Stardate 41255.6: After transferring settlers to the Strnad system, an away team beams down to the Rubicun III in the neighboring system. The planet is a paradise inhabited by a peaceful and naive people, the Edo. They agree to a shore leave of the Enterprise crew, but forget to tell them a peculiar but essential detail of their jurisdiction, that there is only one punishment for any crime: death. When Wesley steps into a flower-bed, this is a crime. Picard has to negotiate with the Edo while respecting the Prime Directive. But the situation is further complicated as a huge entity materializes in orbit, which the Edo identify as "God". Picard argues that when laws are absolute there can be no real justice. He manages to convince "God" to let Wesley go, and he agrees to abandon the colony in the Strnad system.

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