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Justice

Episode aired Nov 7, 1987
TV-PG
46m

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6.0/10

3.9K

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Marina Sirtis and Jay Louden in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.

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Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, and Wil Wheaton in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, and Marina Sirtis at an event for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Brenda Bakke in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Jay Louden in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Brenda Bakke and Jay Louden in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Brenda Bakke, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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Trivia
The filming location was right under the flight path of Van Nuys municipal airport, which meant that airplanes were constantly flying over the heads of the actors, and the entire scenes filmed there had to be re-dubbed in post production.

Goofs
Picard states that the Prime Directive was never intended for a member of any starship crew to lose their life, but in other episodes it is stated that the Prime Directive is more important even than an entire starship crew, that members of Star Fleet are prepared to lay down their lives to protect it.

Quotes
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible to do so... but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And so I say to any creature who may be listening: There can be no justice, so long as laws are absolute. Life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
Edo God (voice): [CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR-LINE] How can there be justice, unless laws are consistent? Was it not one of your own people who said, "Lawlessness anywhere endangers lawfulness everywhere"? Without absolute law, my people would be inundated with exceptions: appeals, plea bargains - I believe your people have a term for it - with "red tape". Nobody could be punished for anything anymore. Thus, if I yield to these requests of yours, what will you yield in return?

Connections
Featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Shades of Gray (1989)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

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4/10

Planet of the runaway Roddenberrys

Typically ham-handed, but Roddenberry always had a weakness for that -- as he did for scanty costumes. "Justice" is probably the peak of both issues, and there's something to be said for a screen full of fit, young bodies. But this is Star Trek, and first-season TNG at that, so it's another round of superficial assertions on deep subjects that ultimately ends with a deus ex machina solution (rather literally in this case).

Most of the acting isn't bad, so it's almost good ... if the premise weren't quite so flimsy, nor the denouement rather anticlimatic. Special bonus points go to the female guest lead's earnestness, which actually makes this episode fairly believable. Also, Gates McFadden is quite convincing, while Marina Sirtis seems rather uncomfortable with the whole premise. Special groan to having Data (a machine) be 'unconscious', and administered by medical personnel instead of engineers.

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