In a remote area of Federation space, the Enterprise picks up an urgent distress signal - from a Klingon vessel! Tracing the S.O.S., the crew finds the Klingon cruser Mauler, trapped in a dimensional storm of unprecedented power. Yet paradoxically, the ship refuses both the Enterprise's call and the offers of help. Determined to discover what the Klingons are doing in Federation space, Kirk beams abord their ship with a security team, just as the storm flares to its highest intensity. As the vanishes from the Enterprise's viewscreen. And James T. Kirk awakens... one hundred yers in the future.
