The USS Voyager encountered a subspace sinkhole in the Delta Quadrant in 2375, while searching for a missing shuttlecraft manned by Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, Ensign Tom Paris, and The Doctor. Utilizing their multispatial probe, the Voyager crew determined that the sinkhole was approximately six hundred meters in diameter, and circumscribed a subspace zone containing a type-G sun and three planets, on one of which the shuttlecraft had crashed. In addition, the sinkhole was determined to be out of phase with normal space, making it extremely difficult to detect. Analyzing the data further, the crew discovered that a temporal differential with a ratio of 0.4744 seconds per minute resulted in Tuvok, Paris, and The Doctor experiencing approximately one month for every day which passed in norm