After a breach of the Prime Directive on alien planet, Captain Freeman doesn't confine Becket Mariner to the brig as expected but orders a therapy with psychiatrist Dr. Miglemoo. Boimler is nervous because of an upcoming job interview with the captain. He sets up a training program in the holodeck, with authentic recreations of the Cerritos crew, in order to find out how he can ingratiate himself. Mariner hijacks the scenario and turns it into a movie called "Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta", in which she plays the titular villain. Vindicta's goal is to humble and destroy Captain Freeman, a goal which she pursues with unrelenting violence against the holographic crew of the Cerritos. After she has made the ship crash, only Vindicta and Freeman are still aboard. But then the holographic Mariner appears and saves her mother and courageously fights against the vengeful Vindicta. When the program ends with the destruction of the Cerritos, Mariner has learned a lesson about dealing with her anger. Boimler, on the other hand, runs the program a bit too long and learns from the holographic Freeman that Mariner is her daughter. This leaves him so confused that he screws up the interview with the real Freeman.

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