As Young and Camille attempt to resolve the hostage crisis with Kiva, Destiny suffers from power fluctuations and blackouts due to its proximity to a binary pulsar.

Commander Kiva of the Lucian Alliance has managed to board the Destiny and has taken several of the crew hostage.

Rush returns to Earth to find a way to prove Telford is a spy.

Dr. Tamara Johansen tries to track down what is causing the crew to hallucinate.

The crew calls upon a brilliant scientist from Earth to help find a solution when a drive module on the Destiny explodes due to an overload.

The crew calls upon a brilliant mind from Earth to help in a crisis — a quadriplegic scientist who temporarily takes over Wray’s body.

Dr. Rush links himself directly to the destiny’s computer hoping it will reveal the code needed to control the flight path.

Destiny stops near a planet with an abundance of food and water but its countdown clock isn’t running.

Dr. Nicholas Rush and Chloe suffer nightmares following their ordeal on the alien vessel, and Rush suspects that a tracking device may have been placed on the ship’s hull. Later, a splinter group on Destiny executes a coup with life-threatening consequences.

Using a piece of Ancients technology, Colonel Young accidentally ends up on an alien vessel, and then, suddenly, finds himself back on the Destiny. Meanwhile Rush is captured by some aliens and they put him into the tank.