once turned
petty thugs into world leaders.
Warp drive created a Romulan empire.
We can handle the Son'a.
We probably said the same
about the Romulans.
Lifespans will be doubled. An entire
new medical science will evolve.
Your chief engineer has the use
of his eyes for the first time.
Will you take that away from him?
With the whole Briar Patch, why
does it have to be this one planet?
The concentration in the rings
makes it work.
They'll inject something into
the rings and start a reaction.
- The planet will be uninhabitable.
- Delay them, let us study it.
Our best scientific minds
can't find any other way to do this.
The Son'a can establish a separate
colony on the planet until we do.
It would take ten years' exposure
to reverse their condition.
Some of them
won't survive that long.
Besides, who would want to live
in the Briar Patch?
The Ba'ku.
We are betraying the principles upon
which the Federation was founded.
It's an attack upon its very soul.
And it will destroy the Ba'ku.
Cultures have been destroyed in
every forced relocation in history.
Jean-Luc,
we're only moving 600 people.
How many people does it take
before it becomes wrong?
1 ,000?
50,000?
A million?
How many people does it take?
You'll proceed to the Goren system,
and release the Son'a officers.
File whatever protests you wish to.
By the time you do,
this will all be done.
Gallatin!
The righteous Starfleet captain
finally released you.
- Any problems on the surface?
- No, sir.
But it wasn't easy being among them.
Just don't forget
what they did to us.
We'll have them rounded up
in a day or two.
We needn't bother
with a holoship anymore.
Get the holding cells ready.
I'm going to miss these little
flesh-stretching sessions of ours.
Re-routing the transport grid
to avoid detection was wise.
However, the transporter
is rarely used after 02:00 hours.
- Going out for a spin?
- Seven tons of explosives.
Tetryon pulse launchers
and isomagnetic disintegrators.
- A hunting trip?
- Return to your quarters.
- That's an order.
- No uniform, no orders.
How can l look at a sunrise, knowing
what my sight cost these people?
Exposure could stimulate rebellious
instincts common to youth -
- which would affect everyone's
judgment ... except mine.
What do you think we should do?
Saddle up.
Lock and load.
They won't begin the procedure
while the planet is inhabited.
Our job is to keep
the planet inhabited.
We'll show what's happening here.
Make the Council see the Ba'ku.
Then it won't be so easy to
turn a blind eye to their suffering.
- I'll be back before you know it.
- We'll hold out as long as we can.- I'll be back before you know it.
- We'll hold out as long as we can.
The injector performs perfectly
in every simulation.
The Enterprise left orbit, but a
support craft is on the surface.
It's the Captain's yacht.
Five persons on board.
We're not waiting. Get everyone
off the surface tonight.
Gallatin.
If Picard or any of his people
interfere ... eliminate them.
We're leaving the village.
Take only what you need.
Bring food.
We may not be back for days.
It's a transport inhibitor.
It will prevent anyone
being beamed off the surface.
Kelbonite in the hills will
interfere with their transporters.
Where there aren't any deposits
we'll use transport inhibitors.
The mountains are full of kelbonite.
- Transport will be difficult there.
- There are caves in the mountains.
Good, but they're not going
to make it easy for us to get there.
Captain, we activated the transport
inhibitors around the village.
Move these people out!
- The transporters won't function.
- They're using inhibitors.
Locate and destroy them.
You're carrying too much.
We have a long climb ahead of us.
Three transport inhibitors down.
There's a gap in the field.
Father!
Kelbonite deposits
are blocking our transporters.
- Recommendations?
- Let me talk to Picard.
Talk! We should send down