The crew of the Tokyo has been in a state of disbelief, pain, and grief to process their latest mission that had them encountering the Borg. Their mission to deploy the old pathogen virus backfired, and they failed their mission at a cost. Now, they received orders to remain in Delta Quadrant to form up with the USS Mariner to create the Mariner Squadron. To resume the primary mission of scientific exploration into the unknown. However, their Captain orders them to take a different route that will plunge them into chaos.