Institutional conflict over the Prime Directive: Starfleet policy, precedent, and chain‑of‑command resist ad hoc exceptions even as officers press for saving lives.
Institutional conflict over the Prime Directive: Starfleet policy, precedent, and chain‑of‑command resist ad hoc exceptions even as officers press for saving lives.
Events in This Arc
A formal ethics debate in Picard's quarters erupts from abstract philosophy into an immediate moral emergency. Worf and Riker defend the Prime Directive as absolute while Pulaski, Geordi and Troi …
In Picard's quarters a fierce moral debate over the Prime Directive — abstraction versus compassion — escalates into a decisive turning point. As officers trade philosophical citations and hard-line positions, …
The harmonic resonator system takes effect and the immediate geological threat to Drema Four abates. On the bridge the crew exhales; Wesley declares success while Data becomes the child’s emotional …