Stardate 43421.9: After an attack of Acamarian Gatherers on a Federation outpost the Enterprise heads to Acamar III. Picard convinces the leader of the Acamarians, Sovereign Marouk, to seek peace with the Gatherers, a renegade faction of her people that formed after the devastating clan wars on her planet a hundred years ago. She and her servants, among them her young maid Yuta, come aboard to travel to negotiations with the Gatherers. Riker falls in love with the young woman. While Marouk is speaking with the Gatherer Brull, Yuta secretly kills one of Brull's men, a member of the Lornak. Yuta is actually the last survivor of the Tralesta clan that was extinguished by the Lornak some 100 years ago. She was genetically altered to survive long enough to take revenge on the Lornak, and is carrying a virus that would kill only members of the adversarial clan. In the meantime Marouk is negotiating with Chorgan, the leader of the Gatherers, another Lornak. When Dr. Crusher and Data find out about Yuta's identity, Riker beams over to stop her. He has the sad duty to kill Yuta as she is trying to murder Chorgan as well.

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