Medical ethics vs. diplomatic/command constraints: Dr. Beverly Crusher's duty to preserve life and medical ethics collides with command prudence and diplomatic risk (the refusal to coerce Worf), producing moral friction and tragic outcome.
Medical ethics vs. diplomatic/command constraints: Dr. Beverly Crusher's duty to preserve life and medical ethics collides with command prudence and diplomatic risk (the refusal to coerce Worf), producing moral friction and tragic outcome.
Events in This Arc
In the transporter room, the Enterprise triages a wounded Romulan while the ship realizes Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge never returned from the storm-wracked surface. Technical interference makes locating him …
In Picard's ready room Beverly Crusher presses the captain to use his authority to compel Lieutenant Worf to donate compatible ribosomes and save the wounded Romulan—arguing the moral imperative outweighs …
In the captain's ready room Picard makes an anguished, strategic appeal to Worf: not to command him, but to beg that he volunteer for a transfusion that could save a …