Author's Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore bring us another adventure with the crew of the Federation starship U.S.S. da VInci as they are assigned to ferry an ambassador to a system on the edge of Romulan space. There they are to see if the primary planet there is ready to be accepted into the Federation, now this is post-Dominion War so the federation needs as many allies as they can get. Captain Gold even brings up to the ambassador that what he had done along the course of the novella was something akin to what happened with the Ba'Ku (Star Trek: Insurrection). This is a great short trek and I highly recommend it to every classic star trek fan.