How Many People Does It Take Before It Becomes Wrong?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise asked Admiral Dougherty this question when the Admiral- Picard’s superior officer- was confronted about his plans to relocate a race of 600 people from their homeworld so that they could mine the planet (more specifically, the planet’s rings) of a natural resource that extended their lifespan indefinitely (and had the promise to revolutionize the…