The previously unseen energy beings are under attack by the ferengis. The Enterprise, racing against the clock to intervene, is ambushed. Data is badly injured but is desperately needed to send an encrypted distress signal, but needs neutronium alloy to do so. Picard helps by speaking to a previously unseen energy being scientist who helps Picard Recalibrating the warp-field modulators while Data is Infected with an alien virus. This allows Data to send an encrypted distress signal without neutronium alloy, allowing the enterprise to help the previously unseen energy beings in time , saving the day.