Symbiosis (Episode)

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Symbiosis
"Symbiosis" (TNG123)

"Symbiosis" (TNG123)
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1
Episode 22
Production Number 123


Previous Skin of Evil (TNG122)
Next We'll Always Have Paris (TNG124)
Released 18 Apr 1988
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(The root of all realities)


Stardate Unknown: Picard mediates a dispute involving a mysterious drug

While studying drastic solar flares around Delos, the Enterprise picks up a confusing distress call from a disabled freighter in the system. Only four of its six passengers are beamed away in time, because the crew members insist that their cargo go first. The survivors are from two neighboring worlds, Brekka and Ornara, and the cargo is felicium, a drug grown only on Brekka, which cures a 200-year-old Ornaran plague. The two haggard Ornarans demand the shipment; the Brekkians insist that the deal is off.

The desperate Ornarans convince Picard to mediate; he gets them one dose each, but Dr. Crusher soon realizes the "cure" is a narcotic. The Brekkians have kept the unknowing Ornarans addicted for profit for two centuries. Crusher demands to let the Ornarans know, but Picard cites the Prime Directive. He does find a solution to the dilemma, however: he refuses to repair the Ornarans' remaining freighters. Now, no trade in the low-technology system can occur, and the Ornarans, although they will suffer withdrawal, will conquer their addiction.

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