- Sheldon takes offense when Leonard wants to attend a party with Wil Wheaton, while Bernadette tries to block Howard's opportunity to go into outer space.
- Since they are in the comic book store when he stops in, Leonard and Sheldon are invited by Wil Wheaton to a party at his house. Leonard has every intention of going, which may place his and Sheldon's friendship on shaky ground as Wil is still on Sheldon's arch enemy list. Can anything convince Sheldon to attend the party himself? If so, he may end up meeting more arch enemies. Meanwhile, Howard, whose project has been chosen by NASA for the International Space Station, has been asked by them to go on a three week mission to the station. He believes that all his friends will be as happy for him as he is excited about it. But one person who isn't excited at all is Bernadette, who doesn't want him to go. Bernadette uses a tactic to convince Howard not to go, but that tactic may actually paint Bernadette as the bad guy.—Huggo
- Leonard and Sheldon drool over a sword from Game of Thrones. They decide to start a fantasy sword collection together and haggle Stuart down to $210 from $250. Wil Wheaton comes in to pick up a rare Batman comic and invites everybody to his house for a party where other Star Trek stars and crew will be attending. Leonard accepts while Sheldon walks out on his nemesis.
At dinner, Sheldon compares his friendship with Leonard to Schrödinger's Cat (he is a friend and not a friend till he decides whether he is going to Wil Wheaton's party). Howard joins them with some big news. NASA has included Howard designed deep-field telescope headed for the International Space Station and he is going up to install it as a payload specialist. Technically, he's an astronaut. Bernadette is concerned about how safe the Russian space vehicles are and the training he has to go through.
In the car heading home, she is not happy he didn't talk to her about it first. He then starts to discuss it with him and she rejects the idea. She admitted her father was a cop and she had a hard time with the danger he faced wondering if he would come home every night. Howard mentioned his own father who never came back after he was eleven. Bernadette then sniped, "Oh, Boo-Hoo! You're not going into space!"
Back at the apartment Amy wondered how Wil Wheaton got on his list of mortal enemies as everybody groaned. Convention. 600-mile trip. Wil Wheaton would rather be the lower-left corner on "Hollywood Squares".
Back at Howard's, Bernadette apologizes for her behavior earlier and told Howard she didn't want to be the one to get in the way of his dreams. They had apparently made up until Bernadette, not willing to give up, sneaked out and told Mrs. Wolowitz about Howard's plans to go into space behind his back. She then starts yelling at him to stay on the earth.
The next day, the guys are shocked that Howard kicked out Bernadette for ratting him out to his mother, with Raj congratulating his best friend for being the first one of their group to kicking girl out of bed. Sheldon, Raj and Leonard all agree that Bernadette had betrayed Howard to his mother, with Sheldon telling Leonard for seeing betrayal in others except him. Raj then asks Howard if his and Bernadette's relationship was over now. Howard doesn't know, but he does know that Bernadette will apologize and admit he can make his own choices if they want to keep moving forward. Raj then tells him the only way that will happen is that she will have to convince his mother to let him go into space, which Howard agrees to.
At Penny's apartment, Bernadette tells Penny and Amy about the other night and that she had no choice, as a "baby bird" can't go to space. Penny and Amy then tell her that she should apologize for her mistake. Hearing this, Bernadette then asks the two if she was the bad guy and they agree that what she did was wrong, making Bernadette realize, "Oh God, you're right. I took our love and threw it under his bus-sized mother!" Penny thinks Bernadette needs to fix this problem, but she wants her to make certain she loves and wants to marry "Howard Wolowitz." Penny and Amy bite their tongues and don't say anything else about Howard's faults.
Bernadette goes to Howard in his room and asks if they could talk. Still angry, Howard says he has nothing to say after what she did. Bernadette apologizes and that she was just worried about him. Howard then tells her to stop if what anything she says isn't true, because he still is going to space. He also mentions he wanted to go to the moon, Mars, and the deepest depths of the ocean. This time she says that he got seasick on Pirates of the Caribbean. She also says the thought of losing him would be painful because she loves and cares for him deeply, while also calling him her soulmate. Howard accepts her apology and they kiss until Howard's mom yells at him that he is not leaving Earth, which again ignites Howard's anger towards Bernadette.
Leonard and Raj head to the party without Sheldon even though Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek) would also be there. Sheldon does show up and Wil surprises Sheldon with his last Ensign Crusher figurine...and signed it, too just like he should have years before. Wil is now officially Sheldon's friend. Brent Spiner comes by and before Wil and Sheldon can tell him not to, opens Sheldon's mint condition package thus ending up on Sheldon's mortal enemies' list. Wil assures him that it won't take up much of his time. Brent offers him a signed Data figure as an apology, but Sheldon refuses and leaves to hang around with Wil. Leonard asks Brent if he and Raj can have figures, and Brent says it'll cost $20 each. Leonard haggles and gets two for $30 and a birthday party invite.
Title reference: Bernadette's reaction to Howard planning to fly to the International Space Station with a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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