Stardate: 45470.1 Enterprise finds a secluded planetary colony in danger from a stellar core fragment. However, their contact leads some in the colony to want to leave with Enterprise. This could prove the demise to those that want to remain on the planet due to the limited population there.

The family fears a steamy exposandeacute; when Geoffrey begins his memoirs, while Will fears the scalpel when he enters the hospital, kicking and screaming, for a tonsillectomy.

When a deaf girl named Lili, gets separated from her family on the beach, her mom freaks out. Kaye helps her finding her. When they find Lili, she has been pulled out by an undercurrent and can't get back to shore. Mitch heads for the rescue, but a mysterious Hawaiian guy gets to her first. Lili is brought back to safety by Mitch.