Easy Start

An engineer's first mission aboard a salvage ship goes horribly wrong.

Act 1
Engineer Benjamin Detrevni joins a crew of two, captain Stuart Nathan and astrogator George Koenig, aboard their ship Artemis. He was hired to fill in for their absent third crew member who had taken ill on too short a notice to participate in the next scheduled salvage run. Losing little time, they register Detrevni with the ship's voice-addressed, female-sounding computer, set course for their destination, and activate the jumpdrive.

Act 2
The ship and its crew arrive at their destination with a wrecked vessel nearby. They close in and speculate as to the derelict's nature, calling it "controlled by AI" and "an old derelict warship" that might even be old enough to be a remnant from the AI war.

The crew prepares for reactivating the derelict's AI hardware to glean any valuable data, rather than just indiscriminately scrapping the hulk. Detrevni learns that the ship's computer, who is being addressed by the same name as the ship, is an artificial intelligence, a "strong AI", as well.

Act 3
Captain Nathan, who left the ship to access the wreck, manages to restore power to the AI and connects it to Artemis through his suit. Accessing the derelict's computer systems, Artemis notices unexpected activity, but her warning call is cut short by the shot of one of the derelict's cannons that rips a large hole in her hull. The derelict itself self-destructs with Stuart Nathan still aboard only seconds after, but not without dispatching a mysterious small craft.

Trivia
Production of the episode was effectively finished when it was reshot to large parts by Naburine.