USS Archer has been sitting in dock for the past year and a half, fixing the physical damage from Frontier Day and regaining her crew… but psychological scars still remain. Her captain’s seat is still vacant, her veteran crew still nursing their wounds. The only promising candidate for the center chair is her old XO, Erin Walsh, but she has her own demons to fight. Stuck between the rock of a return to Starfleet and the hard place of a family moving on without her, Walsh has a hard choice ahead of her- dig her heels in and suffer in silence, or finally move on and boldly go where no one’s gone before…