Effusion (VGR)
The episode's opener features Neelix bringing Seven some breakfast in engineering, his famous leola root pancakes and leola root juice. A small accident results in him spilling most of the juice into the dilithium chamber. Neelix spends most of the first act performing a jaunty yet inexplicable Talaxian slapstick comedy routine to hide his mistake from the Engineering crew before Captain Janeway orders warp speed.
When the engines engage the interaction between the Leola root and Dilithium in Voyager's warp core slings them through the leolaceial network (escape from which requires diverting life support to the structural integrity and reversing some polarities), but after just a few minutes they jump back to real space and discover they're 10,000 light years closer to Earth.
The crew spends the whole second act reading mission reports from the USS Discovery's spore drive experiments, from padds that Neelix needlessly delivers around the ship while attempting to push the remaining leola root juice on unsuspecting ensigns. The entire bridge staff decamp to a holodeck simulation of the drive that somehow features several underdressed women in bikinis programmed by Mr Paris at the bridge stations. Tuvok immediately threatens Paris with brig time, while Kim slaps him heartily on the back and asks if he'll save them in computer memory for 'later'.
Finally they try a longer jump, but discover a terrible side effect - explosive flatulence, and on returning to normal space, one by one each crewperson succumbs to trapped wind.
The Doctor races against time to find the cure, which turns out to be Alka Seltzer mixed with a mild dose of Anesthizine pumped through the ventilation system.
The crew resolves never to travel this way again, choosing to continue their journey over the possibility of more embarrassing stomach cramps (which is still somehow through the Delta quadrant despite all the action in this episode surely putting them in Beta quadrant by now at the very least, but who's counting these things, eh?)
THE END.