Title: The Imzadi Files - Justice

 

Author: Rising Sun

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Rated: PG-13

Summary: The Prime Directive forces Captain Picard to make a difficult decision.

Classification: Riker/Troi

Disclaimer: Star Trek: The Next Generation characters portrayed belong to Roddenberry Productions and Paramount Television. No copyright infringement intended.  All other characters depicted are purely fictional and any similarities to actual people are purely coincidental.

 

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Story Written January 8, 2002

Personal Log – Deanna Troi

 

We were orbiting Rubicon III and though because of its innocence it will never rival Riza the place is a paradise of and for the flesh.  The welcome there is highly sensual and suggestive.  Everyone was responding yours truly included. Even Wesley Crusher was enthralled for there were young people his age and females among them too!

 

These people were perfect specimens or as near to perfect as a humanoid can get.  When he returned from the first visit planet side Will was all smiles. The erotic waves that emanated from him were forceful, familiar and frightening.  The last time I read those emotions off him I was in his arms and it wasn’t for a platonic brother sister hug!

 

I visited Rubicon III on the next team and I had barely transported when all become clear.  A woman … delectable creature walked up to him and gave him a hug usually exchanged between REAL familiar friends. As I digested that and registered first his pleasure then his discomfort I was confronted with my own welcome hug. Had I got that welcome from Will I would have expected it to follow with a kiss and much more. As it was the hug ended there… well at least until the whole team was welcomed.

 

I was turned on with no outlet – a version of hell I assume.

 

Wes went off exploring. The remaining adults did a little business or maybe I should say that we did as little business as possible then separated to go exploring in an effort to find out more about this world.  I suspect that some of us wanted a bit more hugging. J

 

Call me superstitious but I should have known that it was too good to be true.  As the Ferengie say ‘If it looks too good to be true then it is.”  As we began to settle in to this Paradise we found out why it was a paradise.  Tasha came running up with the horrific story that the penalty for everything from walking on the grass to murder was death!  We soon had the proof of it as Wesley Crusher missed his footing running for a ball, slipped and fell into a patch of flowers.  The sentence? Uh huh – death!

 

I felt Beverly’s pain and anguish.  Dr. Beverly Crusher is Wes’ mother. I don’t know if it was empathic or just friendship but from the orbiting ship way above us I knew … I felt that she was facing hell.  Captain Picard in the mean time was forced to choose between his friendship with the Crushers and the Prime Directive.  The Directive specifically states that we must not interfere with the development of other cultures. But at what price!

 

I didn’t have the decision to make but as I consulted with the Captain on the matter and I felt the pain of the boy’s mother I was overwhelmed at what we had to face. The feelings of crew were as one. First that of shock that a young life not well started yet should be taken for stepping on flowers, then anger at the fact that he may indeed die if the Prime Directive were to be upheld.

 

I needed a vent and instinctively I turned to my Imzadi. He and I will never be completely disentangled of each other… not the way we continue to intuitively turn to each other when under stress.  Turns out that he was as much in need of me as a vent as I was of him.  Intellectually we understood the dilemma but try logic when the heart is in control. The exercise is futile.  

 

In the end the Captain with the complete support of Officers and Crew made the decision to save the boy’s life and to break not only the Prime Directive but the to evade the laws of Rubicon III.

 

Computer save file.