An alien species uses the Romulans to breed in Enterprise’s warp core affecting time.

Data, Geordi, and Troi materialize in the frozen Romulan warbird's engineering section, where they discover the crew was under evacuation alert—not battle stations—contradicting the Enterprise's assumption of hostile intent. Geordi …

In the aftermath of Data successfully reversing the warp core breach, time briefly resumes its normal flow—only for an ensign to accidentally reactivate the power transfer system to the Romulan …

In a desperate, high-stakes maneuver, Captain Picard remotely pilots a Starfleet runabout directly into the alien transfer beam connecting the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird. The runabout detonates on impact, …