Q shows Picard around in the château, which has changed. In this reality, Picard is a brutal general of the "Earth Confederation", a fascist regime that has subjugated or eradicated many other planetary populations. Seven wakes up, looks in the mirror and is startled that her Borg implants are gone. She is now the "President of the Confederation". Her husband, a Confederation magistrate, appears, saying that she is to hold a speech on the occasion of "Eradication Day". Seven reacts quickly and plays along. Rios finds himself on La Sirena, fighting Vulcan insurgents. He is relieved when Seven contacts him through a secured channel and calls him back to Earth under "presidential orders". Raffi rescues Elnor during an insurgence in Okinawa and takes him to San Francisco. They meet with Picard and Seven aka "President Annika Hansen" under the pretext of the interrogation of the Romulan "terrorist" and proceed to Dr. Jurati's lab. Jurati is supposed to prepare a special prisoner for execution on Eradication Day: the Borg Queen. Picard concludes that the timeline has been changed. The Borg Queen, with her transdimensional perception, reveals that the divergence happened in the year 2024, in Los Angeles. She agrees to help the crew perform a slingshot maneuver to travel back in time. When Rios attempts to beam them up to La Sirena, he doesn't manage to penetrate the transport inhibitors. Communication subsequently fails too. Time is pressing because no one else but Picard is expected to execute the Borg Queen on stage. Jurati works on restoring communication and Raffi takes down the security measures, so Rios eventually manages to activate the transporter, just as a firefight ensues because Picard hesitates to shoot the prisoner in front of a booing crowd. After Picard, Seven, Raffi, Elnor, Jurati and the Borg Queen have been beamed up, La Sirena breaks orbit. Against Rios's objections, Jurati hooks up the Borg Queen to the systems of the ship to control the time jump. But the fleet of the Confederation is already on their heels. Hansen's husband manages to beam over with two soldiers and shoots Elnor...

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