Newly-promoted Captain Taes assumes command of the science ship USS Dvorak, following its lengthy refit and shakedown cruise.  The Dvorak‘s first mission is to investigate the archaeological site on Camus II, after it was looted by pirates.  Following a trip to the planet’s surface, the crew’s mission has become jeoparised because Captain Taes is no longer who she appears to be.  (And she’s not the only one.)

Previously on USS Dvorak:

Pivoting after a twenty year career as a science officer, Commander Taes walked away from a director position, committing herself to the command training program in hopes of leading a starship of her own.  At the close of 2399, Commander Taes was assigned the Raven-class corvette, USS Nestus, to undertake short-term archaeology and anthropology missions on behalf of the science department aboard Starbase 72.  She hand picked a ragtag group of young and ambitious officers to serve as her senior staff.

In the earliest days of 2400, Commander Taes and her crew navigated the Century Storm to examine the Federation’s disaster management policies and how well they suited the survivors who were evacuated and resettled to escape the ion storms.  The missions proved to be a Storm in a Teacup, especially when they learned that Sometimes Bones Are Wrong.  Commander Taes discovered her nascent senior staff was engaging in duplicitous and coersive behaviours behind her back, requiring all of Taes’ growth as a leader to keep her senior staff from tearing itself apart.