“BuWHUHHH A CAR IN SPACE??!???” Is this what the writers were hoping would be the viewer’s reaction? Because my reaction is more like “the explanation is gonna be lame.”

Paris is into antique vehicles as a hobby, so he knows everything about it. What luck!

The radio in the truck is picking up an SOS

They trace the SOS to a planet and for a reason I already forgot they can’t beam down or use the shuttle. They have to land Voyager! They go to blue alert!

Paris never parked a starship before but it wasn’t a problem. He’s the best pilot ever

They find an old earth plane…

…And some sleeping people

One of them is Amelia Earhart.

They have to explain to the people that they were abducted by aliens in 1937 and taken half way across the galaxy and that the writers thought it would be fun if they did an episode explaining what happen to Amelia Earhart

Fred doesn’t want to hear about aliens

someone is watching them

They have dumb cloth helmets where the people have to look through a small rectangle

They’re humans! We find out they are descendants from people abducted by the aliens and that they overthrew the aliens and built cool cities.

Janeway is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to allow some of the crew to stay in the cool cities even if it means the remaining crew will have a more difficult journey home.

But no one wants to stay, so they leave