Screenplay
by Michael Piller
Story
by Rick Berman and Michael Piller
Directed
by Jonathan Frakes
Cast:
Captain Jean Luc Picard-Patrick Stewart, Cmdr. William Riker-Jonathan Frakes,
Lt. Cmdr. Data-Brent Spiner, Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge-Levar Burton, Lt. Cmdr.
Worf-Michael Dorn, Dr. Beverly Crusher-Gates McFadden, Counselor Deanna
Troi-Marina Sirtis, Computer Voice-Majel Barrett, Ru'afo-F. Murray Abraham,
Anij-Donna Murphy, Anthony Zerbe
Release
date December 11, 1998
Captain
Picard's effort to save Lt. Commander Data leads him to the Ba'ku planet, where
the Federation and their Son'a allies are conducting a cultural survey. The
Ba'ku seem at first to be a simple race of only six hundred people, living in
one village on their isolated world. But when Picard meets a Ba'ku woman, Anij
(Donna Murphy), he gradually learns that there is more to her people than meets
the eye: She, like most of her fellow Ba'ku, is more than three hundred years
old.
Picard
also learns that the survey is only a cover -- for a plot to kidnap the Ba'ku
en masse and exile them from their world. Ru'afo (F. Murray Abraham), the Son'a
leader, has discovered that the planet is bathed in metaphasic radiation that
reverses aging. What the Ba'ku have, the Son'a -- an aged, dying race -- want
desperately for themselves.
Picard
confronts his superior officer, Admiral Dougherty (Anthony Zerbe) with what he
has learned ... only to find that Dougherty and the top leaders of the
Federation are part of the scheme. After all, says the admiral, there are only
six hundred Ba'ku. Why should they stand in the way of progress?
Captain
Picard objects: If a planetful of people can be forcibly removed from their
world, destroying their way of life, where does it end? There may be only six
hundred Ba'ku, but how many would it take to become wrong? A thousand? Fifty
thousand? A million? But Admiral Dougherty will hear no protests: He gives
Picard a direct order to withdraw and return to his previous mission.
For
Jean-Luc Picard, it is the time of decision. If he obeys Dougherty's order, he
would violate the principles of his Starfleet oath. Instead, he takes action.
By the time he is done, Picard will have risked everything -- and left behind
his crew, his career and ship to help the Ba'ku. The battle for Paradise has
just begun ...
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