This episode of TNG brings the Enterprise to a pair of planets humanoid inhabited
who have a strange relationship. One of the planets is where the population is
quite healthy, but the other has been suffering a plague for generations and is
completely dependent on the other to give it medicine, for an exhorbitant
price. It's economic bondage.
It's worse than that. The medicine is a narcotic and you have planetary wide addiction.
Dr. Crusher weighs in as this is a medical issue. She wants an intervention, but Captain Picard is sticking by the prime directive. Personally I'm with Gates McFadden here. I think the usually wise Patrick Stewart is dead wrong.
You'll have to tune in to see how this is resolved.
It's worse than that. The medicine is a narcotic and you have planetary wide addiction.
Dr. Crusher weighs in as this is a medical issue. She wants an intervention, but Captain Picard is sticking by the prime directive. Personally I'm with Gates McFadden here. I think the usually wise Patrick Stewart is dead wrong.
You'll have to tune in to see how this is resolved.