William T. Riker's moral calculus: the internal tension between loyalty to an absent captain (Picard) and the duty to protect a captured crewmember — choosing whether to risk ship/protocol to save life.
William T. Riker's moral calculus: the internal tension between loyalty to an absent captain (Picard) and the duty to protect a captured crewmember — choosing whether to risk ship/protocol to save life.
Events in This Arc
The Enterprise drops to impulse as Shuttle Two departs with Captain Picard. Riker notices an unexplained change in the captain's plan, then Worf intercepts a terse Mayday from Rhomboid Dronegar …
In the Observation Lounge Riker convenes his senior staff and the situation is distilled to a brutal binary: give the Pakleds access to Enterprise systems or use force. Pulaski presses …
When Data detects that the Pakleds have armed crude photon torpedoes, Riker refuses to abandon Geordi and stages an audacious bluff: a forced-spectrum feed to the Mondor bridge, a staged …