Stardate not given: Picard welcomes two Iyaaran ambassadors, Byleth and Loquel, aboard his ship, before embarking a shuttle with a third Iyaaran, the pilot Voval, to meet with their leader. Picard assigns Riker to tend to Byleth, but the Iyaaran insists on staying with Worf. In the following, Byleth does everything to enrage the Klingon. Troi, on the other hand, finds herself escorting the gentle Loquel, who is longing for entertainment and any kind of culinary pleasures above all. When Picard's shuttle crashes on a hostile world and Voval is knocked out, he finds a human woman, Anna. She has apparently been living there for seven years, after her freighter has crashed. Picard initially likes the friendly woman, but soon notices she sabotages his attempts of getting rescued. It turns out that Anna is not real and was a disguise of Voval, who is another ambassador. The Iyaarans arranged this whole scenario on the planet to test the human emotion of love, just as the two ambassadors on the ship were to experience rage and pleasure, respectively.

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