I'm not them, but this is it. Their government is called the Sheliak Corporate, and Picard finds in the overly long treaty a clause about resolving disputes nee

I'm not them, but this is it. Their government is called the Sheliak Corporate, and Picard finds in the overly long treaty a clause about resolving disputes needing a third party - and names a species currently in hibernation. So they give in and let him have the much shorter time he's being asking for, for an evacuation.