Cmdr. Aster is visited by Kuri, a warrior Commander for the Klingon Empire and an ex-lover of his. She implores him to assist her in a mission to capture a Gorn warship, the Ee'gal Roc. The twist: the ship was recently captured by a rebellious group of pre-warp inhabitants of a Gorn colony. Dr. Tamura and Gul Boket offer widely different opinions on how to deal with the pre-warp aliens.