A lifeless planet where Federation, Klingon, Cardassian and Romulan parties completed an ancient genetic puzzle and received a message from the first humanoids in The Chase.
Vilmor II is a barren world that once held seas. It is the last stop in the Next Generation episode The Chase (2369).
Following the research of the murdered Professor Galen, Picard learns that fragments of a computer programme were seeded in the DNA of life on many planets four billion years ago. The Enterprise-D, Captain Nu'Daq's Klingons and Gul Ocett's Cardassians all race to Vilmor II for the last piece, and a Romulan ship has shadowed them under cloak.
While the rivals argue at gunpoint, Crusher takes a sample from lichen on the fossilised seabed. The completed programme projects the image of an ancient humanoid, who explains that her people seeded the galaxy with their own genetic pattern, which is why so many species look alike.