- Now on the run, Picard and the skeleton crew of the USS Titan must break into Starfleet's most top secret facility to expose a plot that could destroy the Federation. Picard must turn to an old friend for help.
- Vadic continues to hunt for Picard. She tracks down each known associate of Picard, whom he might turn to for help. Beverly analyses Jack to figure out the source of his visions. She finds that Jack is apparently suffering from Irumodic Syndrome, Picard's old neurological condition. The condition is still in its infancy and might take decades before it is fatal to Jack. There is no cure and one day Jack will die because of it.
Worf and Raffi board the Titan. Worf briefs Picard that the Changelings have emerged from the Dominion wars where they fought the Federation with deception and might. Starfleet used a genetic virus to defeat them. Starfleet delivered the cure to the Changeling home planet, the Great Link, but the damage was done, and a few extremist zealots took hold of the anti-Starfleet sentiment in Changeling society. Whatever they are planning is linked to Frontier day. Frontier Day is 48 hours away. Together with the crew develop and execute a plan to infiltrate Daystrom Station. Worf says that the Portal device theft was a distract used by the Changelings to conceal the theft of something else. The only way to find what was stolen is to find the Daystrom inventory. The Daystrom station is protected by an AI based security system and Worf says they have the key to disable it from Krinn. Worf, Riker and Raffi go in with the key and have an hour to retrieve the inventory.
The Titan is forced to flee after Starfleet ships arrive around the Daystrom station, while the away team is still down there. Picard promises Riker that he will be back within an hour.
Picard seeks help from Geordi La Forge, his former Chief Engineer, now a Commodore in charge of the Starfleet Museum working on a secret project. Geordi also knows that the entire fleet is being assembled for Frontier Day and is objecting about the same to Starfleet. Geordi says that the new Starfleet ships all talk to each other, so there is no way to hide the signal from the Titan. Geordi only agrees to help Picard after speaking to Sidney, who convinces Geordi that the Galaxy is at stake. Her crew is also her family.
Despite the key, the security system of the Daystrom station engages. The away team is confronted by a version of Professor Moriarty (Daniel Davis). Riker solves a musical puzzle presented by Moriarty in the form of a song. Riker completes the missing part of a song in the form of a whistle, which is something that he shared only with Data. The tune opens the vault. Riker discovers that a Soong-type android containing the memories of Data, B-4, Lal, Lore, and Altan Inigo Soong, is at the heart of Daystrom and also contains the projects database they are looking for. Altan had helped recover Data's memories & personality from B-4 and integrate into the android. But the integration project was not completed before Altan died.
Jack steals a Klingon cloaking device from one of the docked ships in the museum. La Forge's daughters Sidney and Alandra (Mica Burton), guided by Geordi, help integrate the cloaking device into the Titan's engines. The Titan's crew returns to Daystrom, where they recover the away team (minus Riker who was captured), along with the android. Riker stayed behind to stop the physical security team from interfering and allowing the rest of the team to beam back with the android.
Picard speaks with the Daystrom android and manages to awaken Data's personality. Data (Brent Spiner) reveals that the Changelings stole the original dead organic body of Picard.
Riker is brought aboard the Shrike, where he is reunited with his wife Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) who was also abducted by Vadic.
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