After taking Data safely into custody with the help of Cmdr.Worf (Michael Dorn), Picard beamed down to the surface of the Ba""ku planet with members of his crew, where they found the peaceful people in the small village (a "sanctuary of life") had "incredible mental discipline, clarity of perception" - they were in harmony with nature, had rejected technology, and were enjoying the benefits of long life (adults were over 300 years old) through the rejuvenating and regenerative ""fountain of youth"" effects of their planet ("the promise of perpetual youth").It became one of the defining films of the classic era in the comedy-detective subgenre.Director W.S.Van Dyke had just previously directedManhattan Melodrama (1934), in which stars Powell and Loy had displayed their unique and charming chemistry in the first of their 14 film pairings.[She was Dr.Sam Loomis"" (Donald Pleasence) live-in nurse and associate, although Loomis had died a few years earlier.Then when people realized how quick they were to learn, how easy to train, the pets became larger and larger until now.It appeared to Marlowe o be a seemingly-unrelated case to Malloy""s search for his missing girl friend.