Stardate not given: Captain Freeman gets possessed by the ancient D'Arsay character Minooki, and part of the Cerritos is transformed into a temple. The engineering staff keeps working day and night to repair the damage. Freeman notices how stressed out Billups, Rutherford and the others are and sends them to the spa ship Dove for a vacation. On the Cerritos, Tendi overhears a conspiracy of ensigns of the delta shift to manipulate the room lottery, whose winners are said to get four rooms on deck 1 as their new quarters. Boimler, Mariner and Tendi decide to beat them at their own game. In an attempt to get to an access terminal they want to manipulate without anyone noticing, they make their way all through usually uninhabitable parts of the ship. As they are stuck in a room whose door opens only for ten seconds every hour, the members of the delta shift appear, who have the same goal. Tendi, Mariner and Boimler agree with them to join forces, only to be left behind when the door eventually opens. Boimler, however, discovers a second exit, and our three ensigns arrive at the access terminal, ready to turn the odds in their favor. But they notice the actual prize is one room on deck 4. They realize they wouldn't want to split up and decide to let the delta shift win. On the Dove, the engineers tend to engineering projects all the time and don't seem to relax at all. Captain Freeman gets mad at them manipulating the stress meters on their arms with a cucumber slice to show a lower level, so much that her own armband turns yellow, then red and finally black. The staff on the Dove are clueless about how they could help her. But the engineers come up with a machine that relieves her stress almost in an instant. When Rutherford returns to the Cerritos, the members of the delta shift are celebrating their new room, which they share from now on, an option that Boimler, Mariner and Tendi didn't think of.

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