Cold open.

The Cerritos crew has a twelve-hour window of downtime as the ship goes into a long warp journey.

Boimler asks his team what they should do with their day off. Tendi is spending it with Dr. T'Ana. Rutherford has plans with Billups and Shaxs. Mariner has to do some mother-daughter stuff with Freeman.

Boimler feels like he's missing out and yearns for a ship with built-in social structures like Binars or Klingons.

Lower decks aboard a Klingon Bird of Prey, Che'Ta:

The team is complaining about their duties. One is excited about filling in at the helm and expects to be made First Officer when the current one is killed for undermining the captain.

His teammates laugh at him and ask if he's becoming a Vulcan, deriding the Vulcan logic.

Lower decks aboard a Vulcan Science cruiser, Sh'Vhal:

T'Lyn has implemented personal algorithms and detected an anomalous surge of metreon particles outside their usual scanning range. Her teammates reprimand her for doing something other than her assignment.

She insists on bringing her findings to the captain.

Onboard the Che'Ta, a fight has broken out on the bridge. The captain kills the First Officer and says he will award the position to whoever impresses him most.

Boimler tries to buddy up with Kayshon but flubs his Tamarian. He tries to join Rutherford and Shaxs but missteps by mentioning Bajor which triggers Shaxs.

Back on the Che-Ta, the Klingon is barred from making in-roads with the captain.

On the Sh'Vhal, T'Lyn is questioned about her personal algorithms. She is suggesting they adjust the ship's heading to investigate the anomaly. He makes the adjustment but also sends her to meditate for two days. She resists, stating she's too busy for that.

Boimler uses hover boots to catch up to Tendi on her rock-climbing excursion with T'Ana. T'Ana is unimpressed with his unpreparedness. Boimler's boots malfunction and he falls.

He notices that Freeman is in a rec deck and walks in on her and Mariner fighting out their issues with phasers. He flees.

He enters a turbo lift and finds Ransom talking about Hawaii with some other crew. He tries to fit in by talking about Hawaii like he's from there. He gets invited to holodeck 3 for an afternoon luau.

On the Che'Ta, the Klingon continues to get menial jobs, like walking the targ.

ON the Sh'Vhal, T'Lyn is caught working when she should be meditating. She and other team members argue, Vulcan-style.

Boimler gets advice but ignores it all.

The Klingon gets a chance to talk to the captain and impresses him with his warrior's spirit and is promoted to First Officer. The captain is hailed by a Pakled. It is this captain who has armed the Pakleds and set them to disrupt the quadrant.

Freeman and Mariner are playing a board game when they are alerted of an anomalous energy reading. They drop out of warp to investigate, to Mariner's relief.

The Klingons beam over to the Pakled ship. The Pakleds ask for another bomb because they tested out the one they had. That was the source of the metrion particles.

The Cerritos arrives. Both Pakleds and Klingons fire on them.

Ransom, Boimler, and the Hawaiians are trapped. Boimler blurts out that he isn't Hawaiian. Everyone else also comes clean. Everyone except Boimler turns out to be from a moon.

The Klingon from lower decks opposes his captain's plan to sabotage the peace.

Onboard the Pakled Clumpship, Pakled, the lower decks crew sit through the red alarm.

Just as things look bad for the Cerritos, the Sh'Vhal appears and saves them, thanks to T'Lyn's other project, a regenerative shield amplifier.

The Klingon captain orders their weapons to target the Federation ship but his new First Officer delays that order, pointing out that they are not at war. They fight and the captain would kill the lower decks Klingon except that he is attacked by his own targ.

The lower decks Klingon is able to gain a surprise advantage and stabs the captain, killing him. He is now the captain. He orders the ship back to Q'onoS.

With the Klingons gone, the Cerritos and Sh'Vhal run the Pakleds off. The Sh'Vhal leaves speedily and Freeman considers the implications of the Klingons working with Pakleds.

The Vulcan captain removes T'Lyn from duty and transfers her to a Starfleet vessel.

Boimler and the team agree to do something together the next time they're on a long-haul warp.

At the bar, a new recruit comes to Boimler for help with his duty roster on Ransom's recommendation.

On Borg Cube 90182's lower decks, the drones recharge with no disruptions.