Edward Shield is due to relinquish command of the USS Admonitor to Lianna Young and resume his old post. He is not all to pleased about it, but his ship needs him. He reports to the transporter to be beamed back aboard the Enterprise-C when an ion storm erupts around them. Shield then returns to the Admonitor's Bridge and sends a transmission to Young that he can't beam back due to the dangers faced by transporting in the middle of an ion storm. Her ranting about his desire to take her place is suddenly cut off. Shield asks Nox to re-open communications with the Enterprise, but he tells him that the Enterprise-C is no longer with them. Just then, another ship, bearing the designation NCC-1701-C, but with ISS Enterprise proceeding it drops out of warp. The captain of the vessel, Lianna Youn