Salia's personal identity and duty: Salia struggles between private desire for freedom/connection and the political/spiritual destiny that requires her to present an alternate (non‑humanoid) form and return to Daled Four; revelation of her protean natu...
Salia's personal identity and duty: Salia struggles between private desire for freedom/connection and the political/spiritual destiny that requires her to present an alternate (non‑humanoid) form and return to Daled Four; revelation of her protean nature reframes personal and diplomatic stakes.
Events in This Arc
The Enterprise magnifies a hostile, glowing world and answers a distorted hail. Anya — crisp, commanding — demands Salia be beamed aboard; Picard immediately elevates the girl to head-of-state status …
Wesley bursts into Transporter Room Three with a dish of Thalian chocolate mousse, interrupting a formal send-off to offer Salia a final, sensory memory. Their quiet, charged exchange—an embrace, a …