Pulaski's professional/ethical dilemma — scientific diagnosis and duty to protect (expose replicative-fading, refuse unethical cloning) versus the humanitarian impulse to save a dying culture by any means.
Pulaski's professional/ethical dilemma — scientific diagnosis and duty to protect (expose replicative-fading, refuse unethical cloning) versus the humanitarian impulse to save a dying culture by any means.
Events in This Arc
In Granger's office Pulaski cuts through ceremony with a blunt, clinical question that detonates the scene's tension: she asks whether Mariposa's entire population are clones. Her professional authority refocuses the …
In the ready room Picard forces the blunt truth into policy: Pulaski delivers a clinical, heartbreaking diagnosis—Mariposa will suffer replicative collapse within two to three generations—shifting the problem from medical …
In the Observation Lounge Picard brokers a brutal compromise: Pulaski lays out a clinical sociobiological plan to save the dying Mariposan clone society — abandon exclusive cloning and rapidly broaden …