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Nia Nal has been searching for an ancient source of Naltorian dream energy. She loses her powers to a hooded robed figure while in a nightmare involving Iris and goes to Central City for help. Iris realizes that her article on the Red Death is the Pulitzer-winning article from the map book, and questions if she's following destiny instead of making her own choices. After Nia and Iris get pulled into a dream, Nia helps Iris realize that destiny is not one choice, but the result of a lifetime of several choices. Iris helps Nia realize that to increase her potential, she needs to give up control. After doing so, Nia meets the spirit of the first Naltorian with dream abilities, who promises to teach her. They wake, and Iris publishes her article. Meanwhile, Mark takes Khione out to do activities that he did with Frost, ignoring all of Khione's ideas. She realizes that Mark still only sees her as Frost and leaves. Later, Mark apologizes to Khione and decides to leave Central City, causing Khione to inadvertently freeze Cecile's banquet out of sadness…

BUT THEN...

Barry, Iris, and a group of D.O.E. agents inspecting S.T.A.R. Labs get trapped in the speed lab. When Barry notes that a "time magnet" will be stored in the Flash Museum in 2123, the group deduces that one of them must have stolen the magnet from the future without its stabilizer, trapping them in the same moment. As one of the agents is replaced by a statue, the group realizes that exposure to the time magnet will eventually kill them. Barry and Iris realize that Inspector Tao knows nothing about her job and expose her as the thief. She reveals herself as Lady Chronos. Barry charges her belt so she can reunite the magnet with its stabilizer in 2123 and convinces her to let herself be arrested instead of dying. The timeline resets, freeing Barry and Iris and restoring the agents with no memories of the events. Meanwhile, Khione meets with Carla Tannhauser off-screen. After Chester tells Allegra that he loves her, she worries about her future with him. Cecile convinces her that their relationship is not doomed and she later admits her love to Chester.

The Titan hides amid shipwrecks in the Chin'toka battlespace. Geordi works against Lore's persona to restore Data's dominance of the android's mind. Worf and Raffi take La Sirena out on another intelligence mission. Seven tries to contact her former crewmate Tuvok. The respondent passes Seven's first trust test, but fails her second, revealing himself to be a Changeling and leaving the real Tuvok's fate ambiguous. Picard, surmising that the Changelings are using his corpse to target Starfleet's anniversary festivities, devises and enacts a plan to trap Vadic and her crew on the Titan with force fields, using Jack, who is developing telepathy, and Sidney as bait. Picard and Beverly interrogate Vadic in the trap. Vadic reveals she was one of ten Changelings whom Starfleet doctors torturously experimented on to develop a breed of super-spies; upon their escape, she swore revenge and formed the rogue Changeling faction, taking her torturer's form. Beverly confirms the experiments' existence; Picard realizes he has to kill Vadic, but Geordi fails to revive Data in time to stop Lore from taking over the Titan's computers and disabling the force fields, allowing Vadic to escape, storm Titan's bridge, and announce she knows Jack's true nature.

Vadic locks all the systems aboard the Titan from the crew. She threatens to execute the crew if Jack does not surrender, which he does after she kills a lieutenant. Data's persona breaks the partition from Lore's persona, and, realizing he cannot overpower Lore, surrenders his memories, which consume Lore and allow Data full control of the android. The rest of the crew rush to the computer core to plug Data into the Titan's systems, which he manipulates to protect Jack and vent the bridge, killing Vadic. Seven blows up the Shrike. Worf rescues Riker and Troi, bringing them aboard the Titan, and reuniting the crew of the Enterprise-D. Troi encourages Jack to confront his past and reveal his powers.

Bo-Katan, Din Djarin and Grogu set out for the idyllic planet Plazir-15, where Bo-Katan's former army, now led by Axe Woves, have set themselves up as mercenaries. Before they can meet them, they are involuntarily diverted by the planet's rulers, Captain Bombardier and the Duchess, who ask for their help in neutralizing several repurposed but malfunctioning Imperial and Separatist droids. After stopping a rogue droid, Bo-Katan and Djarin follow its trail to The Resistor, a droid bar, and convince its bartender and clientele to help them. They find out that the droids were sabotaged through nanodroids in the bar's maintenance fluid, which were covertly imported by Commissioner Helgait, head of the planetary Security Office. Confronted, Helgait reveals himself as a Separatist before Bo-Katan knocks him out, and he is exiled. Granted an audience with the Mandalorian privateers, Bo-Katan challenges Woves for leadership and defeats him. To help her ascendance, Djarin admits his capture by the cyborg in the mines of Mandalore and his rescue by Bo-Katan, which rightfully bestows the Darksaber back to her.

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Gorian Shard invades Nevarro in retaliation for Vane's expulsion, and Greef Karga contacts Carson Teva. Suspecting that the attack is a prelude to a new rise of the Empire, Teva informs Colonel Tuttle. But when Tuttle shows indifference, he tracks down the Mandalorian covert and asks Din Djarin for help. Djarin convinces the covert to come to Karga's aid despite their prior confrontations with him, and Bo-Katan assumes command of the attack force. As the Mandalorians overcome the pirates, Vane flees, Shard is killed, and the remaining ones are detained. The Mandalorians are welcomed back by Karga and the people, and move back into their old enclave. The Armorer meets with Bo-Katan, acknowledging the Mythosaur's reappearance as an omen that Bo-Katan is the one who can reunite all Mandalorians, and bids her to remove her helmet to symbolize this new position. On his way back to Adelphi, Teva encounters the wreckage of Moff Gideon's prison transport which had gone missing during transit. He also finds a fragment of beskar alloy, implying that Mandalorians have broken Gideon out.

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Worf and Raffi board the Titan and together with the crew develop and execute a plan to infiltrate Daystrom Station. The Titan is forced to flee after Starfleet ships arrive. Picard seeks out help from Geordi La Forge, his former Chief Engineer, now a Commodore in charge of the Starfleet Museum. The away team is confronted by the sapient holodeck version of Professor James Moriarty, and discovers that a Soong-type android containing the memories of Data, B-4, Lal, Lore, and Altan Soong, is at the heart of Daystrom and also contains the projects database they are looking for. Equipped with a Klingon cloaking device stolen by Jack (who is suffering from Picard's old neurological condition) and La Forge's daughters, the crew returns to Daystrom, where they recover the away team (minus Riker who was captured). They discover that the item stolen by the Changelings was the original dead organic body of Jean-Luc Picard. Riker is brought aboard the Shrike, where he is reunited with his wife Deanna Troi who was also kidnapped by the Changelings.

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Djarin introduces Grogu to Mandalorian combat training. Grogu wins a training match, but his opponent, Ragnar Vizsla, is captured by a large pterosaur. Bo-Katan gathers a hunting party, which includes Djarin and Ragnar's father, Paz Vizsla, and leads them to the raptor's nest. The Armorer forges a new piece of Mandalorian armor for Grogu, a rondel bearing Djarin's mudhorn sigil. As she works, Grogu has visions of his rescue from the burning Jedi Temple by Jedi Master Kelleran Beq and sympathetic members of the Naboo Armed Forces. Vizsla's over-eagerness to save Ragnar disrupts Bo-Katan's plan and leads to a difficult aerial rescue in which Bo-Katan and Djarin rescue the boy unharmed, killing the pterosaur, collecting its chicks, and earning the clan's respect. As the Armorer replaces Bo-Katan's pauldron, lost in the scuffle with the pterosaur, Bo-Katan reveals her encounter with the Mythosaur, but the Armorer meets her account with indifferent disbelief.

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Several clones imprisoned for disobedience against the Empire, including Howzer, are rescued by a group of rogue clones led by Rex, Echo and Gregor and brought to Coruscant, where Senator Chuchi questions them about their intended fate. With only a few encrypted data scraps recovered in the raid, Echo rejoins the Bad Batch on Pabu. In Mount Tantiss (the transport's destination), Crosshair is interrogated by Hemlock about the whereabouts of the Batch, specifically Omega. He escapes in an inattended moment and sends a warning to his former comrades before being recaptured and subjected to more intense torture. After receiving the message and analyzing the data Echo recovered, the Batch learns about the existence of the Empire's secret Advanced Science Division.

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Jack’s visions begin showing him murdering the crew. Riker returns command of the Titan to Shaw. Shaw contacts Starfleet, who promptly send the USS Intrepid to intercept them and take Picard and Riker into custody. The Starfleet officer heading the security team is Ro Laren, who betrayed Starfleet years earlier by defecting to the Maquis, but returned after her imprisonment. Beverly conducts the impostor's autopsy, discovering the Changelings have evolved to hold their shape longer and evade body scanning technology, and notifies Picard, but Ro dragoons him into the holodeck. Ro suspects the Changeling conspiracy compromised Starfleet's highest levels and both Intrepid and Titan. Picard realizes he still trusts her. They reconcile, before Ro gives Picard her earring. Ro pilots her shuttle, but Changeling saboteurs plant a bomb onboard, forcing her to steer into the Intrepid, sacrificing herself. The saboteurs attempt to transport out with Jack, but he is overcome by his visions and shoots them all dead. Picard and Riker realize Ro's earring contains the intelligence she gathered, and a communicator. Worf and Raffi continue their investigation into the M'Talas Prime attack, finding the Vulcan criminal Krinn, who forces them to duel. Raffi seemingly defeats Worf, but Worf manages to kill Krinn's minions, forcing Krinn to give vital information about the attack. Worf contacts Picard and Riker via Ro's earring, just as the Titan flees the Intrepid. Jack admits to Beverly he thinks there’s something wrong with himself.

Rebecca Sharpe, who survived the crisis three years ago, is framed for attacking her fiancé Dominic Stewart. Cecile and Allegra work to prove her innocence, but Rebecca is kidnapped by people with dark matter refractors that deflect Allegra's and Cecile's abilities enough for Cecile to miss her train to Joe's and worry about being far from Jenna, but Allegra consoles her. They realize that Dominic's brother Tony embedded a Dark Matter refractor in Rebecca's engagement ring in order to reverse her luck ability and extort her job as a dealer in order to pay off his gambling debts. Cecile telekinetically removes Rebecca's ring, destroying the refractor while leaving Tony and his minions for Kramer. Meanwhile, Mark is convinced that Khione has powers, believing that they're what woke him and that they're all that's left of Frost. Khione tells him that Frost lives on in his memories and conjures a snowfall. The next morning, Dominic wakes from his coma, Cecile invites Allegra to move into Joe's house, and Team Flash has a baby shower. Chester reveals that Khione is not a human or a metahuman.

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After Djarin recovers, he and Bo-Katan depart Mandalore, though Bo-Katan withholds the Mythosaur's existence from him. Upon returning to Kalevala, they are attacked by Imperial TIE squads, who destroy Bo-Katan's home, and are forced to retreat to the secret Mandalorian enclave. Djarin presents the Armorer with a sample of the Living Waters as proof of his redemption, and because she has also bathed in the Waters, Bo-Katan is welcomed to the enclave as well. On Coruscant, Dr. Pershing receives a pardon by the New Republic, but is startled to find Elia Kane among the amnesty program's recipients. Kane declares to assist Pershing in his efforts to continue his cloning research, which has been outlawed by the Republic. They sneak aboard a decommissioned Star Destroyer to steal the necessary materials, but Kane betrays Pershing to the Republic's lawkeepers and later secretly sabotages the mind-wiping procedure used on him.