While Starbase 28 is under attack, Cadet Thira Sidhu is put in charge of a prisoner, who turns out to be Captain Pike. Pike says that he disobeyed his orders to stand down, while another Starfleet vessel was being attacked by the Tholians. This other ship happens to be the one that Sidhu's husband serves on. Pike demands to be released, and cites Starfleet regulations to that end, which Sidhu counters with other orders that require her to keep him confined. It turns out that the whole scenario is a simulation and that no one was actually in danger. Sidhu has been accepted to the Enterprise and beams over with Captain Pike.

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