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

Five children in five countries grow up with impossible private experiences. As war, migration, surveillance, and family secrets draw them toward a black lake in upstate New York, they discover a shared face, a shared birth second, and a mystery older than human history.

Content guidance: War and occupation context, Child endangerment and gun violence, Death and grief, Religious fear, State surveillance and detention, Ecological harm