Having accepted an invitation to the colony Gul Tovan and his crew have established, the Calhoun officers are shown round, and the two crews struggle to trust one another, all the more so as those from the Calhoun try to work out whether the Cardassians are enslaving Darennia's indigenous inhabitants. Tension rises when Commander Summers, MIA, is found on the planet, crazed by the nanoprobes infecting her body, and kills a Cardassian. Tovan, however, accepts for the Calhoun crew to try and heal her, mentally and physically.
After being crippled powerless by an alien probe, it also caused erratic behavior from Captain Bennek, Lieutenant Vrass, and Ensign Plox. As if that weren't enough, a Klingon ship also under the influence of this probe has taken over the Odyssey, and imprisoned the crew. The bridge personnel being kept in the brig (Commanders Denebris, Commander Hart, Lieutenant Travian, Ensign Rybek, and Head Nurse Alvas) have managed to escape, but they face long odds to retake the ship, with some personnel still in custody elsewhere (Lieutenant Velden, and Lieutenant Andrusia) and some that are being held on the Klingon ship (Lieutenant Helfrump, and Ensigns Elan and Nerell).
The Valkyrie is still in orbit around Betazed with repairs in progress and a new mission looming at the horizon. Rylie Tir has returned on board to reassume command of her ship, while the bulk of its crew is still on shoreleave.
Meanwhile, on the planet surface, Martin Miller's condition has stabilized, but his brother Paul sees little future in remaining arrested, turning the medical facility into a hostage situation.
In the middle of this quiet period -at least aboard the Valk- some new crew members arrive, having been assigned to a ship that they will remember for the rest of their lives...
The crew of Pandora station is still on the USS Solstice, in orbit around planet Tollaxana, examining the data brought back from the surface by the away teams. The Tollaxanan landscape was recreated in the holodeck, where Mr. Ja'al figured out a way to translate the images on the map. Using it, they found the capital city.
Captain Janssens and Commander Essar both paid a visit to the holodeck and based on the finding there they planned the next away mission. They would go by shuttlecraft, so that the power drain from the planet wouldn't interfere with the transporters.
As for the escaped prisoner / madman... he's still on the loose. Ensign Worrell was send to retrieve him, but so far, he didn't have any success.
