The strange space creature that Tycho claims to have seen, fails to materialise but then Pancha and Sheng start to get odd sensor readouts from the outside sensor system. Did Tycho really see something? To allay the fears of the crew, Cyriax performs a spacewalk and finds that a loose solar panel was causing all of the problems. Once back on board, Cyriax notices something odd on his space suit and is bitten by an alien space slug!

With Cyriax's mania building, Zandie consoles her loneliness with a bottle of wine. On the cubeball court, Cyriax plays dirty with Tane but Degenhardt is unable to convince the cadet to report the injuries. Pancha, uncomfortable with her own body image after Sheng tries to ask her out, creates the "perfect girl" on the computer.