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Did the ruling in "Measure of a Man" have any effect beyond Data?
In light of later episodes and Picard, I am confused as to whether the effect of the ruling of the hearing in the TNG episode "Measure of a Man" was strictly confined inter partes or if it ...
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Why is Guinan allowed to have a non-Starfleet issued rifle?
In the Star Trek TNG episode: Night Terrors, we see Guinan using a rifle in order to break up a brawl at Ten Forward:
In a hilarious piece of dialog she immediately admits that this rifle is not ...
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Are Federation citizens and/or Starfleet officers allowed to replace healthy organs with bionics if they choose to?
Throughout Star Trek's run we see common use of medical bionics to replace unhealthy organs: Picard has a artificial heart where his was stabbed by a Nausicaan, Geordie has artificial eyes to ...
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How did Ro Laren join Starfleet?
As I was reading:
Can non-Federation members join Starfleet?
I wondered, "What about Ro Laren?" (after all, Bajor was not under Federation "tutelage" at that time). So I checked the Memory Alpha ...
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Was Picard guilty of murder in First Contact?
From Memory Alpha:
Rushing to a Jefferies tube, Picard sees a crewman begging for help as Borg technology starts to take over his body and, believing he is saving him from a worse fate, shoots him ...
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Why doesn't the Federation have a law for genocide?
In The Survivors, Picard makes the following statement towards Kevin Uxbridge:
We are not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime. You're free to return to the planet, and to ...
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