Captain Picard's internal moral dilemma: whether to risk the lives of his crew by performing a destructive rescue (phaser incision) to free trapped officers—duty and compassion vs. risk and protocol.
Captain Picard's internal moral dilemma: whether to risk the lives of his crew by performing a destructive rescue (phaser incision) to free trapped officers—duty and compassion vs. risk and protocol.
Events in This Arc
Data's sensors intensify their readout as Riker yanks the covers off a sleeping figure to reveal a long-decayed human skeleton. Data identifies the remains as a male who died 283 …
A desperate Picard proposes a last‑resort phaser incision through the field enclosing the alien construct, forcing the question: save them at almost certain cost, or abandon them to a slow, …
Orbiting Theta Eight, a grief‑wracked Picard reaches for a last, lethal option — firing phasers into the alien construct even if it risks killing his own people — and summons …