Stardate: 45571.2 When the Enterprise investigates the possible location of the missing Star Ship Essex on a desolate planet, several of the crews' bodies are over taken by life forces, who have been trapped on the planet.

Philip and Vivian welcome a '60s radical, who arouses the FBI's interest and influences Will and Carlton to take action over the firing of a nonconformist teacher.

Mitch is not pleased to find his Baywatch staff glued to re-runs of Gilligan's Island at headquarters. He shuts down the TV just as Captain Thorpe arrives. Mitch sends them off on their various assignments. While Eddie is making his way toward a couple of young lovers, he slips and hits his head on the tower ramp.

Following her story on the personal spending habits of government officials, a Senate committee must decide whether to find her in contempt of Congress.