A bunch of Federation colonists are on the wrong planet and Data has to convince them to evacuate before they are exterminated. Sometimes being exceedingly honest can bring disaster.

Staff writer Melinda Snodgrass is back with all kinds of emotional baggage and legal procedural piggybacked onto Star Trek when she’d be better off writing for Dick Wolf. I wish she’d just stop.  Star Trek is not Law and Order.

I summarize the plot and point out and explain all the references so you don’t have to.