“So let me get this straight,” Gaarra says as the Shoemaker claws its way skyward the next morning. “The Terrans’ portal looks like the Celestial Temple on a subspace level, so Starfleet Science thinks the Prophets have something to do with it, and the attacks only started after we got the Orb of Possibilities back from the Cardassians last year, so they think that has something to do with it, too. And they think we can go on an alternate reality excursion with the Orb and knock out the portal.” “Why’d they want the Bajor for this? I thought we were persona non grata.” “No kidding.”