Ensign Boimler is assigned to ferry Klingon General K'orin to the Federation Embassy on Tulgana IV. Mariner unexpectedly joins the mission. She knows K'orin and greets him the Klingon way. The general demands to land in Little Qo'noS, the Klingon district of the planet, where he steals the shuttle. Without the possibility to beam up or contact the ship, because of an ion shield, Boimler and Mariner are left to their own among many aliens of different species. In the meantime on the USS Cerritos, Ensign Rutherford decides to switch departments. He likes his job in engineering and enjoys crawling through the Jefferies tubes all day, but he also wants to spend time with Tendi and watch a pulsar. So he undergoes a command and a medical training, both of which he screws up. Only when he has the chance to show his fighting skills to Shaxs, the security chief, he performs admirably against the simulated Borg, thanks to his cybernetic implants. But Rutherford turns down the offer to stay with security, and returns to engineering. On Tulgana IV, the two other junior officers follow the trail of K'orin, but Boimler's inexperience repeatedly gets him into danger. Fortunately Mariner saves him every time. Only when the two run into a Ferengi, whom Mariner mistakes for a Bolian, Boimler can prove that his knowledge about alien species is valuable. The two eventually find the shuttle and the drunk K'orin. They leave him at the entrance of the embassy and return to the ship. It turns out that the Ferengi was hired by Mariner only to give Boimler a good feeling.

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