This issue opens on stardate 64467.14.

Having boarded the Narada in the battle against Nero, Worf is run through by a prehensile spike in the half-Borg ship. A flicker of life remaining in the Klingon general, Nero allows him to be beamed to the Enterprise-E. His fate after is left unknown in this mini-series, but he is seen again in chronologically-later stories of the expanded ST universe.

Having successfully implanted the red matter into the Hobus star, causing it to implode into a singularity, Spock's ship, the Jellyfish, is sucked into the singularity as well, following the Narada into it. Just before he's pulled in, Spock attempts to send a message relating the success and adding, "To my friends who might hear this message, do not grieve. It is only logical. The needs of the many outw--" Obviously he was about to state "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few. Or the one." These are the words of Spock, quoting the Vulcan philosopher Surak, from the 1982 film Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.