Stardate: 44246.3. Picard is asked to choose between two candidates to succeed the current Chancellor of the Klingon High Council as the new ruler of the Empire. Worf is disturbed by unexpected news when he is paid a visit by his former lover.

Stardate: 44995.3. Worf must choose between his people and the Federation when a civil war threatens to destroy the Klingon Empire.

Stardate: 45020.4. Picard suspects a Romulan influence in the recent Klingon civil war, and must force the Federation to intervene before the Empire collapses.

ウォーフはクリンゴンの誇り高き民族精神の衰退に心を痛めていた。さらに自分の信仰心にも疑問を抱きはじめ、艦長の計らいで聖地ボレスへ修行の旅に出ることに。そこで民族の神カーレスの復活を目撃する。