With time running out before the launch of the Europa Mission, Picard and Guinan must free themselves from FBI custody. Seven and Raffi come face-to-face with Jurati and the horror of what she’s become.

Patrick Stewart (Admiral Jean-Luc Picard)
Alison Pill (Dr. Agnes Jurati)
Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine)
Michelle Hurd (Commander Raffi Musiker)
Evan Evagora (Cadet Elnor)
Isa Briones (Kore Soong)
Santiago Cabrera (Captain Cristóbal Rios)
Brent Spiner (Dr. Adam Soong)

John de Lancie (Q)

Sol Rodriguez (Dr. Teresa Ramirez)
Ito Aghayere (Guinan)
Jay Karnes (Special Agent Wells)

Kay Bess (La Sirena Computer)
Jackson Garner (Young Wells)
Steve Gutierrez (Ricardo)
Nanrisa Lee (FBI Agent)
Charles Maceo (Merc One)
Eduardo Roman (Vulcan #1)
Chuti Tiu (Vulcan #2)
Oscar Torre (Bartender)
Cyrus Zoghi (Red Bearded Guy)

• When Wells was a boy, he encounted Vulcans while searching the woods for his dog. One of them attempted to mind-meld with him before they were transported away.
  
• The Enterprise episode "Carbon Creek" established Vulcans visited Earth for observation.
  
• Guinan surmises Q is dying and no longer has his powers.
  
• Evan Evagora (Elnor) appears in a flashback. Raffi convinces him to stay at the Academy after the Qowat Milat asked him to return to Vashti.
  
• Borg Jurati explains Renée Picard's discovery of a sentient micro-organism on the Europa Mission is what derails Soong's career.
  
• Borg Jurati tried to assimilate "Red Bearded Guy," but he died. After obtaining more stabilizing metals, she joins forces with Soong, then successfully assimilates one of the mercs he hires.