Captain Powers has one of his own crewmembers locked up in the ship's maximum-security brig. Shortly after contacting STARCORE for a replacement Legal Officer, STARCORE asks John to go along with an experiment. John agrees and tells only a few select officers of the new Legal Officer's peculiarity. They find out that while CW01 Mike Weatherspoon was stationed aboard the USS SCORPION, as the ship's Combat Officer, the ship was destroyed. Only four persons survived the disaster. Mike had pieces of the ship's computer blasted into various parts of his body. Although he survived, with the help of modern medical science, many have ostracized him. During his recovery time, he had to be retrained to do a job other than combat. He was trained to be a Legal Officer. Now that his significant other, who never left Mike's side even during the darkest hours of Mike's recovery time, is stationed aboard the USS PERFORMANCE and since the ship needs a Legal Officer, this makes for a dream come true for Mike. Find out how long it will take until someone figures out that Mike isn't quite human, nor is he completely machine, but a melding of the two; a cyborg.