Voyager comes across an iced planet recovering from a solar system cataclysm. The once-active Kohl settlement is reduced to five interconnected stasis chambers in which two of five occupants have died. The chambers should have opened on their own years before but haven't. To learn more, Kim and Torres enter the system and discover a virtual world ruled by an evil clown manifestation of fear itself. The Voyager crew endeavor to free Kim, Torres and the three Kohl hostages without the malevolent clown killing them first.
—statmanjeff