The Cerritos is under attack by a Romulan Warbird. The Romulans board and steal a device being guarded by Starfleet scientists. They escape and report their success to triplet female commanders.

The Romulans prepare to destroy the Cerritos. Freeman is about to give the abandon ship order when another ship arrives. It’s the Wayfarer, commanded by Bucephalus Dagger, Boimler’s alter ego.

The Romulans run. Freeman debriefs Dagger on what they stole. The Chronogami is a top-secret prototype which can penetrate temporal barriers.

Boimler freezes the program as a com call comes in. Ransom calls Boimler to his office.

Boimler fills the team in on the Chronogami being capable of destroying any point in history. He leaves to see Ransom. The others sit back and watch the credits for ‘Crisis Point II: Paradoxus’.

Boimler returns, looking sad.

At the Europa-Starfleet Temporal Laboratory, Freeman and Dagger/Boimler lead their crews into the primary lab. Boimler is unenthusiastically following the plot he wrote, ignoring the beautiful female scientist, Dr. Helena Gibson, who throws herself at him.

He cuts to the chase and has her show the away team how the Chronogami works. When the team tries to formulate a plan of action, Boimler spirals into a morose monologue of how depressing the world is.

Gibson gives Dagger/Boimler a Chrono-detector. It shows the Romulans heading to Tatasciore IX. They set a course, Boimler giving Gibson a cold shoulder on the way out.

On Tatasciore IX, Boimler is attracted by a particular cult leader, preaching the omniscience of Kityha. Mariner can’t understand why he’s interacting with the background scenery. The Romulans make a dramatic escape and the away team mount hover bikes to pursue them, leaving Mariner and Boimler behind.

Boimler decides to seek the knowledge of Kityha and lets Tendi know that she’s now the acting captain, heading the mission.

With Starfleet in pursuit, the Romulans activate the Chronogami. The team chases them through the Chronogamic threshold.

They arrive at the Starfleet Aquatic Research Center, 2341, during the Great Soolian Algae Crisis. Tendi starts to give orders, only to be annoyed by Rutherford who stepped out of the holodeck for a snack and is now eating noisily. They believe the Romulan target is a octopus ambassador who solves the Algae Crisis.

In the dwelling of Kityha’s prophet, the plotline now involves a tattooed map and Mariner refuses to continue. Boimler gets angry and tells her the first Crisis Point adventure was a mess.

Mariner lashes back and leaves the holodeck in a huff to meet Ransom for an evaluation.

Ransom gives Mariner a great eval then asks about Boimler. Mariner grumps at him and ask why he asks. He explains that Boimler’s transporter twin, William, was killed in action that morning which is what Boimler was called away to learn.

Mariner reassesses her interactions with Boimler and feels bad.

Tendi’s away team falls through another time fold into 20th century Earth. Sydney, July 15, 1982, to be exact.

The aquarium nearby harbors an ancestor of the ambassador. Some Australian punks try to hold them up but Shaxs takes them out.

Mariner re-enters the holodeck and finds herself on a space freighter. She’s attacked and restrained by masked acolytes. They throw her into the brig with Boimler.

He tells her the subplot fell apart after she left. She tells him Ransom told her about William.

She gets him turned around and they break out with the help of background character Knick-Knack. They go to the bridge and go all Kirk on the Kityha prophet and his acolytes. Boimler realizes the skin map has to be folded to find Kityha.

At the Founding of the Federation in 2161, Tendi and the Cerritos away team watch from the stands as Rutherford disarms a bomb. Tendi is annoyed by his nonchalance.

One of the Romulans revives and fires a disrupter at Rutherford and Tendi. T’Ana takes the shot. Tendi takes out the Romulan and cries as T’Ana disintegrates. Rutherford cracks a joke and Tendi yells at him for not taking things seriously. She accuses him of being just as flippant if she was a real captain, admitting that she wants to be a captain one day.

With that information, Rutherford steps up as an exemplary officer.

Tendi opens a Chronogasmic portal with her detector to the point in time when the Chronogami was stolen. She replaces the Chronogami in the case with the Romulan bomb from the Federation Founding ceremony and it blows up the Warbird.

On the Third Moon of Shatanari, Boimler and Mariner find Kityha, a talking mountain. Boimler asks for the meaning of life. Kityha only gives platitudes. Boimler, enraged, kicks a whole in Kityha and crawls inside where he finds a plaque with the letters of KITYHA on it. Clearing it off, it’s the Wright Flyer plaque, commemorating the flight at Kitty Hawk, NC. This nonsensical reveal pushes him past his breaking point and he passes out. He wakes at Kirk’s homestead (ala Generations). He enters the stable to find Sulu feeding the horses.

Sulu gives him some advice to calm his existential crisis. When Boimler starts asking random questions, the horse bites him and he wakes up in sickbay.

They walk away discussing the highlights of the holo adventure. Mariner congratulates Boimler on a decent sequel and commends him on not ending with a dark cliffhanger.

In a “System: Redacted” William Boimler’s body is revived and he is given a black badge.