| rdfs:comment | - In, or slightly before, 2365, some of the farmers’ children discovered a Romulan missile, inside which they found an amount of chroniton particles. Bored with life on The Armada, the children devised a scheme to use the chronitons to treat the crops and make them grow faster, giving them more free time. They took this suggestion to their parents, who agreed to implement it. However, not satisfied to simply accelerate the growth, the children altered the formula to sabotage the crops, to make them rot, so their families would be forced to leave The Armada and find a new more exciting life elsewhere.
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| abstract | - In, or slightly before, 2365, some of the farmers’ children discovered a Romulan missile, inside which they found an amount of chroniton particles. Bored with life on The Armada, the children devised a scheme to use the chronitons to treat the crops and make them grow faster, giving them more free time. They took this suggestion to their parents, who agreed to implement it. However, not satisfied to simply accelerate the growth, the children altered the formula to sabotage the crops, to make them rot, so their families would be forced to leave The Armada and find a new more exciting life elsewhere. The children's plan worked, and the crops soon began to fail, turning as brittle as glass and utterly inedible. With the food supply for millions at risk, Starfleet sent the USS Enterprise-D to investigate. Data was soon able to trace the chronitons in soil samples he took, and when Riker and Picard confronted Hummon, the childrens' father, with this, he quickly admitted what he had done, unaware the children had further complicated the plan. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher, who had gotten to know the children a little, suspected there was more going on, and correctly deduced it was the children, eager to escape The Armada, who had sabotaged the crops. He confronted them with this, and after a brief brawl, they agreed to tell Picard and their father what they had done. Some time later, a similar form of chroniton radiation contamination was used to sabotage crops on a Cardassian colony, forcing them to abandon the planet. Picard speculated this act was part of a conspiracy which had used technologies and phenomena recorded in the logs of the Enterprise-D to create offensive weapons. (TNG comic: "Space Seeds")
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