Direct from Starfleet a hologram of Barclay arrives with instructions to get Voyager home within three days. The Doctor suspects that there is something wrong with the hologram.
Having missed a previous transmission from Starfleet, Voyager receives a holographic program of Reginald Barclay bearing plans to get them home quickly. Once again hopes run high, which leaves some crewmen leery, having gone down this road of hopefulness with unfortunate outcomes too many times before. Turns out that wariness is good as the transmitted program has been compromised.—statmanjeff