Crisis Point
Mariner violates the Prime Directive (never to interfere with the natural development of a civilization). Captain Freeman orders her to go to therapy. Mariner follows her orders but questions the value of the sessions.
Boimler is preparing for his evaluation with Captain Freeman. He programs the holodeck to help him prepare for the interview. Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford are also in the holodeck when Boimler takes over. Mariner reprograms the holodeck to use the data that Boimler had collected and creates a movie experience for them to enjoy, Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta.
Mariner casts herself as Vindicta, the villain in the story. Tendi and Rutherford are her sidekicks. She also has a sidekick who resembles Boimler but the real Boimler is aboard the Cerritos. He is still trying to figure out how to prepare for his evaluation with Captain Freeman as everything goes nuts around him.
Vindicta boards the Cerritos with Tendi and Rutherford and proceeds to kill crew members left and right. She demands that Captain Freeman show herself. Tendi eventually gets tired of the part she's been cast in and leaves the holodeck. Rutherford ends up going after Billups, his boss, and bonding with him.
Vindicta finds Captain Freeman and the two fight. A simulation of Mariner shows up just as Vindicta is about to kill Captain Freeman. Simulation Mariner beams Freeman out of there as she and Vindicta fight it out.
Mariner feels much better after the movie is over. Boimler returns to the holodeck to continue preparing for his meeting with Captain Freeman and inadvertently learns that Mariner is Freeman's daughter. He is so stunned by the reveal that he doesn't know how to act during his meeting with the Captain. He runs out of her office babbling like an idiot.
Thoughts
It seems that Boimler has yet to reveal to anyone what he learned about Mariner and Captain Freeman. I expect that he won't be able to keep it a secret for very long.
I'm not sure how I feel about Rutherford's moment with Billups. I don't have a problem with him having those feelings but there is a working relationship there which makes it a bit awkward at the very least. It is also worth noting that fraternizing with supervisors or underlings happens from time to time in Star Trek and no one seems to ever say anything about it.
There are some definite references to Star Trek movies in this episode. There's at least one Aliens reference. I don't think I caught all the references. I'm not going to try and catalog the ones I did catch. Even after I watched it a second time I'm pretty sure that I still missed some things.
I was a little surprised when Simulation Mariner showed up in this episode. I wasn't expecting that but at the same time I was starting to wonder where the episode was going to end, given how violent it was up to that point.
This episode was a lot of fun but it also moved extremely fast. It might be my favorite episode from this season.
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