Up The Long Ladder story
Picard must find a way to bring two radically incompatible cultures together, lest both of them suffer extinction.
23 total · 4 choice · 8 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cooperation | choice | the Bringloidi and Mariposans must mate together to survive |
| genetic engineering utopia | choice | The Mariposans were genetically engineered clones, descended from the five sole survivors of a crew of mostly scientists that had crash-landed on the planet that the Mariposans now called home. They saw themselves as an ideal society, but were in desperate need of new breeding stock. |
| human cloning in society | choice | Riker was appalled to find that he had been surreptitiously cloned. |
| neo-Luddist utopia | choice | Bringloidi :: The Bringloidi lived in pastoral bliss. |
| abortion | major | Riker wanted to abort his clone |
| biotechnological risk to civilization | major | A colony of clones, known as the Mariposans, were within a few generations of dying out because of replicative fading (i.e. each subsequent generation introduces additional minor flaws in the genetic code). |
| desperation | major | Mariposans clone Riker in a desperate bid to increases their breeding stock |
| doctor-patient confidentiality | major | Pulaski helped Worf save face by not disclosing to the crew that he was sick |
| human cloning | major | Mariposans rely on cloning to reproduce |
| interfactional mediation | major | Picard between Bringloidi and Mariposans |