While Picard and Riker are visiting Angosia 
Three, a planet wishing to join the Federation, 
Prime Minister Nayrok tells them a dangerous 
prisoner has just escaped and asks them for help 
in retrieving him. The chase seems 
commonplace, but then the prisoner manages, at 
least temporarily, to escape, surprising all 
concerned. Nayrok tells them the prisoner is 
Roga Danar, who is given to bouts of excessive 
violence. Eventually, the ship is caught and 
Danar beamed aboard.
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However, the security in the transporter room 
proves ineffective, and it takes quite some time 
to subdue Danar, though eventually they 
manage it. Later, Troi senses Danar is in pain 
and visits the brig to check on him, and is 
surprised to find he's not at all violent, and 
seems very bright. She checks Angosian records, 
and finds he's not a criminal, but a soldier. 
Eventually, she finds the whole story and tells 
Picard.
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Apparently, for the recent Tarsian Wars, the 
Angosian soldiers were given various 
augmentations to survive, both physical and 
mental (including shielding electrical impulses, 
rendering them sensor-invisible). Danar and his 
friends were put on Lunar Five because they 
could not assimilate back into society after 
returning from the war, and the process, it 
seems, is irreversible. Picard asks Nayrok about 
Danar, only to be told that he is treading on 
matters of "internal security". Picard 
sympathizes with Danar, but still is forced to 
turn him over to the Angosian transport ship 
that just arrived. Unfortunately, as he tries, 
Danar manages to break out of the transporter 
beam and is loose on the Enterprise, with a 
phaser.
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Despite many attempts to stop him, Danar 
eventually manages to escape. He beams himself 
over to the transport ship and commandeers it, 
leaving the Enterprise sensor-inoperative for the 
time being. Later, Nayrok calls in a panic: Danar 
has attacked Lunar Five and freed the prisoners, 
and they are heading for the capital. Picard 
beams down, with Troi, Data, and Worf, but 
claims they are not there to fight Angosia's wars 
for them. Just after Nayrok claims the "will of 
the people" made it necessary to resettle the 
soldiers, Danar and company arrive, armed to 
the teeth. Picard orders no response, reasoning 
that since the soldiers have been programmed to 
react violently only when threatened, if they are 
not threatened, they are not a threat either. 
When Danar insists that they all only want to 
come home, and refuses to return even 
temporarily to Lunar Five, Nayrok begs Picard 
to call his ship. Picard does so, claiming that 
since this is a matter of "internal security", it's 
not his concern, and the Enterprise leaves, 
convinced that if the government of Angosia 
survives the night, it will make a fine addition to 
the Federation.
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