For further uses of the term "Return", please see Return (disambiguation).

Summary

After Neelix calls Naomi Wildman to dinner, Flotter expresses concern that Naomi is growing older and coming to the forest less often. Trevis reassures him that everyone returns to the forest, a statement confirmed when Kathryn Janeway joins them.

References

Characters

Flotter • Kathryn Janeway • Neelix • Trevis • Naomi Wildman

Referenced only

Ogre of Fire

Starships and vehicles

USS Voyager (Intrepid-class)

Races and cultures

Human • Ktarian • Talaxian

Technology

holodeck

Occupations and titles

captain

Other references

beetle • fire • flower • light • tree • water

Appendices

Connections

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Star Trek: Explorer	"Seven ﹥ Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen" • "In Two Minds"
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Uninvited Admirals	Strange New Worlds IV	Next story: Black Hats
Previous story: Uninvited Admirals Strange New Worlds IV	Voyager short stories	Next story: Black Hats Strange New Worlds IV
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Chuck Anderson	Next story: most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure: Lineage	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Repentance
Previous adventure: Lineage	journey of the USS Voyager	Next adventure: Repentance