In 2368 Commander William T. Riker and Lieutenant Commander Data of the USS Enterprise-D used one of Daystrom One's maintenance pod's to explore the facility's holographic tesseract archive and try and diagnose why the archive's A.I. systems had become unresponsive. While travelling to the central A.I. hub they found their route blocked by an unusual diamond structure not native to the archive; Using their pod's servograsp they attempted to probe the alien structure, which reacted explosively, severing the armature. Once Riker and Data had recovered they continued into the archive, and quickly encountered more of the explosive devices and soon found themselves under attack by two alien vechiles (who would later be found to be Romulans) which attempted to lock the pod in a tractor beam. Rik