As Starfleet strives to retain its faltering grip on its vast territories and protectorates in the aftermath of the disastrous events of Frontier Day and the socio-political upheavals instigated by the appearance and then cessation of access to The Labyrinth, the USS Albion is dispatched to fly the Federation flag and maintain an oblique representation of power to ensure stability along the Former Demilitarized Zone.

Yet all the while nefarious criminal elements pick away at the very fabric of the borders of Law & Order and a shadowy underworld denizen from her past re-surfaces to demand that Commander Samantha Hyland pay – her dues for an extralegal debt that she doesn’t even know that she had incurred….