The series follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager during its journey home to Earth, having been stranded tens of thousands of light-years away.
[1] A Kazon attack takes the life of another Voyager crewman, this time the popular ex-Maquis soldier Kurt Bendera.
After the funeral, Michael Jonas and Crewman Hogan tell Captain Janeway Voyager should change the way she operates to be more like a Maquis.
Chakotay voices the proposal of forming an alliance with one or two Kazon factions to secure peace, not to trade technology, but to offer protection from attacking forces and emergency supplies.
Janeway opens up to the idea of an alliance and the officers decide to talk with Seska and her maje (leader), Culluh, about allying with her tribe.
Seska finds it a great opportunity to learn the weaknesses of the other tribes and potentially use it to gain an edge against all other Kazon as well as Voyager and the Trabe.
In 2020, The Digital Fix said this was the worst episode in season two of Star Trek: Voyager, and felt that it was "a mess from beginning to end.