Commander Jax grapples with releasing her Ferengi comrade from the Cardassian trick 'neck-box' that has trapped him. If she can't release him within the next 2 minutes, he will vaporise - taking the whole ship with him. It's all in days work.

While Picard's new first officer, Lt. Commander Allen, steps onto the bridge of the starship Enterprise for the first time, the brilliant young Science Office, Commander Jax, ponders the problem of how to improve the quality of photographs without making them too large. Perhaps we could convert them to holograms and beam them directly to your desktop?

Starfleet's most outstanding new first officer, Lieutenant Commander Allen, Return to Gul Dukat greets her new captain for the first time in the time honoured way.