2369: With the recommissioning of the U.S.S. Progress, Captain David Gold is contemplating his next command while on a mission to the Federation protectorate Drema IV. Gold’s chief medical officer, Dr. Katherine Pulaski, has her own reasons for wanting to return to Drema IV — to check up on a former patient of hers: Sarjenka, a girl who befriended Data of the Starship Enterprise, and whose memories Pulaski erased.

A mining accident on Drema IV brings together the S.C.E., Pulaski, Gold, and Sarjenka in an adventure that will have far-reaching consequences for all of them….