With The First Link 3.03: The Survivors

TNG: SEASON 3, EPISODE 3

The Enterprise arrives at a distress to discover a planet completely decimated except for one small patch of land, a house, and a mysterious pair of survivors who say their planet was destroyed by a species of “hideous intelligence”.

Ruthie and Matthew discuss aging in the Star Trek future vs in our own present society, and the excuses that are made to justify genocide.