Captain Picard's holographic getaway as hard-boiled detective Dixon Hill turns urgent when the Enterprise loses power and drifts helplessly into a pocket of warped space and time. The only way to save the ship, it turns out, is buried somewhere in Dixon Hill's 1940s San Francisco, in the middle of a murder investigation Picard now has to solve for real. Dean Wesley Smith turns a favorite holodeck diversion into the ship's only lifeline.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources