Mariposa's replicative-fading survival imperative (seek fresh DNA / cloning) collides with Starfleet's ethical commitment to bodily autonomy — a cultural/societal crisis that forces negotiation between preservation by technical means and preservation b...
Mariposa's replicative-fading survival imperative (seek fresh DNA / cloning) collides with Starfleet's ethical commitment to bodily autonomy — a cultural/societal crisis that forces negotiation between preservation by technical means and preservation by humane integration.
Events in This Arc
A petty logistics discrepancy noted by Data pushes Picard from quiet curiosity to active pursuit: he pulls the archived manifest for the colony ship Mariposa and reads a cargo list …
Riker, Pulaski and Geordi beam into the smoke-choked cloning chamber and discover half‑formed duplicates — including a grotesque likeness of Riker. Visibly horrified, Riker fires on the developing copies with …
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 …