Disclaimer: Only Kat is mine. Everyone else and everything else are Paramount Pictures. (I think. If not, they belong to whoever. Not me!) No insult is intended to any persons.

"Captain, we are receiving a distress call." Those were the words Captain Janeway heard as she walked on to her bridge, a cup of steaming black coffee in her hands.

"Identify source," she replied, without blinking an eye. To captain a lost ship in an unknown region of space required that you be ready for anything.

"Unknown vessel, approx. 3 light years away."

"Let's hear it."

A girl's voice spoke, sounding frightened and tired. "Help me someone, please. I don't know what to do."

Making a quick decision, Captain Janeway spoke to her helmsman, Tom Paris. "Get us there as fast as you can."

Upon arriving a the coordinates of the distress call, Tuvok scanned the ship for weapons. It was in pretty bad shape, there was visible damage on most part of the ship.

Harry Kim spoke up, his voice funny. "Captain, you'd better have a look at these readings. If the computer's not malfunctioning and I'm not reading this wrong, the life sign's human."

"What!" The captain said as every officer on the bridge swung around to face him. She had a quick look at the readings herself, before she had to agree the life sign was human.

Just then a phaser streaked towards the ship before anyone could react. It bounced off the shields, luckily causing no damage.

"Captain, we are being hailed. Respond?"

"On screen," the captain snapped, her face tight with anger.

A very upset face appeared. It was a girl of aboutthirteen years, tears streaming down her face. Her extremely human face.

"I'm so sorry," she sobbed "I didn't mean to fire at you. I hit the wrong button, I don't really know these sys..."

She broke off, her eyes wide.

"What?" she choked out "Voyager? Oh shit!" and she fainted, falling off screen.

Captain Janeway and her second-in-command, Chakotay exchanged startled looks. "Harry, is she all right?"

"Her life sign's fluctuating."

"Beam her directly to sickbay."

"Doctor, report." said the captain, as she reached sickbay. The holographic doctor was standing over the girl, who was lying on a biobed.

"Hmm... As far as my scans can tell, she is completely human. I've run every type of test I can think of, but the result is always the same. I am picking up some unusual temporal readings, and she is unhealthy, but she is human."

"Unusual temporal readings? Of what type? And how is she unhealthy?"

"Well, I'm no expert on temporal mechanics and the like, I'm sending them to Seven of Nine, she will know. And as for her health, she has a badly healed broken bone in her right arm, scars from wrongly healed cuts on her left leg and foot, she is very undernourished - in fact I'd say she was starved - she is covered with bruises and scrapes like as if she was beaten, has four sprained fingers and she also has what appears to be the old disease of bronchitis, which of course hasn't been around for many years. All treatable things. Would you like me to proceed?"

"Yes of course. Can she be wakened?"

"After I've finished treating her injuries," replied the doctor, in a no-nonsense tone.

The girl slowly stirred, blinking her eyes and shaking her head. "What the bloody hell is going on? Where am I?" she demanded. Her mouth dropped open in shock as she gazed around at her surroundings, fully awake now. "Holy shit", she continued before anyone else could respond. "I'm on Voyager, aren't I? Else I'm on the set of the show, but I think that's even more unlikely."

Once again the captain and Chakotay exchanged startled looks. Was something wrong with there translaters? This girl wasn't making much sense. "I'm Captain Janeway, this is Commander Chakotay, my second-in-command and over by the console there are Seven of Nine and the Doctor. As you already seem to know this is the USS Voyager. Who, may I ask, are you?"

"It's okay, Captain. I already know who you all are. I'm Katerina Chogan."

"How is it possible you know all of us?" That was Seven of Nine, her voice as emotionless as usual.

"Cause, where I come from, you're a TV programme. Voyager, you people, how you're trying to get back to Earth."

"A TV. Captain, maybe we should get Tom in here to meet her. He's our resident on ancient technology."

"First of all, Ms Chogan, I want proof, that you are telling the truth. What year it is currently for you, where you come from and how you got here too." Captain Janeway was stern, and surprised. Not to menion a little confused.

"Call me Kat. Okay, You want the whole story, huh? I'll try to not leave anything out..."