Command moral dilemma (Jean‑Luc Picard and senior officers): choosing restraint and nonlethal solutions in the face of an enemy (the T'Ong) that some advise to destroy — balancing Starfleet ethics against the urgency of protecting vulnerable colonies.
Command moral dilemma (Jean‑Luc Picard and senior officers): choosing restraint and nonlethal solutions in the face of an enemy (the T'Ong) that some advise to destroy — balancing Starfleet ethics against the urgency of protecting vulnerable colonies.
Events in This Arc
During a tense senior briefing at warp, K'Ehleyr reveals an automated transmission from the eighty-year‑lost Klingon battlecruiser T'Ong: its crew will awaken believing the Federation is still the enemy. Data …
The Enterprise brings the eighty-year‑lost Klingon battlecruiser T'Ong into view. Data reports life signs but believes the crew dormant; Picard deliberately holds position rather than strike. Suddenly the ancient warship …
The Enterprise stops the fleeing T'Ong and, using cultural authority rather than firepower, Worf dons Klingon command regalia and shames the ancient captain into surrender. He formally installs K'Ehleyr to …