Stardate 44307.3: Briefly before Wesley is leaving for Starfleet Academy, he accompanies Picard and a miner named Dirgo to negotiations on Pentarus III. Their shuttle, however, crashes on the desert moon Lambda Paz. A remote mountain range is the only protection against the burning sun. They find a water fountain that is protected by a forcefield. Dirgo tries to destroy the forcefield with his phaser, which releases a rock avalanche that severely hurts Picard. When Dirgo, against Wesley's advice, fires at the forcefield again, he gets killed. Wesley promises the ailing Picard that he will not give up. He analyzes the forcefield and finally finds a way to disable it and get the water for the captain. In the meantime, the Enterprise has saved the population of Gamelan V from an old freighter with a radiation leak in their orbit by towing the vessel into the Gamelan sun.

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