Captain Picard's leadership dilemma — weigh Starfleet principles (respect for autonomy, non‑commodification of persons) against urgent humanitarian necessity (prevent a civilization's extinction), and choose whether to coerce, broker compromise, or wit...
Captain Picard's leadership dilemma — weigh Starfleet principles (respect for autonomy, non‑commodification of persons) against urgent humanitarian necessity (prevent a civilization's extinction), and choose whether to coerce, broker compromise, or withdraw.
Events in This Arc
In a tense summit aboard Mariposa, Prime Minister Granger confesses the colony's origin—five survivors who rebuilt society through cloning—and begs the Enterprise for fresh DNA. Dr. Pulaski delivers a clinical …
In the Observation Lounge a fraught negotiation collapses into raw leverage and an unwilling bargain. Granger's cultural snobbery and revulsion at the Bringloidi collide with Danilo's blunt pride and Pulaski's …
In the Observation Lounge Picard brokers a brutal compromise: Pulaski lays out a clinical sociobiological plan to save the dying Mariposan clone society — abandon exclusive cloning and rapidly broaden …