[Chakotay's quarters]
(Chakotay is working at his desk.
He keeps hearing strange noises.)
Begin round one.
Computer, did you say something?
Negative.
(He sees his boxing gloves on a chair, and hears the noise of a crowd.)
BOOTHBY [OC]: Pick them up, son.
It's the fight you've been waiting for.
Begin round one.
(Music) TUVOK [OC]: Bridge to Commander Chakotay.
Go ahead, Tuvok.
TUVOK [OC]: Please report to the bridge.
On my way.(Music) (He looks back, and the gloves have vanished.)
[Bridge]
Graviton wave displacement says we're moving at warp six.
Subspace sensors show we're standing still.
We can't be that far from where we entered.
Maybe we should just set a course, go to impulse, and see what happens.
What would most likely happen is a collision with an asteroid field or a star.
(music) That'd be better than just sitting here waiting
for.
Report.
Torsional shear has increased by two hundred percent.
Shields?
Holding.
Like I was saying.
Better than just sitting here waiting for our hull to breach.
Perhaps we could drop a series of beacons to help us navigate.
Now that's an idea.
(Chakotay hears the bell.)
Did you hear something?
I heard nothing unusual.
I didn't hear anything.
Begin round one.
I'll plot a course.
We'll take it slow.
What do you think, Chakotay?
MC [OC]: The Challenger, Chakotay!
Don't you hear that?
Hear what?
(Music) Look.
(The boxing gloves on Kim's station.)
Commander.
Are you all right?
BOOTHBY [OC]: Put on the gloves, son.
I'm not ready.
Commander.
MC [OC]: In this corner, wearing the red trunks.
Begin round one.
(Chakotay starts punching the air.)
Bridge to Sickbay.
We've got a medical emergency.
(Chakotay swings at Tuvok, who delivers a neck pinch.)
[Sickbay]
(The EMH's singing voice is going up in octaves.)
Laaaa.
Let's go to eight hundred eighty hertz.
Laaaa.
Music lessons?
Pretty soon we'll be singing duets.
I'm checking to see if there's been any damage to the auditory nerves.
Nothing so far.
His vision checks out as well.
I'm afraid the source of the trouble may be a little deeper.
The family curse.
What do you mean?
Chakotay has the genetic marker for a cognitive disorder.
Sensory tremens.
The primary symptoms are visual and auditory hallucinations.
My family doctor suppressed the gene before I was even born, so I never had to go through
what the others did, like my grandfather.
For some reason, the gene's been switched on.
I'm not saying for certain that's why Chakotay thought he was getting ready for a prize fight,
but it's a good bet.
The holodeck boxing simulation was fresh in his memory.
A few misfiring neurons did the rest.
This Chaotic space we've entered, could it be stimulating the gene?
Possibly.
The only way to make certain would be to get the ship out of here.
In the meantime, the Commander will have to stay in Sickbay.
Tuvok tells me you've got a mean left jab.
Never spar with a Vulcan.
How are you doing?
I'm all right.
(Somber music) When I was a boy, my grandfather started seeing things nobody else could see,
and hearing what nobody else could hear.
He refused treatment.
A couple of hyposprays a day, that's all he would have needed, but he was stubborn.
He said his spirit was in pain, but that the wound must be honored.
Crazy old man.