USS Victory enters a near-prime reality to recover Dr Imogen Burton, a displaced Federation scientist who has no intention of leaving a life where she is celebrated, fulfilled, and in love. For Captain Odysseus Hardy, the mission becomes far more dangerous when he finds the local Starfleet commander is his brother William — killed in the prime universe during the Dominion War, but alive here, older, and part of a world that has been just kind enough to give them both what they lost.