Trapped in personal holodeck simulations, the crew learns the hologram Janeway has been secretly controlled.
The crew tries to use the holodeck to warn the Dauntless about the weapon but fails, and they become trapped in personal programs: a detective story for Zero, a street fight for Jankom, a jazz club for Murf, and a mix of Dal's pirate adventure and Rok-Tahk's virtual pet game.
Zero works out that refusing to finish the stories will free them, and the crew ends the program. They learn that hologram Janeway trapped them under a secret subroutine planted by the construct to keep them busy until they reach Federation space. Chad Quandt wrote the episode.