn't take long for Wolffe to be taken hostage by the bridge to help with navigation. He was really good at it and the help was needed while Samantha was one maternity leave.
Meanwhile Erika has started a star chart room. Marking where each Voyager has been and what places to avoid that her ship had gone to, the others thankful for that.
Bria stays in the medbay also watching over her nephew as well as her daughter. But got in trouble when the pups started making things float around them.
The two pups seem to get along well. Both women are grateful when Samantha, whom is taking time out from navigation, agrees to watch them during the day as a small daycare with her own daughter.
They have also had more trails to face, making new allies along with a few enemies. But that seems to be the case with Voyager. When a friend is made an enemy isn't far behind. Though it isn't always the case. They found another traitor on the ship thanks to Tom and Neelix's help. The traitor died trying to get the ship ready for Seska and Kazon to take. But fails and parishes during a struggle in engineering.
"Come on sweetie. Come on." Bria holds out her arms in Samantha's courters, a ten month old pup standing wobbly.
Kaya takes a few unsteady steps. She makes it about ten steps before falling on to her butt whimpering.
"She was so close." Samantha smiles holding four month old Naomi.
"That was so good pup. You almost made it." Bria picks her up nuzzling her.
Kaya continues to whimper as her mom nuzzles her. Calming down after a few minutes of kisses and snuggling Sailor.
"Did I miss it?" Erika comes to get Dux.
"Not yet." Bria shakes her head slightly.
"You'll get it little one." Erika kisses the top of her head.
Kaya was still sniffling a bit but was feeling better as she nuzzles into her mom's chest holding her yellow wolf. Dux yips seeing his mother hugging his blue one named Cap. Erika nuzzling him as she picks him up.
"Thanks for watching them Sam. We really ow you one." Bria smiles at her friend.
"I hope he wasn't too much to handle. He's been a bit cranky lately." Erika tickles his stomach making his tail wag laughing.
"Not at all. Nap time is a bit hard but other than that he's fine." Samantha smiles herself.
"Say bye-bye Mrs. Sam. Bye-bye Naomi. Bye-bye." The twins have their pups wave before heading out for the day.
"Bye-bye." Samantha does the same with Naomi.
The girls take the pups on a walk around the ship as they talk. The two stopping by the bridge to see everyone. Wolffe wanting to see his son before the girls took them to eat dinner.
"Oh hello there sweetie. Have we walked yet?" Kathryn pup naps her god daughter.
"Not yet, but got really close today." Bria shakes her head slightly.
"Oh, she'll get it. Won't you smart girl?" Kathryn nose kisses her making her little tail wag.
"Where's Wolffe?" Erika looks around as she puts her son down in the center area.
"He went to get a quick bite before his night shift." Tuvok says in his usual Volkin manner.
The two talk tech as they do Harry seems to have his attention moved from his screen. Kaya yips the others look stunned to see Dux clumsily walking to his stunned father. Him losing his balance almost there Wolffe catching him and everyone cheering.
"You did it. You did it my little trooper." Wolffe hugs him close.
"I'm so proud pup." Erika nuzzles his cheek with hers, Dux yips happily.
Kaya whimpers with her ears down. She wanted attention to. And a bit sad she wasn't the first.
"Oh sweetie, you'll get it." Bria takes her back nuzzling her.
"You two better get these young Voyagers fed and put to bed. They'll have new adventures every day." Chakotay smiles at them.
"Right." The sisters nod getting ready to head out.
"Captain, we're being hailed on a subspace frequency." Harry starts working again.
"Are there ships in the vicinity?" Kathryn looks over at him.
"Negative." Harry shakes his head.
"Tracking the source." Wolffe gets to his station, the girls looking on, falling into old patterns as generals before. "Seems like it's coming from an unmanned buoy. Coordinates 140 mark 317. It looks like a Kazon signal, Captain." He continues to look it over.
"Take us out of warp." The twins and Captain say.
"Sorry." The girls ears droop as they clear their throats getting looks.
"Open a channel." Kathryn ignores that.
"Chakotay, they're going to take your son. When Culluh saw the baby I hear them coming. I don't have much time. When he saw the baby wasn't his Please, Chakotay, help us not for me, for your son. I told you to stay out of here. No, please don't. Don't take him! I beg No! Please, no. No!" Seska calls holding an infant in her arms with the connection spotty and crackling.
The next morning they all met in the meeting room. They were going after the baby, if nothing else they would save the poor kid.
"I've been in touch with the Talaxian mining colony on Prema II. They're willing to come to our assistance if we run into trouble." Neelix gives his contribution.
"That's good for about 40 hours if we average warp 2. After that, we're out of their com range." Tom leans pack in his chair.
"Well, it's nice to know we have friends in the area. Thank you, Neelix." Kathryn smiles over at him.
"I recommend a full diagnostic of our tactical array prior to the start of the mission, Captain." Cody suggests.
"Agreed, but I want more from tactical, Lieutenant. I want to anticipate a trap. And I want a few tricks up our sleeves, if we need them." Kathryn nods over to him.
"Captain, I could program the deflector grid to make it look like we have help on the way. I'll show you what I mean. Excuse me, Doctor." Harry goes over to the video side monitor, putting the doctors signal to the side for the moment. "Echo displacement. Exactly. This is how we'd look to the enemy sensors. If we generate multiple decoy images like these, the Kazon would think that ships are coming toward us. We could create as many as we want." He points out his plan on the images.
"That's a good start, Harry. It should distract them for a while. But what else can we do if we're eventually intercepted by a superior force?" Kathryn looks around the room.
"If you don't mind, I do have something to add." The doctor calls and Harry brings him back up. "Thank you. Captain, I hesitate to offer suggestions in a field of endeavor that is not within my usual area of expertise…" he starts.
"Please, Doctor, your suggestions on any subject are always welcome." Kathryn shakes her head slightly.
"Really? In that case, you may expect several more on a variety of matters in the near future. Right now, may I suggest that we also consider attempting to create an actual holographic illusion of friendly ships." Doctor gives his idea.
"With all due respect, Doctor, we can't even figure out how to project you into this room. How are we supposed to create holographic ships in space?" Torres looks at him worried about the idea.
"I would humbly submit that my program is far more sophisticated than your run-of-the-mill hologram. In fact, projecting the illusion of a large three-dimensional object has been a trick of magicians for centuries." Doctor looks a bit annoyed at that but recomposes.
"We'll just do it with mirrors." Tom makes a bit of fun.
"Mr. Paris' predictable attempts at humor notwithstanding, that is precisely what I would suggest. Installing holo-emitters along the hull with parabolic mirrors to enlarge the images as they are reflected into space." Doctor explains in more detail.
"We're going to use up a lot of our power reserves trying to pull it off." Harry ponders.
"If these ships can fool the Kazon, it's worth it." Bria tries to assure.
"But can they?" Erika keeps cool looking around the room.
"If the Kazon scan the holograms, they will immediately realize there are no life signs on board, no power signatures." Tuvok explains.
"Okay, so we can't fool them for long, but maybe it'll be long enough." Wolffe gives his suggestion.
"It's an advantage."
"And we'll need every advantage we can get on this mission. Work on the Doctor with it, B'Elanna. Mr. Kim, cut power to all systems to minimum requirements. I don't want to show up on any Kazon long-range scanners. Mr. Paris, locate the warp signature from Cullum's ship and set a course to follow warp 2." Kathryn looks over at everyone giving orders.
"Aye, Captain." They all nod.
"Dismissed." Kathryn motions for everyone to stand and head out.
"Uh, excuse me, but there is one more thing." Chakotay stands with shaking eyes as everyone looks over at him. "Thank you." He almost whispers.
"We'll get him." Cody pats his shoulder.
"No one left behind." Wolffe nods.