Stardate 58001.2: After the death of Kerner Hauze, a prominent member of the Collector's Guild, the Cerritos is tasked with identifying and sorting out dangerous items in his inheritance. An away team consisting of the new Tamarian security officer Kayshon and Ensigns Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford and Manhaver begins to investigate the collection, together with Chairman Siggi of the Collector's Guild. Suddenly, a holographic message from Kerner Hauze appears, accusing the away team of stealing from him and announcing that they themselves will become part of the collection. Kayshon catches a beam meant for Tendi, and is turned into a puppet. Mariner and Manhaver clash over the right course of action, as she proposes to proceed to the engine room and disable the ship's aed weapons, whereas the latter wants everyone to get to the escape pods. In a room full of fossils, Siggi drops Kahless's fornication helmet that he was hiding under his clothes and that was apparently the reason why the away team was targeted in the first place. He is killed when a giant skeleton falls from the ceiling and buries him. When they are attacked by hovering vacuums, Mariner and Manhaver are clueless, but Tendi comes up with the idea to use acidic Excalbian bones to cut through the wall and get to the escape pods. Meanwhile on the Titan, Boimler joins an away team to infiltrate a mining colony on Karzil IV that is being taken over by the Pakleds. When the Pakleds notice their presence, the officers escape to the underground where they lock themselves up. As an ion cloud blocks the transporter beam from the Titan, Boimler compensates for the effect by modifying the mining drill. His three crewmates are beamed up, but after his console has been hit, Boimler himself can only be transported using a second confinement beam. This creates a transporter twin of him, just like Thomas Riker. One of the two Boimlers, apparently a more timid version, decides to return to the Cerritos. In the meantime, Kayshon has been restored and is back on duty.

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