diplomatic negotiations in international disputes

Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are sent out to investigate the end of a 12,000-year war between two remote planets.

Discusses the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the political maneuverings of Napoleon and Jefferson that made it possible.

Israel and Palestine are about to sign a historic peace treaty, but when a seemingly random series of killings puts the treaty in jeopardy, American-appointed peace negotiator Maggie Costello is called in to find out what is going on.