After a strange device fired at Julian Bashir, Garak finds out that the young man he was used to having lunch with has become a small human infant and that he will have to take care of him till he is a adult again.
<Book 3> It has been approximately two years since the incident with Khan. Penny and the crew has seen the vastness of space; the cold, empty, realm that is the universe. When a new threat comes upon them and separates them, they will have to find a way to reach out to one another once more.