"Did you hear that?" asked Tom Paris, attuning to the soft female voices chanting.
     "A Klingon Warrior's Anthem? " wondered B'Elanna Torres.
     "I did not hear anything." declared Tuvok.
     The blond lieutenant avidly followed the melody, strolling barefoot on a sandy path lined with palm trees.
     "Tom wait up! " called B'Elanna as she went after him on the steep rocky road.
     "B'Elanna! Tom!" shouted Chakotay before something held his attention; a tokay gecko clutching to a tree trunk. The commander tapped his com-badge. "Captain! You're not going to believe..."
     He didn't finish his sentence as a humanoid form materialized in front of him.
     "...that my animal guide was waiting for me on this remote planet?" finished Janeway with a grin. "You won't need that anymore." she added before pulling his com-badge.
     "Captain why..."
     "Call me Kathryn." she murmured gleefully as she passed an arm underneath his. "Come. Let's make the most of this rest and recreation interlude."

     Tom made it to a beach crowded with Orion women. Upon his arrival, four green-skinned creatures approached him. "Hello ladies!" cheered Tom to the gorgeous party waltzing his way.
     "Hi handsome! We've been waiting for you to complete our volleyball team. Care to join us?"
     "Absolutely!" Acknowledged Tom, widening his smile. The pilot gladly took off his shirt. "B'Elanna, are you going to play?"
     
     "I'm gonna play alright." she growled with clenched teeth, taking off her jacket as a pack of Klingons armed with bat'leths drew near. "qaStaH nuq?" ventured B'Elana, trying to understand what this confrontation was all about.
     "Hab SoSlI' Quch!" insulted a bulky Klingon male.
     "You are so going to regret insulting my mother!" boiled the Half-Klingon, anger twisting her features.
     "Ke'chaw!" pressed a female Klingon tossing B'Elanna a bat'leth.
     "Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!" she gnarled before swinging her weapon at her opponent, flamboyantly, ready to die.

     "Doctor to Voyager." reported the emergency medical hologram from the planet, his portable holo-emitter having allowedg him to leave the ship for a few hours.
     "Go ahead Doctor." answered Janeway.
     "I've found them Captain. Five to beam to sickbay."
     "Understood. Standard quarantine procedures Doctor. Ensign Kim, you have the con. Take us out of here!"
     "Aye Captain!"

     Janeway stormed into sickbay. Inside a force field, the Doctor was treating B'Elanna for multiple cuts and bruises. Tuvok, Chakotay and Paris did not seem injured. "What happened to her?" rasped Kathryn.
     "When I found her", began the EMH, "our brave engineer was fighting a horde of trees with a stick. I had to sedate her for our own good."
     "The trees attacked her?"
     "No Captain." intervened Chakotay. "We were subjected to severe hallucinations."
     "Indeed." agreed Tuvok. "I thought I was on Mount Seleya, meditating in the katric ark."
     "And I was playing volleyball with Orion women." added Tom sheepishly.
     "What about you Chakotay?"
     "It'll be in my report Captain."
     "Could it be that the Iruhe also have roots in the Delta Quadrant?"
     "If it had been the Iruhe Captain", stated Tuvok, "they most probably would have used their powerful telepathic abilities to crash the ship and feed on the crew's neural energy, as they did in the early days of Romulan history."
     "Maybe it was simply something in the air..." suggested Tom.
     "Well, whatever it was, I'm not going back to investigate."