On Carter's first full day, the ER is overwhelmed when it is flooded by a tour group and a wedding party that both contracted food poisoning at the same restaurant.
Drs. Greene and Lewis treat a man who will not survive the night without a heart transplant. Dr. Benton treats a liquor store clerk for his third gunshot wound in a month.
Dr. Ross and Dr. Hathaway share a spontaneous kiss, but Hathaway's invovlement with Oligario gets in the way.
Dr. Greene takes the day off to be with his wife, leaving Dr. Ross in charge.
When Voyager uses new quantum slipstream technology in an attempt to get home, a miscalculation causes the ship to crash into an ice planet.