Pen Pals story
The Prime Directive is threatened when Data befriends the child of a pre-warp planet.
21 total · 4 choice · 12 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| compassion | choice | Data :: Data at Sarjenka |
| duty vs. compassion | choice | Picard :: Data, seconded by Picard, violates Prime Directive to save Sarjenka |
| kindness | choice | Data :: Data to Sarjenka |
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | choice | Picard :: Data, seconded by Picard, violates Prime Directive to save Sarjenka |
| adolescence | major | Wesley :: Wesley |
| AI point of view | major | Data :: Data |
| cooperation | major | Wesley must cooperate with team members |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | major | Data :: Data at Sarjenka |
| coping with being separated from one's family | major | Sarjenka :: Sarjenka |
| friendship | major | Data/Sarjenka :: Data helped save a young alien girl whom he had befriended from dying in a volcanic cataclysm in direct violation of the Prime Directive. |