What kind of story does tonight have room for?

Fresh from Starfleet Academy, a young Trill ensign joins a Defiant-class vessel being refitted for frontier rescue work. When neglected settlements and a former Starfleet engineer seize the ship's experimental shield network, every lawful course carries a human cost.

Content guidance: Non-graphic discussion of drug-facilitated sexual assault, Non-consensual recording and distribution, Institutional victim-blaming and harassment, Death, grief, panic, and moral injury, Space combat and civilian danger