Tasked with mounting a tentative return to the Gamma Quadrant to seek out new allies and forge relationships beyond the Bajoran Wormhole that might see the United Federation of Planets halt its inevitable decline from a place of power, the USS Vega is tasked with a 5 – year mission of Diplomacy and Discovery.

With the Founders loyal to The Great Link having withdrawn Dominion forces to within their ruthlessly contested – borders, the resultant power vacuum leaves a relatively unknown region of the galaxy rife with threats and wonders that Starfleet remains ill equipped to guard against or understand.

Can veteran Captain Trevenan Williams walk the tenuous line between unity and conflict to discover a new path towards peace or will the mistakes of the past mark their transit fraught, as through Perdition’s Gate?