Peak Performance

Starfleet orders a combat exercise to test the Enterprise's readiness, overseen by the arrogant Zakdorn strategist Sirna Kolrami. Riker takes command of the USS Hathaway, an elderly ship, with a small crew including Worf, La Forge and Wesley, to face Picard. Data, serving as Picard's first officer, loses a game of Strategema to Kolrami and begins to doubt himself, until Picard reminds him that it is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. Wesley quietly obtains a little antimatter to give the Hathaway a brief burst of warp, and Worf fools the Enterprise's sensors with a decoy. Then a real Ferengi warship appears, disables the Enterprise's weapons and demands the Hathaway. Picard fires torpedoes at the Hathaway just as it warps away, convincing the Ferengi their prize has been destroyed. Data later challenges Kolrami to a rematch and frustrates him by playing for a stalemate.