To ensure a notorious smuggler's cooperation, Buck and a fellow officer must infiltrate a crime lord's casino resort, to rescue a young woman who has been kidnapped by one of the smuggler's rivals.

A young woman, Felina Redding, has been kidnapped by criminals because she knows a great deal about the corporate secrets she possesses. Her employer, notorious smuggler Amos Armat, is also her father as well (the truth which Felina is unaware). Buck Rogers works with Major Marla Landers at the orbital casino resort Sinaloa, the gambling capital of the galaxy, in order to rescue Felina. However, Buck meets another damsel in distress, the beautiful Tangie, and must take on her employer, feared crime boss Morgan Velosi, who manages Sinaloa. While Landers uses her charm to distract Velosi, Buck rescues Felina before a hired interrogator, Carl Morpheus, can conduct a deadly mind probe on her.—Woodyanders

When the employee Felina Redding of the company owned by the notorious smuggler Amos Armatis is kidnapped, he agrees to provide evidence of his business to Dr. Elias Huer provided the Earth Defense Directorate rescues her. Buck Rogers and Major Marla Landers are assigned to go to Sinaloa that is owned by the criminal Morgan Velosi to rescue Felina. She unconsciously accessed secret codes from Armatis' system and Velosi wants to retrieve the information.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Captain Rogers, accompanied by Major Landers, goes to Sinaloa, a tongue and cheek name based on the "sin city" image of Las Vegas. It's entertaining enough but for Ana Alicia who simply put spoils every scene she's in because she simply cannot act. The rest is predictable for a 70s sci-fi TV program.

Buck and Wilma are battling Draconian hatchet fighters, upgraded versions of the crimson Marauder craft the Earth Defense Directorate has battled before but which now have been successfully ambushing Earth shipping. The "battle," though, is a simulation drill, and Buck is "shot down" by one of the attacking fighters. Wilma disgustedly lists the result of the drill - the squadron is destroyed after just over two minutes of battle and the combat computers in the Directorate's Starfighters once again are no use against the Draconians. Buck, though, had used manual control in past encounters and recommends using manual control for firing, but Wilma objects that using manual for firing is too risky given the performance upgrades the Draconians have installed into their new fighters.

While the squadron returns to Earth, a young woman, Falina Redding, who is a computer programmer, returns to her house, and as she strips down to go to bed she is surprised when she gets a video message from her employer, Amos Armot, urging her to immediately go to the spaceport where tickets and other preparations have been made for her. Before she can do anything, however, she is jumped by kidnappers.

The next day Armot sees Dr. Huer. Huer summons Marla Landers, a Defense Directorate major as beautiful in her own way as her superior officer Colonel Deering. Marla is an expert on the world of Sinaloa, a gamling/recreational planet and space station complex. Armot, long known for interstellar criminal activities that include weapons running, has offered to turn himself in on condition that the Directorate rescue Falina Redding from Morgan Velosi, a gangster who owns Sinaloa.It seems like she inadvertently saw something which appears to be innocuous but in actuality could be used to take Armot down. And Velosi has hired someone to extract the information out of Falina and the process he will use willkill her. Huer initially refuses Armot's request feeling that the information will take Armot down why should he risk his people , but Marla points out he is involved with intelligence on weapons technology potentially tied into Draconia's hatchet fighter upgrades. Huer thus agrees to rescue Falina.

Wilma visits Buck, interrupting his golf game, to offer him the mission to Sinaloa; Buck initially refuses until Wilma tells him about the planet's blackjack-like gamling activities. Buck thus teams with Marla and both receive some extras from Dr. Theopolis - camoflage explosives, a small bomb to open an energy-shield exit portal, and a drug with which to pump any henchman of Velosi for information. As they fly via four-seat Starfighter to Sinaloa, Buck and Marla learn via video intelligence all they can about Velosi, Falina, and also Carl Morphus, a specialist in interrogations who extracts memories from people before killing them and who is reportedly on his way to Sinaloa.

Posing as tourists, Buck and Marla hit the gaming tables, and as Buck cleans house the "outraged" Marla protests to Velosi, and the gangter takes an instant attraction to the attractive Marla. Buck, for his part, chats with Tangie, a waitress who has been threatened by Velosi and who sees something special in Buck, especially when he starts remembering a visit to Las Vegas with Toby, a fellow pilot he knew whose goal was success as an astronaut - a memory that makes Buck wistful about his past.

While Velosi takes Marla to his quarters Buck goes back to his hotel room, followed by one of Velosi's henchmen; when the henchman follows into his hotel room the waiting Buck jumps him and beats him senseless; after tying him up Buck makes him swallow the drug, and the woosy henchman reveals the generator room where Falina is being held, but that it can only be accessed by one of four existing keys, much to Buck's frustration.

Marla, for her part, grows more uncomfortable in Velosi's company but then Carl Morphus arrives to talk to Velosi. Velosi promises to see Marla again before debriefing Morphus. Buck meets Marla in her hotel room where she gives him the bad news about Morphus' arrival; Buck the gives her the bad news about where Falina is and that only a certain key will gain them access - except this seeming bad news turns out to be the break they need as Velosi's master key will access any room in the city, and Velosi will certainly come to get her. She starts to strip, and makes the surprised Buck turn around so she can don her flight suit. When Velosi arrives Marla points a gun at him, but is jumped by another of his henchmen, who is in turn jumped by Buck. They grab the key and shoot out the door controls, trapping Velosi, and Buck makes his way to the generator - except he is promptly intercepted by Tangie, and now she has to be included in their escape.

Once Buck gets Falina they all escape in the four-seat Starfighter - except Velosi has himself escaped and summoned the intervention of four hatchet fighters to shoot down the escaping Starfighter. Buck handles the navigation while Marla handles the weapons. Buck's maneuvering causes two of them to crash into each other. Marla says going up against the last one will be difficult but she manages to destroy it. They return to Earth and when Arnot sees Falina is safe he gives all of his records to Huer. Falina whom they told about Armot asks him why did he help her. He tells her that he's her father but he and her mother agreed that she not know for her protection. But when he saw how much she grew, he couldn't resist offering her a job. She refuses to believe him and he thinks it might be best that she doesn't. And he's about to leave when Huer reminds him of something he promised he would give them. He then hands the info on the hatchet fighters. Marla after beating the hatchet initially doesn't think they need it. But Buck tells her don't be too cocky.