When
Kes spends free time with a smitten Tom Paris, Neelix is overcome with jealousy
and instigates a messy fight with the Lieutenant. In the aftermath, the
Captain sends the sparring pair on a shuttlecraft mission to an M-Class
planet, to replenish food supplies. When their craft experiences an interference
pattern, they crash on the planet. Seeking cover from the
trigemic vapors, Paris and Neelix seal themselves inside a cave and then
discover they have company there -- an embryonic pod which hatches an alien
baby, a repto-humanoid being. They must work together to sustain the newborn,
and preserve each other's life when its angry mother approaches.
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