The Enterprise receives an automated distress call from a human colony on the planet Bringloid V,[a] which is in danger from solar flares from its star.
The colony turns out to have been founded by the crew of the SS Mariposa,[b] a freighter launched from Earth several hundred years earlier.
When he regains consciousness in sick bay, he is embarrassed to admit suffering a Klingon childhood illness equivalent to measles.
The colony's Prime Minister, Wilson Granger, is happy to see the Enterprise and welcomes them to visit, so Commander Riker beams down with Lieutenant Worf and Chief Medical Officer Doctor Pulaski.
As this was insufficient to establish a stable gene pool, and the survivors were all scientists, they turned exclusively to cloning instead and consequently no longer have any desire for biological reproduction.
Upon discovering this, the away team beams directly to the colony's cloning labs, where they are repulsed to find copies of themselves being grown, which Riker destroys.
Club gave the episode a grade C. He praised the Worf and Pulaski scenes, and said "they're good enough that I would champion them even if they hadn't stood out in such stark contrast to the rest of this crap heap."
[4] James Hunt of Den of Geek called the Irish characters "painfully stereotypical" although he did find the episode funny.
[7] Jamahl Epsicokhan of Jammer's Reviews gave it 1.5 out of 4 and called it "a colossal mess of a show, mixing serious (albeit unrealized) science fiction with broad, less-than-funny comedy.
The reviewer thought the subplot with Worf and Dr. Pulaski was quite good, and the tea ritual scene "actually showed the differences between two cultures quickly and effectively, without resorting to shoddy jokes and Riker screen time.