Justice
- Episode aired Nov 7, 1987
- TV-PG
- 46m
On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.
- 2nd Edo Boy
- (as David Micahael Graves)
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- TriviaThe filming location was right under the flight path of Van Nuys municipal airport, which meant that airplanes were constantly flying over the heads of the actors, and the entire scenes filmed there had to be re-dubbed in post production.
- GoofsPicard states that the Prime Directive was never intended for a member of any starship crew to lose their life, but it is often stated in TNG that the Prime Directive is more important even than an entire starship crew, that members of Starfleet are prepared to lay down their lives to protect it.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible to do so... but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And so I say to any creature who may be listening: There can be no justice, so long as laws are absolute. Life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
Edo God (voice): [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE] How can there be justice, unless laws are consistent? Was it not one of your own people who said, "Lawlessness anywhere endangers lawfulness everywhere"? Without absolute law, my people would be inundated with exceptions: appeals, plea bargains - I believe your people have a term for it - with "red tape". Nobody could be punished for anything anymore. Thus, if I yield to these requests of yours, what will you yield in return?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Shades of Gray (1989)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
However in this episode of TNG it is just completely over the top. The away team (including a minor) transports to what I can only describe as a planetary swingers club. The dubbed-in moaning background noises in some scenes is just plain ridiculous. The rerefences to sexual encounters that have happened or are about to happen are so overt they lose all charm.
The other (or main?) message of the episode is about the prime directive, but is is pretty much botched. It could have been good, Picard being in a predicament needing to choose between the life of the one versus the life of the many, weighed against the importance of the directive. But since it was all storied in such a stupid way, I find it an opportunity missed. Bad and lazy writing, really.
- j-m-d-b
- Feb 26, 2023
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1