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** The episode ends with Picard and Crusher wondering if letting the Onarans suffer planet-wide Felicium withdrawal was the right thing to do, with Picard concluding "We may never know". When Starfleet finally got around to checking up on them [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E09TrustedSources seventeen years later]], [[spoiler: the Onarans were quite happy to see Starfleet and thanked them for their abandonment.]]

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** The episode ends with Picard and Crusher wondering if letting the Onarans suffer planet-wide Felicium withdrawal was the right thing to do, with Picard concluding "We may never know". When Starfleet finally got around to checking up on them [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E09TrustedSources seventeen years later]], [[spoiler: the Onarans were quite happy did manage to see Starfleet and thanked them for recover from their abandonment.addiction, but from their mural of the history, it was ''not'' fun. Although they acknowledge that they're glad they're off the drugs now, being left to cope with withdrawal and reconstruction by themselves makes them pretty lukewarm on Starfleet.]]
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** The episode ends with Picard and Crusher wondering if letting the Onarans suffer palnet-wide Felicium withdrawal was the right thing to do, with Picard concluding "We may never know". When Starfleet finally got around to checking up on them [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E09TrustedSources seventeen years later]], [[spoiler: the Onarans were quite happy to see Starfleet and thanked them for their abandonment.]]

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** The episode ends with Picard and Crusher wondering if letting the Onarans suffer palnet-wide planet-wide Felicium withdrawal was the right thing to do, with Picard concluding "We may never know". When Starfleet finally got around to checking up on them [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E09TrustedSources seventeen years later]], [[spoiler: the Onarans were quite happy to see Starfleet and thanked them for their abandonment.]]
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** The episode ends with Picard and Crusher wondering if letting the Onarans suffer palnet-wide Felicium withdrawal was the right thing to do, with Picard concluding "We may never know". When Starfleet finally got around to checking up on them [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E09TrustedSources seventeen years later]], [[spoiler: the Onarans were quite happy to see Starfleet and thanked them for their abandonment.]]
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* CanonFodder: Many fans interpreted Tasha's DrugsAreBad speech as her indirectly confessing to being a former addict herself, mostly just because it makes the scene feel less preachy, Tasha hardly ever got any character development, and from what we see of her home later on, it's definitely the sort of place where drug use could easily be rampant. Many authors, both fan and officially licensed, would later incorporate this interpretation into their stories.

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* CanonFodder: Many fans interpreted Tasha's DrugsAreBad speech as her indirectly confessing to being a former addict herself, mostly just because it makes the scene feel less preachy, Tasha hardly ever got any character development, and from what we see of her home later on, it's definitely the sort of place where drug use could easily be rampant. Many authors, both fan and officially licensed, would later incorporate this interpretation into their stories.stories, and [[WordOfSaintPaul Denise Crosby also gave it her blessing]].
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** While some fans found the concept ridiculous of an entire species turning their economy to selling drugs, it has some precedent with the Opium Wars. The British Empire made virtually its entire import sales from dealing opium to China and actively did their best to enforce it on the public.
** The fact that real life medical corporations turned to selling addictive painkillers that were massively exploited is also a truth of the 21st century.

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