Stardate: 44429.6 A highly respected and decorated Starfleet captain, Benjamin Maxwell, has turned renegade without explanation. With his ship, a Nebula-class science vessel called the Phoenix, he is attacking numerous Cardassian vessels and outposts along the border. His actions are threatening the fragile peace that exists following the Federation-Cardassian war.
However, transporter chief Miles O'Brien served with Maxwell on the Rutledge. Both Picard and Starfleet Command hope that O'Brien can convince his former commanding officer to stand down before it become necessary to destroy his ship.
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".
In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.