"A race that could shorten Voyager's journey with a transportation device will not share its technology."
Voyager is contacted by a race called the Sikarians. Their technology is far superior to that of the Federation. They ask that the Voyager crew come their planet for leave, which they do. The planet is amazing in all ways. Kim discovers that they have a device called the transporter that the Sikarians use to send them 40,000 light years to any planet. This could in theory send Voyager 40,000 light years closer to home. Janeway meets with one of the leaders named Gath (the other one being Wayne). She asks to acquire this technology to which Gath declines, citing that they are forbidden to give technology to primitive races. Janeway likens this to their own Prime Directive, and realizes that this time THEY are the primitive people.
Kim is approached by a man willing to trade a transporter for a download of the ships library. Arts are very lucrative on this planet and having these would make this man very wealthy. Kim brings this offer to Janeway who declines because it would be immoral to do it this way. However, Torres and Tuvok take upon themselves to undermine the Captain and make the trade. Tuvok brings the device back to Voyager and activates it, but it is incompatible with Federation technology and the device explodes. So it was all for nothing. Janeway is pissed and disciplines everyone involved. This was a weird plot for Tuvok. He is a Vulcan so I doubt he would go behind his Captains back and he should be smart enough to realize that the technology may not even work... Anyway, decent episode.
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