Stardate: unknown
Captain’s log. For the fourth night in a row, Kim is in charge of gamma shift. He and the conn officer, Ensign Jenkins, banter for a bit on the subject of how seriously one should take the overnight shift, when they receive a distress call. Kim orders a course change toward the call to discover that the planet it comes from has no lifesigns.
Kim wakes Chakotay, who assures him that he did the right thing, and then offers to let Kim lead the away team. An eager Kim beams down with a security guard, Lang, and the EMH. They discover no life, but they do find a device that communicates in a language that the EMH’s translator matrix can translate, but the universal translators in everyone else’s combadges can’t for reasons the script never bothers to explain.