Troi wakes up as a Romulan intelligence officer much to her surprise. She then finds out that it is part of a elaborate scheme for Romulan dissident's to defect.

Data is zapped by a energy stream and has strange memories from during the time he was out. Worf hears a story that his father may not have died on Khitomer but may still be alive on a planet near the Romulan neutral zone.