Municipal authority (Alexana Devos) versus Starfleet diplomatic/moral posture — a political struggle over security, preventive sweeps, and the cost of order when terror terrorizes a city.
Municipal authority (Alexana Devos) versus Starfleet diplomatic/moral posture — a political struggle over security, preventive sweeps, and the cost of order when terror terrorizes a city.
Events in This Arc
In Alexana Devos's cluttered office Picard and Riker confront a director pushed beyond endurance. Alexana offers an Ansata armband as the only tangible lead, insists the separatists are unpredictable and …
Uniformed Rutian officers conduct a public mass‑roundup in the plaza, checking ID cards and hauling away suspects — including a waiter and a distraught woman whose young son, handcuffed, is …
In Alexana Devos's office a moral and tactical faultline opens. After a tense, bruising interrogation of Katik Shaw, Riker draws a hard line: the Federation will negotiate for Dr. Beverly …