Chapter 1

An old proverb says: "When the woodland catches fire, everyone suffers, including the bear". After a 23-year journey across the Delta Quadrant, Voyager returned to an alternate reality in which planet Vulcan had been destroyed. Ten years later, crew still try to cope with discrepancies in their lives.

Section 31 leadership mulls over a legitimate concern: Was someone else out there seriously affected by the Narada's temporal rampage?

An ancient interstellar civilazation may have not been able to start "lighting-up" Neolithic cultures soon enough and another one may have begun eating their souls too early.