The scene opens on the Lower Decks bunk corridors where everyone is in everyone else’s space. Suddenly Freeman levitates through the area, possessed by an ancient mask that is reforming the ship into the deity’s palace. Ransom and Kayshon chase after her.
In the aftermath, Freeman recounts how Billups and the Engineers have been working overtime to restore the ship. She is concerned about burnout.
After Billups has a small breakdown, she orders the entire Engineering team on a mandatory relaxation getaway.
As Rutherford packs, the others discuss the upcoming room lottery. There are four rooms on Deck 1 opening up.
Rutherford bumps Tendi who drops her beaker and loses her blob specimen, Goopy. She chases it into a Jeffreys Tube where she overhears Delta Shift plotting to rig the room lottery.
Tendi reports back to Mariner and Boimler. Mariner decides they need to beat Delta Shift to the punch.
Freeman and the Engineering team beam onto The Dove where they are greeted by an Edosian, Taas. All the Cerritos crew are given wristbands to monitor their stress. Green is optimal. Everyone’s wristband is yellow, indicating moderate stress.
Taas tours them through the various treatments The Dove offers for relaxation. Freeman realizes the engineers aren’t with them and finds them fixing a door.
Boimler finds a faster route to the lottery terminal, but they have to sneak through Holodeck 3 where T’Ana and Shaxs are participating in a Bonny and Clyde-style heist as a form of foreplay.
Shaxs pauses the program to express his feelings while T’Ana just wants to keep it physical. The ensigns do their best to ignore the conversation.
En route to the lottery terminal, they cross rarely-seen parts of the ship like the swamp where Tendi notes that there are plants that only grow in environments with high levels of nitrous oxide.
Boimler and Mariner start experiencing hallucinations. Tendi drags them out into an area where there's oxygen to recover.
On The Dove, Taas and Freeman find the engineers in the sand garden but realize they’re using it to work on improving the Cerritos engine efficiency. This triggers Freeman.
Boimler’s route is taking longer than expected, but the next chamber turns out to be low-gravity which is fun until Ransom orders the deflector dish activated which causes Boimler to be sucked into its spin. Mariner and Tendi turn their uniforms into a tether to save him.
On The Dove, the engineers' wristbands are all green as they take part in a mani-pedi treatment. When Rutherford declines the manicure, Taas realizes he's rigged the stress monitor to hide the yellow. Freeman freaks out on the team. Her wristband turns red and then black which shocks Taas.
Taas alerts the staff that Freeman requires intensive treatment. Freeman is restrained and taken away. Taas informs the engineers that their refusal to relax has triggered Freeman’s crisis and if she is unable to help the captain, she’ll be sent to Earth for assessment, and the Cerritos would lose their captain.
The engineers put their heads together to figure out how to help the captain.
Boimler, Mariner, and Tendi arrive at a timed hatch that will provide access to the terminal. They have to wait for the hatch to open, so they discuss how life will be different in a real room to pass the time.
Suddenly, Delta Shift bursts in through another hatch. As they wait together, the shift teams bond a bit, sharing stories, including one about Ransom and a churro doll-wife he restores regularly. However, when the vent opens, the Deltas kick the Beta Shift to the curb and run through without them.
Treatments aren’t working for Freeman and Taas is about to call Starfleet Medical when Billups and Rutherford arrive with a solution they built. Freeman points out they were supposed to stop working on this trip. Billups responds that, as engineers, solving problems is the best way to relax. The engineers show her their green wristbands.
They explain the machine will relax someone in 10 seconds versus a month on The Dove. It works, and Taas confirms its effectiveness. Once the Cerritos crew leave, Taas orders the machine ejected from the ship, realizing the machine will make The Dove obsolete.
As Beta Shift bemoans Delta’s betrayal, Boimler realizes there’s another unmarked access passage. It gets them to the terminal ahead of Delta. Boimler discovers that the four rooms on Deck 1 are actually one room on Deck 4.
Not wanting to break up the team, they decide not to hack the system for their own win. They decide to let Delta Shift break their team up over the room and walk away.
Delta Shift gets the room and decides to share it. Rutherford’s super annoyed at the rest of the team for not nabbing the room, stressing over the private party the Delta team is throwing.
While the rest of the mess hall celebrates, Ransom sneaks in and replicates a batch of fresh churros.
Billups: It’s been a long day. Shaxs: You’ve been working for a week straight. Billups: Have I? Well, I guess Time’s lost all meaning!
Mariner: Oh boy, we’ve got an ancient mask situation here. Tendi: A what now? Mariner: This is like the third time it’s happened. STOP TOUCHING MASKS!
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