![]() He does find her, but it’s too late to take her to a safe location, so instead he beams her back to the Enterprise, causing Picard to have an absolute screaming fit, although he eventually gets won over by her weird alien little girl cuteness. Unable to get back in touch with Sarjenka, Data gives up any pretence of following protocol and beams down to the planet to get her somewhere safe. (Hey, it’s not like it’s THE Prime Directive, right? Oh, it is? Well, there’s some wiggle room in every law.) Wesley’s team discovers the cause of the seismic cataclysms (it’s because of Dilithium thingies) and even though they’d have to violate the Prime Directive to save the planet, Data’s defense of Sarjenka and her people convinces Picard agrees that the Prime Directive probably isn’t that important and he commits to helping the kid out. Wesley interprets this as a suggestion to shout orders slightly forcefully at his team, and luckily that does the trick even though he didn’t call a meeting to do so. Elsewhere, Wesley is asking Riker for advice commanding his team, and Riker tells him to stop crying and just do what Captain Picard would do. Instead he takes the most serious action he can: calling a meeting. Picard doesn’t really mention any of this when Data comes clean, though. ![]() ![]() Data realises that his friend, a girl named Sarjenka, is on one of the planets which is going to be destroyed – and furthermore, she’s from a pre-warp civilisation, so he’s basically shattered the prime directive, broken first-contact protocol and is probably due for a court martial any day now. Wesley’s team keeps questioning his judgement, causing him to cave in faster than the planets they’re investigating. ![]()
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