The crew of the Starfleet scout ship Sagittarius follows peculiar sensor readings to an alien world, where the natives' efforts to harness a dangerous and unstable technology have thrown the laws of probability out of balance. As disasters and miracles multiply at an ever-increasing rate, it's up to Captain Clark Terrell and his crew to shut down the experiment gone wrong before it's too late-but the odds against them might already be too great to overcome.