Stardate 47566.7: Four young Enterprise ensigns, Nurse Ogawa, Taurik, Sito Jaxa and Sam Lavelle, are expecting their promotions. It seems that Lavelle and Sito are both up for the same job as ops relief. Sito, who was involved in the accident in Wesley's squadron at Starfleet Academy, receives a severe lecture by Picard and a strange lesson in self-defense by Worf, while Nurse Ogawa has to deal with an injured Cardassian in sickbay and Ensign Taurik is to shoot at a shuttle with a phaser rifle. The reason is that Sito is going on an undercover mission where she is to disguise as the Cardassian's prisoner, to infiltrate the Cardassian Union. The mission fails, and Sito is probably killed. Lavelle's promotion at this cost leaves a bad feeling in him, but the remaining friends and Worf keep bolstering and comforting each other.

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