Captain John Powers is on what turns out to be his final charting mission with his ship and STARCORE. When the message comes in that the USS PERFORMANCE is to be decommissioned at the end of the current mission, John starts the process of shutting down the ship. The crew is now given the chance to reflect on what being a member of starship has meant to them along with how the various ship s missions affected them personally. Find out how a crew deals with the news of being decommissioned and John who puts in his retirement papers for the last time. Join the captain and crew for their last...

During the maiden run of Amtrak's newest, fastest and sleekest train, the Desert Wind encounters a force of nature so powerful it stops the train cold. High in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, extreme cold and high altitude are starting to take their toll on passengers and crew. The avalanche that buried the Desert Wind, like the City of San Francisco decades earlier in the Sierra Nevada's, is about to meets its match. The railroad industry learned a hard lesson with the rescue of the City of San Francisco. Now, with technology not even conceived of only a few decades earlier, Amtrak decides...

Mike faces off with two of the most controversial legal questions that STARCORE legal, the High Council and the United States Supreme Court have ever had to face One, are the inhabitants of Space Probe Six, since they were not pro-created in the normal sense, really STARCORE citizens? Two, when faced with the legal and ethical questions of euthanasia, which is protected under the 33rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Mike must answer this tough question put to him by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Considering that medical science saved your life by turning you into a cyborg,...