While traveling through the Omega Sagitta Twelve System, the U.S.S. Enterprise aids a disabled cargo ship and plays host to its sole occupant, Captain Okona. Once on board the Starship Enterprise, the handsome, roguish Okona charms the crew -- particularly the women -- with his quick wit and mischievous manner. Data, however, is unable to understand Okona's jokes and looks to Guinan and the Holodeck for lessons in human humor. Meanwhile, two small interplanetary vessels lock their lasers on the U.S.S. Enterprise, demanding Okona's surrender. First, Debin accuses Okona of getting his daughter, Yanar, pregnant; then Kushell, with his son Benzan at his side, charges the dashing Captain with stealing his nation's prized Jewel of Thesia.
