En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain jeanluc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has led to the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, that claims to find serenity with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. The captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.