Data's role as technological mediator: his willingness to risk personal integration with the nanites to translate and negotiate — a machine's ethical decision to serve as bridge between species/ontologies.
Data's role as technological mediator: his willingness to risk personal integration with the nanites to translate and negotiate — a machine's ethical decision to serve as bridge between species/ontologies.
Events in This Arc
As Picard reluctantly orders a ship-wide gamma pulse to annihilate the nanites, Riker and Worf begin execution and the bridge braces for extermination. Data, refusing to abandon attempts at communication, …
Negotiations on the bridge collapse as the emergent nanites repeatedly refuse Picard's plea for a cease‑fire. Troi senses a deep, machine distrust—rooted in the prior destructive incident—and Worf's dismissal of …
The crisis resolves not by force but by negotiation: Picard brokers a humane truce that relocates the emergent nanite intelligence to Kavis‑Alpha‑Four rather than ordering their extermination. Data volunteers his …