Stardate: 47566.7 Crew evaluations on the lower decks cause several to worry about their impact on their advancement on the ship. Several of the crew who are close to each other share their concerns. However, one of the crew's evaluation leads to a life threatening assignment.

When Mitch and Buzz doesn't come back, Hobie and Kyle become worried and tells Stephanie about it. She alerts the Coast Guard who finds the boat but not Mitch and Buzz. At sunrise, she and C.J. go out in the scarab and they find Mitch and Buzz just before they are about to reach dry land. They are both taken to the hospital, where they recover. Buzz's heart doesn't need a surgery, but it could have ended up pretty bad. When Buzz finally wakes up, he tells Mitch that all he could think of out there was Kyle, and that's why he has decided to take care of him.