An exciting new project — the joint exploration of the Andromeda Galaxy by the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians and the United Federation of Planets — begins in earnest. Reporting for duty aboard the starship Endeavor are science officer Naomi Wildman (a half-human, half-Ktarian woman who was born and raised on the starship Voyager); xenolinguist Dal Lacerto (one of the first Cardassians in Starfleet) and security officer Kutch (a rare Tellarite serving alongside non-Tellarites). Together, they pursue a potential first contact and begin to build a friendship that will define them all.