Dr. Beverly Crusher's clinician's duty versus Starfleet ethics: an urgent medical obligation to save lives (and prevent suffering) collides with institutional constraints about cultural interference.

Liko and his daughter Oji covertly approach the duck blind and witness a medic and Warren dematerialize — an apparently miraculous disappearance. When Liko peers inside he is violently zapped …

In Sickbay Beverly Crusher fights desperately but futilely to save Warren, whose convulsions worsen until her vitals fall to zero. Barron clasps the dying anthropologist's hand; Picard and Nuria arrive …

In Sickbay Beverly Crusher and her medic fight a losing battle to save Warren; Picard and Barron arrive as convulsions give way to stillness. Warren dies despite every medical effort, …