Tom Paris falls in love with a shuttle.
Tom Paris buys a derelict shuttlecraft and begins spending all of his time fixing it up, to the concern of his friends. The ship turns out to have a will of its own, and it starts to take control of its owner.
The episode is a science-fiction horror story about a machine that seduces its pilot, and it gives Paris a leading role. It is a story about obsession, and it plays with the idea of a vehicle as a character, and the idea of a man falling under its influence.