U.S.S. Voyager | NCC 74656 | RP

The year is 2371

After Voyager leaves space station Deep Space 9 and enters the Badlands, Voyager is swept seventy thousand light years into the Delta Quadrant where it also discovered Chakotay's missing Maquis vessel – the Val Jean – which had experienced a similar fate.

Voyager officially lost contact with Starfleet on stardate 48307.5.

Instead of allowing the Kazon to seize the Caretaker's advanced technology and harm the peaceful Ocampa, Captain Janeway made the decision to destroy the Caretaker's array. She ordered two tricobalt devices, armed with a yield of 20,000 teracochranes, fired at the array, which destroyed it. This decision left Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant. After the destruction of the Val Jean during a battle with the Kazon, the Starfleet and Maquis crew were forced to merge for their projected seventy-five-year journey home.