Stardate: 53292.7 Captain’s log. We open in October 2032 on Mars. Lieutenant John Kelly is in orbit in Ares IV while communicating with the two astronauts on the surface, Rose Kumagawa and Andrei Novakovich. Something appears in orbit, which winds up consuming Ares IV. In the 24th century in the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay’s attempt to relax is interrupted by the door chime—but there’s no one on the other side of the door. There are several other minor malfunctions of communications and hospitality systems. Chakotay goes to engineering to find that Seven is upgrading the computer—which she’s doing without authorization. She has been requesting these upgrades for months, but Torres has refused to go for it, so she’s going ahead and doing it anyhow to show how efficient they’ll be. Chakotay dryly comments that she’s not really succeeding at that.