The home planet of the Kraylor, cut off by an Annari blockade, which Harry Kim reaches while commanding a Kraylor vessel he believes to be carrying urgently needed medicine.
The Kraylor homeworld is the destination in Nightingale. The Kraylor are at war with the Annari, whose warships have surrounded the planet.
Harry Kim, Seven of Nine and Neelix rescue a damaged Kraylor ship whose officers have been killed. The surviving passengers say that they are carrying vaccines and persuade Kim to take command for the run home; he names the vessel Nightingale. He later learns that the cargo story is false. The passengers are scientists, and the ship itself is the prize, a prototype cloaking device meant to defend the planet.
Angry at the deception, Kim nevertheless sees the mission through, bluffing the Annari commander so that the ship can slip through the blockade and reach the protection of the planet's defences.