Stardate: 47254.1 While welcoming a Carin delegation, Lwaxana is called on to help, as the Carin are a telepathic species without knowledge of spoken language. However, Lwaxana suddenly lapses into a coma. Troi must use the help of the Carin, who may have caused Lwaxana to lapse into her coma, to help save her mother.
But what is the dark secret her mother holds deep in her mind, and who is the child Lwaxana continues to see while in her coma?
Mitch meets two boys named Chuck and Bobby on the beach while they are sleeping in a tent. They have come from Kansas for Bobby's 10th birthday. Later the same day, Mitch meets the two boys again and teaches them how to throw a Frisbee.
Murphy works reluctantly on a story the network brass wants on "The Beltway Madam", a high priced call girl who's just been exposed and is the hottest story in town.
Beavis and Butt-head find an ATM card, and somehow, Beavis figures out how to get cash with it. The boys find themselves featured on several true crime shows, and are soon hunted by police on live TV.
At a party for Celebrity Gala of the Year, the Warners sneak in from under a table and start taking food from it. When Yakko goes out to get more cheeseballs he meets an icredibly boring person nicknamed Pip who keeps babling on to them throughout the night. They try to get away but he follows them home and when he finally leaves them alone the next morning they realize it's too quiet and want him to come back.
On an airless world, Buttons must protect Mindy when she follows a ball through an airlock. They go throw a rocketship and a transporter beam. Eventually Mindy and Buttons get home, but Mindy is duplicated a number of times in a duplication machine. Buttons is scolded for letting Mindy get too close to the duplication machine.