Bortus and his he-spouse Klyden having hatched a rare girl, they plan to have its sex normalized to male as customary on Moclan, but the ship's surgeon and captain refuse to have this performed aboard. The parents therefore successfully ask for a Moclan spaceship to pass and give them a boy, but while it arrives, Gordon Malloy's consolatory boys evening animation inspires Bortus to change his mind, unlike his mate. The Moclan captain now presides over a tribunal to decide the clash of cultures, with spectacular surprise testimonies.
—KGF Vissers