Picard goes undercover as merchantman “Dixon Hill” on Oblivion, an unaligned space station cobbled together from myriad derelict spacecraft and located near Ubarrak and Cardassian space. His mission is to retrieve Nuadra Demmix, a Zartani individual with vital technical data on Ubarrak spacecraft. This intel would allow Starfleet to easily defeat the Ubarrak war fleet, thus allowing it to concentrate its defenses on the increasingly threatening Cardassian border. Demmix’s wife and daughters were killed by the Ubarrak and he since has dedicated his life to their defeat, though he refuses to meet anyone but his old friend, Jean-Luc Picard, forcing the captain to undertake this mission alone. On the station, Picard first meets a mysterious and strangely intuitive woman named Guinan. She, howe