Book 1 - Existential Threat

In 1954, the crash of an unknown vessel triggers a worldwide cover-up while humanoids mysteriously appear in the USSR. The event fuels the East-West rivalry and sets off a chain of geopolitical tensions that, decades later, will lead to the collapse of civilization.

Agnes Rodriguez, a survivor of the 2024 apocalypse, introduces herself and looks back a few hours before the chaos. In Brussels, she shares an intimate moment with her partner Angie, establishing their deep bond before the event that will upend their lives and human history.

Agnes and Angie begin the day in a lighthearted mood, with humor and intimacy shaping their morning. But worrying news about Russia breaks the moment. Suspicious by nature, Agnes senses that something serious is gathering on the horizon.

Agnes and Angie rush through their day, moving between complicity, teasing, and minor mishaps. They climb onto Agnes' Ducati and reach an underground access point leading straight to their workplace: a NATO bunker.

In the heart of NATO's gigantic bunker, Agnes and Angie encounter overexcited officers and a far too enthusiastic nudist. After a firm disciplinary reminder, they get equipped and continue through the underground maze, ready to report for duty.

The colossal bunker hangar reveals three Nauvoo-class ships ready for deployment. Agnes and Angie inspect the area, marked by a recent fatal accident, and take in the intensity of the work underway. Despite their delay, they continue their routine.

The inspection tour reveals a possible anomaly on the Mercator's modules. Escorted by technician Charly, Agnes and Angie reach the warp nacelles, a reminder that the ship has never been deployed and may soon be mobilized if the conflict escalates.

In the shuttle bay, Agnes discovers that Angie has had a shuttle renamed Herbie 53. Soon after, young Emilie Flores causes a comic moment by walking into the wrong restroom. Despite her clumsiness, Agnes defends her skills, underlining the need to build a united crew.

On the bridge, Agnes finds a scattered crew delayed by a cyberattack. Emilie Flores once again reveals her hacking talents, impressive despite her awkwardness. Once the team is ready, Agnes leaves the ship in Angie's hands and goes to see the admiral.

Facing Admiral Hamilton, Agnes learns that cyberattacks are multiplying, leaves have been canceled, and Putin has vanished from intelligence tracking. Tensions reach a critical threshold and the bunker moves into heightened vigilance, hinting at a possible escalation.

After an unusually tender exchange with the admiral, Agnes learns that the Special Fleet is on alert. Struck by a sudden spell of illness, she is helped by Eros, who reveals training in advanced technologies. She immediately requisitions him to prepare the Mercator's DX-01-10 units.

Agnes goes to the lower-deck showers of the Mercator to pull herself together and meets Manu, a requisitioned civilian who does not know who she is. Their sincere exchange pushes her to reconnect with her crew. Revived, she returns to the bridge to announce the new directives.

The Special Fleet is on heightened alert. Agnes brings Eros in as an advanced-weapons specialist and reorganizes the entire bridge. As news channels show a tense NATO summit, world powers mobilize and the planet sinks into growing anxiety.

At the end of a tense afternoon, the official order arrives: begin the evacuation of Brussels. In a silence heavy with emotion, the bunker doors open and the Mercator rises. For the first time, Agnes sees their existence revealed to the entire world on the news.

As the Mercator begins evacuating Brussels, intelligence confirms the opening of Russian silos. Facing the nuclear threat, Agnes orders the transporters prepared as a last resort, despite the ban and the lethal risks involved.

As Brussels descends into chaos, the Mercator continues the evacuations. An evacuation-shuttle pilot reports that he has been ordered to send heads of state to the bridge, but Agnes refuses. Then, as one of the ship's modules shows failures, Hillary Clinton and several leaders suddenly appear on the bridge.

The radar screens reveal the unthinkable: a swarm of missiles racing toward Europe. The Mercator exceeds its evacuation capacity, module 3 threatens to break away, and Angie has to intervene. Vitos launches the DX units to intercept the Russian missiles while Agnes organizes an emergency return to the bunker.

As Europe collapses, a UFO appears less than a kilometer away: invisible to sensors, yet crushingly powerful. It shoots down a DX and destroys the surface-to-air defenses. Agnes refuses the fight, dodges, and asks the bunker to seal itself immediately without waiting for their return.

The Mercator is caught in the nuclear shockwave striking Brussels. With shields falling and engines weakened, the crew fights to escape the mushroom cloud. Agnes improvises a risky strategy: detonate a torpedo behind the ship to regain speed and stability.

The Mercator tears through the upper atmosphere in a suicidal maneuver, stabilizing in orbit despite catastrophic damage. Determined to find Angie, Agnes descends into the chaotic ship and unlocks module 3, whose opening begins in an ominous silence.

Inside module 3, deprived of oxygen, Agnes discovers more than a thousand unconscious passengers and tries to restore life support. She saves Angie at the last second before organizing rescue efforts with Manu, while riots break out elsewhere aboard the damaged ship.

Agnes brings Angie and Manu back to the bridge, where the crew discovers the extent of the damage. With only a few hours of autonomy left, Angie's plan requires putting thousands of civilians to sleep to save power. After debate, everyone approves the crucial decision.

The damaged and nearly powerless Mercator drifts toward the Moon. Agnes tries to restore order, soothes Angie, still fragile, and gives Manu an observation mission among the refugees. The crew organizes its survival on the way to NATO's secret station.

Exhausted but resolute, Agnes clashes with an American president deep in denial. She defends her vital decision to reach the Moon, even at the cost of a future court-martial. In the elevator, she realizes the scale of her violations and her isolation.

Agnes organizes the lunar approach with a drained ship, while Corda struggles to maneuver and Savea manages resources down to the last percent. Despite exhaustion, the crew improvises an apnea mode to attempt the impossible: reaching the starbase before total failure.

In lunar orbit, the Mercator loses a warp nacelle and drifts dangerously. With no power and no reliable instruments, Agnes commands a dying ship. Just as everything seems to sink into silence, a message breaks through: the starbase finally answers.

Nearly out of power, the Mercator is towed toward the starbase while its life-support systems collapse and its passengers fade. In silence, the crew watches the docking and discovers NATO's imposing fleet... and the USS Enterprise.

Safe aboard the starbase, Agnes thanks her team before collapsing into Angie's arms. Waking two days later, she must face Admiral Michaux, the man behind a past decision that shattered Angie's dreams and changed their destiny.

Facing the human losses and the accusations, Agnes expects a trial, but Admiral Michaux announces the unthinkable: she is becoming captain of USS Enterprise. Angie is appointed first officer, and their fate shifts a second time.

Agnes and Angie continue the debriefing with Admiral Michaux. Questioned about the Brussels UFO, they admit its non-human origin. Michaux confirms the seriousness of the threat, decorates them both, and mentions classified documents to come.

Discovering their former ship being dismantled, Agnes and Angie run into Manu, now a technician on the starbase. When they see his model of a ship from an oddly familiar old television series, they invite him to join USS Enterprise, sending him into explosive joy.

In the wreckage of the Mercator, Agnes recovers her motorcycle before taking Angie to their new ship: the Enterprise. Finding an empty bridge and an awful captain's chair, they requisition Vitos to replace it, then head off to visit their new cabin.

Settled into their new quarters, Agnes and Angie explore the ultra-classified file revealed by Michaux. They discover the existence of an alien vessel found in 1954, technologies of unknown origin, and the portrait of a Vulcan named T'Met, shaking their certainties.

In their cabin, Agnes and Angie decode NATO's secrets and clash over their wild theories. While watching Galaxy Patrol, one detail chills them: a ship in the series looks strangely like the Brussels UFO.

Woken with a start, Agnes and Angie receive Emilie, Charlene, and Eric, all wearing new uniforms cut absurdly short. Between sarcasm and wardrobe embarrassment, Agnes presents them with the Medals of Courage.

After a comic duel involving wrestling, pillows, and soap bubbles, Agnes' quarters are wrecked. Angie calls Manu, who discovers the disaster. Between negotiation, improvised promotion, and laughter, he leaves with a private suite and a new role aboard.

Agnes and Angie attend Michaux's briefing: the Fleet must regain control of Earth's satellites. The Enterprise will provide support and protection despite its still-inexperienced crew. Pressure, doubts, and responsibilities pile up before their first official flight.

After organizational chaos and the first internal tensions, the Enterprise prepares for its inaugural mission. Between new protocols, unfamiliar systems, and increased responsibilities, Agnes finally gives the expected order: the moorings release, and the flagship launches for the first time.

In Earth orbit, the Enterprise oversees the satellite-securing mission when USS Washington is suddenly vaporized by an invisible shot. With no radar contact and no sign of an enemy, the crew frantically searches for the source until the attacker appears: the Aragthonian from Brussels.

The Enterprise faces the Aragthonian in an intense orbital duel. Torpedoes, mines, and maneuvers fail until Vitos slips a DXS through a breach in the enemy shield. The attack disables the alien weapons, but the ship suddenly flees toward Earth's atmosphere.

A week passes with no sign of the enemy, and the satellite mission ends. But as departure nears, Flores picks up a strange interference signal, precise and deliberate. The analysis is clear: someone, or something, is trying to communicate from the Moon.

A targeted interference signal reveals a Morse-code S.O.S. from the Apollo 11 site. Agnes orders a discreet mission to the Moon and sends an exploration team.

On the Moon, the team discovers a strange alien ship at the Apollo 11 landing site, where every trace of the mission has vanished. Angie leads the ground exploration, but the craft unfolds, reveals a glowing ramp, and lets a humanoid shape appear, approaching them.

Angie discovers an Andorian named Tarsi, visibly drunk but claiming to belong to Starfleet's 26th-century temporal section. After a confused exchange, she faints and is transported to the shuttle to be revived.

Awakened thanks to her Ferengi jelly, Tarsi regains her senses and agrees to be escorted to the Enterprise. Angie pilots the mysterious Tal'Kyr, then accompanies the Andorian through decontamination before placing her in quarantine, where she promises to reveal the reason for her presence to Agnes.

After the lunar first contact, Agnes learns that the alien Tarsi claims to come from the future and to be linked to Starfleet. Caught between mistrust and curiosity, the two women head toward the isolation room, aware that this encounter could overturn their history.

Agnes finally meets Tarsi, an Andorian from 2554. Over a typically Belgian meal, Tarsi reveals a temporal contamination, the disappearance of Schak'Irra, and the appearance of Tholian ships. She claims that only the Enterprise can still save the fabric of time.

Tarsi reveals that all her temporal data is stored in a holographic implant hiding an ultra-advanced chip. She projects her logs and recordings, finally giving Agnes and Angie tangible proof of her story and her time travels.

Agnes discovers the future destruction of humanity in Tarsi's archives and hesitates over what to do. Meanwhile, Angie questions Tarsi about her scars and learns about the fearsome Ushaan-Tor. The two women reveal past wounds, drawn closer by vulnerability.

As Agnes discovers the terrifying consequences of the temporal contamination, Tarsi reveals her plan: return together to 1954 to prevent the destruction of Schak'Irra. But correcting the timeline would almost certainly erase their reality, triggering Agnes' anger.

Furious and exhausted by the chain of crises, Agnes returns to the starbase. She conceals Tarsi's existence, continues violating protocols, and confronts Michaux. There, she discovers that the Apollo missions were faked and that NATO is hiding major secrets.

Consumed by anger after her confrontation with the admiral, Agnes drags Tarsi into the Enterprise gym for a forced fight. The Andorian initially refuses any violence, calmly dodging the attacks. Under pressure, she finally reveals that she comes from the 23rd century, not the 26th.

During the softened confrontation, Tarsi reveals that she was born in the 23rd century and saved at the last second by the 26th-century Temporal Division after the destruction of her first ship. Agnes discovers a woman uprooted, tossed between eras and responsibilities that were never hers.

Lying side by side, Tarsi and Agnes compare how their worlds evolved. The Andorian observes that Agnes' Earth has been deeply altered since 1954. Russia, technology, and even the Tholian presence all point to a major manipulation of the continuum.

Locked away for three hours, Agnes and Tarsi turn their confrontation into a constructive discussion. Worried, Angie intervenes and discovers a surprisingly peaceful scene. Calmed, Agnes agrees to seriously study Tarsi's proposal regarding the temporal contamination.

Agnes, Angie, and Charlene search for a science officer for the Enterprise, but every researcher on the base categorically refuses. By chance, they cross paths with Manu, a former chemistry student, who eventually agrees, to his great despair, to a trial run on the bridge.

At the briefing, Michaux announces renewed contact with Earth's bunkers, a mission assigned to the Nauvoo ships. Disappointed to be sidelined, Agnes and Angie learn that the Enterprise is being reserved for a still-undisclosed special operation.

Agnes learns that the Enterprise must escort a commando team to Moscow to neutralize the Kremlin. She protests, aware of the lack of information and the high risk. Michaux remains inflexible, insisting that the operation has been approved by the government.

In the mess, Agnes and Angie discuss Colonel Gomard's mission and their concerns over Martian beer. They consider revealing Tarsi's existence to him to better support him, while recognizing the potential tensions inside the starbase.

Worried about Gomard, forced to accept an operation doomed to fail, Agnes tries to bring him to her side. She demands his word of honor but considers that insufficient, and seals her verification with an abrupt kiss that completely destabilizes the colonel.

Agnes proposes a secret alliance to Colonel Gomard to avoid potential internal power struggles on the station. After testing him, she reveals the existence of the Tal'Kyr, a hidden alien ship, and prepares to introduce him to its mysterious pilot.

Agnes lays out the situation for Colonel Gomard and introduces him to Tarsi, who analyzes Galaxy Patrol as an altered derivative of Star Trek. Agnes asks for his expertise to optimize the weapons and brings him into the Moscow operation.

Agnes leaves the Enterprise for the mission to Moscow. With Tarsi, Vitos, and Gomard, she prepares shuttles, Crabos, and suits. The team receives the green light and gets ready to descend into an irradiated zone shaken by extreme storms.

The six shuttles begin their descent toward Moscow, but S-300 missiles target them. Two units are destroyed. Agnes manages to eliminate the last projectile with a risky maneuver. The remaining team regroups on Red Square.

The surviving shuttles land on the devastated Red Square. After analyzing the entrances, the team identifies a partially cleared access route through the metro. The crabos opens the way and Gomard deploys his units. The bunker blast door finally gives way: the infiltration begins.

In a gloomy tunnel echoing with unknown whispers, Agnes' team approaches the central block. As Tarsi detects life signs and abnormal sounds, the squad sets up defenses. A blast door still separates them from an invisible enemy.

Entering the main block, the team discovers a mass grave before being attacked. Delta and Foxtrot Units are overwhelmed. The attackers turn out to be Tholians. Agnes, Tarsi, and Gomard try to fall back toward the ducts while deploying defensive domes.

Cornered by a horde of Tholians, the team loses four soldiers. Tarsi protects Agnes and opens the way toward a deep shaft leading to the command center. After blocking the access behind them, the five survivors begin a dizzying descent.

The infiltration reaches its peak: Tarsi electrifies the room, Agnes captures Prigozhin, and the discovery of a chamber filled with victims reveals an appalling purge. The computers may prove the origin of the July 15 nuclear attack.

Tarsi discovers that the nuclear attack came from an internal coup. The archives also reveal the capture of extraterrestrials in 1954, perhaps linked to Schak'Irra. Captured Prigozhin proposes a deal: guide the team to Putingrad in exchange for his freedom.

Tarsi analyzes the systems and identifies the Tholians' weaknesses. The team must reach a railway station where an old armed train from the Soviet era is waiting. Despite the improbable arsenal, an escape plan toward Putingrad takes shape as the Tholians close in.

As the Tholians pursue them, the squad flees toward Catherine II station to start an ancient locomotive. Covering their retreat, Prigozhin sacrifices himself against the aliens, triggering the tunnel's collapse and giving the survivors a crucial respite.

Tarsi and Vitos manage to start the old locomotive while the Tholians clear the rubble. The team boards and falls back. Gomard detonates the charges, then Lebeau fires a shell from the T-34, sealing the station and covering their escape.

Disguised as Russian soldiers, Agnes and her team quietly refuel the locomotive in Rostov. The local patrols, still without command, suspect nothing. The train sets off again toward Putingrad, finally giving the exhausted survivors a moment of rest.

Arriving in Putingrad, the team infiltrates a luxurious bunker where Putin is already waiting for them. They discover imprisoned members of Schak'Irra and Emmanuel Macron at his side. The confrontation begins under the watch of a handful of armed guards.

Agnes and her team confront a strangely relaxed Putin, calmly drinking at the minibar while explaining his vision of global chaos. Tarsi realizes he is not behaving as expected. The discussion degenerates: Gomard refuses his corruption, and Tarsi challenges the Tsar to a duel.

Tarsi fights Putin to exhaustion before Macron intervenes. A surprise attack plunges the room into gas and bullets. Agnes sacrifices herself to save Macron. Charlie Unit bursts in, neutralizes the last enemies, and carries Agnes away in critical condition.

Gravely wounded, Agnes is rushed back to the Enterprise. Tarsi and Eros attempt the impossible to save her. Aboard the ship, Angie hears the news, refuses to believe it, and temporarily takes command, shaken and determined to stay by her side.

Sunk into a coma, Agnes experiences a vision orchestrated by Q: a chaotic musical blending prophecy, warnings, and future deaths. Q reveals three essential words to her: Angie, Koala, Area 51, then vanishes, leaving Agnes shaken.

Thanks to T'Met, Agnes is stabilized, but her mind reveals a mysterious triad: Angie, Koala, Area 51. Macron advises Angie to go to the ultra-secure complex to recover 26th-century technology capable of countering the Tholian threat.

Angie leads an exploration team to NORAD to reach Area 51 through the AspiroTube. Hidden among humans, Tarsi and T'Met spark questions and friction. The supersonic journey reveals Tarsi's history before a blistering arrival in the Nevada desert.

The convoy lands in a militarized Area 51. Angie faces General Cliffton's suspicion, then reveals Tarsi and T'Met, causing shock and tension. After being scanned, the group crosses the scientific complex and finally reaches the Schak'Irra hangar.

In the hangar, the team discovers Schak'Irra, clumsily reassembled by Area 51 engineers. T'Met manages to reactivate the AI Lingua, confused and traumatized by the events of 1954. Facing the Tholian threat, Angie forces General Cliffton to let her recover the 26th-century equipment.

Angie explores Schak'Irra with Gomard and Eros, while T'Met and Tarsi pack up Lingua's components. The team requisitions crucial equipment. As they leave Area 51, an urgent call from the Enterprise announces a distress message from the starbase.

A priority distress call forces the Enterprise to race toward the starbase. Angie puts the ship on red alert. Tarsi confirms that the fatal event she saw in the future now seems imminent.

The Enterprise arrives too late: a Tholian armada is besieging the starbase. Angie orders the assault. The Enterprise suffers critical damage while the starbase explodes before their eyes. The crew begs her to flee, but Angie persists until someone unexpectedly arrives on the bridge.

Agnes bursts out of the turbolift and orders a warp escape. The ship is propelled far beyond its limits until T'Met cuts the impulse drive. The Enterprise now drifts beyond the solar system, lost in unknown space.

Standing when medicine says she should not be, Agnes rallies her officers and takes in the scale of the disaster. Without a starbase or command structure, the Enterprise must survive alone. She restructures the crew and welcomes the survivors of Schak'Irra, while her strange healing remains unexplained.

Stranded in unknown space with its propulsion destroyed, the Enterprise seems doomed. But Tarsi reveals that she recovered Schak'Irra's intermix chamber. Agnes authorizes the installation of Lingua and 26th-century technologies, launching a vast improvised repair effort.

In sickbay, Agnes discovers that her wounds have completely vanished. The doctor is stunned, T'Met denies any direct involvement, and Angie worries. A mystery hangs over them: who, or what, saved the captain from certain death?

T'Met activates Lingua in a makeshift cocoon. The AI quickly gains autonomy, even manipulating the probes to locate the ship in the Alpha Quadrant. But without propulsion, reaching Tellar Prime will require a creative solution.

Putin, strangely lucid despite his degraded condition, intrigues Agnes. Tarsi loses patience with an irreparable propulsion system, pushing Lingua to intervene: the only way out is to relaunch the Tal'Kyr so it can guide and tow the Enterprise to Tellar Prime.

Arriving in the Tellar system, the damaged Enterprise must negotiate docking. T'Met fails against Tellarite prejudice, but Agnes manages to seal a deal thanks to Martian beer. Escorted by two fighters, the Enterprise finally reaches Zorek Spaceport.

With the Enterprise docked, Agnes negotiates at Zorek Spaceport while the team delivers the Martian beer to the authorities. At Gornok's workshop, the gruff mechanic refuses Vulcans and Andorians, and the discussion goes sideways before Agnes secures a deal: repairs in exchange for pads and latinum.

Faced with Gornok's unrealistic demand, Agnes searches for latinum. An unexpected contact reveals K'hoka Khol'a, an Orion involved with a client who pays exclusively in latinum. She offers a lucrative collaboration, provided she is extracted from the Tellar system.

Searching for latinum, the crew explores Orion K'hoka's cabaret. Her only client, an anachronistic Ferengi, pays generously for exotic dances. Despite their reluctance, Agnes accepts the operation to fund the ship's repairs.

To prepare their show for a Ferengi, the team goes through the Dermalizer, a Tellarite machine capable of beautifying people and making them howl with pleasure. Under K'hoka's supervision, Angie emerges transformed, prompting Agnes and Tarsi to try it too.

Prepared by the Dermalizer, Agnes, Angie, Tarsi, and T'Met choose their extravagant outfits before learning the dance under K'hoka's guidance. While T'Met analyzes every movement as a scientific experiment, the Ferengi client arrives earlier than expected.

K'hoka welcomes the Ferengi and already extracts 100 bars from him with an improvised cocktail. Agnes opens the show, backed by Angie and Tarsi as improvised DJs. Despite the fiery staging, the client remains unmoved, except for Gomard.

The evening turns into disaster: Agnes bombs, T'Met paralyzes the stage, and the improvisation becomes cabaret chaos. But the brutal arrival of Orion pirates triggers a shootout. Thanks to Tarsi, Lingua teleports the whole team out at the last second, leaving the Ferengi alone with the pirates.

Evacuated through the Tal'Kyr's transporter, the team settles down while Lingua retrieves their belongings. K'hoka reveals the earnings, still insufficient, until Gomard produces a pouch stolen from the Ferengi containing more than 300 bars. Enough to finance the Enterprise's repairs.

Gathered in secret council, the officers discover the possible plans for saving humanity: exile, reconquest, evacuation, or a risky time-travel mission. Each must vote on their future. Agnes doubts, the crew hesitates, and Q appears, suggesting that the stakes go beyond their mere survival.

Agnes questions her mental health after another appearance by Q, but Lingua confirms that she heard everything. The AI reveals the dark history of Agnes' double in the Prime Timeline, shaking the captain before she joins Gornok for the technical report.

As Gornok finishes the repairs, an explosion on the dock destroys his workshop. The Enterprise is boarded by Orion pirates and the Ferengi. Lingua activates Schak'Irra's old security protocols. Agnes, T'Met, and Gornok head out to repel the assault.

Agnes recovers advanced weapons and goes to fetch Tarsi. She catches her in her cabin during a friendly duel with K'hoka. Cut short by red alert, the team unites: three Orion ships dock with the Enterprise, ready to invade the entire vessel.

The Orion corsairs tow the Enterprise while Blunderbust Braggart, installed on the bridge, demands a huge tribute and three crew members. Agnes refuses surrender: trapped between pirates and hostages, she must devise an immediate action plan.

Split into two teams, Agnes and Tarsi launch a counterattack through the corridors. Tarsi triggers a musical diversion, K'hoka releases her pheromones, and the Orion pirates are neutralized one by one, opening the way to the bridge.

After securing the corridors, the team finds the hostages and faces the hostage-takers. With a snap of the fingers, the two enemies reappear aboard their corsair. The Enterprise breaks the tow, absorbs the shots, then jumps to warp toward Proxima Centauri.

While Agnes reviews the votes, Lingua glitches and triggers a hidden protocol. With T'Met, she explores Lingua's memory, where the AI manifests as a little girl. They discover a photo linked to Quihoui and the coordinates of a classified mission.

After weeks of rest, the crew gathers to carry out its final mission: repair the temporal contamination of 1954. Everyone receives a role, T'Met and Tarsi prepare the Tal'Kyr, and the Enterprise dives into a temporal vortex to correct history.

The Enterprise emerges in 1954, but the crew suffers the effects of time travel. As T'Met confirms the date, the team picks up Radio Paris and observes the first anomalies: an impossible storm, a distortion, and the shadow of the Tholian ship.

Lingua identifies the anomaly as a Tholian Tarantula, accompanied by a flotilla. The first beam pierces the shields and devastates the front of the Enterprise. Despite the damage, Agnes launches the joint attack with the Tal'Kyr and the shuttles as the Web Weavers descend on them.

The Web Weavers immobilize the Enterprise in an energy web. Agnes orders a shield overload to break the trap, but the explosion badly damages the systems. Defenseless, the ship takes a shot from the Tarantula that destroys its warp nacelles.

Cornered and crippled, the Enterprise can no longer flee or withstand the Tarantula. Agnes orders a general evacuation, determined to use Emilie's computer virus alone to neutralize the enemy. With Angie at her side, she prepares to sacrifice the ship.

Alone aboard the Enterprise, Agnes and Angie choose to sacrifice their ship by ramming it after neutralizing the Tarantula. Their explosion stops the enemy, but the crew can only watch helplessly as their two commanding officers are lost.

As Schak'Irra prepares to leave 1954, Tarsi comes face to face with an older version of herself, revealing the first unforeseen consequences of the temporal rupture. Even repaired, the continuum keeps irreversible scars.

Back in the 26th century, Schak'Irra discovers that it has emerged two months too late. Starfleet Security intercepts the ship and arrests Tarsi for stealing the Tal'Kyr. T'Met realizes that their return caused a slight temporal shift, opening an official investigation.

On the starbase, the crew of the Enterprise faces the shock of losing Agnes and Angie. Under Admiral Quihoui's inflexible authority, everyone is questioned in an atmosphere of grief, fear, and uncertainty over Tarsi's fate.

In an icy one-on-one, Admiral Quihoui humiliates T'Met and probes her mind, exposing her most intimate secrets. Judged contaminated by humanity, she loses everything: her ship, Lingua, and her status, all transferred to her own double.

Welcomed into a modular residence at the Presidio, the refugees from the 21st century taste a post-scarcity life of comfort and carefreeness. Behind this bright pause, T'Met remains haunted by the violent memories of her captivity among the Russians.

Denied access to Tarsi's trial, T'Met watches helplessly as justice becomes opaque and rushed. The imposed closed session, the defense's silence, and a clandestine appointment in a holosuite suggest that the case goes far beyond a simple judgment.

Guided by an enigmatic message, T'Met and her group enter Holosuite 427. The place turns out to be a gigantic concert simulation. An unexpected performance draws attention and finally reveals Counsel Touit'Air and Zaneth-Myra Lysana.

In Holosuite 427, Counsel Touit'Air leads the group through a series of disorienting simulations. He reveals that all evidence against Tarsi is being destroyed and that the key to her defense lies in the data entrusted to Lingua.

Counsel Touit'Air reveals a daring plan: return clandestinely to 1954 to recover the data Lingua holds just before the destruction of the Enterprise. Deprived of command, T'Met must rely on Lysana and a risky infiltration of Schak'Irra, which has a temporal chamber.

At Vista Ridge, the team finalizes preparations for the clandestine mission. As everyone receives a precise role, K'hoka transforms T'Met so she can impersonate her younger double, an essential condition for infiltrating Schak'Irra.

The team diverts an old public transporter to infiltrate Schak'Irra. While Gornok and Vitos cover the operation, T'Met, Charlene, and Emilie secretly reach the temporal chamber, where a bubble sends them to 1954, eight minutes before the destruction of the Enterprise.

Inside the ravaged Enterprise of 1954, the mission descends into chaos. Emilie and Charlene try to tear Lingua free amid explosions while T'Met races toward the bridge on Agnes' Ducati, guided by Money Penny, an AI as efficient as it is unpredictable.

As the Enterprise burns and rushes toward the Tarantula, T'Met bursts onto the bridge to save Agnes and Angie. Guided by Money Penny, the escape becomes chaos made of explosions, dizzying falls, and flames, until the temporal bubble brings the whole team back to 2554.

Back aboard Schak'Irra, the team exfiltrates Lingua and the survivors from 1954. But the mission goes off track when T'Met confronts her younger double. An ideological and physical fight seals their divergence before a last-second escape to the San Francisco courthouse.

At the San Francisco courthouse, Counsel Touit'Air methodically dismantles the case against Tarsi. Testimony, paradoxes, and Lingua's revelation expose a premeditated manipulation. Cornered by the evidence, Admiral Quihoui leaves the room, unmasked.

Quihoui flees the courthouse and triggers a frantic chase through San Francisco. Agnes and T'Met pursue her by motorcycle to the Golden Gate. Cornered, the admiral disappears by transporter, leaving behind a troubling revelation.

The JAG issues a historic dismissal in Tarsi's favor. As Quihoui disappears and becomes a wanted fugitive, T'Met and Tarsi are decorated for their heroism and given a new role: guiding the survivors of the 21st century.

One week after the trial, the crew discovers its new life in the 26th century. Between renunciations, hopes, and diverging projects, T'Met and Tarsi formalize their status as Federation citizens. Agnes and Angie then receive an enigmatic invitation, destination Earth orbit.

The shuttle flies over Earth orbit and reveals the Enterprise-J, symbol of a dizzying future. On this occasion, T'Met and Tarsi introduce Agnes and Angie to the stakes of the Temporal Cold War, a discreet but decisive conflict for history.

What was meant to be a simple orbital ride brings Agnes and Angie to USS Outta Time, a ship under construction entrusted to T'Met and Tarsi. Lingua is reborn there in holographic form, accompanied by the unexpected return of Herbie 53 and Money Penny.

Admiral Censsukr' reveals that the Schak'Irra reality has left persistent traces. Agnes and her crew are officially recruited to hunt down Admiral Quihoui. Ten months before USS Outta Time enters service, the countdown begins.