Stardate: 50836.2 While Voyager tracks a spatial anomaly that cause the destruction of a space station they were headed to, the Doctor develops a holodeck program designed to expand his programming, where he is the father of a typical normal family.

As Paris risks his life to sample a part of the spatial anomaly, Torres tinkers with the Doctor’s too perfect holodeck family, and shows him what a real family’s life is like.