Just as the Invicta begins her shakedown cruise out of Astrofori One, a pair of Q appear as uninvited guests to the launch celebration, and the crew find themselves caught in the middle of their game.
After a trip through a rare space-time anomaly, the Invicta finds itself in an alternate reality where the Dominion War ended in the Federation's defeat.
When Captain Kells is presumed killed, the crew of the Invicta discover a secret mission underneath the pomp and circumstance of the grand Invicta Expedition.
