Soon after arriving strange events occur within the battle site and the Enterprise must investigate, while at the same time keeping the peace with the locals from a nearby planet.
In Vornholt's sequel A Time to Die , Captain Jean-Luc Picard is being held under psychiatric evaluation, while his crew attempts to carry on as usual.
[1] However, with some intervention from The Traveler, Picard and the crew are given the opportunity to prove their innocence for their apparently outrageous behavior while stationed in the Rashanar Battle site.
Delta Sigma IV was seen as the perfect example of interspecies cooperation as two rival species, the Dorset and Bader, found peace and settled their own colony.
The murder occurred between two test subjects who were undergoing a treatment that should have cured Delta Sigma IV's population of an early aging disease.
When the Klingons attempt to respond, the dictator destroys their fleet with planet-based weapons that were secretly provided to Tezwa by the Federation President, as a last resort during the Dominion War.
In A Time to Heal, the Enterprise crew remains entrenched on Tezwa, caught up in an illegal occupation under constant attack by insurgents led by the deposed dictator.
The story revolves predominantly around several problems occurring on the Klingon homeworld, including an embassy siege, the Emperor going missing and Ambassador Worf's attempts to preserve the Klingon-Federation alliance.
In the film during Captain Riker's and Commander Troi's wedding the character of Wesley Crusher is seen, even though in the TNG episode "Journey's End" he was seen leaving with the Traveler.
At the end of the book before the Enterprise departs for the event in Nemesis, Christine Vale decides to take some extended shore leave.