Stardate: 41235.25
Original Air Date: October 12, 1987
Writers: Katharyn Powers & Michael Baron
Director: Russ Mayberry
“Yours is a different world.”
The Enterprise has arrived at Ligon II, a planet which is the source of a rare vaccine needed elsewhere on a Federation planet called Styris IV, currently suffering from an outbreak of the plague. Starfleet has instructed Picard to make a friendly visit to Ligon II in the hopes of entering into treaty negotiations in order to acquire the needed “medicinal substance.”
When the Enterprise enters standard orbit, a Ligonian party beams aboard the ship using its own technology. They offer Picard a small sample of the material needed for the vaccine. Here, the episode begins to go off the rails –while the Ligonians reside in a highly structured society similar to an ancient society on earth, they are also extremely proud, almost to the point…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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