Commander Derek Mason has had a long career of boring assignments, but that all changes when he is ordered to take a small away team to salvage a dead Starship.

A simple shuttle mission changes the course of two Captains’ lives..

A mysterious alien artifact represents a grave threat to the security of the Federation, and a faction of the Klingon Empire will stop at nothing to capture it. While the command crew of the USS Excalibur races to discover the artifact's story first, they must battle their own personal demons.