Captain Picard's duty to protect crew and Starfleet ethics vs. Dr. Paul Stubbs' obsessive insistence that the experiment proceed at any personal cost.
Captain Picard's duty to protect crew and Starfleet ethics vs. Dr. Paul Stubbs' obsessive insistence that the experiment proceed at any personal cost.
Events in This Arc
Picard convenes his senior officers in the observation lounge to translate a technical emergency into an ethical dilemma: an apparent compromise of the ship's main computer threatens both the Enterprise …
Stubbs leaves the observation lounge with a casual, almost theatrical line about making history, then departs—his nonchalance immediately dissected by the senior staff. Troi identifies a deliberately performed bravado: Stubbs …
Data allows an emergent swarm to inhabit his systems and becomes the conduit for first contact. Speaking through him, the nanites explain they scavenged raw materials rather than intending malice; …