The Yorktown receives a distress signal emanating from the Baia system—a region of Sector 5591 that has been off-limits for nearly a decade due the discovery that the system’s sun is dangerously close to going supernova. With the long-awaited event just a few days away, the Yorktown rushes to the Baia system to perform a rescue. However, as it soon comes to pass, this is far from what one would consider to be an “average” distress signal, and as a rescue team is beamed down to the surface of Baia II, it becomes crystal clear that this was a ruse to draw them out. However, before they can beam back, they are captured by a mysterious woman, who demands that in exchange for the safe return of her hostages, the Yorktown shall transfer an orphaned child to his new, adoptive family in the Alpha Quadrant. A task that’s easier said than done, especially when it comes to light that the child in question is none other than the son of the recently-executed dictator of the Moldoviț Regime…