Captain Picard leads his multicultural starship crew in a rebellion to save a planet from the very Federation they serve so proudly. Patrick Stewart stars. A Federation team are unobtrusively observing life on the remarkable world of Ba\'ku, where 600 peaceful inhabitants enjoy the planet\'s youth-preserving qualities. However, forces within the alliance want to repatriate the population so that the planet\'s resources can be exploited more intensively. Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads his crew in an effort to protect Ba\'ku\'s residents and thereby honour the Federation\'s Prime Directive: non-intervention in the development of other civilizations.