Kayshon, His Eyes Open
Kayshon, the new security Chief, leads an away team consisting of Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Manhaver to the ship of the collector Kerner Hauze. They are there to help inventory the items in the collection. Siggi, the chairman of the Collectors Guild, requested the help. He supervises their work. Instead of letting Kayshon and the others do their job he gets in the way and sets off a defense system which kills him and threatens to kill the others.
One of the security systems transforms Kayshon into a puppet version of himself. Mariner and Manover bicker until they finally realize that their arguing is putting them all in danger. Mariner asks Rutherford and Tendi to come up with a plan to get them out of there, alive, which they do.
Boimler goes on an undercover mission to a mining planet with three other crew members from the Titan. They encounter Pakleds on the mission who attempt to kill them. They manage to beam back to the Titan just in time but due to a transporter malfunction two copies of Boimler materialize aboard the Titan. Riker sends one of them back to the Cerritos.
Thoughts
Jet Manhaver appeared in five episodes in the first season. The only one of those five in which he wasn't a background character or a hologram was 1.05 Cupid's Errant Arrow. This is his first appearance in the second season. He is assigned to beta shift to replace Boimler. He makes himself scarce once Boimler returns.
They make no attempt to differentiate between the two Boimlers, although the one that stays on the Titan seems less repressed. Riker experienced something similar in an episode of The Next Generation (6.24 Second Chances) but in that case the duplicate spent years alone before he was found.
I like this episode better than the previous one but it was very fast paced. I'm sure I missed things. I loved Mariner and Manhaver's antagonistic relationship.
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