Editing Angel One (section)

== Plot ==
The [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|''Enterprise'']] arrives at the planet Angel One, which is ruled by an [[oligarchy]] of women. The ship is looking for survivors from the shipwrecked freighter ''Odin'', seven-plus years after having been evacuated. The freighter was missing three escape pods and the only planet in range was Angel One. An away team consisting of Commander [[William Riker]] ([[Jonathan Frakes]]), Lt. Commander [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]] ([[Brent Spiner]]), Lt. [[Tasha Yar]] ([[Denise Crosby]]), and Counselor [[Deanna Troi]] ([[Marina Sirtis]]) beam down to the surface. They attempt to negotiate with Beata ([[Karen Montgomery]]), the "Elected One" of the native inhabitants, to let them search for the survivors. Time is of the essence however, as the ''Enterprise'' must travel to a Federation outpost near the [[Romulan Neutral Zone]] (where a group of Romulan Battlecruisers has been detected) as soon as they resolve their investigation into the ''Odin'' survivors.

Beata reveals that they are aware of four male survivors of the ''Odin'' who have caused disruption in their society, and are considered fugitives. Beata requests Riker stay with her (and later requests that he order Troi, Data, and Yar to track down the survivors' camp and their leader Ramsey ([[Sam Hennings]]), while staying and dining with her). After some back and forth, Data concludes Ramsey and the survivors of the ''Odin'' would have platinum with them, and Angel One is naturally devoid of platinum, allowing the ''Enterprise'' to easily detect them. Meanwhile, Riker dresses in the garb given to him for his dinner with Beata, Troi and Yar tease him for dressing in clothes that sexualize him and in some ways demean him, not knowing that Riker is only doing so to win favor with Beata. He insists he's only honoring the local customs, acknowledges Beata's beauty and claims to find the loose, revealing garb rather comfortable.

The ''Enterprise'' searches while in orbit around Angel One. Doctor [[Beverly Crusher]] ([[Gates McFadden]]) relieves Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] ([[Patrick Stewart]]) of duty after he and most of the crew have fallen ill to a random virus on board, one which emits a scent detected by its victims at time of infection. The Captain leaves Lieutenant [[Geordi La Forge]] ([[Levar Burton|LeVar Burton]]) in command (Geordi's first time in acting command of a starship). Shortly after they find Ramsey, he transmits Ramsey's location to the Away Team who beam directly to his location.

When confronted by Data, Yar, and Troi with rescue, Ramsey and his men (having taken wives and started families during the intervening seven years) refuse to leave. Geordi informs Yar of the medical situation on board and that more Romulan ships have been detected near the Neutral Zone. Meanwhile, Riker learns from Beata that their social structure had already started collapsing, though Ramsey and his men have served to accelerate its decline. Riker argues that it may just be the course of evolution taking place. On the Enterprise, systems are becoming harder to maintain with more crew succumbing to the virus. Geordi (after a friendly reminder from a sniffling [[Worf]] ([[Michael Dorn]])) remembers that in command, he must delegate tasks so as to remain on the bridge. Dr. Crusher determines that the virus spreads by generating sweet-smelling particulates in order to entice deep inhalation, which then become infectious once inside the body.

Riker gets up to date with the situation, then decides that, while Ramsey and his group are at large and refusing to leave the planet, there is little they can do. Before leaving, they find that one of Beata's assistants, Ariel ([[Patricia McPherson]]), was secretly married to Ramsey. Ariel was followed by Beata's guards to their camp, where they arrested the survivors and their families. The Away Team attempt to explain to Beata the reason for Ramsey's refusal to leave. Beata and her council reject his reasoning and threaten to execute them the following day. After failing to persuade Ramsey and his group to leave with them, Riker contacts the ''Enterprise'' in hopes of transporting them without their consent, a severe violation of Starfleet protocol, but Dr. Crusher forbids anyone from beaming up to the ship for fear of spreading the virus. She does allow Data to return since his android construction renders him immune, and Riker orders him to take command and get the ''Enterprise'' to the Neutral Zone before it is too late.

The following morning, the away team is invited to witness the execution of Ramsey and his followers. Moments after Riker rejects their invitation, Data makes contact and informs them that there is a 48-minute window in which Dr. Crusher has to find a cure and Riker must defuse the situation on the planet, before the ship must leave for the Neutral Zone. On the planet, Ramsey and his men are prepared to be executed despite Ariel's pleas, while Dr. Crusher discovers a cure for the virus. Riker suggests to Beata that the dissidents are not trying to overthrow the societal order on Angel One, but have instead set off an inevitable change in it. Executing them, he says, will create martyrs and worsen the situation. Beata stays the execution, but exiles Ramsey, his men, their families, and all who support them to a remote region of the planet. She explains that the banishment will not prevent the disintegration of the oligarchy, but will greatly slow it down, and compliments Riker for showing great cleverness despite being a male.

The away team return to the ship and Picard, already recovering from the virus but hardly having a voice, orders the ship to the Neutral Zone at high warp.