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Something is wrong aboard the USS Enterprise.
No alarms sound. No system fails. Yet after the arrival of a harmless mammal, the crew begin to change in ways no scanner can explain.
Distance vanishes. Restraint weakens. Words long withheld rise too easily to the surface.
Feelings carefully contained for months-or years-become harder to deny.
As bonds strain, loyalties shift, and old certainties begin to fracture, McCoy is forced to confront a truth of his own. Spock and Commander Lancaster can no longer pretend their connection is merely professional.
And once honesty has crossed the line into speech, nothing aboard the Enterprise returns unchanged.