It's not hard to tell where the story came from for this episode. It does have one thing going for it - the humor. For that and only that I give it 5 stars. Everything else about it is ridiculousness. Ardra's entire case (in an unintentionally comical courtroom setting) is based upon her argument that no one can prove her wrong. Nowhere in the universe does that a case make. Even though Picard never believes her he and the Enterprise almost get hoodwinked into submission by a space pirate with a record 5 miles long. I guess there's no Interpol in future space. At any rate, the entire predicament could have been ended with three simple words:
PHASER ON STUN.
PHASER ON STUN.