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| - L'taL is enjoying her new quarters onboard the USS Intrepid. After spending a few minutes making sure everything is in perfect working order, she decides to thank Captain Halliwell for the promotion. When she arrives at the captain's cabin, Lois Lane, commander of his personal MACO squad, tells L'taL that the captain is indisposed at the moment. Despite protests on the importance meeting him (and some sarcasm from the commander), L'taL is still denied entrance. L'taL decides to turn her comm-badge into an intercom system in order to reach the captain and thank him for his decision. But when she finishes, she accidentally opens a secure audio surveillance channel in the captain's quarters. Captain Halliwell, Admiral Janeway, Admiral Picard, Tom Paris and Harry Kim are in discussion regarding a very sensitive issue that Admiral Nechayev considers top priority: the downfall of Edward Shield. Since he shares her last name, her interest is piqued and she listens in. From what she gathers from their conversation, he was the one who had her released from Starfleet Security's custody after the incident in the nightclub. Furthermore, they let slip that, because she is his daughter, she is essential to their plans. L'taL listens further. According to records from the secret archives of The Order, the only one who could have ever defeated Edward Shield was his father. However, if they are to successfully clone him, they will need his DNA: the only known carrier of that DNA being his son, who is not readily available...but Halliwell says that this is why L'taL is important to their plans: since she carries his DNA, they need not kill him, they only have to perform a bit of genetic splicing to isolate the Shield-DNA from that of her Klingon mother in order to get what they need. Janeway expresses her misgivings over using an individual as a weapon, and what dangers this might have on her: however, Captain Halliwell and Admiral Picard both conclude that "the needs of the many (in this case, the Federation) far outweigh the needs of the few". L'taL is appalled by this, and prepares to leave. But suddenly finds that the hallway has been blocked off with ray-shields. Halliwell approaches and remarks that she's been a bad girl. Later, she finds herself in Sick Bay, being administered by the ship's EMH. Halliwell claims that she cannot be allowed to live, now that she has what could be used as incriminating evidence against the greatest Starfleet captain in history (note he never mentions Captain Kirk nor his predecessor Captain Archer). She asks him if killing her will damage her DNA, which he replies to thusly... Far easier to harvest DNA from a corpse. Through whispers, she is able to convince the EMH to reactivate its ethics program (which Halliwell had deactivated before processing began), saying that he is an inefficient machine without all of his subroutines active. The EMH decides that he cannot complete the procedure and utilizes a tranquilizer on L'taL to put her under, and then dismisses Halliwell as he begins the surgery. Once Halliwell leaves, the EMH gives L'taL a stimulant in order to wake her from the tranquilizer. She thanks him for his help, but in whispers since the EMH is certain that Halliwell is listening. He then helps her escape from Sick Bay and wishes her the best of luck before deactivating and locking himself, knowing what might happen if Halliwell discovers that he helped her escape. By sneaking through the ship, L'taL is able to beam herself back onto Earth, where she tries to find a place to lay low. Her wish is granted by an underground medical practitioner/singer living in the No Man's Zones of Los Angeles. L'taL asks her for two favors: one of them being to find a way to contact Edward Shield.
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