Security versus mercy: Shipboard security instincts (Worf, security) clash with command's ethical restraint and empathic advocacy (Picard, Troi, Data) over how to treat a dangerous but vulnerable detainee.
Security versus mercy: Shipboard security instincts (Worf, security) clash with command's ethical restraint and empathic advocacy (Picard, Troi, Data) over how to treat a dangerous but vulnerable detainee.
Events in This Arc
As the Enterprise strains to hold Bre'el Four's moon, Chief Engineer La Forge reports the tractor emitters are flexing and unable to transfer sufficient kinetic energy — the ship lacks …
In the detention cell Worf coldly converts years of betrayal into action: he orders Q silent, refuses mercy, and physically divides the room by activating a forcefield. Q's mocking, incredulous …
Picard confronts a newly mortal Q in the brig and, despite deep mistrust, chooses pragmatism over principle: he deactivates the forcefield and orders Data to be Q’s constant minder. Q, …