Stardate not given: D'Vana Tendi's sister is getting married on Orion, for which Captain Freeman grants the lieutenant JG shore leave. Tendi is not happy to return to her planet but agrees to demonstrate the goodwill of Starfleet after the recent disappearance of an Orion ship (which was actually destroyed by the mystery vessel). As Tendi, Mariner and T'Lyn are departing for Orion, Boimler and Rutherford argue about the right way to take care of the bonsai in their quarters. They settle their conflict as they both dress up on the holodeck as Mark Twains. As Coqqor, a Chalnoth, threatens with violence because the Cerritos is going to scan a nebula he claims for himself, they suggest he should try out the holodeck scenario, but it maddens him even more. Only the bonsai pacifies the Chalnoth - he devours it. On Orion, it turns out that D'Vana belongs to one of the most powerful families in the Syndicate. She learns that her sister D'Erika has been abducted. Although bride kidnapping is a tradition, there is something irregular about it, and her mother wants D'Vana, the prime daughter, to rescue her. As she sets out to search for D'Erika's ex Nya'al, the main suspect, in the night life of Orion, everyone is in awe of the Mistress of the Winter Constellations. She eventually finds Nya'al, who turns out innocent but reveals that he has seen D'Erika at a ship graveyard. This is the place where the sisters used to hang around and where D'Vana made the decision to go to Starfleet instead of becoming an assassin for the Syndicate. D'Erika, who ran away from her wedding on her own will, shows up and challenges her sister to a duel. After D'Vana had left, she took over her role in the Syndicate, for which she isn't sad. But D'Erika is afraid that she wouldn't live up to everyone's expectations. After confirming that D'Erika performs well in her criminal career, D'Vana powers up the old Raven-type ship to make it to the wedding in time.

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