In the eighth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Justice,” Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death on an alien planet for what the Enterprise crew views as a light misdemeanor. In a typically clunky Season 1 of TNG way, “Justice” demonstrated the difficulty of navigating interstellar laws as peacekeeping diplomats, but Wesley’s crime clearly reads as a trivial mistake that shouldn’t result in his execution.
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