B'Elanna, Tom, and Neelix are on an away mission, searching a planet for a specific resource that it supposedly had. They were proceeding with caution, since they were told there may be lifeforms there. Neelix was examining the environment as B'Elanna checked her tricorder.

"There's n-" She paused, her device beeping. "I'm reading a life sign nearby. It's that direction."