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After considerable time, the ship's computer memory is finally reached, and La Forge brings up the manifest of the senior staff members.

Among the bridge crew is listed the mysterious new member who is identified as Commander Keiran MacDuff, the executive officer.

The computer also reveals what is apparently the Enterprises mission: According to the orders, the Enterprise is part of a fleet of vessels fighting a decades-old war with the Lysians.

Their current assignment is to destroy the Lysian central command headquarters, which they are to do while maintaining communications silence.