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Upon arrival at their destination, the crew assists Timicin in modifying a photon torpedo to be fired into the proxy sun in the hopes that it will repair the damaged star and prove that the technique can be safely applied to the Kaelon sun.

The torpedo is fired and, although the experiment seems initially to rectify the damage, the effect is short-lived and the experiment is declared a failure.

The Enterprise returns to Kaelon II and Timicin is crushed.

After some questioning by Lwaxana, Timicin reveals that experiment's failure is not the only fact troubling him.

Indeed, Timicin is about to turn 60, and on Kaelon II, everyone who reaches the age of 60 kills him or herself in what is known to their people as " the Resolution ," a means of ridding their culture of the need to care for the elderly.

Lwaxana is outraged by this fact, and when Picard makes it clear that he will not interfere in the planet's local affairs, Lwaxana tries to beam herself down to the planet to halt the process.

When she is thwarted, she goes into hysterics until Deanna comforts her.