Data's campaign to save the colony (persuasion, demonstration, eventual coercion) versus Gosheven's cultural pride and insistence on defending ancestral land — a contest between survival pragmatism and communal identity/authority.
Data's campaign to save the colony (persuasion, demonstration, eventual coercion) versus Gosheven's cultural pride and insistence on defending ancestral land — a contest between survival pragmatism and communal identity/authority.
Events in This Arc
Data arrives on Tau Cygna Five to invoke the Sheliak–Federation treaty and warn the colonists of imminent annihilation, but Gosheven—anchored in ancestral pride and the colony's hard-won accomplishments—flatly refuses to …
In the cramped shuttle, Data literally guts himself — cannibalizing servocircuits from his own forearm to jury‑rig a phaser that will work in hyperonic radiation. The technical improvisation is also …
Data ends the standoff by removing the illusion of safe defiance: he incapacitates the armed defenders, switches his phaser to lethal, and smashes the aqueduct control so the colony can …