Shall We Not Revenge?

Stardate 8254.6.

Starship Proxima is dispatched to the Hekaras System after the Hekaran Ambassador stated the Treaty of the Hekaras Space Corridor was in abeyance. This vital passage is the primary route to the Federation's Rimward Frontier: losing it would jeopardize colonization, humanitarian aid, trade, and exploration.

The Hekaran delegation has sent a formal protest and subsequently recalled its diplomats to the Federation Council after the dissipation and transmogrification of the Mutara Nebula into the former Planet Genesis. The Mutara Nebula, known locally as "the Mother's Womb," held special religious and spiritual significance to the Hekaran civilization.

While attending diplomatic functions around Hekaras Prime to restore the treaty, Proxima receives an automated intruder alert signal from the now-shuttered Space Lab Regula One. As the only Federation starship currently in the area, Proxima sends an Away Team to investigate aboard the Shuttlecraft Procyon.