Picard, recognizing this as an end run around Federation principles and a trick to get the Romulans to do the dirty work for them, resigns in disgust and joins his friend on the planet. Starfleet knows that and struck a deal with the Romulans - we'll give you the planet, you relocate the people, we share the ore. It also has regenerative qualities that gradually make anyone on the planet younger. The planet is almost entirely composed a rare mineral that the Federation desperately needs. The planet is to be ceeded to the Romulans via a treaty and Picard learns there's much more to this mission than his superiors have told him.
It soon becomes evident that this friend is actually defending the natives of that planet, and as the story evolved, it turned into a battle of principles. When he discovers his friend's hiding place, he's shocked to find the man looking as young as he did at the Academy. Wedding it to an adaptation of Heart of Darkness, he pitched an idea that had Picard sent on a mission to track down an old friend who has seemingly gone rogue. Then, one morning Piller was making his daily application of Rogaine when it hit him that a fountain of youth story might be the right way to go. They began with the idea of finding a public domain story to adapt into the Trek universe. He and producer Rick Berman agreed that since the previous film First Contact had been so dark and featured an incredibly formidable villain in the Borg, it would probably be best to go in another direction.
Continuing from where we left off yesterday, Michael Piller spent a few weeks mulling over ideas for the ninth Star Trek film.
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