Diplomatic/tactical crisis at the Neutral Zone: Picard pursues intelligence-gathering and diplomatic restraint while security officers (primarily Worf) push for immediate aggressive posture, all against the larger pressure of an unknown force that 'sco...
Diplomatic/tactical crisis at the Neutral Zone: Picard pursues intelligence-gathering and diplomatic restraint while security officers (primarily Worf) push for immediate aggressive posture, all against the larger pressure of an unknown force that 'scooped' out entire outposts and a wary Romulan presence.
Events in This Arc
The motionless Enterprise notices a tiny drifting vehicle on the viewscreen. Data identifies it as a primitive twenty‑first‑century satellite transmitting a carrier on an obsolete frequency — a historical artifact …
Captain Picard convenes a terse intelligence briefing after two Federation outposts vanish near the Neutral Zone. Worf bluntly names the Romulans; Picard cautiously accepts that hypothesis while insisting on measured …
A Romulan cruiser decloaks over the Enterprise, forcing a tense bridge standoff that crystallizes the episode's central dilemma: vengeance versus inquiry. Worf's hot‑headed demand for retaliation collides with Picard's steady …
After a tense Romulan standoff that abruptly ends with a chilling declaration — "We are back!" — Counselor Troi shifts the bridge's tone from geopolitics to the personal. She locates …
On the bridge Picard refuses a purely efficient solution and makes a moral choice: Geordi recommends a warp‑eight intercept to hasten the twenty‑first‑century guests to Starbase Thirty‑Nine Sierra, but Picard …
On the Main Bridge, Geordi proposes a faster handoff—warp eight to a nearby starbase—to rush the newly revived 20th‑century guests to safety. Picard gently but firmly rejects expedience in favor …