It's practice day for the most important test of Cadet Picard's Starfleet Academy career thus far! His first test in actual space... and he is not ready. He may as well be yelling into a black hole after being put into a group with all his least favorite colleagues... and Marty, the girl he kind of, sort of likes. No one's listening to his commands, and he doesn't know how on Earth he's supposed to see eye-to-eye with Resh, his bully and competition for top of the class! Picard's course is set for failure, and if he can't figure out a way to change things soon... there goes his future.