Star Trek: TNG: RASCALS

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Returning with three minor female crew members from the planet Marlonia, Picard's shuttle is disintegrated by an energy field; all were beamed aboard just in time, but with a mass loss of 40% and physically rejuvenated to adolescent bodies, while mentally unchanged, yet on Dr. Crusher's warning mental decay may follow, Picard transfers command to Riker indefinitely. Guinan sees it as a change to enjoy youthful pleasures, Ro Laren can't stand remembering life in the refugee camp, Keiko finds her husband just can't act marital with an apparent child; Picard ponders acceptable alternatives: a second youth at the Starfleet Academy and/or archaeological research. The scientists work out how the quartet's DNA was preserved while complementary, age-critical RVS sequences are lacking, and consider a cure based on encouraging experience with plants Keiko was carrying. However while the ship answers a rescue call from a scientific colony, it is captured by renegade Ferengi, who even consider the crew as slave loot. Only Picard's party is left unguarded, appearing inoffensive children, so they decide to keep that cover, helped by real boy Alexander, to counterattack, if they can first get the 'child-lock' on computers lifted...