Stardate: 43133.3 When the Sheliak race, which abhors human kind, finds a large human colony on one of their planets, they demand their removal before they exterminate them. The crew learns that the people in question are from a ship that crashed there years ago.

Now Picard and Deanna must negotiate with the Sheliak to try to get more time to evacuate this colony. Meanwhile, Data must try to convince the colonists to evacuate. However, he is impeded by a very proud and stubborn leader that is willing to stay and die defending the colony. Can Data convince the rest of the colonist to go against their leader, and leave the planet? And is there even enough time to evacuate the settlers before the Sheliak begin their eradication process?

Mac and a bounty hunter join forces with a bulldog named Frog to track down a Bulgarian defector who was the accidental witness at a murder and who is now being stalked by the killer, who needs a map she doesn't know she possesses.

ALF shields Willie when a criminal resembling him is profiled on a crime-stopper TV show, but Trevor turns him in.

Hanson meets an old flame now married to the owner of a 80's nightclub suspected of providing LSD to high school students.

A high-school computer hacker stumbles onto a memo by Murphy about her co-workers, and he plans to publish it in the school paper.