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Clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) - Skin of Evil (S01E01)

"One of life's little ironies, captain."
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"But one we'd be fools not to take advantage of."
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"It's mutually beneficial."
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"The Ornarans provide us with the necessities of life,"
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"and we provide them with the necessities of living."
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"It is a fair exchange."
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"Interesting relationship."
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"Excuse me. l'll take that to Sickbay."
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"CRUSHER: Can l help? T'JON: No."
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"I'm fine now."
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"[DOOR CHIMES]"
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"PICARD: Come."
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"Doctor."
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"I may not know felicium's full effect on Ornaran physiology,"
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"but l know how to interpret physical reactions."
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"Are the Ornarans recovering?"
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"T'Jon and Romas are feeling fine."
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"In fact, too fine."
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"Felicium's a narcotic."
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"Then T'Jon and Romas and everyone on their world..."
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"Is a drug addict."
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"You'll find it's a fascinating tale that we've come across here."
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"Data, what have we got?"
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"Beginning several thousand years ago, the two planets took different paths."
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"Brekka did not."
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"Then 200 years ago, Ornara was stricken by a devastating plague."
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"Their advanced technology could provide no solution."
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"DATA: Somehow, and there is limited information on this point,"
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"a cure was found in a plant indigenous only to Brekka,"
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"and which rejected all attempts at cultivation on Ornara."
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"In any case, a trading situation developed which still exists."
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"A nice arrangement for the Brekkians."
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"And for the Ornarans. Without the medicine, they would all die."
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"It was a medicine, but it cured the plague 200 years ago."
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"The plague is irrelevant now. It doesn't exist."
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"Then why are they so desperate for the felicium?"
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"It's an addiction."
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"The physical and psychological need is very real."
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"Thank you."
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"What are you going to do?"
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"Based on what we know so far, there's nothing l can do."
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"You don't think drug addiction and exploitation"
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"is sufficient cause to do something?"
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"This situation has existed for a very long time."
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"That's how you see it."
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"I can synthesize a non-addictive substitute"
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"which will ease their withdrawal symptoms."
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"No. I can't do that, either."
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"You can't let them have the felicium."
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"Why? Because it offends against our sensibilities?"
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"on any others in the galaxy."
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"Well, in this case, captain, I disagree 1 00 percent."
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"The signal is ragged, but l think I can put it on the view screen."
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"PICARD: Do it."
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"Some of them, yes."
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"May l speak to them?"
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"Yes. Lieutenant Yar, have the Ornarans brought in."
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"No, wait."
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"I don't want them to have access to the Bridge."
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"I will continue this in the guest quarters. Commander, doctor."
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"Data, l can understand how this could happen to the Ornarans."
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"become dependent on a chemical."
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"Voluntary addiction to drugs is a recurrent theme in many cultures."
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"Wesley, no one wants to become dependent. That happens later."
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"But it does happen, so why do people start?"
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"that, for some, the only escape was through drugs."
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"How can a chemical substance provide an escape?"
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"It doesn't."
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"But it makes you think it does."
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"You have to understand, drugs can make you feel good."
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"They make you feel on top of the world."
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"You're happy, sure of yourself, in control."
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"But it's artificial."
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"Then you pay the price."
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"Before you know it, you're taking the drug not to feel good,"
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"but to keep from feeling bad."
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"And that's the trap."
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"TASHA: All you care about is getting your next dosage."
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"Nothing else matters."
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"I guess l just don't understand."
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"PICARD [OVER lNTERCOM]: Lieutenant Yar, we're ready."
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"Do you have it?"
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"Yes, it is here, but..."
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"You've gotta get it to us."
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"T'Jon, please, we're dying down here."
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"You don't know. lt's worse than it's ever been before."
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"I'm doing everything l can."
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"You see, what happened, well, was--"
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"T'Jon, there's so many people here. So much suffering."
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"We need the medicine. You've got to get it to us."
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"Help, T'Jon."
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"Please."
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"I'm sorry."
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"[ELECTRlCTY BUZZING]"
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"It doesn't matter whether we're entitled to it or not."
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"Help us, please."
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"I'm not sure that I can."
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"My insides are still shaking, but l'm all right."
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"Captain Picard, could l see you a moment?"
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"Come with me, doctor. This could be interesting."
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"LANGOR: We have thought about this a great deal."
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"We both feel deeply about what is happening on Ornara."
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"And although it is going to cause hardship to us and to our people,"
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"we have decided to give the felicium to them."
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"They can pay whenever they are able."
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"There goes the other shoe."
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"- They know. - What do they know?"
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"They know that the Ornarans no longer have the plague."
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"They know that felicium is no longer a medicine."
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"So of course they are willing to give this shipment,"
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"because they don't want to take the chance"
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"that the Ornarans will lose their addiction."
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"They don't want to lose their only customers."
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"How would they have known all that"
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"unless the plague had once infected their planet as well?"
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"They were infected."
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"They used the felicium to cure themselves,"
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"but somehow their ancestors realized that it was a narcotic."
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"CRUSHER: They broke the cycle of addiction and never told the Ornarans."
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"PICARD: Oh, I think it's worse than that."
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