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T'Jon and Romas are feeling fine.
In fact, too fine.
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Felicium's a narcotic.
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Then T'Jon and Romas
and everyone on their world...
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Is a drug addict.
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It's a fascinating tale
we've come across.
:29:30
You've piqued my interest.
Please continue.
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- Data, what have we got?
- Several thousand years ago,
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the two planets took different paths.
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Ornara became technologically
sophisticated, Brekka did not.
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200 years ago, Ornara was stricken
by a devastating plague.
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Their advanced technology
could provide no solution.
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Somehow, and there is limited
information on this point,
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a cure was found in a plant
indigenous only to Brekka,
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which rejected all attempts
at cultivation on Ornara.
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A trading situation developed
which still exists.
:30:04
- A nice deal for the Brekkians.
- And the Ornarans.
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- Without the medicine, they'd die.
- No, they wouldn't.
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Despite what the Ornarans say,
it is not a medicine.
:30:14
It was a medicine, but it cured
the plague 200 years ago.
:30:18
The plague is irrelevant now.
It doesn't exist.
:30:21
Why are they so desperate
for felicium?
:30:24
It's an addiction.
:30:25
The physiological and psychological
need is very real.
:30:32
Thank you.
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- What are you going to do?
- There's nothing I can do.
:30:38
You don't think drug addiction
and exploitation
:30:41
is sufficient cause to do something?
:30:43
This situation has existed
for a long time.
:30:46
These two societies are intertwined
in a symbiotic relationship.
:30:52
With one society profiting
at the expense of the other.
:30:55
That's how you see it.
:30:59
I can synthesise
a non-addictive substitute