Tendi and Sam run off to fix things as Mariner keeps Dirk distracted, forced to listen to a history of Tellarite slop jazz. Abandoning the chip job, Mariner leads the gang to Dirk’s room for some hazing payback, using stuff from the anomaly room to trap him in a Wadi Chula game along with an annoying Betazoid gift box and “let him marinate in there for a bit.” But after running into Dirk in the corridor and hearing his insistence that chip sorting was critical for the ship and his heartfelt confession that he was afraid to do it due to a past trauma of being trapped in a Wadi game, the gang quickly jumps to some backtracking. ![]() When they find out there is a whole second layer to the scalding hot (and periodically filled with nitrogen gas) chip room, they are sure Dirk is messing with them. Dirk assigns the team the tedious job of sorting through hundreds of isolinear chips to find the single faulty one, the trio starts wondering if they are being hazed. Oblivious to everything happening on the ringworld, the trio of Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford are assessing life after promotion, not seeing much difference with the big exception of getting access to anomaly storage room, full of all sorts of cool (and dangerous) Easter eggs. Still happy about that promotion, Brad? “No more mindless, repetitive tasks for us!” Her reaction to the ticking clock of terror-inducing developments is classic Vulcan: “Fascinating.” Brad still insists on doing all the work himself, frantically telling the team it’s “another learning experience,” just as T’Lyn notes a brand new volcano has popped up just beyond the shuttle. Freeman’s tinkering with Vexilon escalates the chaos outside as Boimler continues to ignore his team and T’Lyn’s protest that “leading by example has proven to be inefficient.” Just as things get “pretty apocalyptic,” Freeman calls to inform Brad he has to reinstall all the power tubes he removed so she can force a restart using power from the station. With nothing to do, his team watches as Brad struggles to go solo on a job that clearly requires multiple people. ![]() Brad Boimler is psyching himself up to lead his first away team of ensigns (Big Merp, Taylor, and Meredith), with T’Lyn along “in case any science stuff happens.” After the Vulcan notes how ensigns under the command of the recently promoted are statistically “more likely to experience death and/or dismemberment,” Brad freaks out, insisting he uninstall all the dangerous power tubes alone. Needless to say, this ruins several art classes and poetry readings.ĭid you try turning it on and off again? “It’s not an errand, it’s a mission.”Īt the Starfleet power station, newly minted Lt. Vexilon informs them it will “re-genesis installation to default settings” complete with miasma, primordial ooze, and lots and lots of lava. Before he can stop her, she puts the computer into “safe mode”-which, as Billups worried, triggers a full reboot. Havoc ensues as clouds turn into icebergs and there’s some “crazy day-night stuff.” Freeman finally calls Billups down but still insists on leading the fix to the frozen supercomputer. Using the control panel, she triggers an update, and, of course, Vexilon shuts down. ![]() The captain discovers the ringworld’s operating system hasn’t been updated in over six million years (after the original ancient alien designers evolved into fifth-dimensional energy beings, naturally). ![]() Ignoring Ransom’s suggestion to bring in engineers, Freeman insists she can handle things alone as she minored in archaic technology back at the Academy. The local population (all artists and poets) love their ancient computer and insist it is benevolent, with “no interest in world domination.” Boimler has been assigned to lead an away team to update an old Starfleet power relay while Captain Freeman checks out Vexilon, who is very nice and apologetic about becoming unpredictable. The Cerritos has been ordered to Corazonia, a ringworld megastructure with an environment run by an ancient computer named Vexilon. WARNING: Spoilers below! RECAP “He’s not trying to subjugate anyone?”
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