The U.S.S. Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race against the automated U.S.S. Aledo.

Tawny Newsome (Ensign Beckett Mariner)
Jack Quaid (Ensign Brad Boimler)
Noël Wells (Ensign D'Vana Tendi)
Eugene Cordero (Ensign Sam Rutherford)
Dawnn Lewis (Captain Carol Freeman)
Jerry O'Connell (Commander Jack Ransom)
Fred Tatasciore (Lieutenant Shaxs)
Gillian Vigman (Dr. T'Ana)

Carlos Alazraqui (Admiral Les Buenamigo)
Georgia King (Petra Aberdeen)
Phil LaMarr
Jessica McKenna (Ensign Barnes)
Toks Olagundoye (Captain Amina Ramsey)
Sam Richardson (Captain Vendome)
Al Rodrigo (Captain Durango)
Gabrielle Ruiz (T'Lyn)
Paul Scheer (Lt. Commander Andy Billups)
Carl Tart (Lieutenant Kayshon)
Paul F. Tompkins (Dr. Migleemo)
Baron Vaughn (Captain Maier)
Michelle Wong (Admiral Wong)

• Season 3 Finale.
  
• After the PR nightmare and the Breen failure, Admiral Buenamigo recommends the California-class be decommissioned and replaced by the automated Texas-class.
  
• Rutherford discovers the Texas-class A.I. code is the same code he used to create Badgey. He wrote the original code while working on the secret Texas-class prototype project. After his accident, it was Buenamigo who ordered his memory erased.
  
• After the A.I. takes over the U.S.S. Aledo, it activates the U.S.S. Dallas NA-02 and U.S.S. Corpus Christi NA-03. Before the Aledo can destroy the Cerritos, the entire fleet of California-class starships arrives to save the day.
  
• At the end of the episode, T'Lyn arrives on the U.S.S. Cerritos for training. She was first seen serving on the Vulcan ship in the episode "wej Duj".
  
• In a post-credits scene, a piece of the Aledo wreckage resembling Rutherford's implant is tractor beamed away and an image of Badgey appears on its screen.
  
• This episode aired on the same day as the second half of Star Trek: Prodigy's Season 1 episode "Asylum".