Ensigns Raad and Miller find themselves on a dark ship and face to face with"¦Klingons. The two red shirts are accused of being spies, and their captors brutalize and torture them for any information they can get on how the Romulans were able to access a Starfleet subspace antenna feed. Meanwhile, DeMatrio, Amiga, and Lanier engage in a tense starship battle with a Romulan Bird-of-Prey.If all six remaining red shirts are going to make it off Arkonia 89 alive, someone is going to have to make a sacrifice"”but for what? How many red shirts have died to ferret out the Romulans? There must be more to the story than Starfleet is letting on"¦