A busy and disreputable space station at the border of the Nekrit Expanse, strictly policed by its manager Bahrat, where Neelix is drawn into a narcotics deal by an old friend.
The supply depot is the setting of Fair Trade. It stands at the edge of the Nekrit Expanse, the vast unstable region that marks the limit of Neelix's knowledge of the Delta Quadrant, and Voyager stops there for supplies and for maps.
The station's manager, Bahrat, watches everything and takes a cut of every transaction. Neelix meets Wixiban, a fellow Talaxian who once went to prison for a crime they committed together, and agrees to help with what he is told is a harmless delivery. It is a drug deal, and a man is killed with a Starfleet phaser.
Chakotay and Paris are arrested for the killing. Neelix finally confesses to Janeway and to Bahrat, and he and Wixiban set a trap for the Kolaati traders behind the scheme.