Lip Lock

	Star Traks: Waystation
Episode name	Lip Lock
Season	Renovations
Episode number	11
Writer(s)	Alan Decker, Anthony Butler
Year	2374
Stardate	Unknown
	Chronology
Previous in series	Critical Mass
Next in series	Something They Ate
Previous in timeline	Critical Mass [WAY]
Next in timeline	Turned Inside-Out [VEX]

The End of Renovations has come...but I don't think Commander Lisa Beck and the crew are too happy about it. The Critics have the upper hand, and their minions, the Starshine Kids, are hellbent on converting everyone into their little cult. Can the crew find a way out of this mess? Will Commander Beck be forced into a radically different hairdo? Is Renovations really and truly over?

Summary

This story picks up right where Critical Mass left off.

In Waystation Village's Ops, Lieutenant Commander Walter Morales, Lieutenant Craig Porter, Lieutenant Sean Russell, and Colonel Martin Lazlo try to develop a plan with Morales informing Captain Jack Woodall of the USS Orleans that, despite the chain of command, Morales would be in charge of the situation. On a much less material plane of existence, Leximas learns that her body has been blown up but that the Ushers and Directors now need her to go distract The Critics so that the Starshine Kids can be defeated. In an unhelpfully vague way, they suggest that Leximas get help from someone who knows something about omnipotent beings. Leximas realizes that they mean Commander Lisa Beck, and Leximas is able to whisk her off of the new Waystation just before Sesil can make her stare into the glowing sphere he uses to brainwash his recruits.