Stardate 57752.6: While Captain Freeman, First Officer Ransom and Security Chief Shaxs are on a secret agricultural mission in a Pisepian colony, a visiting captain takes over command of the Cerritos. This captain turns out to be Amina Ramsey, an old friend Mariner knows from the Academy. Ramsey temporarily makes Mariner her first officer, but due to Mariner's mistake a mission to repair a sewage plant on Khwopa almost goes awry. On the Cerritos, Boimler is off phase after a failed test run of Rutherford's improved transporter. Dr. T'Ana calls Division 14 to tend to his case and the one of a dog that Tendi created as a genetic experiment. T'Ana says they would be taken to a place called "The Farm". A vessel emerges from an anomaly, and a creepy medical specialist leads Boimler, Tendi and her dog to a room full of disfigured members of Starfleet. They plan a mutiny to escape from their prison, but Boimler blows the whistle. When he is alone with the "freaks" again, they put him into an airlock. Boimler's condition has reverted in the meantime, but they open the airlock. Boimler wakes up in a beautiful resort on a planet, "The Farm". He would like to stay longer, but has to leave when it is discovered that he is back to normal again. Tendi has to leave her dog behind, who says she likes the new environment. In the meantime, the Cerritos attempts in vain to contact the USS Rubidoux. The ship is found adrift and without energy, and the crew has locked up themselves in the shuttlebay. When the power is turned back on, it feeds an alien lifeform that begins to consume and thereby break up the ship. Only now that there is an emergency, Mariner performs well and saves the ship's captain. Thanks to Rutherford's transporter improvement, everyone can be beamed out in time, although they are off phase afterwards.

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