:45:00
We'll be restoring them
to their natural evolution.
:45:04
Who the hell are we to determine
the course of evolution?
:45:09
There are 600 people there.
:45:11
The regenerative properties of
this radiation could help billions.
:45:17
The Son'a can collect metaphasic
particles from the planet's rings.
:45:22
- The planet is in Federation space.
- Our planet, their technology.
:45:28
A technology we can't duplicate.
You know what that makes us?
:45:33
- Partners.
- Our partners are petty thugs.
:45:41
On Earth, petroleum once turned
petty thugs into world leaders.
:45:45
Warp drive created a Romulan empire.
We can handle the Son'a.
:45:53
We probably said the same
about the Romulans.
:45:57
Lifespans will be doubled. An entire
new medical science will evolve.
:46:03
Your chief engineer has the use
of his eyes for the first time.
:46:07
Will you take that away from him?
:46:10
With the whole Briar Patch, why
does it have to be this one planet?
:46:15
The concentration in the rings
makes it work.
:46:19
They'll inject something into
the rings and start a reaction.
:46:23
- The planet will be uninhabitable.
- Delay them, let us study it.
:46:31
Our best scientific minds
can't find any other way to do this.
:46:36
The Son'a can establish a separate
colony on the planet until we do.
:46:40
lt would take ten years' exposure
to reverse their condition.
:46:44
Some of them
won't survive that long.
:46:48
Besides, who would want to live
in the Briar Patch?
:46:52
The Ba'ku.
:46:58
We are betraying the principles upon
which the Federation was founded.