:37:01
We don't want to be responsible
for their suffering.
:37:05
There goes the other shoe.
:37:08
- They know.
- What do they know?
:37:10
That Ornarans
no longer have the plague,
:37:13
that felicium
is no longer a medicine.
:37:16
So, of course they are willing
to give this shipment.
:37:20
They don't want the Ornarans
to lose their addiction.
:37:24
They don't want
to lose their only customers.
:37:27
How would they have known all that
unless they once had the plague, too?
:37:32
They were infected. They used
the felicium to cure themselves,
:37:36
but their ancestors realised
that it was a narcotic.
:37:40
They broke the cycle of addiction
and never told the Ornarans.
:37:43
They let them believe that without
the felicium they would die.
:37:47
I think it's worse than that.
:37:49
I guess this refining process
of which you are so proud...
:37:53
..is only to increase the potency of
the felicium and tighten your grip!
:38:00
- What are you going to do?
- Will you tell them?
:38:04
No. I'm bound by the rules of
the United Federation of Planets,
:38:08
which order me not to interfere
with other worlds, other cultures.
:38:12
If I were to tell them,
I'd violate the Prime Directive.
:38:15
But you are talking to us about it.
:38:19
This is information you already know.
And so nothing has changed.
:38:24
If you can't interfere,
you are going to allow the Ornarans
:38:28
to have the felicium?
:38:31
- Yes, I am.
- No! Don't do it.
:38:35
Jean-Luc, this is not
a symbiotic relationship.
:38:38
This is exploitation,
pure and simple!
:38:41
The Brekkians
have caused this suffering
:38:43
only to make
their pitiful lives easier!
:38:46
And all of it based on a lie!
:38:49
No, deny them this shipment.
It is the least we can do.
:38:54
From the moment they agreed to give
the felicium, my hands were tied.
:38:58
You are absolutely right, Captain.
It's not your business.