Stardate 47310.2: The Enterprise is searching for the missing medical ship Fleming in the Hekaras Corridor - the only safe route through an area filled with tetryon particles. There the Enterprise runs into a disabled Ferengi ship that doesn't respond to hails and opens fire. DaiMon Prak claims that his ship has been immobilized by a Federation buoy. The Enterprise suffers from the same effect only a few hours later. It turns out that Rabal and Serova, brother and sister from Hekaras, want to prevent all ships from engaging warp drive in the corridor, for they think warp drive causes cumulative damage to the fabric of space. Serova sacrifices herself by initiating a warp core breach on her ship, which opens a subspace rift, thereby proving that their theory is correct. The Fleming is now stuck within the rift, which the Enterprise enters by only briefly activating the warp drive, in order to beam over the crew of the medical ship. The Federation declares a general warp speed limit of Warp 5, to prevent further damage until a solution to the problem is found.

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