Justice story
Wesley breaks an idyllic world's trivial law by accidentally stepping on flowers and faces the death sentence.
28 total · 5 choice · 9 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| capital punishment | choice | Should Wesley be executed for disturbing a flower bed? |
| conflict of cultural norms | choice | The humans could not stand idly by as the Edo subjected Wesley to their draconian punishment for a minor infringement: death for stepping in a flower bed. |
| free love utopia | choice | Edo free love fest |
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | choice | Captain Picard weighed violating Prime Directive to save Wesley from execution. |
| the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law | choice | should Wesley be executed for disturbing a flower bed? |
| adolescence | major | Wesley :: Wesley |
| alien overseers | major | Edo society was regulated by a God-like alien |
| alien point of view | major | Edo God and Edo |
| conflicting systems of jurisprudence | major | Federation and Edo justice systems |
| duty vs. compassion | major | Picard about Wesley's fate |