Ensign Tendi has her first day of work on Starfleet's USS Cerritos, where she meets fellow support crew members. Boimler is tasked with a secret special assignment. Rutherford attempts to keep his dating life intact while a disaster strikes the ship.

The USS Cerritos encounters a familiar enemy. Tendi helps a struggling recruit find her footing.

Approximately three months after the events of the season one finale, the U.S.S. Cerritos is dispatched on a mission where it ends up in a sci-fi event resulting in "strange energy," which Commander Ransom inadvertently absorbs.

In the season two finale, the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked to aid another class starship on a first contact mission.

Mariner and Boimler work the Starfleet recruitment booth at an alien job fair, Rutherford challenges himself.

The Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race.

The Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship.

Captain Freeman assigns the Lower Deckers an overly safe mission to try and keep a self-destructive Mariner out of danger.