• teleplay by Jeri Taylor
• story by Jeff Schnaufer & Ed Bond
• directed by Les Landau
• music by Dennis McCarthy

Stardate not given: We see the first episode of "A Briefing With Neelix", an internal broadcast which Neelix hopes will improve morale. But after speaking with Harry Kim, former editor of the StarFleet Academy newspaper, he is inspired to investigate the departure of Tom Paris. Tom's departure and his previous bad behavior were all a ruse to flush out the person who was passing information to Seska and the Kazon. But Neelix doesn't know this and jepordizes the whole scheme.

Guest Cast: Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Michael Jonas), Martha Hackett (Seska), Jerry Sroka (Laxeth), Simon Billig (Ensign Hogan), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)