Edward Shield is asleep on the USS Admonitor when it suddenly goes to red alert. Getting dressed, he runs to the Bridge and asks for a report on the situation. He sees that Manfred Wess, the helmsman, is not at his post. When he asks why this is, Jenkins states that he was the one who activated the red alert before running off to the transporter. Shield double-times it to the transporter to find Wess staring ashen-face at a dead body on the transporter pad. Looking, Shield sees that it is a male crewman from the Enterprise-C. Shield orders a stand-down from red alert and says that he will speak to Lianna Young about this.