Captain star reminises of the good ol' days when he battled evil forces like the condiment people & is depressed because he want's to go on a mission. While eating a picnic, Ships that resemble those of the condiment people arrive. It turn's out it's a captain called sprat & her crew that have arrived to stop by & say hello to star. Just like him, sprat is also waiting for orders in which she brings up the fact that the 29 captains were captured again. Navigator black gets the winning prize of a contest he entered to go to the spice systems While captain star gets a bear which he thinks has orders. the bear has no orders whatsoever & captain star is even more depressed. Black is still excited about going to the spice systems. But Star forbids him from going for he is needed. Black is depressed as well as Jones when he learns that sprats ship doesn't have stokers but is a self stoking ship. When the depressions of the crew engulf them into the planet, black & captain star have been abso