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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: After several instances of being forcibly hung up on by the Sheliak and frantically trying to reopen communications, Picard finds the loophole that allows him to close negotiations and hang up on ''them,'' and decides to let them twist in the wind for a minute or so when they call back.
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** The Sheliak regard humans as lower life forms, regarding the English language as ridiculously imprecise and describing the colony on Tau Cygna V as an "infestation" to be eradicated if the Federation won't remove them, making no concessions even when it becomes clear that it physically can't be done in the time aloted. The Sheliak commander Picard meets with treats his objection to the possible massacre of over 15,000 people as an annoying outburst that proves the meeting to be a waste of time.
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** The Sheliak regard humans as lower life forms, regarding the English language as ridiculously imprecise and describing the colony on Tau Cygna V as an "infestation" to be eradicated if the Federation won't remove them, making no concessions even when it becomes clear that it physically can't be done in the time aloted.allotted. The Sheliak commander Picard meets with treats his objection to the possible massacre of over 15,000 people as an annoying outburst that proves the meeting to be a waste of time.
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* AppealToForce: Played with (it manages to avoid becoming a LogicalFallacy because of the way it's used). Data initially tries persuasion to get the colonists to agree to leave, but his efforts are stymied until Gosheven finally loses patience and shocks him unconscious. Upon waking up, Data realizes that he needs to show the colonists what their stubbornness will earn them, so he fixes his phaser and uses it to destroy the pumping station. He then explains that if one android with a phaser can cause so much trouble, thousands of Sheliak and their starships will do far worse.
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* AppealToForce: Played with (it manages to avoid becoming a LogicalFallacy UsefulNotes/{{Logical Fallac|ies}}y because of the way it's used). Data initially tries persuasion to get the colonists to agree to leave, but his efforts are stymied until Gosheven finally loses patience and shocks him unconscious. Upon waking up, Data realizes that he needs to show the colonists what their stubbornness will earn them, so he fixes his phaser and uses it to destroy the pumping station. He then explains that if one android with a phaser can cause so much trouble, thousands of Sheliak and their starships will do far worse.
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* HiddenDepths: O'Brien can play the cello.
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* HiddenDepths: O'Brien can play the cello. (That's really Colm Meaney playing; he's even performed with the London Symphony Orchestra.)
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* TheVoiceless: O'Brien appears in several scenes, but has no lines.
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* TheVoiceless: O'Brien appears in several scenes, but has no lines.lines, only an audible grunt at one point.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: The show keeps Data down on the planet, as with him on the ship he'd have scanned the entire treaty in a flash and solved the problem instantly.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: DramaPreservingHandicap:
** The show keeps Data down on the planet, as with him on the ship he'd have scanned the entire treaty in a flash and solved the probleminstantly.instantly.
** And on the inverse, Data alone must convince the colonists to go along with the evacuation plan as the Tau Cygna Five as the planet's atmopshere is filled with hyperonic radiation which is fatal to everyone on the ship apart from Data, since he's an android.
** The show keeps Data down on the planet, as with him on the ship he'd have scanned the entire treaty in a flash and solved the problem
** And on the inverse, Data alone must convince the colonists to go along with the evacuation plan as the Tau Cygna Five as the planet's atmopshere is filled with hyperonic radiation which is fatal to everyone on the ship apart from Data, since he's an android.
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* BrickJoke: As described below, Geordi, O'Brien and Wesley spend the episode trying to figure out a way to beam up the people from the planet in an attempt to speed up the evacuation and only having increasingly less mangled transported metal tubes to show for it. By the time the immediate threat has passed with the colonists having been given enough time to wait for the Federation transport ship, Geordi reports in and tells Picard that they've figured out a solution for their problem, but states that it'll take at least 15 years and 100 Federation scientists to accomplish, at which point Picard tells him to put the plan on hold for now.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: The crew knew there were humans on the planet, but not that there are 15,253 of them.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: The crew knew there were humans on the planet, but not that there are 15,253 of them.them, expecting a few dozen at most.
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In the planet, Ard'rian manages to awaken Data. Goshoven's assault on him has convinced him that actions speak louder than words, so he decides to resort to extreme action. He attacks the colony's aqueduct, easily stunning all of the colony's local defenders before blowing it up with his hand phaser, showing just how defenseless the colony is to a Sheliak attack. The colonists are finally convinced that staying and fighting would be pointless suicide and agree to evacuate. Before leaving, Ard'rian tries to see if Data has any romantic feelings for her at all, but he admits that he has no feelings whatsoever.
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* WhiteGloveTest: After hanging up on the Sheliak, Picard strolls around the bridge to let the Sheliak's own hail go unanswered checking the ship's dedication plaque for dust while meandering.
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* WhiteGloveTest: After hanging up on the Sheliak, Picard strolls around the bridge to let the Sheliak's own hail go unanswered unanswered, checking the ship's dedication plaque for dust while meandering.
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* WhiteGloveTest: After hanging up on the Sheliak, Picard strolls around the bridge and checks the ship's dedication plaque for dust.
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* WhiteGloveTest: After hanging up on the Sheliak, Picard strolls around the bridge and checks to let the Sheliak's own hail go unanswered checking the ship's dedication plaque for dust. dust while meandering.
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* AnAesop: Data spells it out for Gosheven when pointing to their beloved aqueduct: "That is a thing. Things can be replaced. Lives cannot."
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* AnAesop: Data spells it out for Gosheven when pointing to their beloved aqueduct: "That "This is just a thing. Things thing, and things can be replaced. Lives cannot."
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* BadassBureaucrat: Picard buys the time necessary to evacuate the colony not by fighting the Sheliak (though he's willing to if it comes to that), but by using their own treaty against them, turning the tables so effectively that the Sheliak have no choice but to acquiesce.
* BatmanGambit: Data has Ard'rian tell Gosheven about his plan to destroy the aqueduct, knowing that this will make Gosheven mount a defense, allowing Data to prove just how outmatched the colonists would be against the Sheliak.
* BatmanGambit: Data has Ard'rian tell Gosheven about his plan to destroy the aqueduct, knowing that this will make Gosheven mount a defense, allowing Data to prove just how outmatched the colonists would be against the Sheliak.
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* BrutalHonesty: Before the concert, Data tells Picard and Crusher up front that his co-chairs have described his playing as without feeling; [[DiscussedTrope Picard points out]] that too much honesty isn't always a good thing, especially from a commander.
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* EasilySwayedPopulation: The colonists on Tau Cygna V bounce back and forth between supporting Gosheven or Data depending on who has the upper hand.
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* FantasticRacism:
** The Sheliak regard humans as lower life forms, regarding the English language as ridiculously imprecise and describing the colony on Tau Cygna V as an "infestation" to be eradicated if the Federation won't remove them, making no concessions even when it becomes clear that it physically can't be done in the time aloted. The Sheliak commander Picard meets with treats his objection to the possible massacre of over 15,000 people as an annoying outburst that proves the meeting to be a waste of time.
** Gosheven starts out biased against Data simply because he is an android, and when Data refuses to relent in trying to get the colonists to leave, Gosheven attacks him with an electrical device to "deactivate" him, blithely disregarding any objections that he could have killed Data.
* FatalFlaw: Gosheven's {{pride}} would have resulted in the deaths of himself and over 15,000 others if Data hadn't managed to drive his point home in an undeniable fashion.
** The Sheliak regard humans as lower life forms, regarding the English language as ridiculously imprecise and describing the colony on Tau Cygna V as an "infestation" to be eradicated if the Federation won't remove them, making no concessions even when it becomes clear that it physically can't be done in the time aloted. The Sheliak commander Picard meets with treats his objection to the possible massacre of over 15,000 people as an annoying outburst that proves the meeting to be a waste of time.
** Gosheven starts out biased against Data simply because he is an android, and when Data refuses to relent in trying to get the colonists to leave, Gosheven attacks him with an electrical device to "deactivate" him, blithely disregarding any objections that he could have killed Data.
* FatalFlaw: Gosheven's {{pride}} would have resulted in the deaths of himself and over 15,000 others if Data hadn't managed to drive his point home in an undeniable fashion.
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* IRejectYourReality: Despite believing Data about the Sheliak threat, Gosheven proves too stubborn to accept that it's a threat that cannot be overcome or even challenged, preferring to believe that the emotionless Data is too cowardly to fight and too stubborn to accept when he's lost. It's only when Data shows the cold, hard fact of the matter that he accepts reality.
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** Despite Ard'rian's preference for the rational impartiality of machines compared to humans, the mechanical Data gets nowhere until he starts shooting things, while the human Picard saves the day by out-reasoning the Sheliak.
** After praising Data's machine nature for making him impartial and rational compared to humans, Ard'rian is disheartened to realise that that same nature makes him incapable of returning [[{{Robosexual}} her feelings]], though she's amused to find that Data kissing her to improve her mood was entirely rational.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gosheven is incredibly bullheaded and arrogant, disregarding Data as nothing but a machine and trying to kill him when simply dismissing his warnings doesn't get him to leave. It isn't until Data proves how purely outmatched the colonists would be in a fight with the Sheliak that he shows some decency, accepting Data's point and proving that his people matter more to him than his pride.
* KickTheDog: Gosheven calls Data a coward for insisting that the colonists evacuate instead of fighting the Sheliak, and when Data keeps trying to appeal to the colonists, Gosheven attacks him, neither knowing nor caring if Data would survive.
* LackOfEmpathy: As the Sheliak regard humans as a lower life form (if it hadn't been for their treaty with the Federation, they'd have destroyed the colony as soon as they discovered it), the Sheliak commander doesn't consider the physical impossibility of evacuating the colonists to be of any importance; if the ''Enterprise'' can't remove them, [[DeadlyEuphemism the Sheliak will]].
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** Despite Ard'rian's preference for the rational impartiality of machines compared to humans, the mechanical Data gets nowhere until he starts shooting things, while the human Picard saves the day by out-reasoning the Sheliak.
** After praising Data's machine nature for making him impartial and rational compared to humans, Ard'rian is disheartened to realise that that same nature makes him incapable of returning [[{{Robosexual}} her feelings]], though she's amused to find that Data kissing her to improve her mood was entirely rational.
* {{Jerkass}}: Gosheven is incredibly bullheaded and arrogant, disregarding Data as nothing but a machine and trying to kill him when simply dismissing his warnings doesn't get him to leave. It isn't until Data proves how purely outmatched the colonists would be in a fight with the Sheliak that he shows some decency, accepting Data's point and proving that his people matter more to him than his pride.
* KickTheDog: Gosheven calls Data a coward for insisting that the colonists evacuate instead of fighting the Sheliak, and when Data keeps trying to appeal to the colonists, Gosheven attacks him, neither knowing nor caring if Data would survive.
* LackOfEmpathy: As the Sheliak regard humans as a lower life form (if it hadn't been for their treaty with the Federation, they'd have destroyed the colony as soon as they discovered it), the Sheliak commander doesn't consider the physical impossibility of evacuating the colonists to be of any importance; if the ''Enterprise'' can't remove them, [[DeadlyEuphemism the Sheliak will]].
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* PsychologicalProjection: Gosheven describes Data's refusal to give up on evacuating the colony as stubbornness and refusal to accept defeat, then proves (and, in fairness, admits) to have the same qualities by deactivating Data instead of continuing to debate with him.
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* SunkCostFallacy: One of the arguments Gosheven uses to try and justify staying despite the danger is that they've spent 90 years building the colony, with Gosheven's own grandfather dying to build the aqueduct and being buried on the mountain (Ard'rian's response to hearing this suggests Gosheven uses that argument frequently). After Data proves how quickly and easily the fruits of that labour can be destroyed, he points out the flaw in the argument; however impressive or costly the efforts were, the things the colonists built are only things, and unlike their lives, can be replaced.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Discussed by Picard and Troi. The Sheliak have radically different thought processes from humans, and Troi points out that the fact they can communicate with them at all is fairly remarkable.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Discussed by Picard and Troi. The Sheliak have radically different thought processes from humans, and Troi points out that in general the fact they that different species can communicate with them each other at all is fairly remarkable.
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Meanwhile, Data journeys down to the surface to prepare the colonists for evacuation in some form or another. To his surprise, the colony's leader, Gosheven, rejects the idea of abandoning the colony that their ancestors sacrificed so much to build. But Data does find one sympathetic colonist in Ard'rian, an attractive young robotics enthusiast, who quickly takes both a professional and personal shine to the android. Data struggles to find some way to convince the colonists to save their skins, but Gosheven is simply more persuasive. Finally Ard'rian convinces Data to use ReversePsychology, and he reasons, "Too much honesty can be a bad thing." However, even that ploy only manages to bring a handful of colonists to his side.
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Meanwhile, Data journeys down to the surface to prepare the colonists for evacuation in some form or another. To his surprise, the colony's leader, Gosheven, rejects the idea of abandoning the colony that their ancestors sacrificed so much to build. But Data does find one sympathetic colonist in Ard'rian, an attractive young robotics enthusiast, who quickly takes both a professional and personal shine to the android. Data struggles to find some way to convince the colonists to save their skins, but Gosheven is simply more persuasive. Finally Ard'rian convinces Data to use ReversePsychology, and he reasons, "Too much honesty can be a bad thing." However, even that ploy only manages to bring a handful of colonists to his side.
side, and Goshoven crashes their meeting, assaulting Data with a tool that knocks him out with a burst of electricity.
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In the planet, Data Ard'rian manages to awaken Data. Goshoven's assault on him has come convinced him that actions speak louder than words, so he decides to his final recourse. resort to extreme action. He attacks the colony's aqueduct, easily stunning all of the colony's local defenders, defenders before blowing it up with his hand phaser, showing just how defenseless the colony is to a Sheliak attack. The colonists are finally convinced that staying and fighting would be pointless suicide and agree to evacuate. Before leaving, Ard'rian tries to see if Data has any romantic feelings for her at all, but he admits that he has no feelings whatsoever.
