The crew of the Protostar answers a distress call from a planet surrounded by a subspace distortion field. Upon arrival, they discover a pre-warp civilization, known as the , whose entire culture is modeled after a distorted interpretation of 23rd-century Starfleet.
The colony is plagued by a mysterious illness they attribute to a monster called "The Gallows". Dal and a young Enderprizian named Cadet Huur'A both contract the disease, which manifests as dark lesions on the skin. "Star Trek: Prodigy" Episode #1.13(2022)
Investigating the source of the "curse," the crew finds a crashed shuttlecraft—the Galileo from the original USS Enterprise . They realize the illness is actually radiation poisoning caused by leaking plasma reacting with local dilithium crystals. The crew of the Protostar answers a distress