Stardate 47941.7: Newly promoted Lieutenant Ro Laren goes on a mission to infiltrate the Maquis, an organization of Federation colonists in the Demilitarized Zone who fight the Cardassians. She soon gets the attention of a group led by a man called Macias and proves herself trustworthy when she helps stealing medical supplies from the Enterprise. Ro is subsequently torn between her loyalty to Picard, who always supported her, and her new sympathy for the people and the cause of the Maquis. Her fatherly friend Macias is killed in a Cardassian sneak attack. When Ro is supposed to lure the Maquis into a trap, she tells Picard that she has a bad feeling about it. Picard orders Riker to join her on the mission but he can't keep her from defecting.

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