The Enterprise meets with the Ferengi and Picard is given a surprise gift.

The Enterprise stops at a seemingly Utopian planet. However, they learn too late that the planet punishes any law-breaking whatsoever with death when Wesley accidentally falls into a rose bush and damages it.

While delivering delegates from hostile alien races to a Federation planet for a peace negotiation, the Enterprise encounters an energy-based lifeform that causes chaos on the ship.