Some of the similarities posted, "Pheromones from the female" for example, were concepts introduced on Enterprise.... other similarities could be coincidence... but maybe not...
The author recapped everything better than I could have:
"– The moral problem is that it may be politically expedient for a government that condemns slavery to return an escaped slave to her owners.
– An escaped female slave petitions asylum aboard a military vessel.
– A male doctor and the senior surgeon is the first to reveal the slave’s pheromones as a problem.
– A woman doctor is the first member of that vessel’s crew to befriend the slave.
– The vessel’s Captain and his female doctor clash over the slave’s disposition.
– The slave radiates pheromones that make her attractive to males.
– The slave attempts to seduce the vessel’s captain in order to win her freedom. The Captain refuses her, but wants to help.
– The Captain’s superior orders him to turn the slave back over to her people, and informs him that a slaver vessel is already on its way to pick up the slave.
– The person who comes to collect the slave is not just any representative of her people, but with very slave trader who originally sold her and abused her.
– The slave is accused of murdering someone in the course of trying to escape.
– Telepathy is used on the slave to find out the truth of her story.
– The slave’s case is taken up by a young officer.
– The young officer helps the slave in an escape attempt, placing him in defiance of his Captain’s orders.
– The slave attempts suicide, and her death (faked, in my story) resolves the immediate diplomatic incident."
