Stardate 41775.5: Picard attends a secret meeting with his old friend Walker Keel and two other captains on a barren planet, where it is rumored that there is a conspiracy within Starfleet. Briefly after that Keel's ship, the Horatio, explodes seemingly with no reason. The Enterprise heads for Earth to investigate what is going on in Starfleet. When Admiral Quinn visits the ship, he attacks Riker, and Beverly discovers that he is controlled by an alien parasite. The same applies to the admirals who have invited Picard for dinner in the meantime. Riker manages to fool them, pretending that he is one of the infected himself. Picard and Riker follow the creatures that try to hide in Remmick's body. They shoot Remmick and see that he was hosting the mother creature, coordinating the alien intrusion.

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