Mariposa Colony Cloning Crisis
The Mariposa colony faces a survival crisis through replicative-fading, forcing negotiation between preservation by technical means (cloning) and humane integration, testing Starfleet's ethical boundaries and the value of individual identity.
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Arc Timeline
Season 2
3 eventsA petty logistics discrepancy noted by Data pushes Picard from quiet curiosity to active pursuit: he pulls the archived manifest for the colony ship Mariposa and reads a cargo list …
Riker, Pulaski and Geordi beam into the smoke-choked cloning chamber and discover half‑formed duplicates — including a grotesque likeness of Riker. Visibly horrified, Riker fires on the developing copies with …
In the Observation Lounge Picard brokers a brutal compromise: Pulaski lays out a clinical sociobiological plan to save the dying Mariposan clone society — abandon exclusive cloning and rapidly broaden …