Chapter 1: Episode 1
Admiral Nechayev has given a new order to the Enterprise. Only the Commander can control Guinan and only Guinan can control the Captain. Picard, on hearing these instructions, thinks up an experiment. Commander Riker swaps ranks with Ensign Crusher. The next day, Picard calls a meeting in the Observation Lounge for all the senior staff and Ensign Riker. Data asks what the meeting is about then Geordi asks if he had heard the captain's words on Riker correctly, Picard explains about experiment Rank Swap. After the meeting, Beverly asks if Wesley and Picard could stay a while because she wants to talk to them. After the chat Beverly starts to try and hit her son saying thing like: 'My son can't be incharge of me.' One swoop hits Picard and he calls security to the Observation Lounge. He confines Beverly to her quarters with a force field on the door and goes back to the bridge. Meanwhile Guinan has been thinking about her new power over Picard. She asks to see him in his ready room. He has to comply. Guinan orders him to give her control over the ship for 72 hours. Picard finds Wesley and starts to complain. Wesley then asks Guinan to see him. She has to comply. He asks her why she wants the ship. After a brief interrogation, he grants her control of the ship but for only 24 hours. Picard is worried and goes to see Counsellor Troi. She asks if Wesley could come to her office and he does. Picard expresses his concerns to Wesley but Wesley calms him down by explaining what happened during his interrogation of Guinan. Meanwhile Guinan has taken them to Cestus Omicron III and beamed down. She comes back on board and asks to talk to Wesley and Picard alone. She explains her actions as being a spirit inside her wanting to go back to her own planet. Wesley and Picard forgive her and she goes back to Ten Forward. Wesley stays to talk to Picard. Picard advises Wesley to ask Ensign Riker for help, if needed. After Wesley and Picard finish their chat, Wesley is incharge of the bridge and tells Riker to set a course for Risa at warp 6. (The last thing you see in this episode is Wesley in the captain's chair, pointing his fingers and saying "Engage. Then, at the bottom of the screen 'to be continued…'").
