While looking for the U.S.S. Huxley, missing for more than 10 years, the EnterpriseTM stumbles across a overlooked colony of humans on the planet known as Rampart, where fiction and works of the creativity of any sort are considered a heinous criminal offense. A survey group beams aboard the ship to search for ‘contraband,’ as well as the crew are drawn instantly into a vicious civil war between Rampart’s mind police and a band of identified rebels.