The USS Voyager (NCC-74656) of an alternate reality was lost in the Delta Quadrant in 2371. Voyager was sent on a pursuit mission of Maquis rebels in a region of the Alpha Quadrant known as the Badlands. However both Voyager and Maquis crews were caught in a displacement wave created in a large space station complex controlled by a alien entity called the "Caretaker". Displaced 70,000 light years within the Delta Quadrant, Voyager and its combined Federation and Maquis crew began the long journey home.