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When the Enterprise arrives in orbit, the researcher team's leader pleads to have the genetically-engineered children brought aboard as they have been in isolation from the rest of the station.

Picard is concerned with exposing the Enterprise to the same phenomena that is affecting the Darwin station, but allows Dr. Pulaski to have one of the children beamed aboard encased in styrolite which shields the rest of the ship from possible contamination.

The child is brought to the sick-bay, and Dr. Pulaski finds the child, a male teenager, to be near perfection, describing him as the " next step in human evolution ".

She convinces Picard to allow her to take a shuttle piloted by Commander Data away from the Enterprise, so that she can examine the child outside of the styrolite without exposing the rest of the crew.

When she removes the material, the boy awakens and is able to telepathically communicate with her.

She is suddenly struck by joint pain, recognizes that she has the onset of the rapid-aging-syndrome and orders Data to pilot the shuttle to the Darwin research-station rather than the Enterprise, which is still contamination-free.