"Guinea pigs"

Following a distress call from their Romulan allies aboard the RRW Abyss Strix, the crew reported out to the Donatu Sector. There they found numerous vessels being held in an energy field around a starbase. Managing to destroy the field and ensure that they were not caught in its web, the crew discovered that the Tal Shiar were using the base to carry out genetic experiments – taking the captured crews as guinea pigs. The Abyss Strix’s commanding officer – Lhaesar Wakalth – had his own DNA spliced with that of a Jem’hadar. The Phoenix crew managed to beam aboard and extract the stricken officers, getting them out to safety and away from the Tal Shiar’s experimentation.