Thirty-years have passed since the end of the Dominion War. As each major power in the Alpha Quadrant bide their time to recover from the devastation that the war has left them in, the Federation soon becomes ready to commission a new experimental ship and crew to take on the challenges of the 25th century. Commanding the new Aegis-class starship, the Dragonfly, is Captain Darren Seth, a young, ambitious human male and graduate of Red Squad. Armed with a unique crew and dizzying new technologies, the captain and his crew are called on their first mission to Draloos IV, a planet in the outskirts of Federation space with a human populous. The populous has reported a sudden halt in its biomatter harvest from its neighboring planet, Draloos V. The crew discovers a troubling new non-humanoid sp