Episode 1: On Stranger Tides

Having left Esquimalt Station the Eagle makes course for a point in Cardassian space where much of the pirate activity in the last few months has taken place. Along their course there is a large cloud of dust and gasses, not a nebula as such but it did block many of the sensors the Federation sent in that direction. Passing through the cloud was no problem at all but it had been concealing a mid-sized blackhole. Only the singularity was only a few solar masses but it was displaying no signs that of a normal blackhole, no super-heated out-gassing or hawking radiation. Their overall mission profile isn't urgent and a few days could be spared to investigate the anomaly.