The USS Millennium, currently docked at DS9 is making final preparations before their departure on their year long mission into the Delta Quadrant. The crew aboard is also making preparations of their own. New crewmembers, such as a First Officer who has to contend with many Bajorans and former members of the Maquis on board who despise him for his unchosen Cardassian/Bajoran nature and a former Borg drone who is trying to adjust to life in space once more.