<text><span class="style1">ncounter at Farpoint </span><span class="style4">(premiere)</span></text>
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The Admiral - DeForest Kelly
Bandi Groppler Zorn - Michael Bell
Battle Bridge Conn - Colm Meaney
Main Bridge Security - Timothy Dang
Bandi Shopkeeper - David Erskine
Young Female Ensign - Evelyn Guerrero
Military Officer - Chuck Hicks
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<text>D. C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry</text>
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<text>The crew of the Enterprise is put on trial by a mysterious force called "Q" for all the crimes of mankind.</text>
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<text>While en route to investigate Farpoint station, a remote starbase on planet Deneb IV, whose origins are somewhat mysterious, the Enterprise is trapped by an entity which calls itself "Q", and warns them to go back to where they came from. Q condemns humanity as "a dangerous savage child-race." When Picard says that Q, like so many others, is too eager to prosecute and judge, Q reacts with glee and vanishes.
Picard orders the Enterprise to try to outrun the force-field in front of them. When that fails, he separates the saucer, putting Worf in command of it, and surrenders. Q then puts Picard, Troi, Yar, and Data in a 21st-century court, with himself as judge. Picard is forced to admit that "there is evidence to support the court's contention that humans have been savage!", but suggests that Q use the Enterprise to test whether this is presently true of humans. Q agrees, and says that Farpoint will prove an excellent test.
Meanwhile, Commander Riker is on Farpoint. He meets with the Bandi leader, Groppler Zorn, and notices some odd wish-fulfillment effects, both in Zorn's office, and later, with Dr. Crusher and Wesley. After we find out that Picard brought home Wesley's father's body to him years ago, Geordi La Forge arrives and tells Riker that the Enterprise is in orbit, without the saucer, and that he should beam up immediately. Riker does so, is brought up to date on what's happened with Q. As the saucer arrives, Picard orders Riker to conduct a manual docking with uncharacteristic gruffness. After Riker does this successfully, Picard and Riker talk, and we learn that Riker has in the past refused to let his captain beam down. He refuses to back down from this position, and Picard formally welcomes him.
After being accosted by Q again, who gives them 24 hours more to solve the mystery, Riker, Picard, and Troi meet with Zorn, who refuses to answer their questions. Even when Troi senses unbelievable pain and loneliness nearby, Zorn refuses to say what's going on, and threatens a Ferengi alliance. Riker later meets Data on the holodeck before taking him on an away team, and though puzzled by him, quickly befriends the android. They meet Wesley, who chooses just the wrong moment to fall into the lake, as he meets Picard shortly afterward. Riker takes down his away team, which splits into two groups: Riker and Data investigate the surface of the station, and Geordi, Yar, and Troi investigate the tunnels below it. Troi again senses pain, even stronger this time, and the teams reunite.
While Beverly reports to Picard, Picard invites Wes to sit in his chair for a few moments. Wes shows an uncanny knowledge of starship operations, but succeeds only in angering Picard and being ordered off the bridge, just as an unidentified vessel approaches. It scans the Enterprise, and then fires on the old Bandi city that's next to Farpoint. Yar, Troi and Geordi beam up, as Riker and Data go exploring on the outskirts of that same city. Picard, left with what he sees as no other choice, orders that phasers be locked on the other ship. As he does so, Q appears and gloats. Picard, refusing to fire, then tries to move the Enterprise between the city and the ship, but finds that Q has locked the controls. He orders Riker and Data to kidnap Zorn and bring him aboard for some answers, but a different transporter beam takes Zorn away just as they arrive at his office.
Riker, at Q's urging, takes an away party over to the other ship, where they find Zorn and free him. Troi then realizes that she's only sensing one alien presence--the ship itself is alive! Picard finishes piecing together the puzzle, reasoning that both the ship and Farpoint station are alive, and that the Bandi captured Farpoint station, feeding it only enough to keep it alive. They rig an energy beam and deliver Farpoint enough energy to free itself, and it rejoins its mate. Passing Q's test, Picard orders Q off the ship. Q leaves, but not without hinting that he will return again. The Enterprise heads out into the unknown.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987, Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Q
Farpoint Station
Deneb Four</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Romance, danger and chaos result when a mysterious contaminant renders the crew of the Enterprise intoxicated.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is making a rendezvous with the science vessel U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky, which has been monitoring a collapsing star. As they arrive, however, they hear an emergency hatch being blown after what sounds like a "wild party". Riker, Geordi, Tasha, and Data beam over and find all of the crew dead.
They beam back, but Geordi has unknowingly brought back the same contaminant that infected the Tsiolkovsky (it's transmitted through water). As Riker sets Data to searching for occasions similar to what happened on the Tsiolkovsky, Geordi escapes from sickbay and starts spreading the infection.
It has some rather odd effects, acting very much like intoxication. Yar becomes amorous, and ends up seducing Data. Geordi bursts into tears, lamenting his lack of normal sight. Beverly starts to find Picard "extremely, extremely.. but of course we haven't time for that sort of thing!" Worst of all, however, Wesley uses a Picard-Voice-Simulator he's cooked up and seizes control of Engineering, appointing himself Acting Captain.
Meanwhile, Data has found the records of the original Enterprise, and has sent the cure down to Bev. Unfortunately, the virus has mutated, and the old cure doesn't work. Bev, already infected, starts working on a new formula. Then, as if things couldn't get any worse, the star collapses, then explodes, sending a huge chunk of star straight at the Enterprise. Even when Chief Engineer MacDougal gets into main Engineering (shorting out Wes's jury-rigged repulsor beam), she finds her assistant has pulled out all the control chips.
Data is brought down to Engineering and manages to reinsert all the chips just in time, after Wes gives the ship an extra push-off by changing the Enterprise's tractor beam into a repulsor beam and pushing off the Tsiolkovsky. Bev finds a cure, the Enterprise escapes, and all is well.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987, Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Geordi LaForge
Tasha Yar
Wesley Crusher</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Kidnapped by aliens known as Ligonians, Lieutenant Tasha Yar battles for her freedom and the welfare of a diseased Federation planet.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise visits Ligon II to obtain a rare vaccine needed to avert a plague on Stryis IV. As the Ligonian leader, Lutan, comes on board, he seems very arrogant, and more than slightly attracted to Tasha, but not dangerous. Unfortunately, in departing, he kidnaps Tasha from right under the Enterprise's noses.
Data and Riker theorize that Lutan kidnapped Tasha as a display of "counting coup" --by stealing the riskiest prize of all, he proved himself very brave for his followers. By Ligonian custom, Picard must ask to get Tasha back, in public, at a banquet. He does this, but Lutan says that he cannot part with her, thus breaking even his own customs. His wife, Yareena, challenges Tasha to a death-duel, which she must accept if the Enterprise is to obtain the vaccine (and it's needed quickly, as the plague is growing ever worse...). Lutan now cannot lose; if Yareena dies, he inherits all her land (on Ligon, the women own the land), and if she lives, he loses nothing.
The crew tries to talk everyone out of this, to no avail. Then, they turn from diplomacy to deception. Yar wins the duel, killing Yareena with the instantly-lethal poison used on the weapons. They then both immediately beam up, where Beverly saves Yareena. Having come back from the dead, Yareena's marriage to Lutan is dissolved. She chooses his second, Hagon, as husband, and the ship leaves, with both Tasha and the vaccine.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Jean-Luc Picard
Lutan
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Held captive over an unknown planet, the away teams of the Enterprise and Ferengi starships must pass an important inquisition by a mysterious life form known as "Portal", before they are allowed to continue their journeys through space.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is in hot pursuit of a Ferengi vessel, which has stolen a T-9 energy unit from an unmanned base. Both ships are passing through an unknown solar system, when suddenly both are rendered immobile and powerless. The Enterprise tries to exploit the .300 millisecond delay between force and counterforce, to no avail. The crew assumes the Ferengi have them right where they want them, but when they contact the Ferengi ship to discuss surrender, the Ferengi grudgingly surrender to them, believing that the Enterprise is responsible for their immobility.
Eventually, a probe finds that it's a force-field from the planet below that is responsible. The planet was once the outermost remnant of the long-dead Tkon Empire, which was destroyed 600,000 years ago. Picard tells this to the Ferengi, and offers a joint expedition to discover what's going on. After much discussion, they agree.
However, the away team faces many problems. First, the force-field interferes with transport, separating them. Then, the Ferengi manage to beam down first, and they ambush the away team. Yar rescues them and is about to stun the Ferengi, when the crystalline shapes all around them become active and absorb the phaser fire (and the energy of the Ferengi whips as well). The "Portal" to the Tkon Empire appears and demands to know why they have come. He has been sleeping for many hundreds of millenia and does not know of his Empire's collapse. He challenges Riker to take a test.
Riker passes said test (a test of wisdom), and Portal frees the Enterprise, just as reserve power is running out. Shortly after, he frees he Ferengi vessel, after Riker suggests mercy, saying that the Federation's moral code forces them to face even the possibility that they will one day be destroyed by a civilization such as this. The Ferengi return the converter, and both ships leave.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Letek - Armin Shimerman
Mordoc - Jake Dengel
Kayron - Tracey Walter
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<text>Richard Colla</text>
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Will Riker
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise takes on Lt. Kosinski, a Starfleet propulsion expert, and his assistant, to increase warp engine output. Both Riker and Chief Engineer Argyle, however, think Kosinski's ideas are worthless after seeing them. Kosinski arrogantly brushes their objections aside, but Wesley befriends the assistant and accidentally distracts him.
This distraction causes the experiment to go wild, and when the ship stops, they discover they've gone 2.7 million light-years in a few seconds. Wes, during the trip, sees the assistant "fade" in and out of normal reality. He tries to tell Riker about this, but Riker shushes him away. They decide to try to get back, and end up traveling to a place unlike any they have ever seen (as the assistant again "fades", being seen by Riker this time).
They are more than a billion light-years from home. Furthermore, in this place, the crew's thoughts seem to become reality. Worf sees a Klingon "targ", a pet from home; Tasha finds herself back on her home planet avoiding a rape-gang; Picard first almost falls out of the turbolift into warp-space, and then sees his long-dead mother, and so forth.
Eventually, they find out the truth. Kosinski had nothing to do with any of this: it was his assistant, the "Traveler", who accidentally brought them here. He claims to act like a lens, focusing the power of thought, which brought them to this place. Unfortunately, he is now dying. However, there is no choice; he must try to get them back.
Before the attempt, he talks to Picard alone, about Wesley. It seems that Wes has the potential to become a Mozart of engineering, if properly encouraged. The Traveler tells him to encourage Wes, but tell him none of this.
The attempt is made, and is successful, but the Traveler fades completely from normal space and does not return. Picard, acting on the Traveler's last wishes, appoints Wes an Acting Ensign, subject to Wes applying to the Academy as soon as he can. Until then, his assignment is to "learn this ship". Brought back to where they started, the Enterprise departs for their next assignment.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Wesley Crusher
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Passing through a series of complex energy patterns, the Enterprise crew find themselves trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of Assistant Chief Engineer Singh and the altered personalities of Lt. Worf, Dr. Crusher and the Captain.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is on a mission to transport emissaries of two warring races, the Anticans and the Celle, to Parliament for negotiations. En route, they pass through a strange cloud traveling at warp-speed, consisting entirely of energy. As they pass close to make a sensor pass, a freak bolt of energy strikes Worf in sensor maintenance, knocking him out.
The energy continues on, traveling from Worf to Beverly while she's examining him. After the transfer, Worf doesn't remember anything since the bolt hit, and Bev is in something of a daze. She asks Wesley some questions about navigation, then heads to the bridge. While there, the bolt travels into the ship's computer, leaving Bev just as confused as Worf was. Then, warp power suddenly goes down, along with several other systems. The engineers manage to fix the problem for a short time, but then warp power goes down a second time, taking the subspace radio with it, so that the crew can't even tell Parliament that there will be a delay. The bridge crew concludes that some form of sabotage is involved, and immediately suspect that one of the delegates is responsible.
Wesley helps Assistant Chief Engineer Singh for a short time. After he leaves, however, the bolt strikes Singh, killing him. Data (currently in the guise of Sherlock Holmes) deduces that both sets of delegates were too concerned with trying to kill each other to be responsible. Troi, meanwhile, has hypnotized both Beverly and Worf, and has found evidence that some other intelligence had temporarily invaded their minds. The bolt finally departs the computer, only to take over Picard's mind. "Picard" orders the ship around, back to the cloud, and does not accept anyone questioning his orders. When questioned by Riker (who is anxious to avoid any attempt to relieve Picard of command), he shrugs off any suggestion of an alien influence and orders Riker, Troi, and Bev to sickbay. When Beverly later confronts him alone, Picard makes it clear that both intelligences are at work in his mind.
As they reach the cloud, Picard subdues the crew and beams out, energy only, under the assumption that he will meld with the entity in his mind and they can explore the galaxy unfettered by a body, together. The melding proves impossible, and Picard is left alone. Just as Riker is about to order the ship to Parliament, Picard manages to enter the Enterprise's systems. He sends all his energy into the transporter circuits, and Data reproduces the pattern Picard left with, bringing him home safely.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>When Wesley is sentenced to death for innocently violating a foreign planet's customs, Captain Picard is forced to chose between negotiating for Wesley's life or adhering to the Federation's Prime Directive which prohibits interfering with another civilization's way of life.</text>
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Liator - Jay Louden
Conn - Josh Clark
1st Mediator - David Q. Combs
2nd Mediator - Richard Lavin
Edo Girl - Judith Jones
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<text>The Enterprise, after dropping off a colony in the Strnad Solar System, visits the idyllic world Rubicam Three, home to the Edo. It's a simple world, and an away team beams down to examine its suitability for shore leave.
Meanwhile, Data examines an odd sensor "glitch", which seems to indicate a presence off the starboard bow. Upon further analysis, they find it's not a glitch. As the being materializes, they find it is both there and not there; it's only partly in this dimension. It sends over a probe, which stuns Data and analyzes his knowledge.
The away team discovers the one flaw in this paradise of a world: its justice system. While its rules are simple, and only one punishment zone exists at any given time, anyone who breaks the law in such a zone is immediately executed, no matter what the crime. The team searches for Wesley, who ran off with some of the younger Edo, and they find him just seconds too late, as he falls into a greenhouse and kills some new plants. Picard is put in the difficult position of either breaking the Prime Directive or allowing Wesley to die.
To make matters worse, the entity in space with the Enterprise is revealed to be a collective intelligence that may have planted the Edo there in the first place, and is worshiped by them as a God. It has nearly unlimited power, and does not want the Edo's laws interfered with.
Eventually, Picard manages to convince the Edo god that "here can be no justice so long as laws are absolute", and is allowed to take Wesley back. They consent to remove the nearby colony, and depart.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Beverly Crusher
Wesley Crusher
The Edo
Rubicam Three</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>A thought altering device, controlled by a Ferengi Captain seeking revenge on Picard for his son's death, threatens the life of the Captain and the safety of the Enterprise.
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Kazago - Doug Warhit
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<text>As the Enterprise prepares to rendezvous with a Ferengi vessel which has been keeping silent for days, Picard finds himself with a mysterious headache, for which no cause can be found. He allows the Ferengi leader, DaiMon Bok (who seems to know Picard from somewhere) to beam over with his staff.
Suddenly, the sensors detect a Constellation-class vessel approaching, with no call letters. Bok explains that it was a derelict, which he is returning to Picard at no cost. As it nears, they find it's Picard's old ship, the Stargazer. Bok presents it as a gift "to the hero of Maxia". The battle of Maxia, apparently, is the Ferengi name for Picard's fighting off an attack from a then-unidentified ship as his last act before abandoning the Stargazer. Bok's mysterious generosity puzzles even his aides.
Picard explains a bit more about the incident to the bridge crew, including his now legendary "Picard Maneuver", and gets quite caught up in his memories doing so. After the Stargazer is declared safe, Picard beams over. As he goes to his cabin to pick up some things, we see in his chest a pulsing silver sphere. As it glows more strongly, Picard's headache increases in strength.
Later, Data presents some worrying evidence to Riker. Picard's personal log from the Stargazer seems to indicate that he fired on the Ferengi vessel without provocation, and Riker must immediately mention it to Starfleet Command, though he believes (correctly, as Data finds later) it's a forgery. Picard, meanwhile, has a vision of the battle of Maxia.
After analyzing his brainscan, Bev (with a little help from Wesley) determines that the anomalies exactly match low-power transmissions they've been picking up from the Ferengi ship. They report it to Riker, just as Picard, entranced, beams over to the Stargazer, where Bok is waiting for him with a second sphere.
Bok explains that his son led the assault at Maxia, and he blames Picard for his son's death. He hypnotizes Picard into believing he's back aboard the Stargazer, nine years past, and leaves. Meanwhile, Riker calls the Ferengi first officer, Kazago, and shows him the sphere they've found in Picard's quarters. Kazago recoils in shock: it's a "thought-maker", and is forbidden in Ferengi domains. He relieves Bok of command (there was no profit to be made in this personal vengeance) and wishes Riker luck.
As Picard swings around to execute the Picard maneuver, Data tracks him and traps the ship in a tractor beam. Riker gets through to Picard enough to let him destroy the sphere, which frees his mind. Freed, he returns home.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
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<text>While en route to aid victims of a sudden explosion at a mining colony, the Enterprise is again seized by Q's force-field. Q appears and offers the crew the "realization of impossible dreams". Q seems particularly drawn to Riker.
Picard first tries to delay Q until after their emergency mission is over, then rails against him for repeatedly seizing his vessel. When Riker says, "We don't have time for these games", Q replies, "Did someone say games?" and transports the entire bridge crew save Picard to an unknown, desolate planet. Picard is trapped on his bridge, with no way to communicate outside it, and no controls work.
Q sits down with Riker in the garb of a French Marshall, and discusses the rules of the game. Its point is "can any of you stay alive?", and is completely unfair, by Q's own boast. When Tasha objects, Q sends her back to the bridge, which is serving as a penalty box. He vanished from the planet and talks to Picard, where he reveals that the game's true purpose is to test whether Riker is worthy of the gift the Q are preparing to offer him.
As vicious, animal-like soldiers appear and begin to close in on the crew, Q takes Data's place and informs Riker that he's been given the power of Q. Q urges him to use it to send his crewmates back; Riker does. He then talks to Q, who explains that humanity has the capability of growth, an ability the Q lack. It interests them, and they want Riker to join the Q, so they can study it. Riker initially refuses, at which point Q vanishes and puts the crew back on the planet, with the soldiers. Wesley and Worf are mortally wounded, angering Riker to the extent that he puts a force-field around the soldiers and sends everyone back to the Enterprise.
Talking to Picard later, Riker pledges not to use the power, agreeing that the temptation to keep it might prove too great. Unfortunately, upon arriving at the mining disaster, Riker finds a dead, bloodied child, and immediately regrets his promise. He returns to the ship and demands a conference with the bridge staff.
At the conference, Q appears and accuses Picard of jealousy. Riker tries to give his crewmates gifts: he gives Geordi back his sight, makes Wesley an adult, gives Worf a female Klingon, and offers to turn Data human. All refuse, not liking whom they'd have to thank for it. Riker refuses the gift, and Q is dragged back to the Q-continuum by his fellow Q.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Will Riker
Q</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise arrives at Haven, a paradise planet renowned throughout the galaxy. Suddenly, Troi is sent a package from the planet. It's a talking chest, informing her that her mother and her fiance are below. Her long-arranged marriage is suddenly imminent, and she must leave the Enterprise after marrying.
The Millers (her fiancee and his parents) beam aboard first. Deanna meets Wyatt for the first time. He seems strangely surprised by her appearance. After they leave, Deanna's mother Lwaxana beams aboard with her valet, Mr. Homn. Lwaxana is a tad eccentric; she takes great delight in informing everyone of their thoughts, and is rather vocally convinced that every male she's ever met has lustful thoughts about her. Picard leaves gracefully as quickly as he can.
Deanna and Wyatt are attracted to each other, but she's not what he expected. Ever since he was a child, there's been a face deep in his mind, which he's drawn several times, and he expected that that face belonged to Deanna. Meanwhile, an unidentified ship appears at the limit of sensor range, and the Enterprise, by Federation agreement with Haven, must defend them. As they near it, they find it's a Tarellian vessel. The Tarellians are victims of an old biological war--the disease they carry is contagious and incurable. They keep watch on it.
Meanwhile, Deanna starts to have second thoughts about the vows she took as a child, and arguments over the ceremony reach a feverish level. The Tarellians hail the Enterprise, and to everyone's surprise, Wyatt's dream-girl is on board, as one of the plague victims. Wyatt, a doctor, decides to beam over and try to cure their disease. This solves both problems at once: the ship decides not to stop at Haven as originally planned, and with Wyatt gone, Deanna's marriage is aborted before it begins. The Millers depart, as does Lwaxana, with one parting jab at Picard, pretending to be shocked at his lustful thoughts.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1987 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Will Riker
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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Lt. Dan Bell - William Boyett
Lit-Historian Whalen - David Selburg
Lt. McNary - Gary Armagnac
Desk Sergeant - Mike Genovese
Vendor - Dick Miller
Jessica Bradley - Carolyn Allport
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<text>The Enterprise journeys to quadrant Korona Four to greet the Jarada, an insect-like race obsessed with protocol. Picard must greet them in their language, perfectly, and it's a very difficult greeting. Sensing that he's working a bit too hard, Deanna convinces him to test out the recently upgraded holodeck. He enters the fictional world of Dixon Hill, private investigator.
Picard is enchanted by his first visit, and invites Bev back for a second go, along with a historian, one Mr. Whalen. Data, curious about the character's attraction, quickly reads all the literature Dixon Hill ever appeared in, and requests to go along. The three males enter (Beverly will be along later), where "Dixon Hill" is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Once they're inside, a Jaradan long-range probe shakes the ship, and somehow causes problems in the holodeck controls. The doors let Beverly in shortly afterwards, but then no one can get out. As the ship nears the rendezvous point, Riker sends Geordi to get Picard out of the holodeck, only to find that no one can get in or out. Geordi and Wesley immediately get to work.
Meanwhile, inside, Picard/Hill is released after being interrogated. The four return to his office, where they are threatened by Felix Leech, a Peter Lorre-type bad guy. Whalen tries to get the gun away from Leech, and Leech shoots him, physically injuring Whalen. Since the holodeck isn't supposed to allow that to happen, Picard realizes something's wrong. He knocks the gun away from Leech, who flees. Picard tries to call for the exit and encounters no response. Later, as work on the outside continues, Leech appears with his boss, Cyrus Redblock. Hill's detective friend, Lt. Bell, appears and is imprisoned with the others. Redblock demands that Hill turn over "the item", which he had been contracted to find, and responds to Picard's plea that he is not Dixon Hill by threatening Beverly's life.
Eventually, Geordi and Wes get the doors open. Redblock, now convinced, still holds Picard and the others at bay, and then exits the holodeck with Leech to plunder this new world, where the two quickly dissolve. Picard returns to the bridge just in time to deliver the Jaradan greeting perfectly, and the ship moves on.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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The Holodeck
Korona Four</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise travels to the Omicron Theta star system, where Data was found 26 years ago, and from which the colony has disappeared. When they arrive, they find the planet's been stripped completely bare. They then find a hidden cave.
Inside this cave are several laboratories, where Data remembers some of his functions being tested. We discover that he was constructed by the famous roboticist Dr. Noonian Soong, who left Earth after being humiliated by his failure to bring to life his promise of Asimov's positronic brain. Finally, the away team finds, disassembled, a second android, identical to Data! They beam up with it and both Medical and Engineering get to work assembling it. After the assembly is completed, Picard and Data (with others) await the first signs of consciousness. When Picard asks, "I wonder which of them was constructed first", the other android awakes and says, "He was--but they found him to be imperfect, and I was made to replace him". His name is Lore.
Lore has approximately the same mental and physical abilities as Data, but seems far more human. This quickly proves to be more a danger than a blessing, as we find that Lore can lie. For example, Lore was constructed first, not Data; he was disassembled because the colonists were jealous that he was "perfect". Lore explains to the crew how the colony was destroyed: a crystalline entity which feeds on life appeared and essentially ate the colony up. Lore's arrogance quickly turns into megalomania. He shuts off Data and exchanges places with him, then contacts the crystal and begins to make arrangements to give it the Enterprise, just as he once gave it the colony. Only Wesley is suspicious of the switch; none of the adult crewmembers think "Data" is anything but Data. As the entity arrives, Picard sends "Data" to check on "Lore", harshly reprimanding Wes for his recommendation not to leave the meeting unguarded. Lore uses deception to get Wesley and Riker to leave, then damages Data. Wes suggests one last time that Lore is pretending to be Data and is sent off the bridge, with Beverly coming along to keep an eye on him.
Lore speaks to the entity on the bridge, telling it the ship is powerful. He suggests beaming out something, secretly planning to inform the crystal ahead of time and to leave the ship vulnerable. Wes convinces Bev to check Data's quarters, where they find him injured. He is repaired enoughto pursue Lore, and after a quick battle, Wesley beams Lore out into deep space. The entity, no longer having any means to endanger the ship, leaves, and Wesley is sent back to the bridge, reinstated in full.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Lore
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>While the away team struggle to save male fugitives on a planet run by women, the Enterprise is ravaged by an highly infectious virus.</text>
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Ramsey - Sam Hennings
Ariel - Patricia McPherson
Trent - Leonard John Crofoot
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<text>While searching for survivors from the wrecked Federation freighter Odin, the Enterprise visits Angel One, a female-dominated planet at approximately Earth's 20th-century level of development. Picard sends down an away team (letting Troi do the talking), after Mistress Beate grudgingly permits the visit.
They first encounter only evasions and distrust. Some time later, after extracting a promise from the away team that they will take the survivors away, Beate gives them several crucial facts: there are four survivors, led by a man named Ramsey, and, more importantly, they are fugitives on this world. Back on the ship, Wesley and several of his classmates have contracted a respiratory ailment after a skiing trip on the holodeck, and Beverly cannot as yet figure out how it's transmitted.
The away team (minus Riker, who stays behind and is seduced by Beate) locates Ramsey, where they discover all is not as it seems. Ramsey and his fellows have learned to love this planet, but are crusading for equality. As they are civilians, the Enterprise cannot forcibly take them. As they return and express their regrets to Beate, she replies that she must then sentence them to death. Meanwhile, the time is drawing closer to a probable encounter with the Romulans in the Neutral Zone, and the virus has spread to the point where both Picard and Worf are out of action, leaving Geordi in command.
Riker and his team prepare to depart, expecting that Ramsey will manage to stay uncaught for a long time, but as they make their preparations, Ramsey is led in. Even in the face of certain death, however, Ramsey and his men are adamant--they and their families would rather die than leave. Riker attempts to take them by force, but is forbidden to beam up by Dr. Crusher, who has declared a medical emergency. Riker sends up Data, the only crewmember who is safe from the infection, with orders to get to the Neutral Zone "before it is too late".
Data interprets Riker's orders literally, and stays in orbit as long as he can. Riker makes one final plea to Beate before Ramsey's scheduled execution, convincing her that she's fighting, not a revolution, but evolution. Beate calls a last-second halt to the execution, and she and the council decide to exile Ramsey and his followers instead. Beverly finds the inoculant to the virus, and the ship heads for the Neutral Zone.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Deanna Troi
Mistress Beate
Angel One</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise docks at Starbase 74 for a computer refit and some much-needed rest. The maintenance crew, four Bynars (beings who have lived with computers so long that their thinking is virtually binary), seem a bit ill at ease, but there is no apparent threat. Picard goes off-shift, and Riker takes a stroll around the ship, leaving Wesley the bridge.
Riker eventually goes to examine the Bynar-enhanced holodeck, programming it for a jazz bar in 1958 New Orleans. After playing the trombone for a little while, he quickly starts romancing the woman in the bar, named Minuet. Picard walks in a bit later, and Minuet immediately greets him in French and invites him to stay.
Suddenly, Wes alerts Data, who's in his quarters, saying there seems to be a problem with antimatter containment. Data and Geordi rush to Engineering, where their fears are confirmed: antimatter containment is about to collapse. Data immediately orders evacuation, and everyone leaves, except for Picard and Riker, who, mysteriously, don't hear the alert.
After everyone else reaches the starbase, the containment inexplicably regenerates, as the ship warps away. As the crew on the starbase try to figure out a way to recover the Enterprise, Picard and Riker finally realize that Minuet's trying to keep them in the holodeck, and leave, where they discover what's happened. Not willing to let the ship fall into hostile hands, they first set the auto-destruct, then beam intraship to the bridge, where they find the Bynars unconscious, dying, and asking for help.
The ship reaches Bynarus, the Bynars' planet, which is also dead. Picard and Riker return to the holodeck and query Minuet about what has happened. Apparently, a star in the Bynarus system went supernova, and the electromagnetic pulse knocked out the planet's central computer. The Enterprise was needed to store the data from the planet during th shutdown time. Picard and Riker, working together, manage to get into the Bynarus file and reboot the computer. The Bynars revive and are taken into custody. When questioned, they say they didn't ask because "you might have/said no". The ship returns intact to the starbase, but Rkier finds that Minuet, whom he was falling for, was a Bynar creation and is now lost forever.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Will Riker
The Bynars
The Holodeck</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>After Governor Karnas of Mordan IV reports that terrorists have seized Federation ambassadors and will only speak to Admiral Mark Jameson, the Enterprise takes Jameson, very aged and suffering from Iverson's disease, on board with his wife.
After being on board a short time, Jameson seems much stronger to his wife, but then is wracked with pain. He claims it's nothing-- "just body changes" that he was warned to expect. However, Beverly finds his medical records are two months out of date, and Jameson later shocks the bridge by getting up out of his support chair (something which he should never have been able to do) to take the Con.
After Jameson starts looking younger and is then again seized by pain, his wife Ann calls Dr. Crusher for help. Picard questions Jameson and discovers what has happened: Jameson, not long ago, went to Cerebus II to obtain a process that gives one one's youth back. He was taking it gradually for months, but then, when this crisis surfaced, he not only took all of his own dosage at once, but all of the dosage he'd obtained for Ann as well. A short time later, Jameson opens a secret channel to Karnas, where he discovers that there are no terrorists: Karnas is holding the hostages himself, and wants Jameson for some as yet unspecified revenge.
After Jameson orders the ship to accelerate for an early arrival at Mordan, Picard talks to him privately (By this time, Jameson is physically in his mid- to late-twenties.). He hears the truth of what happened 45 years ago: rather than negotiating to free hostages Karnas took then, Jameson gave Karnas the weapons he wanted, but also gave them to his enemies, inadvertently causing forty years of civil war.
Arriving at Mordan, Jameson leads an armed rescue mission, which is aborted when he is again hit by another spasm. Karnas hails the Enterprise, demanding Jameson in ten minutes' time. Jameson, dying, beams down and eventually manages to convince Karnas that he is in fact Mark Jameson. His cells imploding, Jameson then dies in excruciating pain. Karnas, cheated even of his revenge, frees the hostages and agrees to bury Jameson's body on Mordan. The Enterprise, saddened by their loss, departs.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>The Enteprise escorts a Federation admiral to a planet to negotiate the release of hostages, but the planet governor wants to kill him in revenge for a previous hostage crisis that ended in tragedy.</text>
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Karnas
Mordan Four</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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Rashella - Brenda Strong
Katie - Jandi Swanson
Melian - Paul Lambert
Duana - Ivy Bethune
Dr. [Lt.] Bernard - Dierk Torsek
Leda - Michele Marsh
Accolan - Dan Mason
Harry - Philip N. Waller
Toya - Connie Danese
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<text>The Enterprise, having followed an energy trail, finds the legendary planet of Aldea, home to an advanced civilization able to cloak its entire planet. As they arrive, Aldea reveals itself, and they speak to one of the Aldean leaders, Rashella. She asks permission for the two groups to speak in person, and once permitted, appears almost immediately on the bridge with Radue. The two invite them to come to Aldea, then they leave, and Riker, Troi, and Beverly are taken down as well.
Suddenly, a strong scanner hits the ship, focusing on the children. Down on the planet, Radue tells the away team that the Aldean race is dying and cannot have children to replenish itself. He proposes untold knowledge and assistance in exchange for several of the Enterprise's children. The three immediately refuse, and are sent back, at which point Wesley and six other children vanish.
The children are placed with families according to their special talents: Harry, who likes art (but hates the dreaded Calculus), is placed with sculptors, for example. Up on the ship, Picard reassures the parents of the children that the Enterprise will not leave without the children. Meanwhile, the crew discovers that the Aldean shield (through which Enterprise transporters cannot penetrate) has random fluctuations, through which they might be able to send someone.
Picard and Bev go down to the planet to "negotiate" for "proper compensation" for the children. While there, Bev slips Wesley a med-scanner, which he quickly uses on Duana and returns to Beverly. After again insisting on the return of the children, the two are sent back, and the ship is hit by a bolt from Aldea which sends them three days away at Warp 9.
As even the younger children start getting lonely and homesick, Beverly finds the reason for the Aldeans' troubles: the shield has weakened the planet's ozone layer, giving them a kind of radiatio poisoning. Wesley leads the children in passive resistance, and Riker and Data secretly beam through one of the holes in the shield and neutralize it. Dr. Crusher explains to the Aldeans what has happened, and they accept that the children must leave, and then resolve to learn the lessons of their technology all over again.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Wesley Crusher
Radue
Aldea</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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Louisa Kim - Elizabeth Lindsey
Bjorn Benson - Gerard Prendergast
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<text>The Enterprise visits Velara III, a terraforming station with which communications have been erratic. After doing everything short of ordering them not to beam down, the Director, Kurt Mandl, allows them down and warmly welcomes them. Shortly after they arrive, however, one of the engineers, Arthur Malencon, is killed while using the laser-drill.
All but Geordi, Data, and engineer Bjorn Benson (one of the three terraformers remaining) beam up. Data discovers that the laser firing was not a malfunction, but seemed to act with a will. He restarts it, and it immediately attempts to kill him, but is destroyed. As suspicion begins to fall on the other terraformers, Data and Geordi discover what may well be inorganic life!
They beam the sample aboard and keep in in a medical lab, where they find that, although it is certainly inorganic, it is almost certainly alive. The terraformers claim not to know anything about this lifeform, but the two men are unconvincing. The lifeform reproduces, then manages to shrug off the quarantine field, and then tries to communicate with the ship, proving itself to be not only life, but intelligent life.
Picard discovers that Benson and Mandl occasionally saw strange patterns in the sand down on Velara, which were ignored, but were clearly in hindsight attempts to communicate. The lifeform, which contains all the necessary elements to be a living computer, divides again and again, until it becomes formidable. Angry over nearly being killed by the terraformers, it declares war on the Enterprise.
They try to beam it back, with no success, and then the lifeform gains control over the Enterprise computer. Realizing that the creature is photosensitive, Riker kills the lights in the lab, rendering it helpless. It begs for mercy, and the Enterprise beams it home and declares Velara III off-limits.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Velara Three</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is orbiting Relva 7, where Wesley is to take his entrance exams to the Academy. In a surprise, Picard is visited by his old friend, Admiral Gregory Quinn. In an even bigger surprise, when Quinn arrives, he is deadly serious and is accompanied by his aide, Lt. Commander Dexter Remmick, from the Inspector General's office, whose job is to find out exactly "what is wrong on this ship".
Remmick starts his questioning with Riker, asking him about Picard. Riker defends Picard, fiercely. Meanwhile, Wes is testing with his competitors: Oliana Mirren, a human, T'Shanik of Vulcan, and Mordock, a Benzite. He is doing well, and is becoming good friends with Mordock.
Remmick continues grilling the crew. He discusses the "Traveler" incident with Geordi, and the more recent Stargazer incident with Troi, calling it a mental lapse. Later, Remmick is on the bridge when a crisis comes up: Wes's friend Jake Kurland, whom he just beat to become the Enterprise's candidate for the Academy, steals a shuttle in embarrassment, and the shuttle becomes unbalanced, sending Jake towards Relva. Picard manages to save Jake, impressing even Remmick...for a moment.
Wes, down on Relva again, passes a crucial test of knowing other species' habits, and Remmick continues his grilling. This time, he questions Worf about the virus from "The Naked Now", then Beverly about her personal feelings about Picard (which she dismisses as being irrelevant and none of his business), and finally Picard himself, about having broken the Prime Directive in rescuing Wesley from the Edo. Picard finally decides enough is enough and confronts Quinn, who asks Remmick to deliver his final report.
Remmick is abashed to admit that he could not find anything wrong with the ship, or with Captain Picard, and Quinn dismisses him to tell Picard the real reason for this investigation. Quinn believes (with some others) that there's something very wrong with Starfleet, and he wants Picard close to him. He wants to promote Picard to Admiral and make him the head of Starfleet Academy. Picard, surprised, says he'll answer by that night. Meanwhile, Wes takes his psych test and successfully faces his greatest fear: having to to make a decision where someone could die.
Despite his high score, however, Wesley loses the coveted Academy place to Mordock. Depressed, he returns to the Enterprise, where Picard comforts him, confidentially mentioning that he failed the first time as well. Picard tells Quinn that he's staying on the Enterprise, and Quinn leaves, saying "perhaps I see conspiracies everywhere".
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>While Wesley endures the grueling Starfleet Academy entrance exam, Captain Picard faces an investigation into his competency as a commander.</text>
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Lt. Cmdr. Remmick - Robert Schenkkan
Mordock - John Putch
Tac Officer Chang - Robert Ito
Jake Kurland - Stephen Gregory
T'Shanik - Tasia Valenza
Oliana Mirren - Estee Chandler
Technician #1 - Brendan McKane
Technician #2 - Wyatt Knight
Rondon - Daniel Riordan</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Wesley Crusher
Admiral Quinn
Dexter Remmick
Relva Seven</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Lt. Worf is torn between his loyalty to the Enterprise and his fierce Klingon heritage when two Klingon fugitives try to take over the ship.
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<text>The Enterprise detects signs of a battle in the Neutral Zone and goesto investigate. They find a drifting ship, the Talarian ship Batris. There are possible life signs, but radiation from the ship's engineering section makes it uncertain. Riker beams over with Geordi and Data.
After some exploration, they find three Klingons: Korris, Konmel, and Kunivas, who is badly injured. They all beam off just in the nick of time, as the Batris explodes. The three Klingons go to sickbay, where they are met by Picard and Worf. They claim to have been passengers on the vessel, when they were attacked by Ferengi and took control (with the captain's permission) to win at the last minute. When pressed, they claim fatigue and ask to have time to rest. In their quarters, Korris and Konmel goad Worf to anger "only to see if it is still possible".
After Kunivas dies of his injuries and the two remaining Klingons (plus Worf) join in a death-ritual, Worf tells them of his origins: his parents were killed by Romulans on the Khitomer outpost, where he was rescued by a human Starfleet officer and raised as his son. The two appeal to Worf's heritage and tell him what really happened: they are dissidents, opposed to the Federation-Klingon peace, and the ship they destroyed was a Klingon cruiser sent to bring them back. They ask Worf for a tour, just as the bridge detects another ship coming into the area.
The other ship contains a Klingon captain, K'nera, demanding the return of Korris and the others as criminals. Yar takes them into custody, despite their appeal to Worf to join them. Locked in their cell, however, they jury-rig a disruptor and break out, killing one of the guards (though Konmel is also killed in the attempt). Korris goes to Main Engineering and aims a phaser at close range at the dilithium crystal chamber. One shot at that distance, and he would destroy the Enterprise easily. He insists he will speak only to Worf, who immediately leaves for Engineering himself.
Upon arrival, Worf attempts to convince Korris that "the true test of a warrior is not without--it is within!", and fails. Korris cannot believe Worf retains his loyalty to Starfleet and goads Worf into killing him. K'nera hears this news, and invites Worf to join his crew once his tour on the Enterprise is over. Worf is flattered, but declines, as the Enterprise departs.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Konmel - Charles H. Hyman
K'nera - David Froman
Kunivas - Robert Bauer
Nurse - Brad Zerbst
Ramos - Dennis Madalone</text>
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<text>Maurice Hurley and Herbert Wright & D.C. Fontana (Teleplay by Maurice Hurley)</text>
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<text>Rob Bowman</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Worf
The Klingons</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Picard and the away team fight for their lives on a planet run by a computerized weapons system.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise arrives at Minos, where the USS Drake recently disappeared. Minos was renowned during the long-past Ersalrope Wars as a prominent weapons manufacturer for both sides. The ship is hailed by an automated salesman, who invites them to beam down. Riker, Yar and Data do so.
Riker, on the surface, sees an image of the Drake's captain, his old friend Paul Rice, but is quickly informed by the Enterprise that there are no life signs apart from himself in the area. He tricks "Rice" into revealing it is only an image. It then turns itself into a small hovering device, and encases Riker in a force-field, and it is then destroyed by Yar. Picard and Beverly beam down to help, and Picard leaves Geordi in command. Unfortunately, as Data begins work on removing the force-field, a second device appears and fires on the team. Picard and Bev run for cover, and end up falling headlong into a deep pit, badly injuring Beverly in the fall. Yar and Data must combine their efforts to destroy this second device, and Data then frees Riker.
As Geordi prepares to beam the five back, a similar (though much larger) device appears in orbit with them and fires on the Enterprise. It is equipped with a cloaking device, and uses it well, decloaking just long enough to fire, but not long enough to be fired on. After a second hit, Chief Engineer Logan comes up to the bridge, demanding that Geordi break orbit and suggesting that he relinquish command to Logan. Geordi refuses and sends Logan back. A third device appears on the surface, this time equipped with a deflector shield, where all three people still on the surface are required to deal with it. Back in space, Worf and Lt. Solis at the helm try to anticipate the enemy's next move, and fire a spread of phasers and photon torpedoes at that location. The display is impressive, but a clean miss. After being buffeted by several more shots, Geordi calls Logan up to the bridge.
When Loga arrives, Geordi breaks orbit and puts Logan in command.of the saucer section. The ship separates, and the stardrive section returns to fight. Down on the surface, Picard finds a console tracking the away team, then accidentally activates the salesman, who implies that this system is what destroyed the Minosians. As the away team finds Picard and Beverly, Picard manages to shut the system down by convincing it it's made a sale, dispersing the final unit on the surface. Geordi manages to locate their assailant by diving into the atmosphere and spotting it by its turbulence. They successfully destroy the device and beam up the away team.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Captain Paul Rice - Marco Rodriguez
Chief Engineer Logan - Vyto Ruginis
Ensign Lian T'Su - Julia Nickson
Lt. j.g. Orfil Solis - George De La Pena
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Beverly Crusher
Minos</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is in the Delos system, examining a sun with very strong magnetic-field fluctuations, when they intercept a distress call from a freighter, the Sanction. The freighter, captained by T'Jon, is in some kind of trouble, but T'Jon is a bit vague about what the actual problem is, except that they're about to burn up in the atmosphere of the nearby planet, Brekka.
The intense solar flares prevent a tractor beam, or any positive transporter lock. Using the power of both transporters, Yar manages to beam over the ship's cargo, which they put in the chamber first. She then manages to save four of the ship's six inhabitants. Strangely, the four do not exhibit any sadness over their comrades, but insist on seeing their cargo.
When they see it, it becomes clear that there are two factions here, each insisting the cargo belongs to them. They fight, using their own natural electric charge ("a difficult weapon to confiscate", as Yar observes) until broken up by Security. Picard meets with all four, where the two Ornarans, T'Jon and Romas, say that the cargo, a shipment of Felissium, is a medicine for a plague on Ornara. The two Brekkians, Sobi and Langor, acknowledge this, but claim they can't simply give it away without being paid for it.
Beverly examines all four, and discovers that although T'Jon and Romas show many symptoms of a disease, she can't find any cause. When Picard manages to convince Sobi and Langor to at least give T'Jon and Romas enough Felissium for their own personal needs, she finds the answer she was looking for: it used to b a medicine, but it cured the plague two hundred years ago, shortly after it was first used. Now, it is merely a very addictive narcotic.
Upon further investigation, Picard discovers that the Brekkians know that Felissium is no more than a drug, but the Ornarans do not. Furthermore, this relationship, with Felissium being Brekka's only industry, is long-standing, and Picard cannot change it without breaking the Prime Directive. He allows the Brekkians their "change of heart" when they decide simply to give the Ornarans this shipment, but invokes the Prime Directive again and refuses to repair the Ornarans' two remaining ships, thus condemning the two planets to temporary isolation from each other. The four leave, all angry at Picard (though for different reasons), and the Enterprise heads for the Opraline system.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Romas - Richard Lineback
Sobi - Judson Scott
Langor - Kimberly Farr</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is caught in the middle when two alien races wage a bitter battle over cargo which one of them needs for survival.</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Beverly Crusher</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Counselor Troi is returning from a conference in a shuttle, but while passing Vagra II, the shuttle is suddenly sent out of control and crash-lands on the planet, injuring both Troi and the pilot.
When the Enterprise arrives at Vagra, Worf locates the shuttle, but cannot beam the two up-some sort of interference is not allowing the sensors to fully penetrate the debris. Riker, Yar, Data, and Beverly beam down to help. They find what looks like an oil slick, but one that follows them, constantly blocking their path from the shuttle. When Data theorizes that it could be alive, the slick responds to them, and assumes a vaguely humanoid shape.
It introduces itself as Armus, and claims not to share the Federation's ideals that all life has a right to exist. Yar tries to cross, and is instantly killed. Although she is immediately brought back to Sickbay and put on life support, it's too late. Armus, meanwhile, coats the shuttle and taunts Troi with what he has done.
Picard appoints Worf Acting Security Chief, and Riker goes back down to Vagra, with Geordi, Beverly, and Data. Armus torments them all, first allowing, then disallowing Beverly to enter the shuttle, then ripping off Geordi's VISOR and transporting it from place to place. When no one lets themselves be emotionally affected by Armus, he returns to the shuttle, where he explains to Troi that he came from a race of beings who managed to siphon off all their evil, which became him. The beings then departed, leaving him behind. When Troi offers her pity, Armus rumbles "save that for yourself!", flows back off the shuttle, and sucks Riker into himself.
Picard beams down to negotiate with Armus, as up on the ship, Worf and Wesley notice that the force-field is weakest when Armus coats the shuttle. Picard refuses to play Armus's game, even when threatened by Data's phaser, controlled by Armus. Armus eventually regurgitates Riker, and all but Picard and those in the shuttle are allowed to beam up. Armus then tells Picard that he wants transportation off-world. Picard says he might give it to him, but he must see his people first. Armus puts him in the shuttle, where Picard hurriedly consults with Troi. Troi tells him that Armus is most vulnerable when he's feeling his own rage instead of internalizing it. When Picard is brought back out, he manages to provoke Armus to greater and greater anger at his own fate, until the force-field is weak enough that everyone is beamed aboard.
Some time later, in a moving memorial, an image of Tasha tells everyone to remember how much she loved her life, and extols the virtues of each of her fellow crewmembers in turn.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Lt. Cmdr. Leland Lynch - Walker Boone
Nurse - Brad Zerbst
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<text>A rescue mission turns the tragedy when one of the Enterprise officers is killed by an evil alien.
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<text>Joseph L. Scanlan</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Deanna Troi
Tasha Yar
Armus
Vagra</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Denise Crosby as Lt. Natasha "Tasha" Yar
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is en route to some much-needed shore leave, when suddenly the crew experiences a small loop in time. Shortly thereafter, they intercept an emergency automatic transmission from Dr. Paul Manheim, a scientist who's been working on some odd theories concerning nonlinear time. Upon hearing his name, Picard reacts strangely, but orders the ship to the coordinates specified in the message.
With several hours remaining before arrival, Picard goes to Holodeck 3 and programs it for Paris as it was twenty-two years ago, where he sits at a table where he once had a rendezvous, but never showed up. He quickly tires of "this self-indulgence" and leaves. As the Enterprise arrives at the coordinates given, they find a relay signal, sending them to Vandor Four, a small planetoid orbiting a double star: one a red giant, the other a pulsar. As they arrive, Manheim's wife answers, and Picard freezes for an instant. She turns off the force-field blocking their transporters, and both Manheims are beamed aboard. When Picard arrives in sickbay, he gets Jenice's attention, and she instantly recognizes him.
She explains that the rest of the scientific crew was killed several weeks earlier in the other lab, and that Manheim's recent experiments have been looking for windows to other dimensions that can be opened by changing the nature of time. After another experience of the Manheim effect (this time, Riker, Data and Picard meet themselves in the turbolift), Riker leads an away team and attempts to beam down to get Dr. Manheim's notes. The beam, however, bounces, and they are lucky to make it back to the Enterprise at all. After Dr. Manheim awakens, he claims to be partially trapped in another dimension. When he hears what has happened, he insists that his experiment must have a controlled shutdown, to close the rift he has opened. He gives the security codes to get down to the lab, and Picard sends Data down alone, as Data seems the least affected by the time distortion. Despite one security precaution that Dr. Manheim forgot to mention, Data makes it into the lab.
He prepares to drop a specific amount of antimatter into the rift precisely 27 seconds after the next effect begins. However, when it does begin, he finds that there are three Datas, each holding some antimatter. The middle Data successfully realizes that he is the one in the correct time continuum, and manages to close the hole (or at least patch it). The closure completely restores Manheim, and Picard says one last goodbye to Jenice on the holodeck before the Enterprise departs.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Data
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Captain Picard and Commander Riker travel to Earth to investigate a conspiracy in the highest ranks of Starfleet command.</text>
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<text>While en route to Pacifica for scientific study and relaxation, the Enterprise receives a Code 47 transmission, for Picard's eyes only. Picard wakes and receives the message, from his old friend Walker Keel. Keel demands an immediate meeting on Dytalix B, a nearby mining planet, and gives only vague warnings.
When they arrive, they find three ships in orbit, one of them Walker's ship, the Horatio. Picard beams down alone and meets with Walker, along with the other two ship captains. After giving Picard a memory test to ensure he's still himself, Walker says that they've noticed strange patterns of orders from Starfleet Command, but can't say anything concrete. Picard is skeptical, but agrees to watch his back and keep in touch. Picard confides in Troi about his worries, then assigns Data (while not telling him the reason behind the assignment) to review the last six months of Starfleet orders. They begin heading back to Pacifica, but find debris in a nearby sector. There are no identifying marks, but from the size and composition of the debris, Worf concludes it can only be the Horatio, totally destroyed.
Now very suspicious, Picard mentions the conspiracy theory to Riker. Riker is skeptical, but becomes less so when Data comes in with evidence of "an uncustomary reshuffling of personnel, particularly in the command areas", which Data sees as a covert attempt to seize several sectors of Federation territory. Now quite disturbed, Picard orders the Enterprise back to Earth to check things out, and informs the rest of the crew about his suspicions. When they arrive, the response seems quite temperate. Two admirals, Savar and Aaron, invite Picard and Riker down to dinner. The third, Gregory Quinn, asks to come up to the ship. When he arrives, he denies most of what he said back at Relva 7, making Picard certain he's been affected. Picard beams down, and Riker sees Quinn to his quarters. Quinn attacks Riker, showing incredble strength and near-invulnerability. He knocks Riker out, and even Worf shortly afterwards, before Beverly knocks him out with repeated phaser blasts. She examines him, and finds a parasitic creature has taken him over.
She informs Picard about this, who's suspicious enough already from the conversations he's had with Savar and Aaron. He goes in to dinner, where it is revealed that they've all been taken over. He tries to leave, but is caught by Riker, whom we earlier saw sneak up on Bev. As it happens, he's only faking, and they manage to stun everyone in the room, except for Aaron, who escapes. They catch him, and follow the creature that leaves his mouth, only to find Remmick, who seems to be the leader. They kill Remmick, and the mother-creature that crawls out of his ribcage. Quinn is back to normal, and all seems well, but Data finds that Remmick sent out a homing beacon before he died...
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Admiral Quinn - Ward Costello
Lt. Cmdr Remmick - Robert Schenkkan
Admiral .Aaron - Ray Reinhardt
Capt. Walker Keel - Jonathan Farwell
Cap. Rixx - Michael Berryman
Capt. Tryla Scott - Ursaline Byrant</text>
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<text>Cliff Bole</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Admiral Quinn
Cmdr. Remmick</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>While traveling to a meeting with hostile Romulans, the crew discovers a ship containing three frozen Americans from the 20th century.</text>
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<text>While Picard is at an emergency conference, the Enterprise finds an 20th century Earth craft. Data and Worf beam over to inspect it, and find three frozen humans, still alive.
As Picard's shuttle docks, Data and Worf return with the bodies. Picard calls a meeting shortly thereafter. Two Federation outposts have been destroyed in the Neutral Zone, and the Romulans are suspected. The Enterprise has been sent to meet them, and to reason first, fight second. On his way back from the meeting, Picard meets with Bev, and hears for the first time about the three humans, who have now been thawed and cured of the ailments that originally led them to be cryonically frozen. Picard heads back to the bridge and puts Riker in charge of the three, who have now revived and are understandably confused. One of them, Ralph Offenhaus, a financier, is overbearing to the extreme, and insists on contacting his lawyer immediately. As all three acclimate, Troi briefs Picard, saying that although the Romulans are arrogant, they will not initiate the conflict, but rather will counterpunch.
After a brief, brusque conversation between Picard and Ralph, in which Picard informs Ralph of just how much has changed in the past 370 years, Clare, one of the other 20th century people, starts crying over her sons. Picard sends Troi in to comfort her, and Troi starts helping Clare find out what happened to her children. The third person, Sonny Clemens, a singer, has befriended Data by now, but as he suggests starting a party, Data is called back to the bridge, as they're about to enter the Neutral Zone. They find that not only has the first outpost they find been destroyed, but it's as though it's been completely scooped out. The second outpost is gone as well, and Picard takes the ship to Yellow Alert (over the objections of Riker and Worf, who prefer Red Alert). Ralph, meanwhile, tired of not knowing what's going on, heads for the main bridge. On the bridge, Worf detects a disturbance, but there's no real lock. Picard does not fire, and the disturbance vanishes. As Ralph makes his presence known, the Romulans return and decloak.
Picard opens hailing frequencies, and finds that outposts on the Romulan side of the zone have disappeared as well, in precisely the same manner. He offers an ongoing exchange of Federation on this one issue. The Romulans agree, but "only if it is convenient, and appropriate, at the time". They leave, after Commander T-Bok tells Picard in no uncertain terms that the Romulans are back. Shortly afterward, the Enterprise rendezvouses with the U.S.S. Charleston, and transfers the three survivors of the 20th century there, to be dropped off at Earth.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Sub-Commander Thei - Anthony James
L.Q. "Sonny" Clemens - Leon Rippy
Clare Raymond - Gracie Harrison
Ralph Offenhaus - Peter Mark Richman</text>
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<text>Teleplay by Maurice Hurley (From a story by Deborah McIntyre & Mona Clee)</text>
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<text>James L. Conway</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
The Romulans</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. [j.g.] Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>While preparing to transport a deadly plague to a research lab, the crew is stunned by the announcement of Counselor Troi's pregnancy.
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<text>While the Enterprise is en route to pick up samples of various viruses for study to assist with a plasma plague, a strange, glowing light covertly comes aboard the ship. After floating around for a bit and inspecting a couple of rooms, it enters Counselor Troi, who wakes up, mildly distressed.
Meanwhile, the new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Katherine Pulaski, has come on board. Dr. Crusher departed between seasons to become head of Starfleet Medical, and Wesley will shortly be leaving the Enterprise to join her. When Picard discovers that Dr. Pulaski is in 10-Forward without having reported in yet, he goes to find her. When he arrives, Pulaski (who's just been talking to Troi) sits him down, and tells him exactly what he tells the rest of the crew at the staff meeting: Dean- na is pregnant, and the pregnancy is proceeding at an extremely rapid rate. After some discussion about what's to be done, Deanna states that she's keeping the child no matter what. The ship reaches Odett 9 to pick up the samples. The medical trustee there, Hester Dealt, comes up to inspect the containment field that new Chief Engineer La Forge has designed, and sends along a manifest of all the samples that are to be brought aboard. Several hours later, Troi delivers her baby--with no pain, and little effort. She names the child Ian Andrew, after her father. The next day, Picard goes to pay his respects, only to find that Ian is now physically almost four years old--and he can even talk.
After the manifest is inspected (and Pulaski warns Picard of just how nasty these specimens are), the samples are beamed aboard, and the En- terprise leaves for Rachelis. Ian, by now, is physically and mentally about eight, and seems obsessed by new sensations and feelings. When asked if he's ready to tell everyone why he's come, he says merely, "No... not yet". Suddenly, Dealt and Geordi detect growth of one of the organisms. There are no problems in the containment field, however, and they can't explain it. Furthermore, if growth continues, there's no way the Enterprise can prevent being completely overrun. They eventually determine that the growth is being stimulated by Eichener radiation, but are at a loss to figure out what's emitting said radiation. Ian, realizing it's him, tells Troi he must leave, and "dies", turning back into the glowing light we saw earlier.
It converses telepathically with Troi, telling her that it came to learn about humanity, and took human form to do so. With the radiation gone, the samples quiet down again, and are delivered safely. Finally, Wes decides he wants to stay on the Enterprise, and after conferring with the bridge crew, Picard gives him permission to do so.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Deanna Troi
Jean-Luc Picard
Kate Pulaski
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The crew is held hostage in a mysterious void by a being who wishes to observe the many ways in which humans die.
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Nagilum - Earl Boen
Ensign Haskell - Charles Douglas
Transporter Chief - Colm Meaney</text>
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<text>While exploring the Morgana quadrant, the Enterprise happens upon a void, resembling nothing they've ever seen before. Troi detects nothing from it, and sensors insist that literally nothing is there. They stop to inspect it. First, they launch two probes into it, but both vanish without a trace. Then, as they inch slightly closer to the "hole's" event horizon, the hole reaches out and sucks them in.
With no immediate threat, they inspect the void, and find it looks exactly the same no matter in which direction or how far out they look. When they eventually try to leave, however, they find they don't really seem to be moving anywhere. They try dropping a stationary beacon and heading away from it, but shortly discover they're heading back towards it. As the crew's concern increases, a Romulan ship appears and fires. The Enterprise destroys it with one torpedo, and are puzzled to detect no debris. Then, their sister ship, the Yamato, appears, but does not respond to hails. Riker and Worf beam over to check it out. While they find a strange, Escher-like joining of bridges, the Enterprise sees an opening, but cannot leave while they away team is on the Yamato, and communications are out. After they let the exit vanish, communications mysteriously come back up, and the away team, jumpy, is beamed back aboard just as the Yamato vanishes. Several similar openings appear, but vanish whenever the ship tries to move towards them. Just as Pulaski remarks that this all feels like a psychology experiment on rats, a mysterious face appears in the void.
It announces itself as "Nagilum", and after asking a few questions, decides it wants to examine the phenomenon of death. It kills one crewman, then says it must learn about "every kind of dying", and expects it will take thirty to fifty percent of the crew. Shortly after this, in a conference, Picard decides that there's only one option: destroy the Enterprise. He and Riker set the auto-destruct, with a twenty minute countdown. After about fifteen of those minutes have gone by, Picard is visited in his quarters by Data and Troi. After Data asks about death, both tell Picard in no uncertain terms that it is wrong to destroy the Enterprise. Picard says, "Yes. This is very wrong. Neither of you should be reacting in this way", and finds out from the computer that Data is on the bridge. Nagilum's simulations vanish, and so does the void. After ordering the ship well clear of where they were, Picard aborts the destruct. Nagilum appears on the screen in Picard's ready room a short time later, to present its conclusions, and expressed its amazement that humans have survived. Picard points out that both species share the trait of curiosity, and Nagilum vanishes, as the Enterprise continues on.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Nagilum</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Pretending to be Sherlock Holmes, Data uses the holodeck to solve a mystery that threatens Dr. Pulaski's life.</text>
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<text>With three days left to wait for a rendezvous, Geordi invites Data to play Sherlock Holmes to his John Watson in the holodeck. Both enjoy the trappings of their respective roles, but Geordi is quickly non-plussed when Data solves the Holmes mystery effortlessly, due to having read and memorized it. In Ten-Forward, Geordi tries to explain to Data that the fun is in trying to solve the mystery, but doesn't seem to be getting through. When Pulaski adds her two cents, and claims that human understanding of that type is beyond Data, Geordi suggests programming the computer to create an original Holmes mystery, and Data invites Pulaski along.
Unfortunately, this second attempt is merely a combination of elements from two different Conan Doyle stories, and fails as miserably as the first. Geordi tells the computer to create an adversary capable of defeating Data, and on the bridge, Worf suddenly detects a power surge. As the three continue wandering the streets of "London", Professor Moriarty appears, and miraculously, calls up the computer arch himself. Shortly afterward, Geordi and Data hear Pulaski scream, and Data quickly deduces Pulaski has been abducted.
Their first attempt to find her leads them to a dead end. When the Inspector gives "Holmes" a mystery to solve, Data quickly does so, but says it does not connect with their search, leading Geordi to conclude that the computer is running an independent program. They find Moriarty, who worries them with his talk of Data being "Holmes--yet not Holmes", and then shocks them by calling for the arch. He gives Data a picture of the Enterprise, and Data and Geordi leave in a panic. They try to shut down the holodeck, but cannot. Apparently, Geordi's instruction to create an adversary worthy of Data, and not Holmes, set up a chain reaction that gives Moriarty both power and consciousness. After examining alternatives, Picard decides the safest approach is for him, with Data, to go back into the holodeck and confront Moriarty.
By the time they reach him, Moriarty has gained a reasonable understanding of the ship's operations, and proves to them that he can cause damage by shaking the ship. Data, attempting to make the program run its course, concedes defeat, but Moriarty does not vanish. He claims to no longer be Moriarty, and says he wants merely to continue to exist...outside the holodeck. Picard sympathizes, as "Moriarty" is no longer evil, but cannot help. Moriarty, admitting failure, cancels the override protocol he'd placed on the holodeck. Picard suggests to Moriarty that they save his program until they find a way to recreate him more permanently. Moriarty is saved, and the Enterprise rendezvouses with the Victory.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Data
Geordi LaForge
Kate Pulaski
Jean-Luc Picard
Prof. Moriarty
The Holodeck</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>While the Enterprise crew play host to a witty renegade captain, Data struggles to acquire a sense of humor.
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<text>While cruising through the Omega Sagitta Twelve System, in the Medina cluster, the Enterprise stumbles across a cargo ship with a lone occupant and a faulty guidance system. They hail the captain, one Okona, a charming rogue. When Okona accepts their offer of help, the Enterprise locks on a tractor beam to his ship and beams him aboard. Okona quickly charms Riker, Data and Wesley, and starts romancing the female transporter chief only seconds after coming on board. He befriends Data, discussing such things as humor and sex appeal, and after a short stop in Engineering, leaves Data and enters the transporter chief's room.
Data, convinced he doesn't understand humor, talks to Guinan, who directs him to a "higher power" -in his case, a smarter computer. Data programs a 20th century comic to tell him what is funny. After a little while, Data tries to tell jokes to Guinan, but only spoils them. Meanwhile, a small interplanetary vessel shows up and threatens the Enterprise (with lasers, no less--as Picard puts it, "lasers couldn't even get through our navigation shields").
The captain of this ship is Debin, a leader of the planet Atlec, one of the two planets in this cluster. He demands Okona be turned over to him as a known criminal. While Picard considers options, a second ship shows up, holding Kushell of the planet Streleb, who also demands Okona. Picard sends Worf to bring Okona (currently in another woman's room) up to the bridge. When he reaches the bridge, Okona tells Picard he is not a criminal, but refuses to say why Debin or Kushell might want him. When Picard asks, he finds that Debin is convinced Okona has fathered an as-yet unborn child on his daughter Yanar, and Kushell claims he stole a valuable jewel.
Okona still insists he is not a criminal, and suggests that the Enterprise manage to stay out of things by simply repairing his ship and letting him run off. After talking to Wesley, however, Okona decides to stay and make a stand. Both sets of parties beam aboard, and after some bickering, Okona "decides" to marry Yanar. However, Kushell's son Benzan objects, and the real truth of what happened comes out: Benzan and Yanar are in love. She's carrying his child, and Benzan gave the jewel of Thesia to Okona to give to Yanar. All involved parties except Okona leave, satisfied.
Data brings Guinan onto the holodeck, where he performs in front of an audience. It goes well, but then he realizes that the audience has been programmed to laugh at everything, and cancels, depressed. However, when Okona leaves, Data makes an inadvertent joke that leaves everyone smiling.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1988 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Data
Guinan
Okana</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The future of a warring planet depends on a deaf mediator, who suddenly loses his ability to communicate.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise enters the Ramatis system to take on board Riva, a famous mediator who is needed to resolve a dispute on the planet Solais 5. They quickly discover that Riva is a rather unusual fellow: he is deaf, and communicates through the three members of his Chorus, who receive his thoughts and speak for him, each conveying a different part of his personality. Riva quickly becomes attracted to Deanna, who reciprocates.
At the briefing, Riva hears both societies (who have been fighting for fifteen centuries) are on the verge of extinction, then dismissed the background of the conflict as irrelevant. He asks what has recently changed to make them desire peace, then says that he's sure he'll find an answer somehow- he always has before. As they approach Solais 5, they find the cease-fire has been broken. Riva, from the bridge, convinces them to cease hostilities long enough to meet with him.
Riva, with an away team, beams down and begins making preparations for the meeting. Unfortunately, when it begins, one of the delegates who isn't so thrilled by the concept of peace tries to kill Riva, but instead kills his Chorus. Hostilities recommence, as Riva and the others beam back aboard. Realizing that Riva uses some kind of gestural language, Picard orders Data to learn it. (Meanwhile, Pulaski tells Geordi it may be possible to give him normal vision, and Geordi says he'll consider it.)
After he does so, Riva manages to communicate that he only wants to go back to Ramatis now, saying he "cannot" and "will not" go back to Solais, and that Data "is a fine machine, but he cannot take the place of my Chorus". Picard agrees to take him back, but says his decision is regrettable.
Troi comes to Riva and tells him she is going to try to mediate, and asks him for suggestions. Riva suggests she find something the two factions have in common, no matter how small, and says the real trick is "turning a disadvantage into an advantage". Troi challenges him to do the same, and he decides to beam back down.
When all is in place, Riva tells the Enterprise crew they can leave. Everyone is puzzled, except for Troi, who tells Riker that Riva is going to teach the Solari his sign language, which will help them communicate, not only with him, but with each other. The Enterprise leaves, confident that he will resolve the war, and Picard thanks Troi warmly for all she has done.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Woman - Marnie Mosiman
Scholar - Thomas Oglesby
Warrior/Andonis - Leo Damian
Transporter Chief - Colm Meaney
Warrior #1 - Richard Lavin
Warrior #2 - Chip Heller
Lieutenant - John Garrett</text>
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Deanna Troi
Solais Five</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>A brilliant but terminally ill scientist seeks eternal life by transferring his mind into Data's body.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise travels to the home of Ira Graves, a brilliant but desperately ill scientist. While en route, they receive a distress call from a nearby ship. Although they depart to help the Constantinople, they drop off Troi, Worf, Data, and Dr. Selar, a Vulcan, at near-warp velocities on Graves's world. Graves's assistant, the lovely Kareen Brianon, greets them. When asked why she abruptly cut off transmission earlier, it's revealed that Dr. Graves didn't know they were coming. Graves appears, quite irascible, but he grudgingly allowed Selar to examine him. While she does this, he becomes fascinated by Data. He claims to have taught Noonian Soong, Data's creator, everything he knew, and refers to himself as Data's grandfather. Selar then reports: Graves has Darnay's Disease, which is terminal.
Graves starts talking only to Data and retreats into seclusion with him. He insists Data call him "Grandpa", and reveals that he doesn't actually believe he'll die, as he's learned a way to transfer his mind into a computer. When Data, while discussing death, mentions his "off" switch, Graves gets a cunning look in his eye. While Troi, Worf and Selar discuss Graves with Kareen (and Troi tells her that Graves is quite attracted to her), Data comes out and says Graves just died a few minutes ago, in his arms.
The Enterprise, which has by now returned, beams back the away team, and prepares to take Kareen to a starbase. Data, however, starts acting a bit strangely. He delivers an overly sentimental speech at Graves's funeral, and seems to be becoming attracted to Kareen. Picard talks to Data later, but is convinced he's just been trying a bit too hard to be human. This opinion changes, however, when Data becomes insubordinate, and accuses Picard of having "unprofessional" intentions toward Kareen. Troi, unbelievably, senses jealousy from Data. Picard orders Data to submit to an examination by Geordi, and when that comes up empty, Deanna gives him a psychiatric test.
She then reports her disturbing results to Picard: there are two different personalities in Data's mind, and the irrational one is growing, to the extent that the Data they know may soon be lost. Data, meanwhile, goes to Ten-Forward, where he tells Kareen that he is Graves, transferred into Data. He declares his love for her, and says he'll build an android body for her as well. When she declines, he accidentally hurts her, then departs for Engineering.
Picard confronts Data/Graves in Engineering and demonstrates to him how violent he's become. After punching Picard out, Graves is filled with remorse, and leaves Data's body, downloading himself into the Enterprise computer. There, his knowledge stays intact, but not his consciousness. Data revives, intact, but with no memory of what happened.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Wesley Crusher
Ira Graves
Grave's World</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The crew grapples with a mysterious disease which accelerates the aging process, causing humans to die of old age within a matter of days.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise receives a distress call from the cargo ship USS Lantree. They ask for help, and say something about "dying", then cease responding at all. When the Enterprise finds it, they find no life signs, but no sign of battle damage. Picard accesses the Lantree's computer remotely and calls up their viewscreen, where they see evidence that the crew died of extreme old age (which is impossible, as Captain Talacca is only Riker's age).
When they download the Lantree's logs, they find that no one on board that ship knew what was going on either. Pulaski checks their medical histories: they were all fine eight weeks ago, and five days ago, the only illness on board was a mild case of Thalusian flu, which could never have done something like this. The Enterprise sets quarantine beacons on the Lantree and departs for its last port of call, the Darwin Genetic Research Station, both to find out if they know anything about what's happened, and to warn them if they do not.
At Darwin Station, they find the same process occurring, although more slowly. Furthermore, they believe the Lantree infected them. The head of the station, Dr. Kingsley, asks the Enterprise (and Dr. Pulaski in particular) to help their children, who have been in protective isolation and are harmless. Picard grudgingly allows one child to be beamed aboard encased in Styrolite, for perfect safety. When he's beamed aboard, he looks more like 22 than 12, seems in perfect health, and is deemed telepathic by Troi. When Pulaski wants to take him out of the Styrolite to continue tests, however, Picard refuses, because there's no way to isolate Sickbay. After discussing alternatives with Deanna and Geordi, Pulaski suggests a shuttlecraft, to which Picard agrees. Pulaski and Data take the child onto a shuttle, where Pulaski, to her surprise, is infected.
The child and the shuttle return to Darwin Station, where Pulaski and Data determine that although the children are not carriers, they are the source. The overactive immune system of the children responded to the Thalusian flu from the Lantree, and began affecting ordinary DNA, simulating aging--and the process, it seems, is irreversible.
Picard, however, is unwilling to accept this. The Enterprise crew seize on the idea of using the transporter trace pattern to control the reconstitution, but find Pulaski's never used the transporter. Picard suggests using a sample of her ordinary DNA, which they find on a hairbrush. Despite the chance that they might have to beam her energy out into space, they beam her back, successfully reversing the aging process. Unfortunately, however, the children must remain in isolation forever (although the researchers are saved), and the Enterprise returns to destroy the Lantree for the safety of humanity.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Kate Pulaski
Darwin Research Station</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Rikers loyalties are put to the test when he is assigned to a Klingon vessel which plans to attack the Enterprise.
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<text>After Riker welcomes on board Ensign Mendon, a slightly arrogant Benzite on board as part of Starfleet's new exchange program, he discusses the program with Picard, who thinks an Enterprise officer should participate. When Riker hears there's a Klingon vessel in the area, he volunteers eagerly.
As the Enterprise heads to rendezvous with that vessel, the Pagh, Worf discusses Klingon policy with Riker, particularly the idea that the first officer's duty is to assassinate the captain should he become weak. Riker later samples Klingon food in preparation for his new assignment. Just before he leaves, Worf gives him an emergency transponder to ensure his safe return.
When they arrive and rendezvous with the Pagh, the captain, Kargon, immediately orders Picard to beam Riker over. On the bridge, Mendon notices a strange form of bacteria on the Pagh, but says nothing. Riker is wished well and beamed over.
One of the first things he does is answer a challenge to his authority as first officer from his second officer, Lt. Klag. Meanwhile, Enterprise sensors detect the same substance on its hull. When Mendon mentions that he saw it earlier, he is chastised for not reporting it then (though Benzite procedure required that he not mention the problem until he had a working solution). He is put to work, with Data, to analyze the bacteria and find out everything he can about them.
Riker, in the mess hall of the Pagh, deals with such novelties as live serpent worms ("Gagh is always best when served live", says one Klingon), and two Klingon women expressing curiosity about how he would endure "them". Meanwhile, Mendon and Data find out that the Pagh contains more of the compounds the bacteria feed on, and thus are more vulnerable, and the Enterprise begins searching for the Pagh.
Kargon, however, has already found the damage, and is convinced this is Federation treachery. He begins planning to attack the Enterprise, and doubles his efforts when they discover the Enterprise is on an intercept course. When he orders Riker to give him the secrets of the Enterprise, however, Riker refuses, saying it is possible for him to follow his oath to the Pagh without breaking his oath to Starfleet. Mendon figures out how to remove the bacteria, and Picard puts that in the hailing message, but Kargon still insists on attacking.
Riker then takes out his transponder and tricks Kargon into taking it. When the Enterprise accidentally beams Kargon onto the bridge, Riker becomes captain of the Pagh, and orders the Enterprise to surrender. Picard agrees, and commences repairs on the Pagh. Kargon is returned to his ship, and throws Riker off it. Riker returns to the Enterprise and commends Worf on his noble race.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Worf
The Klingons</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>When Data refuses to be disassembled for research purposes, Picard is enlisted to defend his rights in court.
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<text>While at Starbase 173 for crew rotation, Picard runs into an old acquaintance, Captain Phillipa Louvois, who once prosecuted him in the Stargazer court-martial, but is now working for the JAG (Judge Advocate General) office in this sector. Also on hand is Commander Bruce Maddox, who once on board the Enterprise, announces his intention to dismantle Data.
Maddox is an expert in cybernetics, and has worked for years to recreate the work of Dr. Soongh, and he believes examining Data will give him the boost he needs to create many more androids like Data. However, when Picard, wary of Maddox's vagueness, declines the offer, Maddox produces orders transferring Data to his command.
After talking to Data, Picard goes to Phillipa to find a way to block the transfer. Unfortunately, the only option is for Data to resign from Starfleet. This he does, immediately, but is interrupted while packing by Dr. Maddox, who claims Data cannot resign. Data says that he must, to protect Soongh's dream.
Maddox takes his complaint to Phillipa, and claims that since Data is property, he cannot resign. As she starts looking into this possibility, Data is thrown a going-away party and wished well in whatever he chooses to do. However, Phillipa then tells Picard and Riker that, according to the Acts of Cumberland, Data is the property of Starfleet, and thus cannot resign, or even refuse to cooperate with Maddox. Further, if a hearing is held to challenge this ruling, since Phillipa has no staff, serving officers must serve as counsel, with Picard defending and Riker prosecuting.
Riker does some research and presents a devastating case for the prosecution, turning Data off while talking about cutting Pinocchio's strings. Picard, taken aback, asks for a recess, and talks to Guinan. Guinan subtly gets Picard to realize that if Data, and his eventual successors, are held to be "disposable people", that's no better than slavery all over again. Picard, renewed, presents his defense.
He asks Data why he values such things as his medals, a gift from Picard, and especially a holographic image of Tasha (surprising Phillipa with Data's statement that they were "intimate"). He calls Maddox as a hostile witness, and demands from him the requirements for sentience. Finally, Picard points out that the possibility of thousands of Datas is becoming a race, and claims that "Starfleet was founded to seek out new life--well there it sits!!" Phillipa rules in favor of Data, who refuses to undergo Maddox's procedure. Maddox cancels the transfer order, and Data comforts Riker, saying he will not easily forget how Riker injured himself (by prosecuting) to save Data.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Guinan - Whoopi Goldberg
Capt. Louvois - Amanda McBroom
Admiral Nakamura - Clyde Kusatsu
Cmdr Bruce Maddox - Brian Brophy
Chief O'Brien - Colm Meaney</text>
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<text>Data
Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Capt. Louvois
Bruce Maddox
Starbase 173</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Wesley finds romance with the beautiful young ruler of Daled Four whose secret power could destroy the Enterprise and her crew.
Wesely's girlfriend turns out to be an allassomorph.
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<text>The Enterprise arrives at Klavdia Three and picks up Salia, future ruler of Daled Four, with her guardian Anya. Geordi takes the opportunity to make some minor adjustments to the warp engines, and sends Wesley for a magnet. Wes gets it, and then runs into Salia, and they seem immediately attracted to one another.
While Troi expresses concern that Salia and Anya may not be exactly what they appear to be (i.e. humanoid), Geordi sends Wesley out of Engineering until his hormones calm down. Wes consults with Worf, Data, and Riker about what to say to Salia, but none are particularly helpful. While Anya (whom we've seen change her shape earlier) takes a tour of the ship, Wes lurks outside Salia's door, until she asks him in to find out how to work the food dispenser. Anya, meanwhile, is acting overly paranoid with respect to Salia's safety. When she sees Geordi is making repairs, she demands to know exactly what the problem is, and says she'll be back to check his progress. Worse yet, when she sees someone in Sickbay with a contagious disease, she insists he be killed. When Pulaski refuses, Anya changes shape into a hideous monster and tries to do it herself, but is stopped (more or less) by Worf and assumes her original shape. Picard confines her to quarters, but confesses there may be a problem if Anya changes shape again.
Meanwhile, Wes has shown Salia many worlds in the holodeck, and is now eating with her in Ten-Forward. She becomes depressed that she will probably never leave Daled Four once they arrive. (It is hoped that her leadership will unite two warring factions, since she is a child of both, but it's also a full-time job.) When Wes naively suggests staying on the Enterprise, she bursts into tears and leaves. Wes follows, but then the two are separated by Picard and Anya, who's already noticed Salia's gone. As the ship departs for Daled Four (since Geordi's done with his repairs), Picard explains to Wes that Anya's a shape-changer (allassomorph) and very dangerous. Wes promises to stay away from her, but allows Salia in when she sneaks out of her room while Anya's sleeping. The two kiss, but are interrupted by Anya, again as a monster. To Wes's shock, Salia then changes form herself, into something even worse.
The ship arrives at Daled Four, and Anya tells Salia that her task as protector is over, and she is not coming to the planet, but returning to her home. When Salia comes to Wes's quarters to say goodbye, however, Wes is angry and hurt, and asks Salia to leave. However, as she prepares to beam down, he brings her some Thalian chocolate mousse as "a taste to remember me by". He watches her assume her natural form, one of wondrous light, and then goes to Ten-Forward, where Guinan comforts him.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Anya - Paddi Edwards
Salia - Jaime Hubbard
Chief O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Aron - Peter Neptune
Teenage Girl - M.dchen Amick
Furry Animal - Cindy Sorenson
Ensign Gibson - Jennifer Barlow</text>
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Anya</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise's computer system falls prey to a mysterious electronic "virus" which programs the ship to self destruct.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise warps into the Neutral Zone to help its sister ship, the Yamato, which has been having strange systems failures. Picard contacts Capt. Varley, who thinks the problems are symptoms of a design flaw, and says he's in the Zone because he's found Iconia. Unfortunately, just then, the Yamato inexplicably explodes--and a Romulan ship decloaks.
The Romulan commander demands an explanation for the Enterprise's presence in the Neutral Zone, but Picard says only that they will leave once they are convinced the Romulans were not responsible for the Yamato's destruction. Upon downloading and examining the Yamato's logs, Geordi becomes convinced it was not the Romulans, but they decide to sit right where they are, just in case it is a design flaw. Picard examines Varley's personal logs, and finds Varley obsessed with getting to Iconia, a legendary planet of vast technological achievement, before the Romulans do. He decides to travel to Iconia (or, at least, what Varley believed to be Iconia) himself, despite it being further in the Zone, and despite strange malfunctions that begin to occur on the Enterprise.
Upon arriving at Iconia, they are approached by a probe similar to one that scanned the Yamato, but manage to destroy it before it can scan them. Geordi deduces that an alien computer program from the probe is what destroyed the Yamato, and Picard, Data, and Worf beam down to the apparently long-dead Iconia to look for anything that could help them solve their own problems. You see, in taking the Yamato logs, they also took the program, so it's gradually spreading.
Back in space, the Romulan vessel appears again. As Riker calls for red alert, shields and weapons start failing at random. The ship is helpless, but suddenly it becomes clear that the same thing is happening to the Romulan ship. Picard, meanwhile, finds a control center, and Data accidentally activates the Iconian equivalent of a transporter, which can go anywhere. Picard, not willing to risk Iconia falling into Romulan hands, decides to destroy the installation-- but then Data is taken over by the program himself.
Picard orders Worf to take Data back the next time the image switches to the Enterprise (which it's already done before), and quickly asks Data how to destroy the installation. Data, badly damaged, manages to tell Picard how to do this, then he and Worf leave. Data, in Engineering, completely shuts down, then revives, intact except for a slight memory loss. Geordi realizes that a complete shutdown and wipe of affected memory will "cure" the Enterprise, and does that. Picard, meanwhile, triggers the destruct and runs through the gate, where he finds himself smack aboard the Romulan ship, where the auto-destruct has engaged itself. The Enterprise beams Picard back, and Riker and Geordi tell Taris how to save her ship, as the Enterprise warps away.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Data
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Investigating the discovery of a piece of metal bearing a NASA insignia, the Away Team finds itself trapped in the world of "The Hotel Royale", a bad novel come to life.</text>
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<text>While exploring a previously unmapped solar system, the Enterprise investigates reports of debris orbiting an exceptionally nasty planet. When they beam a fragment aboard, they're shocked to find a NASA symbol on it. They detect one building down planetside, with breathable air smack in the middle of a vicious storm system. Riker, Data and Worf beam down.
They find only an antique revolving door. When they go through, they find themselves in "The Hotel Royale", a hotel and gambling casino, and are welcomed by the desk clerk as three foreign gentlemen (expected, of course). Communications with the ship are lost, and Geordi and Wes begin working on finding a frequency that will work. Data, meanwhile, finds that none of the figures they see around them are emitting life signs.
While Geordi and Wes continue their work, Data learns how to play blackjack from Texas, one of the gamblers, and wins easily. Riker, becoming less amused, assembles Data and Worf and the three try to leave, only to find they cannot. The revolving door takes them back where they started, and no other exits can be found (the walls are also phaser-resistant). Riker confronts the desk clerk again, who doesn't seem to realize he's not on Earth, and is not at all helpful. Then, Data detects signs of human DNA, and they go upstairs to investigate.
They find the remains of Steven Richey, pilot of the Charybdis, a ship launched in the mid-21st century. From his diary, they discover that his ship was seized by aliens, and all aboard but him were killed. Out of guilt, the aliens made him this locale in which to live, basing their ideas of a human lifestyle out of "The Hotel Royale", a badly written novel one of the crew had with them. Picard manages to get through to them, and the ship gets to work looking through the novel for possible ways out.
After a climactic scene from the novel in which the bellboy is killed by the gangster Mickey D. over a woman named Rita, Picard finds out that the novel ends by three foreign gentlemen buying out the hotel. Data starts playing craps, and after correcting the faulty dice, easily wins the $12.3 million needed to buy the hotel. The team buys out the hotel and leaves- with no injuries, but no answers.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Assistant Manager - Sam Anderson
Vanessa - Jill Jacobson
The Bell Boy - Leo Garcia
Texas - Nobel Willingham
Chief O'Brien - Colm Meaney
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Data
Worf
The Royale</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise discovers a Federation shuttle containing an exact double of Captain Picard from six hours in the future.
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<text>The Enterprise picks up an automated distress signal from a shuttlecraft, which is without power. They pick it up, and are stunned to find it's a duplicate of an Enterprise shuttle, and contains a duplicate of Captain Picard!! Pulaski inspects Picard-2, and says the life signs are confusing-- he's human, but his brainwaves are "out of phase". The unconscious Picard-2 is taken to sickbay, and Picard consults with Troi, who says that really is him. Data and Geordi begin working on extracting the shuttle logs, but have difficulty doing so, due to odd phase differences. When they finally extract what they can of the logs, they notice the stardate is from six hours in the future.
Pulaski wakes Picard-2, who seems terrified and is completely incoherent. Then, at the staff meeting, Geordi and Data play back the logs, which show the Enterprise destroyed in 3 hours, 19 minutes' time, with only Picard escaping in the shuttle. Not knowing precisely how to avoid their fate, or even if they can, they decide to continue on course. Pulaski, meanwhile, informs Picard that Picard-2 should become more coherent as they approach the time he left. A bit later, he's slightly more coherent, but is still lost to where and when he is. Picard gets angry and leaves.
A short time later, Riker suggests Picard restrain his "natural" tendency to immediately find an action appropriate to the problem-- to "sit down, shut up and wait", as Picard puts it. Then, suddenly, a strange energy vortex appears below the Enterprise and starts sucking them in. Picard initially decides to investigate, but then changes his mind. However, even maximum power isn't enough to get them away, and it in fact becomes a problem, since they then need to cut power for an instant, tightening the vortex's grip. They launch a probe, which is quickly destroyed. Then, a beam of energy strikes both Picards, and after a second bolt hits, Troi senses the entity behind the vortex is centered entirely on Picard now. Picard realizes that Picard-2's idea was that if he left, it might distract the entity long enough for the Enterprise to get away.
He heads down to sickbay, and orders Picard freed and the evacuation of all personnel from shuttle bay 2. Both Picards go to the bay, but Picard-2, though coherent, is not listening to anything other than his own need to leave-- he's locked into the path he's already taken. After talking to Picard-2 for a short time, Picard realize the "other choice" is to go forward, into the vortex. Saying that before this can happen, "the cycle must end", he kills Picard-2, and goes back to the bridge. He orders the ship forward, heading directly for the center of the void. As they travel, both Picard-2 and the duplicate shuttle vanish, as does the void a few seconds later. The crisis over, Picard goes to the observation deck to ponder the questions this incident has raised.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Kate Pulaski</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Riker's estranged father reappears on the eve of his departure to become captain on a new starship.</text>
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<text>While the Enterprise is docked at Starbase Montgomery for "engineering consultations", Riker discovers he's been offered command of the USS Aries, a small exploration ship on the frontier. He has 24 hours to decide whether to take the post, and Starfleet sends a civilian advisor to brief Riker on the mission. To Riker's chagrin, the advisor is his long-estranged father, Kyle.
Kyle is something of a Starfleet legend- he knows everyone, and everyone knows him (including Dr. Pulaski, who apparently was once in love with him). Several times, Kyle tries to talk with Will, but is always coldly rebuffed. Even at the briefing, when Kyle says he's "here with my hand out, son", Will leaves in a huff. Pulaski engineers a meeting between Kyle and Troi, which ends with Troi sternly telling Kyle he should consider "why you're so competitive with your own son."
Meanwhile, Wesley has noticed that Worf is out of sorts, and it seems to have nothing to do with Riker's imminent transfer. He enlists Geordi's and Data's help, and eventually determines the cause: it is the tenth anniversary of Worf's "Age of Ascension", and he has no Klingon friends or family to celebrate with. The three decide to program the holodeck for an Ascension rite and to attend as Worf's family. Naturally, as it's a Klingon ceremony, pain figures rather highly in the rite.
A short time later, Will discusses command with Picard, who tells him that both staying and leaving have merit, but says confidentially that "there really is no substitute for holding the reins". After saying goodbye to Troi, Will tries to get his father to leave. An argument ensues, and they decide to clear the air by engaging in an Ambojitsu match, despite objections from both Troi and Pulaski.
Troi, meanwhile, leads Worf to the holodeck, where he finds the rite all prepared, with Data, Geordi, Wes, O'Brien, and Pulaski in attendance. He undergoes the rite, and suffers excruciating pain, but is grateful. In the Ambojitsu ring, Kyle and Will finally release some of the emotions they've kept pent up for years (such as Will's anger that it was his mother who died and not Kyle), and they part as friends. Finally, Will, citing "motivated self-interest", decides to stay aboard the Enterprise.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Robert Iscove</text>
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<text>Will Riker
Kate Pulaski
Worf
Kyle Riker</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Data races against time to save the life a little alien girl on a planet doomed for destruction.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is investigating unusual geologic activity in several planetary systems. Riker, wanting to give Wes a taste of command, puts him in charge of the planetary mineral surveys and tells him to assemble his team. Wes quickly becomes intimidated by how much older and more experienced all of his team are. Meanwhile, while Data conducts an experiment to boost sensor output, he picks up a faint RF signal, which translates to "Is anybody out there?"
Eight weeks later, Wes is having problems with Ensign Davies, one of his team members. Davies thinks running an icospectrogram on the samples they've obtained would be a waste of effort, and badgers Wes into agreeing with him. Then, we see Data talking to Picard on the holodeck. He tells Picard that he answered the call, that it was from a young child, and that her species does not yet know of extraterrestrial cultures. Picard, understandably, quietly says, "Oops". Data is worried that Sarjenka is in trouble from the increasing geologic instability of her planet, but realizes that saving her is a flagrant violation of the Prime Directive. Picard decides to call a conference to decide what to do, but orders Data in the meantime to cease all conversation with her.
The next day, after a pep talk from Riker, Wes loses some of his uncertainty, and simply orders Davies to run the icogram. Then, at the staff meeting, opinions on what's to be done run the gamut of possibilities. Picard eventually orders Data to sever all contact with Sarjenka, but when Data calls up her voice one last time (ostensibly to isolate the signal), Picard changes his mind, saying that the "voice from the darkness" has now become a plea.
As the Enterprise orbits Selcundi Drema Four, Sarjenka's world, Wes tells Picard that he and his team have found the reason for the instability, but that they need more time to find a solution. As they work on finding one, Data asks to convey Sarjenka to a safer location. His request is granted, but then he finds he cannot get a message through to her, because of the atmospheric interference. He then asks Picard for permission to beam down to the planet, saying that his message has not yet been delivered. Picard grumbles extensively about Data's "in for a penny, in for a pound" attitude, but eventually allows it.
Data beams down and finds Sarjenka, but her family has already left for a safer location- she remained behind to wait for his call. Judging that she can not long survive in the rapidly worsening environment, Data has O'Brien beam them both up. Data comes onto the bridge to assist in Wesley's solution to Drema's instability, with Sarjenka firmly in tow, who refuses to leave Data, and is too scared to be forced to. The planet quickly quiets, and Picard orders Data to take Sarjenka to sickbay, where Pulaski will remove her memories of Data and of the Enterprise. Data, somewhat distraught, allows this, but when he returns her to the planet, he leaves her with a souvenir from the Enterprise.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Davies - Nicholas Cascone
Sarjenka - Nikki Cox
Hildebrant - Ann H. Gillespie
Chief O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Alans - Whitney Rydbeck</text>
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<text>Hannah Lousie Shearer (Teleplay by Melinda M. Snodgrass)</text>
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<text>Winrich Kolbe</text>
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<text>Wesley Crusher
Data</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is hurled far away from the Federation by "Q", who sets them up for an encounter with a race of half-human, half-robot aliens known as the Borg.</text>
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<text>When Picard enters a turbolift to go clean his uniform after a young Ensign spills hot chocolate all over it, he finds upon leaving that he's in a shuttle, with Q piloting. When Picard reminds Q of his promise never to trouble the Enterprise again, Q shows Picard that they are nowhere near his ship.
Guinan, visibly jumpy, asks the bridge if everything is all right. Unsettled, Riker and company quickly discover Picard is missing, and begin the search, which proves unsuccessful. When Picard tells Q that if he is returned, he will at least give Q's request a fair hearing, they immediately reappear in Ten-Forward, clear of all personnel but Guinan, who claims to have had "dealings" with Q two centuries ago. After a brief argument with Guinan, Q tells Picard and Riker that he's been asked to leave the Q-continuum, and he wishes to become a member of the crew. When Picard initially refuses, Q claims they need him as a guide, saying that humanity is not prepared for what awaits them. When Picard insists they are, Q snaps, "we'll just have to see how ready you are!", snaps his fingers, and hurls them seven thousand light-years away, well out of any explored space. Guinan, whose people know this sector, merely tells them that "if I were you, I'd start back now". Picard decides to investigate anyway, and finds evidence of destruction similar to that of the outposts along the Neutral Zone. Soon, a ship appears, identified by Guinan as the Borg, and soon after that, a Borg appears in Engineering (having beamed right through the shields). The intruder taps into their computers, then tries to seize control of the ship. When Worf manages to "kill" the first one with his phaser, a second appears-with a deflector shield. It finishes down-loading the information the first one obtained, and leaves. In a conference, Guinan tells the crew that the Borg destroyed her world, that they are a collective intelligence (a mixture of organic and artificial life), and that they cannot be reasoned with. Suddenly, the Borg lock on a tractor beam. All attempts at escape fail, and when shields go down, the Borg extract a slice of the saucer, killing 18 crewmembers. Several full-power phaser shots manage to damage the Borg enough to terminate the beam, and Riker, Data, and Worf decide to beam over to their ship, since no life signs are detected.
What they find is chilling. After seeing all the Borg (still quite living) working as part of a collective intelligence, and visiting the Borg nursery, they discover that the Borg's collective effort is going into repairing the ship. When Picard hears this, he immediately beams the team back and orders the ship to flee. The Borg give chase, and eventually knock down both the Enterprise's shields and the warp engines. No weapons seem to be able to harm it. When Q appears one last time to say goodbye, Picard admits to Q that they are inadequate, and says he needs Q. Q smirks, snaps his fingers, and returns them to their own space, impressed by Picard, but still reminding them that space is "not for the timid". Picard is relieved, but Guinan reminds him that since the Borg now know of the Federation, they will be coming...
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Guinan
Q
The Borg</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>While Picard fights for his life in surgery, Geordi is held hostage by the leaders of an alien race called the Packlets.
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<text>When Pulaski orders Picard to go to Starbase 515 for an as-yet unspecified medical procedure, he joins Wesley, who is going to the base for Starfleet exams, in a shuttle. Just as they go out of range, the Enterprise picks up a distress signal in the nearby Rhomboid-Dranagar sector and answer it.
They find the Pakleds, a seemingly slow race who are lucky to have space travel in the first place. When they say their ship is "broken", Geordi, amused, beams over to help (over the objections of Worf, who does not want to risk the Chief Engineer). Meanwhile, Picard starts talking to Wes, and begins by complaining about his upcoming cardiac replacement, which he considers a waste of time.
Geordi finds repairs are not as easy as he thought, since as soon as one system is fixed, another dies. Eventually, he has everything fixed-- but then, the Pakleds take his own phaser, stun him, and take him hostage. As Riker puts the ship on alert, Picard continues talking to Wes, including his story of a long-gone bar brawl which caused him to need this cardiac replacement in the first place. Later, when Geordi wakes up, he finds the Pakleds demanding weapons and advanced technology. Before long, the Pakleds hail the Enterprise, and demand all the information stored in the Enterprise computers.
As Picard, having reached the starbase and entered what is known to some fans as the "Cardinal Center for Cardiac Corrections" (everyone's dressed in crimson), goes "under the knife", Data finds that the Pakleds have advanced as far as they have by stealing technology. Riker suggests a ruse, and enlists the crew to help convey covertly to Geordi that he should give them weapons, then take them away at the right moment.
Unfortunately, Picard's operation is going badly. He is dying, and the only person qualified to help him is Pulaski. The Enterprise hurriedly implements their ruse to save Geordi. Geordi gives them photon torpedoes, then, while pretending to come over to their side and help, disarms them just as the Enterprise discharges their hydrogen exhaust, which Geordi tells the Pakleds was the "Crimson Forcefield", which disarmed them. Geordi returns to the Enterprise, which arrives at the C.C.C.C. in time for Pulaski to save Picard.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Geordi LaForge
Will Riker
The Packleds</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The crew's rescue of a missing earth colony leads to the discovery of a civilization composed entirely of clones.</text>
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<text>Picard tells Riker of a distress beacon Starfleet found about a month ago, from the Ficus sector, but with Terran origins. After a little research, they discover the beacon was used by the European Hegemony (a mid-22nd century organization), but find no record of a ship leaving for that sector. Then, unexpectedly, Worf passes out. Pulaski tells Worf that she's found he has the Klingon equivalent to measles, but tells Picard something else, to save Worf's reputation.
Data suggests to Picard that he look for a manifest of whatever's on that ship, and he then finds a record of the S.S. Mariposa, carrying a strange mixture of technology and back-to-nature supplies. When they enter the Ficus sector, they see that the sun is flaring up, and Riker is beamed down to one planet in the system, where life readings have been detected. Later, when the people start beaming up, O'Brien finds they've brought cattle, chickens, and so forth with them. The Bringloidi leader, Danilo O'Dell, complains to Picard about decisions being made for him. Picard, grumpy, orders the whole lot beamed to a cargo bay to establish themselves there. Problems quickly ensue, capped off when the Bringloidi try to start a fire for cooking in the bay and the computer immediately throws up a force-field. Picard eventually decides there's nothing to do but "bow to the absurd", and starts laughing, while Riker gives Danilo's lovely but sharp-tongued daughter, Brenna, a tour of the ship. Then, Danilo takes Picard by surprise by asking them if they've heard anything from the "other colony".
As Riker romances Brenna, and Danilo learns from Worf how to get alcohol from the food dispensers, the ship arrives at Mariposa, site of the other colony. Upon beaming down, Pulaski (with Riker and Worf) quickly finds that the entire colony consists of clones. Apparently, only five of the original colonists survived when their ship crashed, and turned to cloning to keep the colony arrived. Unfortunately, the phenomenon of replicative fading is killing the colony, and Prime Minister Granger asks the Enterprise to share some DNA samples with them. Riker indignantly refuses, but beams down to help repair their machinery. While there, Riker and Pulaski are stunned and cloned without their knowledge. Later, when they realize this and return to destroy the clones, Picard decides to try to give them new breeding stock: the Bringloidi. Though both sides initially object, claiming it would bring untold changes to each culture, Picard eventually manages to get them to agree-- even Brenna.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Kate Pulaski</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>In her search for the perfect mate, Troi's mother beams aboard the Enterprise--and sets her sights on Captain Picard.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise beams up two Antedians, fishlike aliens, to transport to a conference on Pacifica. After O'Brien decides to keep the delegates, who are in stasis, "out of the way" until Pulaski takes them to sickbay, a shuttle intercepts the Enterprise, carrying another delegate: Lwaxana Troi.
Lwaxana comes on board and quickly annoys everyone. When Riker decides to carry her bags, she telepathically asks Deanna, "is he still yours?", and remarks that perhaps the custom of men being owned should be started again. She invites Picard to dinner, and he accepts, believing the entire bridge crew are invited. As he quickly discovers upon entering, however, Lwaxana intends this to be an "intimate" dinner for two.
She flirts outrageously with Picard, who manages to save himself by calling to the bridge to invite Data down for dessert, telling Lwaxana that Data's after-dinner conversation is "legendary". Data's utterly tedious anecdotes bring a quick end to the dinner, and Picard extends his gratitude to Data. Deanna, having already told Pulaski that her mother is undergoing the Betazoid version of menopause, asks her mother what she plans to do, only to hear that she plans to marry Picard! Deanna explains to Picard that Lwaxana's sex drive has gone up by at least a factor of four with the onset of "the phase", and tells him of her mother's plans. Picard, sensibly, puts Riker in command of the bridge, and runs to hide on the holodeck as Dixon Hill.
After settling in and dismissing various scenarios as too violent, Picard invites Hill's secretary Madeline to Rex's Bar for a drink. Meanwhile, when she can't find Picard, Lwaxana adopts her alternate plan, and announces her betrothal to Riker. Riker, also not surprisingly, flees with Data to the same holodeck to tell Picard about this development (and the revival of the Antedians). Picard is unpleasantly surprised to hear this, but Rex, the holographic bartender, thinks Riker has all the luck in the world.
Lwaxana, using the Enterprise computer, finds Picard and Riker, but is quickly taken with Rex, since she cannot read his mind. She decides to marry Rex, but as they reach Pacifica, Picard tells Lwaxana Rex doesn't exist. As Lwaxana leaves, husbandless, she saves the conference by revealing the Antedians are assassins.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Deanna Troi</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>An official mission becomes a personal matter when Worf's former love is sent to the Enterprise to mediate a dispute between Klingons and the Federation.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is ordered to divert from their current course to just outside a recently colonized system. When they arrive, Admiral Gromek tells Picard that a special emissary will be arriving shortly, who will give them the mission briefing, but says no more. When the emissary arrives (in a Class-8 probe, of all things, so as to arrive quickly), the crew revives K'Ehleyr, a half-human, half-Klingon female. As she enters to begin the briefing, she recognizes and greets Worf, saying "so this is where you've been hiding- I told you we'd meet again."
At the briefing, she tells them of a Klingon ship, the T'Ong, which set out on a mission with the crew in suspended animation 75 years ago, while the Klingons and Federation were still at war. The nearest Klingon ship is 48 hours behind them, which may be too late. Their task is to prevent the crew from awakening, if possible, and to destroy the ship, if not. Picard, not willing to simply destroy them out of hand, puts K'Ehleyr and Worf to work on finding other options. Unfortunately, the two don't interact very well. K'Ehleyr is anxious to discuss their aborted love affair of six years earlier, but Worf is all business. He searches for their mission and talks of alternatives, but K'Ehleyr says there are no alternatives. Eventually, K'Ehleyr storms to her quarters and smashes a table in frustration. Later, on Troi's advice, she goes to exercise on the holodeck, and ends up using Worf's violent calisthenics program. As she finishes, Worf enters, and when provoked, increases the simulation to "Level Two". Both fight, then have a rather passionate encounter. When K'Ehleyr later remarks that Worf always was loath to speak what's on his mind, Worf responds by saying "no longer" and beginning to recite the Klingon oath of marriage. K'Ehleyr refuses to take the oath, dishonoring what to Worf are sacred traditions. Meanwhile, they approach the general vicinity of the T'Ong, still with no options but to destroy the ship if the crew has already awakened.
They quickly find the crew has awakened, when it fires on them and then cloaks. Suddenly, Worf has an idea, and it is quickly implemented: when Captain K'Temok of the T'Ong answers the hail, he sees "Worf, commanding the Enterprise" informing him the war is long over and ordering them to drop their shields. K'Temok initially refuses, but then agrees when he sees Worf will destroy the T'Ong if not obeyed. K'Ehleyr prepares to beam over to the T'Ong to begin assimilating them into this century. She confesses to Worf that she was tempted to take the oath, and jibes that next time, "I won't be so easy to get rid of". Worf beams her off, saying "I will not be complete without you."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Worf
The Klingons</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>A simulated war game turns deadly when the crew is ambushed by a Ferengi battleship.</text>
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<text>Due to the Borg threat, the Enterprise is taking part in Federation wargames, overseen by the Zakdorn strategist Sirna Kolrami, who is unpleasant, to say the least. Kolrami tells Riker he will be commanding the 80-year-old USS Hathaway, and putting her in simulated combat against the Enterprise. Riker selects his complement of 40, including Worf, Geordi and Wesley.
Before Riker leaves, he invites Kolrami to play a game of Strategema, a game at which Kolrami is a grandmaster. Kolrami easily defeats Riker (who did not expect to win, but merely played for the privilege of playing him), and Pulaski suggests to Data that he play Kolrami, to knock Kolrami down a few pegs. Riker and company arrive at the Hathaway and are given 48 hours to get her into shape. This may prove difficult, as Geordi finds they have virtually no dilithium, and no antimatter for the warp drive. Worf considers the possibility of fooling the Enterprise sensors, and Wesley returns to the Enterprise, to pick up a "science project" of his which just happens to contain antimatter.
Data, put up to the match by Pulaski, plays Kolrami- and loses. Concerned that his loss may be a sign of a malfunction in his systems, Data goes into seclusion in his quarters, and neither Pulaski nor Troi can help him. Picard, after yelling at Kolrami for his belittling attitude towards Riker, goes to Data's quarters with a no-nonsense attitude and gets Data back to the bridge, where the two confer about Riker's probable tactics.
The simulation commences, and Worf prepares his "surprise", creating an illusory Romulan Warbird for the Enterprise to deal with. Impressed, Picard orders the security code changed. After a short time later, sensors pick up a Ferengi ship coming in, but Picard merely thinks Worf's better than he thought. Unfortunately, it's a real Ferengi ship, and it fuses the Enterprise's connections to its simulated weaponry, cutting off access to the real ones, as well as the transporter circuitry. They demand the Hathaway, convinced something valuable is on board.
Kolrami orders a retreat, but Picard dismisses that as unacceptable. He confers with Riker, who tells them that the Hathaway now has 2 seconds of warp 1 (if the system they patched up holds), and the two come up with a plan. Using one of photon torpedoes they've managed to gain access to, the Enterprise pretends to destroy the Hathaway, which warps away, then frighten off the Ferengi by making their sensors show another starship coming in. Kolrami is forced to confess Riker's good at what he does, then plays a rematch with Data, who humiliates him by playing for an eternal draw.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Robert Scheerer</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
The Ferengi</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Commander Riker is struck down by a deadly microbe which invades his central nervous system and attacks his brain.</text>
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<text>While exploring a then-unexplored planet, Surata Four, Riker gets jabbed in the calf, and is infected by mysterious microbes which attach themselves to nerve endings and prevent neural activity. Riker's leg soon goes dead, and Pulaski finds that the infection is spreading, and when it reaches the brain, Riker will die.
A few hours later, Riker slips into a coma, and Pulaski decides to temporize by externally inducing neural activity. She finds he is reliving old memories, and with Troi's help, figures out exactly which emotion he's feeling at the time. Furthermore, each emotion is releasing different brain endorphins, some of which may well be poisonous to the organism.
After determining that sexual arousal merely stimulates the organism's growth, she and Troi find that strong negative emotions drive the organism off. By tightening the focus of the beam, she induces the most basic, primal, "survival emotions", and Riker recovers, weak but intact.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Will Riker</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. [j.g.] Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Wesely accidentally releases several pairs of Nanites, microscopic robots, which invade the ships computer and threaten the ship.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is in a binary star system with astrophysicist Paul Stubbs, who is preparing to test his theories with a burst of energy that the system releases once every 196 years. They prepare to launch Stubbs's "Egg", but then the ship suddenly shakes, shields go down, and the Enterprise is sent hurtling straight toward the accretion bridge between the giant and the pulsar.
They recover shields and engines in time to avoid all but minimal damage, but are perplexed when the computer claims there was no malfunction. Further confusion results when Beverly (returned from Starfleet Medical), after fixing up Dr. Stubbs, finds a malfunctioning food dispenser. After reporting it, she talks to Picard about her concern that Wesley's almost too polite, and says he really should be getting into more trouble. Stubbs, friendly with Wesley, talks to him about fulfilling his potential, but then the sensors indicate a Borg ship approaching and the ship is put on full alert. The ship then vanishes, and all the computer can do is talk chess. Picard calls Riker and Data to his ready room to discuss the fate of this mission.
Stubbs intrudes on the meeting and objects strenuously to any suggestion of leaving, claiming he would rather die than leave. Wes, having nasty suspicions, checks his lab and realizes the problem is probably all his fault. He talks to Guinan about it, saying he accidentally let two Nanites (tiny robots designed to work in living cells) escape in tandem, and they may be responsible. After several more problems with the ship, Beverly confronts Wesley in his lab, hinting that perhaps he's taken on more than he can handle. Wes argues with her, saying "How can you know? You haven't even been here!", and the two decide to work together on the problem. They find the problem is worse than they thought: the Nanites are evolving, and are now working with a collective intelligence.
Stubbs, caring only for his experiment, tries to kill the Nanites with gamma radiation, but only manages to kill some, angering the Nanites, who then try to kill him later. Picard, grudgingly, agrees that the time has come to kill them all for the sake of the ship, but as he's about to, Data's attempts at communication succeed.
Data offers the Nanites his body as a conduit for face-to-face contact, and they accept. Stubbs apologizes for his actions, and throws himself on the mercy of the creatures. They agree to end the conflict, and say the ship has gotten too small for their needs. Picard relocates them to a nearby planet, and Stubbs's experiment goes as planned. Finally, Bev notices Wesley come into Ten-Forward with a girl while she talks to Guinan, and while happy to see him having fun for a change, immediately asks, "What do you know about this girl?"
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Winrich Kolbe</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Wesley Crusher
Nanites</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Data races against time to save a human colony that's been marked for death by aliens.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise receives a call from the Sheliak Corporate, which they haven't heard from in 111 years. The Sheliak insist Tau Cygna Five is theirs, due to an old treaty, and they want the humans there gone-- despite the fact that, due to hyperonic radiation, the crew doesn't think any humans could possibly be there.
When they reach the system, they find the radiation interferes with the sensors, along with phasers and transporters. Data, as the only crewmember immune to the radiation, is sent down via shuttlecraft to begin evacuation procedures. To everyone's surprise, however, Data finds, not a crashed ship with a few dozen people on it, but a thriving civilization of over 15,000 people, descended from the occupants of a 92-year old lost colony ship. Further, their leader, Gosheven, boasts of the colony's accomplishments, scorns the Sheliak claim, and refuses to leave. While Data meets and befriends Ard'rian McKenzie, a woman very interested in androids, Picard tries to ask the Sheliak for more time. The Sheliak, unfortunately, are sticklers for the letter of the treaty, and refuse. Data, hearing of the urgency of the situation (three days remain before the Sheliak colony ship arrives), attempts to speak with Gosheven again, with as little success. Then, he and Ard'rian start spreading the word to the people of the colony, as the Enterprise leaves the system to begin looking for the Sheliak vessel.
A few hours later, Data has met with little success. Their words have had the effect, however, of making Gosheven call a public meeting, at which Data tries to evoke images of how they will die at the hands of the Sheliak if they do not leave. Gosheven's rhetoric is too strong, though, and the evacuation still does not begin. Data and Ard'rian meet covertly with several colonists, including Gosheven's two top aides, to try to go behind his back, but Gosheven catches them and stuns Data, saying he's merely "deactivated a faulty machine". Meanwhile, after the Enterprise finds the Sheliak colony ship, Picard and Troi beam over to try to reason with the Sheliak, only to fail utterly. As Picard decides to study the treaty for possible loopholes, Ard'rian manages to revive Data, who decides to begin using actions instead of words. He uses some of his own circuitry to create a phaser that will work in the radiation, and uses it to make the point that the colonists will, in all probability, never even see the Sheliak before they are killed. Realizing this, the colonists agree to leave. Picard, meanwhile, invokes the treaty's third-party arbitration clause, and names as mediators a race in hibernation for the next six months. To avoid this, the Sheliak agree to give Picard the three weeks he asks for. Upon Data's return, Picard compliments him for his ability to be creative.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Gosheven - Grainger Hines
Haritath - Mark L. Taylor
Noe - Richard Allen
Sheliak - Mart McChesney
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<text>Melinda M. Snodgrass</text>
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<text>Data
Jean-Luc Picard
Sheliak
Tau Cygna Five</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The crew travels to Rana IV, a remote colony where just two of its 11,000 inhabitants have miraculously survived a devastating attack.</text>
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<text>Investigating an emergency distress call from the Delta Rana system, the crew find that all 11,000 inhabitants have been killed, except for two lifeforms on a small, very conspicuous patch of green. Riker, Beverly, Geordi, Data and Worf beam down to investigate. They meet the two survivors, Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge, and although Kevin is taciturn and unfriendly, Rishon invites everyone in for tea. After Data finds their music box, Troi, who earlier sensed something "strange" about these two, hears the music in her mind, growing ever louder.
After finding nothing odd about the house that would keep it spared, Riker asks the Uxbridges to come back to the Enterprise, but they refuse, saying they can take care of themselves. At a conference a short time later, Troi leaves in pain from the music. When Picard asks her about it later, she mentions that the music began when she started thinking about Kevin and Rishon. Suddenly, the ship that Kevin described as attacking the planet returns and attacks. Its weapons, however, are no match for the Enterprise, and they quickly run off the attacker and give chase. They find they cannot catch up to it, however, and return to the planet, where Picard beams down to talk to the two survivors.
He finds that Kevin has sworn never to kill, but Kevin insists that the aliens who killed them could not have known he didn't fight with the others. Picard asks them again to come with him, but they refuse, and Kevin suggests that the Enterprise leaves the system. Picard returns, and as Troi's condition worsens, the enemy ship returns, looking much nastier. It severely damages the Enterprise, and forces it to temporarily flee the system. Picard becomes suspicious that the ship somehow responds to Kevin and Rishon's wishes, and tests his theory by beaming down once more and telling Kevin that "the Enterprise will remain in orbit for as long as the two of you are alive". When he returns, so does the ship, but Picard orders that it not be interfered with. The ship destroys the Uxbridge home, leaving no survivors, and is then destroyed itself by a single photon torpedo from the Enterprise. Despite there now being no reason to stay, Picard orders Worf and Geordi to monitor the surface.
Three hours later, just as Picard's finished telling Riker that if he's right, the massacre on Rana had only one survivor, the house mysteriously returns, with two life-form readings. Picard beams them both aboard and claims Kevin is responsible for Troi's suffering, and the warship. He tells Rishon that she is merely a re-creation of Kevin's, and she vanishes. Kevin heals Troi, then tells Picard the truth of what happened: he is a Douwd, a being which spends its life in disguises. He refused to fight when the Husnock attacked, but Rishon went to fight and was killed. He says that her death drove him insane, and in his rage, he destroyed the entire Husnockk species. Picard, taken aback, says "we have no law to fit your crime", and allows Kevin to return to Rana.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Rana Four</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Mistakenly believing Captain Picard to be a god, the members of a primitive culture seize Troi and prepare to sacrifice her to him.
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<text>The Enterprise is en route to Mintaka Three, home to a proto-Vulcan race at the Bronze Age level, to fix the reactor of an anthropologist observing team. Unfortunately, while en route, the reactor explodes, injuring all three members, driving one of them out of the cavern, and most importantly, removing the hologram covering the entrance.
As the team beams down to attend to the injured and fix the reactor, a father and daughter, Liko and Oji, notice the cave while en route to read the sundial. Liko climbs up and sees the crew, but is then startled and falls, breaking his back. Beverly, not willing to let him die from injuries they caused, beams up to sickbay with him. Picard growls a bit at this, and orders Bev to erase his short-term memory. Liko, however, awakes long enough to hear Picard order the search for Dr. Palmer continued, and his body chemistry prevents the erasure from working. He tells Oji of his journey to a remarkable place, and believes that Picard is their old legend of "the Overseer", a god.
When sensors prove useless to locate Palmer, Riker and Troi, surgically altered to resemble Mintakans, beam down. They hear Liko's talk and inform Picard of the situation, who is understandably distressed. Matters are made worse when the Mintakans find Palmer and decide to hold him for "the Picard". One of the researchers, Dr. Barron, insists that Palmer be immediately beamed up, but Picard refuses. Then, while Troi lures the Mintakans away, Riker frees Palmer and gets him to the Enterprise. Unfortunately, Troi is then held captive to assure "the Picard" that the Mintakans were not responsible. Barron recommends that Picard beam down, pretending to be their god, and give them a set of guidelines, but Picard refuses, saying to do so violates "the very essence of the Prime Directive". When it's theorized that if they can convince Nuria, the tribe's leader, of Picard's humanity, she can convince the others, Picard decides to beam her aboard to "show her how the magic works".
Before long, he manages to convince Nuria to overcome her awe, and even convinces her intellectually that he is not a god, but merely further advanced. However, she does not believe emotionally until she sees the third researcher, Dr. Warren, die, and realizes that Picard is not the master of life and death. She and Picard return just as Liko, filled with religious fervor, is about to kill Troi. When Picard arrives, Liko worships him and asks him to bring back Liko's wife. When Picard says he cannot, Liko insists he can, and threatens to prove he is the Overseer by shooting him with a bow. Picard stands still, willing to die if it is the only way to set matters right. Fortunately, Oji jogs the bow as Liko fires, and Picard is only wounded. They tell Nuria and the tribe that they have been watched, and that revealing themselves in the first place was an accident, and depart.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Liko - Ray Wise
Dr. Barron - James Greene
Oji - Pamela Segall
Fento - John McLiam
Hali - James McIntire
Warren - Lois Hall</text>
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<text>Robert Wiemer</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Deanna Troi
Mintaka Three</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>When the ship's archaeologist is killed on a mission led by Worf, the Klingon feels responsible for the son she left behind.</text>
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<text>While Worf leads an away team to the home of the long-dead Koinonian race, a sudden explosion kills one team member, Marla Aster. She has a 12-year-old son Jeremy on board, who Picard must tell the news to. As he departs to do this (and complains to Troi about having children on board), Wes starts thinking of the day that Picard told him his father had been killed. Picard tells Jeremy his mother has died, and when Jeremy says he's all alone, reassures him that "on the Enterprise, no one is alone".
In 10-Forward, Data and Riker discuss how familiarity affects one's perceptions of another's death, and remember how it felt when Tasha died. Geordi comes back from the planet, with evidence that all the remaining booby-traps had been defused. Worf, meanwhile, rages about the senseless nature of Aster's death, and tells Troi of his plan to make it up to Jeremy by offering him the R'uustaI, or the bonding. Despite Troi's qualms, Worf talks to Jeremy. Though he does not yet offer the R'uustaI, he discusses Klingon views of death, and suggests to Jeremy that they honor his mother's memory together.
Meanwhile, sensors detect an energy field on the planet, and Troi senses a "presence" emanating from it, slowly moving upward toward the ship. After we see a brief conversation between Wes and Bev about Jack Crusher, a hand taps Jeremy on the shoulder, and he turns around to see his mother. At first wary of this strange happenstance, he quickly comes to believe his mother really is alive, and meekly prepares to leave with her to go live down on the planet. Before they beam down, however, they are stopped by Worf, who seizes Jeremy (at which point his "mother" disappears).
Troi leads Jeremy back to his quarters, only to find they now exactly resemble his house on Earth, and that his "mother" is there again. Though Troi tries to convince Jeremy that none of this is real, he is enthralled, and stays with Mom. Picard manages to keep the pair from going much further than their quarters, and the alien quickly explains herself.
There were apparently once two races on the planet below-- the Koinonians, made of matter; and her race, made of energy. Her race vowed never to let anyone suffer because of the Koinonians' wars, and she is merely trying to make Jeremy happy. Picard calls Wesley into Jeremy's quarters, along with Worf, and asks Wesley to explain to Jeremy how he felt when he heard Jack had died. After Wes explains how angry he was at Picard for leading the mission where Jack died, Jeremy faces his anger towards Worf, who then discusses having lost his parents, and offers Jeremy the R'uustaI. He accepts, and his "mother" vanishes, as Jeremy and Worf bond.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Jeremy Aster - Gabriel Damon
O'Brien - Colm Meaney
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<text>Worf
Jean-Luc Picard
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is caught in a booby trap that captures the ship and converts its energy into lethal levels of radiation.</text>
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<text>After Geordi has a markedly unsuccessful date with Christy on the holodeck, the Enterprise detects a signal coming from the site of the final battle between the Promelians and the Menthars, a debris field. When they travel to the source to investigate, Picard finds a 1000-year-old Promelian battle cruiser. He pulls Captain's prerogative to check the ship out, and he explores it, enchanted by the history, while Guinan tells Geordi that he shouldn't try so hard.
Picard finds the ship's log, where the captain takes full responsibility for what befell them, whatever that may have been. After he beams back, they decide to leave, only to find that they cannot. Further, they start losing energy reserves, and are suddenly bombarded by high-energy radiation. Geordi starts working on making the Enterprise move, and while considering the way to exploit the small time difference between reaction and counterreaction, calls up voice logs of Leah Brahms, one of the ship's designers, then goes to the holodeck to call up prototype images of the ship, where he accidentally triggers a holographic simulation of Dr. Brahms.
She seems informative, but emotionless, and Geordi combines her psychological profile with other information to create a more "real" simulation. While the two of them get down to work, Picard examines logs brought back by Riker and his team from the cruiser. In one, the captain mentions aceton assimilators, which drain power from the Enterprise and convert it to the radiation. Picard finds one small weakness in the field and fires at it, only to have that section strengthen from the phaser energy.
With only minutes remaining until shields go down, admitting the radiation, Geordi and Leah realize that the only way to exploit the time difference is to make hundreds of adjustments per second, which would require handing control of the ship entirely over to the computer, a move with which Picard is not happy. In simulations, that might work, but is only a fifty-fifty chance, and Geordi asks for two more minutes, as shields go down (leaving 26 minutes until they all die from the radiation).
Geordi gets another idea, and suggests to Picard to go the opposite route: put in one quick blast of the impulse engines, then shut everything down except for life support and two thrusters, and essentially fly the ship out on manual. This Picard does, slingshotting around one large asteroid to gain the final momentum burst they need. They blow up the Promelian ship, taking the booby trap with it, and Geordi gives "Leah" a kiss goodbye before closing down the holodeck program.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Gabrielle Beaumont</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Geordi LaForge</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>After Geordi is stranded on a storm-ravaged planet, the crew's attempts to rescue him are hindered by an aggressive Romulan warship.</text>
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<text>Riker, Geordi and Worf beam down to Galorndon Core, a Federation planet with a particularly harsh surface, to investigate a distress call. They find the remains of a Romulan ship, and Worf finds one Romulan, just barely alive. However, minutes before beam-up is necessary, Geordi falls into a pit, and cannot contact the others, or make it back to the beam-down point. Riker and Worf beam up, with the Romulan, but without Geordi. Geordi manages to make some makeshift pitons and climbs out of the pit.
Meanwhile, Bev is having trouble treating the Romulan, due to cell damage from the intense magnetic fields down on the planet, and starts looking for a possible compatible ribosome donor. While Wesley begins working on a neutrino-pulse beacon to send down (since Geordi could see it, and the signal could make it back through the storms to the Enterprise), the Enterprise intercepts a signal from Commander Tomalak on a Romulan Warbird, saying he is on his way.
Picard hails Tomalak and warns him not to cross into Federation space. When Tomalak hears they are holding his officer, he demands an immedi- ate rendezvous for his return. Meanwhile, Geordi sees the beacon and moves towards it, only to be knocked out and taken prisoner by a second Romulan.
While Geordi tries to convince Bochra that their only hope is to work together, Bev tells Worf that he is the only possible donor to save Patahk. Worf, filled with rage at the Romulans, refuses absolutely to donate, despite Picard's request (though Picard does not order him to do so). When Tomalak comes close enough to the edge of the Zone to see that the Enterprise is not there, he hails, angered, and becomes angrier still when he hears his officer is dying.
Eventually, Geordi manages to convince Bochra that they can work together or die together, and they start towards the beacon, but then Geordi finds that he can no longer interface with the visor. Bochra suggests linking the visor to the tricorder and using the combination as a pointer, and offers to be Geordi's eyes. Meanwhile, Picard receives word that Tomalak's ship has crossed into Federation space, and orders red alert. Then, as if that weren't enough, Bev calls him to say that Patahk has died.
Geordi and Bochra reach the beacon just as Tomalak reaches Galorndon Core. When Tomalak hears that Patahk has died, he snarls that he will only be the first, and powers up disruptors. Suddenly, the window opens, and they find evidence that Geordi is down there, with a second Romulan. Picard tells Tomalak the news, and makes the first "gesture of trust" by lowering his shields to beam up Geordi and Bochra, and Bochra assures Tomalak that he has not been mistreated. Tomalak powers down his disruptors, and the Enterprise returns Bochra to the Warbird and escorts it back to the Neutral Zone.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>David Carson</text>
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<text>Geordi LaForge
Jean-Luc Picard
The Romulans
Galorndon Core</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Counselor Troi is swept off her feet by a dashing delegate who uses unethical methods to conduct his business on board the Enterprise.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise plays host to countless delegates invited by Bhavani, the Premier of the Barzan people, who have discovered the only known stable wormhole, and are willing to sell it...for the right price. The delegates are Mendoza, for the Federation; Leyor, for the Caldonians; DaiMon Goss and his aides, for the uninvited Ferengi; and Devinoni Ral, a "hired gun" representing the Chrysalian people, who immediately takes an interest in Counselor Troi.
A short time later, while Troi is researching Ral, he comes in and suggests dinner that evening--she accepts. Meanwhile, Picard, concerned that the wormhole may not in fact be completely stable, orders a full sensor analysis. That night, as Deanna and Ral end up missing dinner for other, more amorous pursuits, DaiMon Goss poisons Mendoza with a nasty, but non-fatal illness. As Picard is playing host, he cannot take Mendoza's place in the negotiations, and puts Riker in charge instead.
After the sensor readings are complete, Picard decides to send Geordi and Data in a shuttle through the hole to investigate the other side, and when the Ferengi object, allows them to go through in their own shuttle as well, while Ral emphasizes the Chrysalians' political neutrality to Bhavani. Later, in bed, Troi finds out that Ral is one-quarter Betazoid, and is also empathic. While the shuttles emerge and find they are about 200 light-years from where they thought they'd end up, Ral plays upon the "scholarly" nature of the Caldonians to convince Leyor to withdraw Caldonia's bid and throw it behind the Chrysalians. When Troi takes Ral to task for hiding his "edge" and using it unethically, he counters by saying she does precisely the same thing in crisis situations, and when she does it, it's a life-or-death situation. Meanwhile, Data and Geordi, fearing the hole will soon collapse, try to convince the Ferengi to come back with them, but to no avail. As they leave, the far side of the hole moves, stranding the Ferengi.
Suddenly, Goss, claiming the Barzan have already signed a secret agreement with the Federation, fires a missile at the wormhole, which the Enterprise destroys. As Ral points out to Bhavani that the wormhole is merely being used as a pawn here, Troi tells Picard Goss is bluffing. Ral comes onto the bridge a moment later and "talks" Goss out of destroying the wormhole, telling him that the Chrysalians have obtained it and are prepared to offer the Ferengi free passage. After Bhavani apologizes to Riker for making him find out this way, Troi exposes Ral as an empath, and says he and Goss were performing a scene staged for their own purposes. Then, however, the shuttle returns and reports the hole worthless, leaving Ral to pay up his side of a bargain that will now net the Chrysalians nothing. Ral says goodbye to Troi, and says he is happy he's been exposed-now, he thinks, he may be able to change his way of life.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Robert Scheerer</text>
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<text>Will Riker
Deanna Troi
The Ferengi
Devinoni Ral</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The crew's attempts to mediate a violent dispute between warring clans is sabotaged by a mysterious assassin.</text>
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<text>After the Enterprise finds traces of Acamarian blood at a science outpost that's been attacked, Picard deduces the Gatherers, Acamarian renegades, are at fault. He speaks to Marouk, Sovereign of Acamar Three, who wants only to hunt the Gatherers down as savages, despite the fact that no one's even tried reconciling in decades. Eventually, Picard convinces Marouk to at least allow the attempt, and she comes on board the Enterprise with her staff, including Yuta, her chef, whom Riker immediately takes an interest in.
Upon arriving at Gamma Hirami Two, a Gatherer outpost, Riker leads an away team down to the surface. After repelling an ambush, Riker eventually manages to get Brull, the leader of this group of Gatherers, to talk to Marouk. Marouk tells them the Clan Wars of decades before are over, and invites them home. Brull demands a private talk with Marouk and Picard, and while everyone's separated, Yuta touches Volnath, a Gatherer of the Lornack clan, killing him in seconds.
After Brull announces that he will allow Marouk to take her offer to Chorgan, the Gatherer leader, Volnath's body is found, and Beverly can't find a cause of death (it was a heart attack, but with no reason). While Marouk discusses clans (to which loyalty was once absolute) with Picard, and Brull talks to Wes about wanting something better for his children, Riker tries to romance Yuta. After she leaves for a time to attend the Sovereign, Bev informs Riker that she's discovered a "microvirus" was responsible-- one tuned specifically to a certain DNA sequence found in only one out of every million people, and they conclude Volnath was murdered.
Later, Yuta comes to Riker's quarters and offers him pleasure, but claims she can never feel pleasure or passion herself. (Riker declines, saying he doesn't want a servant, but a lover). Then, after subduing Chorgan's ship, Picard and Marouk beam over by force with Brull, and negotiations begin. Bev finds the only other recorded victim of this microvirus, and discovers both victims were of the Lornack clan. Then, Data discovers evidence of the Lornack-Tralestas feud (Tralestas being the clan to which Yuta belongs), and discovers Yuta in a visual record from over 50 years ago, looking exactly as she does now.
Negotiations on Chorgan's ship take a quick break, and Yuta comes to offer brandy, particularly to Chorgan, the last remaining Lornack alive. Riker beams over and orders her away, and we discover that she was altered after the massacre of nearly all the Tralestas to be a carrier of this virus, bred only for vengeance. When she proves resistant to phaser stun, Riker finds himself forced to disintegrate her. The negotiations lead to a successful truce, and Picard consoles Riker in Ten-Forward about his loss.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Brull - Joey Aresco
Marouk - Nancy Parsons
Chorgan - Stephen Lee
Volnath - Marc Lawrence
Temarek - Elkanah J. Burns</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Yuta
Acamar Three
Gamma Hirami Two</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>A Romulan defector leads the crew into a showdown that could erupt into a full scale war.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise intercepts a distress call from a Romulan scoutship, where the pilot hails them and requests asylum-- and if that weren't enough, they see a Warbird right behind it in pursuit. After the scoutship enters Federation space, heavily damaged, Picard orders the Enterprise shields extended around it, and is then surprised to see the Warbird head back into the Neutral Zone without an argument. They take the ship in tow and beam over the defector, Sub-Lt. Setal, who claims to have vital information about a new Romulan offensive, and wants to stop a war before it starts.
Everyone is understandably skeptical of both Setal's claims and his status as a defector, particularly when faced with evidence such as his scoutship self-destructing. Data scans the Nelvana system (Setal claims there's a base on Nelvana 3, in the Zone), and finds nothing. Picard, after receiving a message from Starfleet Command saying it's his decision, calls in Worf. Later, as the ship reaches the closest point to Nelvana 3 that's still in Federation space, Data launches a Class-1 probe. While Picard asks Worf to take a communication from a Klingon ship, Setal's interrogation proceeds, ending with Riker convinced Setal's simply a spy. Then, after the probe finds unusual subspace emissions in the area, but nothing on the surface (could the entire base be cloaked?), Data shows Setal Romulus on the holodeck. He sadly says his home is now denied him, then tells Data to arrange a meeting with Picard, giving his true identity-- as Admiral Jarok.
Picard, still not convinced, reminds Jarok of his past deeds (considered "butchery" by the Federation, but heroism by the Romulans) and demands proof. Even when Jarok tells him that he is doing this to save both sides and to let his baby daughter grow up, Picard only drives home that Jarok has crossed over, and demands proof again. Jarok, beaten, gives all the information he can, including the location of the Romulan fleet and information about cloaking technology. Picard informs his staff of this, and orders the ship to Nelvana 3. At the Zone border, Riker is uneasy to find no "greeting party", and becomes still more uneasy when the ship reaches Nelvana 3 and finds absolutely nothing. When Jarok is visibly shaken by this, Picard deduces that he was being fed disinformation, both to test Jarok's loyalty and to lure the Enterprise into a trap. As they try to withdraw, they are caught by two Warbirds, led by Commander Tomalak, who gloatingly addresses Picard as the aggressor and demands surrender. When Picard refuses and Tomalak says he expected "more than an empty threat", Picard says he shall then have it, and the three Klingon Birds of Prey who came with them decloak. Tomalak withdraws with as much grace as he can, but Jarok commits suicide, leaving only a letter to his daughter.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1989 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Data
The Romulans
The Neutral Zone</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is bombarded by a soldier who is the victim of government mind control, which turns him into a violent killer.</text>
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<text>While Picard and Riker are visiting Angosia Three, a planet wishing to join the Federation, Prime Minister Nayrok tells them a dangerous prisoner has just escaped and asks them for help in retrieving him. The chase seems commonplace, but then the prisoner manages, at least temporarily, to escape, surprising all concerned. Nayrok tells them the prisoner is Roga Danar, who is given to bouts of excessive violence. Eventually, the ship is caught and Danar beamed aboard.
However, the security in the transporter room proves ineffective, and it takes quite some time to subdue Danar, though eventually they manage it. Later, Troi senses Danar is in pain and visits the brig to check on him, and is surprised to find he's not at all violent, and seems very bright. She checks Angosian records, and finds he's not a criminal, but a soldier. Eventually, she finds the whole story and tells Picard.
Apparently, for the recent Tarsian Wars, the Angosian soldiers were given various augmentations to survive, both physical and mental (including shielding electrical impulses, rendering them sensor- invisible). Danar and his friends were put on Lunar Five because they could not assimilate back into society after returning from the war, and the process, it seems, is irreversible. Picard asks Nayrok about Danar, only to be told that he is treading on matters of "internal security". Picard sympathizes with Danar, but still is forced to turn him over to the Angosian transport ship that just arrived. Unfortunately, as he tries, Danar manages to break out of the transporter beam and is loose on the Enterprise, with a phaser.
Despite many attempts to stop him, Danar eventually manages to escape. He beams himself over to the transport ship and commandeers it, leaving the Enterprise sensor-inoperative for the time being. Later, Nayrok calls in a panic: Danar has attacked Lunar Five and freed the prisoners, and they are heading for the capital. Picard beams down, with Troi, Data, and Worf, but claims they are not there to fight Angosia's wars for them. Just after Nayrok claims the "will of the people" made it necessary to resettle the soldiers, Danar and company arrive, armed to the teeth. Picard orders no response, reasoning that since the soldiers have been programmed to react violently only when threatened, if they are not threatened, they are not a threat either. When Danar insists that they all only want to come home, and refuses to return even temporarily to Lunar Five, Nayrok begs Picard to call his ship. Picard does so, claiming that since this is a matter of "internal security", it's not his concern, and the Enterprise leaves, convinced that if the government of Angosia survives the night, it will make a fine addition to the Federation.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Nayrok - James Cromwell
O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Zayner - J. Michael Flynn
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Deanna Troi
Roga Danar
Angosia Three</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Doctor Crusher's abduction by a radical terrorist group thrusts the crew into an explosive civil war on Rutia Four.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is delivering medical supplies to Rutia Four, a nonaligned planet currently facing terrorist attacks from the Ansata, a group wanting independence for the Western Continent. When Bev insists on staying planetside after a terrorist attack, Picard grudgingly allows it, but then, an Ansata appears (literally out of thin air) and grabs Bev-then, they both vanish.
While Finn, the leader of the Ansata, tries to befriend Bev, Picard puts Wesley on the team trying to figure out how the Ansata are traveling, and Riker visits with Alexana Devos, Rutian chief of police. Devos says she is willing to help, but dismisses the Ansata as "animals" and seems not at all optimistic.
Finn eventually gets Bev talking, and tells her the Ansata need a doctor, then accuses the Federation of helping the Rutians by bringing the medical supplies. When she says she needs supplies, Finn produces the ones she brought for the other side. While Riker continues working with Devos and sees evidence of hate on both sides of the issue, Bev discovers that the Ansata's DNA are warping, and she can't help them without first finding what's causing the damage. Finn tells her it's the Inverter, a new invention that allows them to travel via a dimensional shift, but "asks a price in return". Bev discovers Finn has it as well, but he dismisses it, claiming that if he dies, he'll merely be a martyr for the cause. As Finn tells Bev that they are fighting a war for independence, as noble as any other, Wes and company figure out how the Ansata are moving, but find it will take several more jumps to pinpoint their power source.
When Riker talks to a captured Ansata and tells him he wants a meeting with Finn, Finn takes it the wrong way, seeing the mass arrests as the Federation coming down harder on the other side, and decides to blow up the Enterprise. They nearly succeed, but are thwarted. Then, however, Finn appears on the bridge, and when attacked by Picard, transports back with him.
Picard and Bev talk, first amongst themselves, then with Finn, who tells them he wants Federation involvement, saying he'll look even better against a more powerful enemy, and that making the Federation sit in on the bargaining will get him concessions. He transports up one more time to the Enterprise to give his demands, then leaves-but now, the power source has been found, and Riker beams down with Devos, Worf, and a security team.
The team manages to knock out the power, and as the Ansata are rounded up, start searching for Picard. Riker finds them, and Devos shoots Finn just as he raises his weapon to shoot Picard. After a small child threatens them and is talked down by Bev, Riker responds to Devos's claim that "it never ends" by pointing out that "maybe the end begins with one boy putting down his gun."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Finn - Richard Cox
Waiter - Marc Buckland
Policeman - Fred G. Smith
Boy - Christopher Pettiet</text>
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Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
The Anasta
Rutia Four</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>"Q" is made human by the rest of the "Q" Continuum as a punishment, and seeks shelter on the Enterprise from his many enemies while he struggles with being human.
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<text>The Enterprise is attempting to save Bre'el Four from its moon, which is falling out of orbit. After one failed attempt, the crew are surprised to see Q appear, stark naked. After being clothed (and grousing about the colors), Q tells them he's been turned mortal by the Q-Continuum (and denies having anything to do with the moon). When he asks for sanctuary, then says he wants to be treated like any other mortal, Picard throws him in the brig. Shortly thereafter, a bright probe appears out of nowhere, and settles on the sleeping Q.
When Picard asks Q what happened, Q is too concerned about human frailties such as sleep, and says he needs guidance for being human, and offers his experience and knowledge with moons to assist. Picard assigns Data to Q, and the two go to Engineering, after Data observes that Q has "achieved in disgrace what I have always aspired to be."
Q tries to help, but only suggests impossible things like changing the gravitational constant of the universe. Geordi jumps on that idea as nonsense, but then considers doing its equivalent by tossing a low-level warpfield around the moon, changing its effective mass. Q, hungry, goes to Ten-Forward and encounters Guinan. When Guinan hears that the crew is not convinced Q is human, she stabs him with a fork to see if he can bleed, then tells him he should get used to begging for help. Suddenly, a plasma cloud shows up and tries to communicate, then sends a probe in which seizes Q. When shields are strengthened, the probe leaves, leaving Q free, but scared out of his wits.
Q tells them this cloud is part of the Calamarian, a race he once tormented, and that they want revenge. Riker suggests simply turning him over to them, but Data argues for Q, and Q and Data go to Engineering to help Geordi implement his plan. Q tries to take over and is quickly put in his place, then sulkingly helps out. However, as the process begins, the Calamarian move in and grab Q. Data holds Q safe in Engineering until shields can be put up, but then both fall to the floor, unconscious. When Q finds that Data is now heavily damaged, he begins to feel ashamed. He decides he'd rather not go on, and steals a shuttle, going out to meet the Calamarian.
Picard, claiming "it's a perfectly good shuttle", tries to beam the shuttle back, but cannot. On the shuttle, a second Q pops in. He says Q's a lost cause, but claims Q's selfless act would raise all sorts of questions back in the Continuum if he then died, and gives Q back his powers. Q literally blows the Calamarian away, and returns to the Enterprise to celebrate. He eventually leaves, but gives Data the parting gift of one really good laugh, and returns the moon to its orbit as he departs, leaving Picard to wonder if some residual humanity is still in him.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
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Data
Q
Bre'el Four</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Riker is suspected of murdering a respected scientist who had accused the Enterprise officer of seducing his wife.</text>
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<text>As Commander Riker returns from the Botanica Four Research Station after talking with Dr. Apgar, a scientist working on Kreeger waves, the station suddenly explodes, killing Apgar. Then, Chief Investigator Krag of Tanuga Four beams aboard and demands Riker be extradited to face trial for murder. When Picard talks to Krag in private, he finds that the Tanugan justice system operates under the premise "guilty until proven innocent". Unwilling to extradite Riker, Picard says that the incident will be recreated on the Enterprise, via the holodeck.
Eighteen hours later, the holodeck is ready (all the various depositions have been loaded), and the hearing begins. According to Riker's deposition, Apgar was immediately grumpy, but his wife Manua tried to seduce him. As he tried to gently break her away, Apgar found them and jumped to wrong conclusions, later threatening Riker's life. The next morning, Apgar claimed he had a good explanation for why he needed so much dycosilium, but Riker claimed not to be interested, and called the Enterprise, ready to beam back. Krag, however, says his researchers have found evidence of a focused energy pulse coming directly from Riker's position-- "clearly" Riker firing a phaser at the reactor core.
Then, a burst of unknown radiation is detected on the ship and investigated. Meanwhile, Manua's deposition is shown. According to it, Riker tried to rape her, and punched out Dr. Apgar when he was discovered, then warned Apgar against reporting this. Riker objects, and a short recess is declared, but Troi tells Riker she sensed no deception-what she said is what she remembers happening. Shortly after that, a second radiation burst occurs, this one in sickbay.
Wes, Geordi and Data find the two bursts occurred 5 hours, 20 minutes, and 3 seconds apart, and that the station was destroyed precisely four times that time ago, less a small delay which they can't explain. After the deposition of Apgar's assistant Tayna is heard, giving Apgar's point of view, Krag demands a decision from Picard, who temporizes for a while longer. Data then finds one phenomenon with the same time interval: the field generator down on the planet.
Picard then realizes what actually happened: Dr. Apgar had already managed to create Kreeger waves (the source of the radiation bursts), but lied about it because he wanted, to turn it into a weapon for any number of groups other than the Federation. When Riker arrived, Apgar worried that Starfleet was getting suspicious, and tried to get them away quickly. When he discovered Riker and Manua together, that didn't help, and he decided to murder Riker. He set up the converter to deliver an energy beam to fry Riker, but it bounced off the transporter beam and destroyed the reactor. Picard demonstrates this by using the converter created by the holodeck to simulate the event, completely destroying the simulation. Riker is exonerated, and all is well.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Dr. Apgar - Mark Margolis
O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Tayna - Juli Donald</text>
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<text>Will Riker
Jean-Luc Picard
Dr. Apgar
The Holodeck</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The USS Enterprise-C comes through a temperal rift and alters the present. The Federation is now at war with the Klingons, and Tasha Yar is alive and serving on the Enterprise-D.
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<text>The Enterprise happens upon a time-rift, and when the Enterprise-C (the last ship to bear the name) comes through it, everything changes, and one immediately noticeable change is that Lieutenant Yar is back at Tactical! She finds life signs on the Ent-C, and they hear a distress call from Capt. Garrett, who says the ship has been attacked by Romulan Warbirds. Riker, Geordi, Crusher and Yar beam over (with strict instructions from Picard not to say anything about where or when they are), rescue the survivors, and commence repairs. After initial repairs are underway, Guinan comes up to talk to Picard.
She seems to have a unique sense of time, for she realizes things have changed. She tells him the war they're in shouldn't be happening, and says the Ent-C is not supposed to be here. Picard goes to sickbay to talk to Garrett, who demands to know where she is (last she knew, she was fighting to rescue a Klingon outpost on Norendra Three). Picard informs her that she's 22 years into her future, and that the destruction of the outpost plunged the Federation and the Klingons into 20 years of war. (Data's analysis shows clearly that the Ent-C will not survive if it returns). Meanwhile, Yar has befriended the only other surviving bridge officer of the Ent-C, Lt. Richard Castillo, and the two go to Garrett with the ship partially restored. Garrett appoints Castillo liaison officer to the Ent-D, and returns to her ship, over Bev's objections. Picard demands more evidence from Guinan, and refuses to send them back without a firm reason. Guinan cannot give any, but invokes their long history together to convince him that she doesn't make a stand like this unless she knows she's right. Picard agrees, and prepares to send them back, over the objections of most of the bridge crew (though Data does say that even if they are destroyed, it might be considered a "meaningful" act of honor by the Klingons and prevent the war anyway). Picard tells Garrett of his decision, and informs her privately that the war in the present is going badly (Starfleet Command is projecting defeat within 6 months). She agrees, and as Picard returns to the Ent-D, Yar stays for a moment to say goodbye to Castillo.
Suddenly, one Klingon Bird of Prey decloaks and fires, shrugging off the Ent-D's phasers, damaging the Ent-C, and killing Capt. Garrett. Castillo asks permission to take the ship back himself, and though Riker objects, Picard grants it. After kissing Castillo goodbye, Yar confronts Guinan about the way Guinan's looked at her. Eventually, Guinan tells her that in the other timeline, she died an empty death. Yar then requests a transfer to the Ent-C from Picard, telling him that she may at least be able to provide the ship with the extra seconds or minutes it needs to change history. Picard agrees, and Castillo welcomes Yar aboard. As the Ent-C prepares to enter the rift, three Klingon ships attack, and the Ent-D is forced to remain and defend the Ent-C. Although they manage to destroy one, the odds go against them, and after a containment field is damaged (coupled with a coolant leak), only two minutes remain until a warp-core breach. With 52 seconds until the Ent-C enters the rift, the Klingons demand surrender, and Picard refuses, allowing his bridge to go up in flames first. The Ent-C passes through the rift-and suddenly, everything is as it was. Guinan checks to see if all is well, then asks Geordi, "tell me about...Tasha Yar."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Trent Ganino & Eric A. Stillwell (Teleplay by Ira Behr, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Ronald D. Moore)</text>
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Guinan
Tasha Yar
The Klingons
The Romulans
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Data becomes a father when he creates an android using a transfer of his own neural programming.</text>
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<text>When Geordi, Deanna, and Wes come to Data's lab a few weeks after a cybernetics conference, he introduces them to Lal, his child. When Picard hears of this, he becomes concerned about what Starfleet will think. When he reminds Data of the awesome responsibility he's taken on, Data replies that it's no different than the responsibility anyone takes on when becoming a parent. Later, Lal selects a sex and appearance from the holodeck, which its body is then built into. When Lal returns, resembling a human female (with realistic skin and eyes), Deanna says, "Congratulations, Data-- it's a girl."
As Data begins teaching Lal about humanity and the world, he finds he is often relearning the experience himself. After Lal assimilates curiosity correctly and responds with many, many questions, Data decides to send her to school. Meanwhile, Admiral Haftel of the Daystrom Institute wants Lal transferred down to the Institute where she will be "safe", but without Data. Picard tells him he thinks that would be a bad idea, and Haftel consults with Starfleet Command. Meanwhile, Data finds that school is not working out so well-the other children are frightened of Lal and laugh at her. He goes to Bev for advice, but when she suggests love and attention, he claims to be incapable of giving her love.
Later, Picard is wakened by a transmission from Haftel-- he is en route to review Lal's development, and if not satisfied, he will take her back with him. Later still, Data completes the final transfers from his brain to hers (which is how he created her brain in the first place), and leaves her in 10-Forward to learn about observing humanity from Guinan. (While there, Lal exceeds Data's abilities by using a contraction.) Later, after Lal's tested her observations about flirting (on Riker, no less), she laments to him that she cannot feel emotions. (Data tells her the struggle for humanity is what's most important.)
When Haftel arrives, he seems already determined to take Lal, regardless of the facts. He dismisses Picard's attitude as "sentimental" and claims Lal needs proper monitoring. When he talks to Lal, she says she wishes to stay, and when excused, goes to Troi, claiming she is "scared". Troi is stunned to sense that Lal truly is scared, and follows Lal back to the lab.
Haftel talks to Picard and Data, and claims there is a time when every parent must give up his or her child, and ignores Picard's arguments. He orders Data to release Lal to him, but Picard belays it, prepared to take this up to Starfleet Command himself. The argument is abruptly broken when Troi calls about Lal, and all three hurry to Data's lab. Data finds a major malfunction has occurred, and he and Haftel begin trying to save her. Sadly, they cannot, and Lal "dies" in Data's arms after telling him she loves him. Data returns to the bridge, having downloaded her knowledge back into himself, so that she will not be lost.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Admiral Haftel</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Worf's father is accused of betraying the Empire to the Romulans at the Kitimer Massacre. Worf travels to the Klingon Home Planet to challenge the accusations.</text>
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<text>In return for Riker visiting the Pagh, the Enterprise takes on a Klingon first officer, Commander Kurn. Kurn is in many ways a typical Klingon, placing heavy emphasis on discipline and running just about everyone ragged-except for Worf, who later comes to Kurn's quarters to ask if he has given offense. When Kurn claims Worf's Klingon blood has thinned, Worf attacks him, and Kurn says that that is "The response I would expect from my older brother."
Kurn says he was left behind when Worf and his parents went to Khitomer, and was unofficially adopted by their father's friend and not told of his true heritage until recently. Now, their father has been accused of betraying the Khitomer outpost, and as the oldest son, Worf must challenge the accusation if any are to do so. When Worf tells Picard this, and says that if his challenge fails, he too will die as a traitor, Picard refuses to grant leave, saying instead the ship will accompany them to the homeworld of the Klingon Empire. Later, Worf invites Kurn to be his cha'Dich (or second), but tells him not to reveal his heritage. When Worf beams down to challenge, the son of his father's rival, Duras, claims he has forsaken his heritage. He then reads the charges, saying that Mogh sent the defense codes of the outpost to the Romulans seconds before the shields fell, and then tears off Worf's sash. Then, while Data begins analyzing all available data on the Khitomer massacre, the chair of the High Council, K'mpec, privately urges Worf to leave, promising that the challenge will be forgotten if he does. Some time later, Duras waylays Kurn with assassins, tells him he knows of his parentage, and when Kurn refuses to turn aside from Worf, stabs him.
Though Kurn will survive, he cannot be cha'Dich in his condition, and Worf asks Picard to serve in his stead, who accepts. Meanwhile, Data and company have found Duras's evidence: a transmission from Khitomer just before the shields fell, with Mogh's security code. However, information from a Federation ship that was nearby at the time shows that something's being hidden. As the council reconvenes, Bev announces she's located the only other survivor of Khitomer: Worf's nurse, Kahlest. Picard finds her in the city, and overcomes her initial refusal to testify, convincing her to come and help Worf. When she arrives, K'mpec calls an immediate recess. Privately (with Picard, Worf, Duras, Kahlest, and K'mpec present), it is revealed that it was Duras's father who betrayed the outpost, but since Duras's family is very powerful (and no one ever expected Worf to make the challenge), Mogh was blamed instead. When they still say they cannot let this evidence be heard, and that Worf will still be condemned, Worf offers them something more effective than his death: he will accept "discommodation" (or being cast out) if Kurn's life is spared. They agree, and as Worf is cast out, Picard tells Kurn this was done so that one day he (or his children) can restore Mogh's honor.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Worf
Jean-Luc Picard
K'mpec, Duras
The Klingons
Klingon Home World</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Without the crew's knowledge, Captain Picard is kidnapped and replaced by an evil impostor.</text>
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<text>After the Enterprise has helped eradicate a plague, Picard is resting in his quarters, and when he falls asleep, a strange device appears, scans him and vanishes with him. As he wakes in what could be either a prison or a lab, Worf goes to investigate the strange reading in his quarters, only to find that "Picard" is still there.
Picard finds the other two captives there with him: Haro, a Starfleet cadet from Boleas Five, and Kovar Tholl, a philosopher from Mizar Two. Neither can explain how they arrived, and neither has seen their captors. Meanwhile, "Picard" diverts the ship to a nearby pulsar, at only Warp 2 (thus delaying an upcoming rendezvous) and tells Riker privately that he'll be a bit more close-mouthed than usual for the time being. As Picard analyzes the door in the lab, trying to get out, and theorizes as to why they specifically might have been taken, the fourth captive appears: Esogg, a bloodthirsty alien from the planet Chalnoth. Picard manages to convince him they are only captives like him, but they quickly find Esogg and Tholl do not get along-- and further, Esogg cannot eat the food that's been provided.
Meanwhile, "Picard" pulls Troi out of the poker game to ask her to keep an eye on the crew for him, and after getting a physical (which reads perfectly normal), invites Bev to dinner in his quarters. Then, Picard, Esogg and Haro try to override the lock mechanism (Tholl declines, saying he's been punished once), and are knocked out by stun beams. After they revive, accusations start flying that perhaps one of them is the captor in disguise, and when Picard is accused, Haro leaps to his defense, mentioning Mintaka III, and then, when Picard mentions it, the recent plague. Meanwhile, "Picard" suggests to Bev that their relationship intensify, and then changes his tone just as she's about to give in. The crew's confusion intensifies when Picard starts up an old drinking song in 10-Forward, and Riker meets with the major bridge officers to discuss what's to be done.
As the Enterprise reaches the pulsar, "Picard" orders the ship closer, and still closer, until if his orders are obeyed, the ship will be destroyed. Riker relieves him of command and takes over. Then, after Picard manages, with Haro's help, to override the stun-mechanism, and then all four of them manage to open the door (which, unfortunately, leads to a blank wall), he exposes Haro as an impostor (the plague, you see, was classified as secret). Haro then vanishes, and three identical aliens appear and tell them they were examining authority, and mention the doubles. One of them returns Picard to the Enterprise (at which point the duplicate Picard turns into another of these aliens), and Picard silently manages to order them taken captive. After showing them that holding people captive, even benevolently, is harmful, he orders them off the ship
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Esogg - Reiner Schene
Haro - Joycelyn O'Brien
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Alien #2 - Jeff Rector</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Captain Picard goes on a vacation to the planet Risa, where he meets a beautiful woman on a quest for a mysterious weapon from the future, called the Tox Uhtat.</text>
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<text>While two aliens on the planet Risa appear out of nowhere and wait for Picard, Troi suggests that Picard, who just finished weeks of grueling negotiations to iron out a trade agreement, needs a holiday. After half the major bridge crew tries to persuade him, Picard finally agrees to go (realizing he won't get a moment's peace if he refuses). As Picard leaves, Riker asks him to pick up a horgon. Upon his arrival, a girl crashes into him, and then when she sees a Ferengi, kisses him soundly hello.
Picard tries to relax by the pool, but keeps getting interrupted by women who ask if they can make his stay more pleasant. Eventually, he discovers the horgon is a symbol of sexuality, and puts the thing away. A short time after that, Sovak, the Ferengi, orders him to keep away from the woman and that the disk (whatever that may be) belongs to him. Picard, however, is none too impressed, and orders him off. Then, Vash, the woman who kissed him earlier, shows up again, and when he realizes that she is the woman Sovak spoke of, he leaves in a huff, but not before Vash slips the disk into his pocket. He returns to his room, only to find the two aliens waiting for him. They claim to be Vorgons, from the 27th century, and tell him of the Tox Uhtat, a weapon from their time which is now hidden on Risa. They say that Picard will discover the Uhtat here, and ask that he give it to them when he do so.
Picard then finds the disk, and confronts Vash with it. As it happens, the disk contains all the research of a professor Vash used to work for, who spent his life searching for the Uhtat. She wants to find it to give it to the Daystrom Institute, and Sovak wants to sell it. Picard says he'll go in her place to find it, but Vash insists on coming along. As they prepare to leave, Sovak catches them and threatens them, saying he paid Vash to steal the disk for him, so it's his. Picard grabs the gun and punches him out, and he and Vash leave.
As they eventually reach the caves, they camp for the night. Vash admits that Sovak paid her, but says he got what he deserved. Picard and Vash, each impressed with the other, end up spending very little of the evening sleeping. As they arrive at where the Uhtat should be, the Vorgons appear to watch, surprising Vash. Even more surprisingly, Sovak appears, having used a copy of the disk that Vash left behind, and orders them to keep digging for him. However, even after hours, they find nothing, perplexing the Vorgons, and stupefying Sovak, whom they leave to keep digging on his own. The next morning, Picard, not fooled at all, confronts Vash and gets her to admit that she went to the cave earlier and got the Uhtat then. She admits it, and then the Vorgons show up. However, when Vash warns Picard that these two may well have been the thieves who tried to steal the Uhtat in the first place, he destroys it rather than give it to them. He kisses Vash goodbye, then returns to the ship.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Vash
Sovak (a Ferengi)
Risa</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise races the Romulans to an unstable star system to meet with an alien ship/life-form there. They carry Tam Elbrun, a Betazed telepath with stress problems, who is a First Contact specialist.</text>
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<text>While the Enterprise is on a routine mission, the Hood shows up unexpectedly. Capt. DeSoto tells Picard about new orders-they will be told about them when they take on their passenger, Tam Elbrun ("of the Garushta disaster"). Troi tells Picard she knew Tam at the University of Betazed...when he was a patient.
Tam's a first-contact expert, and an extraordinary telepath, but also something of a maverick, annoying people by telling them their thoughts. As he prepares to give his briefing, Riker tells Geordi about Garushta (though Tam was not directly responsible, Riker thinks he should have done more to prevent it.) Later, at the briefing, Tam tells them of a recent discovery around the dying star Beta Stromgren. The Federation has discovered "Tin Man", which they think is some form of living spaceship, and Tam has to go talk to it. However, there's a hitch: the Romulans claim that space as their own, and are also sending ships (2 Warbirds) to claim Tin Man for themselves. Picard assigns Data to work with Tam on this crisis. A few hours later, the sensors detect something odd, but it's a clear sign that they are being followed. Meanwhile, Troi talks to Tam (who enjoys Data, since he is the one being on board he cannot read), and discovers he's already in contact with Tin Man, still light-years away. As the Enterprise approaches Tin Man, a Warbird (which only ran this fast by irreparably damaging its engines) decloaks and lightly damages the Enterprise-- just enough to get to Tin Man first.
Shortly afterward, the Romulans decide that if they can't communicate with Tin Man (and they've failed), they will destroy it. Tam, seeing no other option, warns Tin Man telepathically, and Tin Man destroys the Warbird instinctively, almost taking the Enterprise as well. Later, Tam tells Picard all he knows about Tin Man: it calls itself G'amtu, is very old, and has come here to die. He claims that to obtain any more, he must go aboard it, but Picard initially refuses. Before long, the other Warbird is approaching, and when Data suggests that he beam over with Tam to keep an eye on him, Picard agrees-- particularly when the other Warbird arrives and claims right of vengeance on Tin Man.
Tam is initially overloaded by Tin Man upon arrival, but quickly recovers, and ends up feeling better than he ever has. As the Romulan commander repeats his warning to stay away to the Enterprise, Tam tells Data he must stay: "this," he says, "is where I belong." As the star starts to collapse, Tin Man whirls, and sends both ships light-years away, in opposite directions. Data is returned to the bridge, awestruck by what he has seen, and later talks to Troi about Tam's healing, and says that the Enterprise is where he belongs.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Dennis Putman Bailey & David Bischoff (Based on the writers' book "Tin Woodman" (C) 1979).</text>
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<text>Robert Scheerer</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Deanna Troi
Data
The Romulans
Beta Stromgren</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Lt. Barclay, who spends all his free time on the Holodeck, must learn to abandon his fantasy life and deal with real people.
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<text>After we see Lt. Reg Barclay beating up Riker and Geordi in 10-Forward, he is called to Cargo Bay 5, and exits the holodeck, saving the program he just ran. At Cargo Bay 5, Geordi and Riker discuss Barclay as a problem (always late, doesn't work well with others, eternally nervous, etc.), and then dress him down as he comes in. After dealing with a broken canister of tissue samples, the team gets to work analyzing a broken antigrav-- and despite all of Barclay's assurances, it continues to malfunction.
Later, Picard tells Geordi in private that he should try harder to get to know Barclay, leave his prejudices in his cabin, and above all, forget Wes's nickname for Barclay, "Broccoli". Geordi immediately gets on that, inviting Reg to take part in the next morning's briefing. Unfortunately, he's a little late then, too-and most of his suggestions are shot down by Wesley as unworkable. While Barclay unwinds in the holodeck with another fantasy (this one involving Troi as "the goddess of empathy"), Wes, Geordi, Data, and Duffy (another engineer) discuss Barclay in 10-Forward. Then, inexplicably, Duffy's glass starts leaking.
Upon further analysis, they find the molecular structure of the glass has been altered. When Geordi asks Reg to run a full Level-1 diagnostic to check into this, he's surprised to find Reg was already going to, to check on the antigrav. Data suggests the two incidents could be related, but later claims it was Reg's idea to Picard. Picard is happy to hear it, but accidentally calls Barclay "Broccoli" himself, further dampening Reg's self-confidence. Later, Guinan defends Reg to Geordi, saying that most of his actions are because of how he's been treated, not just the reverse. Unfortunately, when Geordi finds Reg this time, Reg is living out a fantasy of beating Geordi, Data, and Picard in swordplay. Geordi later tells Reg that although it's unusual, he won't report it or demand a transfer, but suggests he root himself a bit more in reality, and consult Troi. Then, as if that weren't enough, Transporter 3 malfunctions.
Reg goes to see Troi, but quickly leaves, too nervous to stay around. Later, when Reg doesn't show up on the bridge when called, Riker, Troi, and Geordi go to find him on the holodeck-- and find him living out several fantasies at once (not amusing Riker or Troi one bit). As all four leave, Geordi and Reg head to Engineering, and Geordi tells Reg that he's needed out in the real world right now. Then, to make matters worse, the matter and antimatter injectors to the warp engines jam, making the ship accelerate out of control. Before long, Reg proposes that one of them might be the problem, and Geordi quickly finds that the broken canister contained traces of Invidium, which caused all the problems. They cool the Invidium down until it's inert, and manage to power down the warp engines. Finally, Barclay bids the holodeck-bridge goodbye, and erases all programs-- "except program 9".
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Sally Caves</text>
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<text>Cliff Bole</text>
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<text>Geordi LaForge
Reg Barclay
Deanna Troi
The Holodeck</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Data is captured by an unscrupulous merchant/collector, who wants to add the only sentient android to his collection.</text>
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<text>To neutralize a contaminated water supply in a nearby system, the Enterprise is taking on board the highly volatile hytritium, sold to them by the trader Kivas Fajo. Data flies the shuttle to make the back-and-forth trips, but is seized by Fajo on the last trip, who then sends his shuttle back empty and blows it up, to make it look as though Data's been destroyed. Seeing no evidence to the contrary, the Enterprise is forced to leave for the Beta Agni system (fortunately, they now have just enough hytritium to complete their mission).
When Data awakes, he is told that he is the "crown jewel" in Fajo's collection of rare and unique things. He cannot open the door, and cannot touch Fajo, who is wearing a proximity-activated forcefield which impedes positronic flow. Fajo tells him he'd better get used to his new life, and frequently suggests to him that he just "sit in the chair" and behave. Meanwhile, Geordi agonizes over Data's seeming death, and tells Picard and Riker he can find no reason for the explosion... except pilot error, which is virtually impossible for Data.
While Data tries to suborn Fajo's assistant Varria (who tells Data of Fajo's lavishness, both in rewards and in punishments), Picard chooses Worf as the new Ops officer. Fajo then tries many ways to get Data to sit in his chair and be a good little toy, including dissolving his uniform (to make him wear the clothes Fajo wants), and claiming to be Data's liberator-- here, he says, Data cannot be called upon to violate his "fundamental respect" for life by killing. Data, however, eventually pretends to be naught more than a mannequin, embarrassing Fajo in front of his friend and rival. Meanwhile, while Troi tries to help Worf get used to replacing another dead crewmate, Geordi realizes Data didn't entirely follow protocol on the last trip (suggesting that there may have been something wrong with him), and when they reach the Beta Agni system, they find evidence that the contaminant may have been deliberately planted. Upon further inspection, they realize that the whole thing may have been an elaborate game to obtain Data, and head for the site of the shuttle explosion.
Meanwhile, Varria, whom Fajo earlier threatened with a particularly nasty disruptor to get Data to sit in his chair, tells Data she'll help him escape if he'll take her along. While the Enterprise slowly tracks Fajo down, Varria starts the escape pod's launch sequence, only to be overpowered by security. After Data removes the security, Fajo comes in and shoots Varria with one of the disruptors, then claims the blood is on Data's hands. Data picks up the other disruptor, and despite Fajo's confidence that Data cannot shoot, being "only an android" pulls the trigger-only to have the Enterprise beam him aboard just as he fired. Fajo is taken into custody and his collection confiscated, but when he asks Data if that gives him pleasure, Data replies, "No, sir-- it does not. I do not feel pleasure. I am only an android."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Kivas Fajo - Saul Rubinek
"Toff" - Nehemiah Persoff
Varria - Jane Daly
O'Brien - Colm Meaney
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<text>Timothy Bond
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<text>Data
Geordi LaForge
Kivas Fajo</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Ambassador Sarek comes on board to conduct some crutial negotiations. But his emotional control seems to be breaking down, and his wild emotions are telepathically affecting the whole ship.</text>
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<text>Ambassador Sarek comes on board with his staff and his new (also human) wife, Perrin, to complete a treaty with the Legarans (his last mission before retiring). Although his aides seem overly concerned with his health (Sarek himself says they're overprotective and seems fine), and Sarek is slightly cranky (as cranky as a Vulcan ever gets), all seems well. (We do, however, see a bit later that Sarek is currently unable to meditate to attain peace.)
Then, not long after he comes on board, tempers start flaring up on board the ship: Wesley and Geordi start arguing with each other heatedly while setting up the conference room and are broken up by Riker. Then, after a Mozart recital which Sarek attends (and at which Picard actually sees Sarek cry), tempers get worse: Bev slaps Wesley for no reason, and Ten-Forward becomes the site of a bar brawl.
Bev and Troi eventually advance a theory: Sarek himself may be the cause, due to a very rare malady contracted by aged Vulcans known as Bendai's syndrome, in which all emotional control is gradually eroded away. Eventually, Data confronts Sarek's young aide Sakkath about his odd behavior (checking to see how Picard's diplomatic skills are, and so forth), and eventually finds that Sarek indeed suffers from the disease, and that Sakkath has been trying to help Sarek's control, with limited success. This will jeopardize the treaty with the Legarans (since Sarek's the only one they'll speak to), but Picard is forced to convince Sarek of this anyway, over the objections of both Perrin and Sarek's chief of staff, Mendrossen (also a human).
Picard manages to convince Sarek of his ailment (by driving him virtually incoherent with rage, which he shouldn't be able to do), but is then struck by remorse over what he has done to such a great man. Upon Perrin's later suggestion, Picard suggests to Sarek that the two of them mind-meld, giving Sarek the added control he needs, and letting Picard serve as a temporary well for Sarek's emotions. Despite the risk, they go through with it, and while Picard/Sarek rages over his inability to tell people he loves how much he loves (or loved, in the case of the dead) then, Sarek/Picard manages to conclude the treaty. Sarek expresses his gratitude to Picard, and says they will each retain the best part of the other. He leaves, his mission successful, but his control eroding further... and Bendai's Syndrome has, at present, no cure.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Peter S. Beagle (From an unpublished story By Mark Cushman & Jake Jacobs ) </text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Sarek</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Lwaxana Troi, Deana, and Cmdr. Riker are kidnapped from Batezed by a Ferengi DaiMon, who wants Lwaxana's telepathic ability, and her body as well.</text>
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<text>At a reception on the Enterprise following a trade agreement on Betazed, Deanna argues with her mother about Lwaxana's insistence that Deanna "settle down" and raise a family. Then, Lwaxana is accosted by the Ferengi DaiMon Tog, who not only would very much like Lwaxana to use her telepathy to help Ferengi deals, but is sexually attracted to Lwaxana as well. Lwaxana, not surprisingly, is revolted, and orders Tog away.
Riker and Deanna both take shore leave on Betazed (Picard badgered Riker into doing so), while the Enterprise conducts a quick, nearby mission studying a nebula (which, incidentally, is Wes's last mission-- he's about to leave for the Academy to take his oral exams). While Riker and Deanna stroll around the fields, they run into Lwaxana (with Mr. Homn in attendance, of course)-and then, worse still, all three of them are kidnapped by DaiMon Tog and taken on board his ship, the Creighton.
After Riker and the Trois awake in a cell, Tog beams the two women over to him, without clothing. As Lwaxana pretends to be interested in both of Tog's propositions (and Deanna returns to the cell), and keeps him relaxed and distracted, in a state of sexual pleasure, Riker tricks the Ferengi first officer into letting him out of the cell, but he and Deanna quickly find that to send out a communication, they need Tog's security code. Unfortunately, when Lwaxana tries to get the code out of Tog (ostensibly to fix him a drink), the Ferengi doctor catches her, and insists to be allowed to probe her brain to find out how her telepathy works, despite the fact that it might kill her.
Meanwhile, the Enterprise leaves the nebula, restoring communications, and discover from one of the Betazoid heads of state, Reittan Grax, that Riker and the Trois have been kidnapped. Unfortunately, they have no idea where the Creighton might be, and cannot decode Ferengi transmissions.
Riker taps into the warpfield phase shifter and modulates the static into a pattern the Enterprise will recognize. Unfortunately, since only Wesley recognizes it, he's forced to miss his transport to the Academy to help rescue Riker. As they begin to track the Creighton down, Lwaxana offers Tog a deal: if he sends Riker and Deanna back, she will stay with him, and serve him both sexually and telepathically in his business dealings. Tog agrees, just as the Enterprise shows up. Picard tricks Tog into returning Lwaxana as well, by pretending to be a jealous lover of Lwaxana's, who will kill to get her back. Finally, saying that although the Academy must make Wes wait, he cannot make Wes wait for the Academy, Picard gives Wes a field promotion to full Ensign.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Robert Legato</text>
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<text>Will Riker
Deanna Troi
Jean-Luc Picard
The Ferengi
Betazed</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>The Enterprise rescues a mysterious humanoid whose remarkable powers affect the entire crew.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise finds a crashed escape pod in an unexplored system, with one critically injured passenger. Bev manages to stabilize him on the planet (with Geordi's help) enough to beam him aboard. Before leaving orbit, they find evidence that there was a larger ship in orbit, which was completely destroyed. While Data gets to work on the one small piece of equipment they salvaged from the wreck, Bev finds her patient will live, but she can't take credit for it.
Apparently, his recuperative powers are incredible, and even more interestingly, even his healthy cells are mutating in some way. A couple of days later, "John Doe" awakes, but cannot remember who he is.
Weeks later, he's almost completely recovered, though still unaware of who he is. Strangely, he's occasionally experiencing bouts of severe pain which seem linked to his mutating cells. Furthermore, he's also emitting sporadic energy bursts which are linked to the cells. Although his energy bursts are uncontrollable (and possibly harmful), he finds a few days later that he can heal injuries (starting with O'Brien's dislocated shoulder).
The next day, Geordi manages to figure out that the capsule they found is a biochemical storage medium, and manages to find it's a star chart leading to John's home. By now, however, John's memory has returned just enough for him to realize he cannot go home yet. When, a day or two later, a vessel moves to intercept them at Warp 9.72, John says he must get off the Enterprise. He tries to steal a shuttle, and accidentally kills Worf (but then manages to heal him, miraculously), but is stopped. When questioned, he says he's becoming dangerous.
The vessel arrives, shields up, and the captain (who is clearly of John's race) claims to be of the planet Zalkon, and wants John returned to him as a dangerous criminal, to face his death sentence. The Zalkonians give Picard two hours to return John, who cannot confirm or deny the accusations, but claims to know there's more at stake than simply his life.
After some discussion, Picard refuses to turn John over without more information about what he has done. When he mentions John's ability to heal injuries and reverse death, the captain (Sunad) denounces them as "corrupted", and triggers a device on his ship, which renders the entire Enterprise crew unable to breathe. Fortunately, John still can, and heals everyone in one bright flash. His memory restored, he plucks Sunad from his bridge to the Enterprise and explains that he is the next stage in Zalkonian evolution-others like him were killed as a threat to the "natural order". Now that he has evolved until he is impervious to harm, he says, nothing can stop him from proclaiming the goodness of the transfiguration. He sends Sunad and his ship packing, bids Bev (with whom he's become quite good friends) a touching farewell, and departs.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Sunad - Charles Dennis
Christy - Julie Warner
O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Nurse Temple - Patti Tippo</text>
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<text>Rene Echevarria </text>
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<text>Beverly Crusher
The Zalkonians</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text><span class="style1">he Best of Both Worlds </span><span class="style4">(part 1)</span></text>
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<text>Guinan - Whoopi Goldberg
Lt. Cmdr Shelby - Elizabeth Dennehy
Admiral Hanson - George Murdock
O'Brien - Colm Meaney</text>
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<text>6/16/90</text>
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<text>The Borg enter Federation space and start heading for Earth. The Enterprise tries to stop them. In the process, Picard is captured by the Borg.
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<text>Stardate 43989.1: The Enterprise comes to take a look at the Jure Four colony, one of the outermost colonies of the Federation, with about 900 residents-- all contact was recently lost. Riker takes an away team down to the "middle o' town," as O'Brien tells them, but finds himself on the edge of a crater. The entire town has been scooped away.
Stardate 43992.6: Admiral Hansen and Lt. Cmdr. Shelby have come to view the evidence, very worried that this might be the beginning of the Borg invasion. Shelby has been in charge of Borg tactical analysis over the last six months, and although she's done her job well, no defenses are as yet beyond the drawing board. After Shelby accepts Riker's invitation to the poker game that night, the two leave Picard and Hansen alone to talk. Hansen tells Picard that Shelby really knows her stuff, and says she'd "make one hell of a first officer." When Picard replies that he already has one hell of a first officer, he's informed that Riker was offered the Melbourne (his third chance at command) recently, but hasn't yet responded. He urges Picard to kick Riker in the pants a little "for his own good," and get his career moving again.
Meanwhile, Riker and Shelby discuss traces the Borg leave behind--special magnetic resonances that were found both on the Enterprise after the slice of hull was taken out, and from the Neutral Zone outposts-- a Borg "footprint," if you will. Shelby starts trying to co-opt the away team authority, but Riker quickly reasserts command before the two leave. She tells Riker that, since she thought he was leaving, she's after his job. Later, at the poker game (in attendance: Riker, Shelby, Data, Geordi, Troi, and Wesley), Wes falls for Riker's bluff, but Shelby doesn't-- and wins handily. The next morning (the away team was scheduled to leave at dawn), Riker and Geordi go to the transporter room, only to have O'Brien inform him that Shelby and Data have already been down on the surface for an hour. The two beam down, and an exceedingly annoyed Riker pulls Shelby aside to talk. She tells him that she got word a storm system was moving in, and wanted to get her readings before it hit. After Riker tells her to notify him before changing his orders, he hears her report: she found the footprint. It is the Borg.
Stardate 43993.5: Hansen is now back with Starfleet Command to plan, and Shelby has remained on board. Riker tells Picard what he's done so far (ordered a standing Yellow Alert, and warned all ships & out- posts on the perimeter), and the conversation turns to Shelby. After hearing a few of Riker's gripes, Picard points out that her ambition reminds him of how Riker was when he first came on board. He then asks, suddenly, "Will... what the hell are you still doing here?", and when he hears Will has turned down the Melbourne because he feels he's needed here, "particularly now," says, "Starfleet needs good captains-particularly now," asks him to look at his career objectively, and reassures him he's ready to "work without a net." Riker talks to Troi in 10-Forward, concerned that he's lost something in coming on board. Troi says she thinks he's just older and wiser, and says he's happier here than she's ever known him. She tells him it all comes down to one question: "What do you want, Will Riker?"
A little later, Shelby starts discussing redundancies in the Borg systems, and includes the unnerving statistic that the ship could probably still function with up to 78% of the ship completely inoperable. Any new weapons systems will take at least 18 months to develop, and modifications here may be possible, but right now Geordi and Wes are too tired to think about it. Riker breaks up the meeting until the next morning, and when Shelby asks to continue working with Data (who doesn't, after all, need rest), Riker points out that SHE does, and sends her packing.
The next day, Hansen calls-- the ship Lalo sent a distress call, describing an encounter with a "cubical" ship (clearly the Borg), and have not been heard from since. All help other than the Enterprise is still 6 days away, but the Enterprise is only 77 minutes away at Warp 9, and they head there, as Geordi starts working with his plan to retune shield harmonics and phasers to better bands in the EM spectrum to confuse the Borg ("just a shot in the dark." he says). About 77 minutes later, they find the ship, and Picard tells Data, "send a message to Admiral Hansen-- we have engaged the Borg." The Borg, amazingly, hail Picard specifically. (It appears that it may well be the same ship they encountered before.) When the Enterprise answers, the Borg (again, speaking only as the collective-- throughout the entire episode, we never see one single Borg speak, only the entire ship) demand he beam over to them, and say that if he resists, the Enterprise will be destroyed. Picard, of course, refuses, and bluffs about the strength of their "new defenses." The Borg start probing, and Geordi retunes the shields-- miraculously, the tractor beam does not manage to lock on. The Enterprise locks weapons, but the Borg quickly adapt to the new shields, drain them, and lock on the tractor beam. After initial shots fail and they still can't move, a beam from the Borg slices into the Enterprise at Engineering, which Geordi is forced to evacuate. Shelby orders Data to fire while continually modulating the phasers, not giving the Borg time to adapt. This proves successful, and the tractor beam is broken. Picard orders Warp 9 away from the beast (no conference this time!!), and the Borg pursue.
The Enterprise enters the Paulson Nebula and drop to impulse-- the nebula, they hope, will confuse the Borg sensors. When Worf reports that they cannot be located, but that the Borg are still trying, Picard says, "Good. As long as they're looking for us, they won't chase anyone else." As repairs of the hull breach in Engineering continue, Shelby and company analyze the earlier battle. They find that the Borg appear slightly vulnerable to one particular frequency band, and realize that they might manage to cripple or even destroy the ship in that band-but they need far more power than they can channel through phasers or photon torpedoes to do it. The only thing they can use to channel that much power is the deflection dish, and unless they can increase its range, the explosion would take out the Enterprise as well. Geordi and Wes get to work on that (and on retuning all the phasers, even hand phasers, to that band), and Shelby makes the additional recommendation to separate the saucer, to give the Borg two targets to worry about. Riker says they may need the saucer, and dismisses the plan as too risky, but assures Shelby that he will present all options to Picard.
Unfortunately, when he goes into Picard's ready room to talk to him a few minutes later, Shelby's already there. While Picard agrees with Riker that the plan is too risky to try now, he orders Riker to prepare for it as a fallback option. Both Riker and Shelby leave, but Riker holds the lift long enough to tell Shelby, "you do an end run around me again, and I'll snap you back so hard you'll think you're a first-year cadet again." Not mincing words, she tells Riker that he's in her way, and that the only thing he knows how to do is play it safe.
Stardate 43996.2: They're still hiding in the dust cloud, and Picard is mulling over the possibility that none of their defenses will be adequate. He talks to Guinan in 10-Forward, concerned that this may be the end of his civilization's page in history, and Guinan assures him that humanity will prevail, even if it takes a millenium. Suddenly, a Red Alert is sounded-- the Borg are sending magnetic charges into the nebula, essentially mining it. Shields are only back up to 48%, but with no other options, Picard orders the ship out (at half-impulse, with a sudden jump up to Warp 9 once they're out). The chase lasts only seconds, and the Borg immediately knock the Enterprise dead in the water. One Borg beams aboard and is shot down by Worf, then two more appear. Both have shields, and while the first effortlessly tosses Riker and Worf around the bridge, the second affixes some sort of device to Picard-and then the two beam back with him (leaving the first one to disintegrate). The Borg disengage, and leave at warp 9, quickly moving to 9.4, then 9.6. While the Enterprise pursues, Worf tells Riker the Borg's course will take them to "Sector 001-the Terran system."
Meanwhile, Picard is taken to a central area of the Borg ship, where he is told that humanity will be assimilated, biologically and technologically, into the Borg culture, and will be adapted to "service" the Borg. When Picard says it's impossible, because his culture is based on freedom and self-determination, the Borg reply, "Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply." When he says they'd rather die, the reply is "Death is irrelevant." They then tell him that, to more easily begin the assimilation, they require a human voice to speak for them in all communications: and Picard's the only candidate. Some time later (assume a couple of days, due to the stardate given in a later scene), the Enterprise can only maintain pursuit at that speed for another 2 hours 40 minutes-- and with the deflector burst not yet ready (Geordi thinks he might have it in 2 hours), they realize they must get the Borg out of warp. Riker orders an away team to beam over to the Borg ship for some sabotage, and plans to lead it, but is forced to relinquish it to Shelby when Troi reminds him that, as Acting Captain in a wartime situation, his place is most assuredly the bridge.
Stardate 43998.5: Shelby, Data, Worf, and Beverly (there in case Picard needs medical help) prepare to beam over. Each phaser is tuned to a different frequency, but Shelby warns them that they still will probably only get 1-2 shots apiece before the Borg adapt. They beam over, and are ignored just as they were more than a year before.
Signs of human life are inconclusive, and they begin searching for Picard. Bev finds a power conduit, and although it's obvious they'll never be able to take out enough equipment to force the Borg out of warp, Bev suggests the mosquito analogy-sting them in a tender spot, and perhaps they'll stop to scratch. They decide to take out several distribution nodes, but before they do so, Worf picks up Picard's communicator signal and the team heads for it.
With 22 minutes of pursuit left, Riker talks to Admiral Hansen, strongly urging that all ships be redeployed to defend sector 001. Hansen says they're regrouping to make their stand at Wolf-359. Meanwhile, the away team enters what looks like the Borg nursery, and finds only Picard's uniform, with communicator still attached. They continue the search, as Geordi and Wes tell Riker that the deflector burst is in business-- but it will completely burn out the main deflector, and they will need to evacuate the entire forward half of the secondary hull and the lower three decks of the saucer due to radiation threats. With 17 minutes left, and Picard not yet found, the team has no choice but to start taking out the distribution nodes. They take out three, and as the ship drops out of warp (allowing the Enterprise to begin channeling that power to the dish and arming it), the Borg converge. Six Borg are taken out before they adapt to the new phasers, and the team prepares to beam back.
Suddenly, Beverly sees Picard in profile (the right half of his face, as you'd see if you were facing him) and says, "Jean-Luc!" He slowly turns, and the team sees with horror that he has been altered-into a Borg himself. Worf tries to grab him, but is repelled by a force-field. The team is forced to beam back empty-handed. They tell Riker what's happened, and Geordi says the Borg ship is already beginning to regenerate. Riker tells them to prepare to fire. When Bev objects, saying that Picard is alive, and she might be able to reverse the process, he says there's no time. Finally, the Borg hail the Enterprise. We (and the bridge) see Picard slowly walking up to the screen, and he says, "I am Locutus, of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service...US." After several stunned reaction shots, the camera closes in on Riker as he says, "Mister Worf... fire." Fade out, and the screen says:
TO BE CONTINUED...
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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<text><span class="style1">he Best of Both Worlds</span><span class="style4"> (part 2)</span></text>
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<text>After a brief recap of part one, we see the weapon charge up, and fire. It hits dead-on-and nothing happens to the Borg ship. After the Enterprise is forced to cease fire before the engines burn out, the surprised bridge crew is informed by Locutus that everything Picard ever knew is now part of the Borg: "Your resistance is hopeless... Number One."
Stardate 44001.4: The Borg resume course, with the Enterprise powerless to pursue: as expected, their main deflector is out, as are shields and the reactor core. It's going to be 8 to 12 hours for repair, as they tell Admiral Hanson.
Riker, however, reassures Hanson that, even if late, the Enterprise will be at Wolf-359. Hanson tells them that they bought the Federation valuable time: they've got 40 starships massed, the Klingons are sending ships, and they even considered opening communications with the Romulans. Hanson bristles when Shelby says Picard is working with the Borg, and says to all concerned that Picard, their captain and his longtime friend, is a casualty of war. He field-promotes Riker to Captain, and wishes everyone good luck.
After a brief shot of Picard being altered further on the ship (having a prosthetic Borglike claw being inserted over his right hand, and having his coloration paled to that of the others), we see Riker (now with 4 pips on his uniform) talking to Worf about strategy, primarily the question of fighting against someone who knows you better than you do.
They arrive in Engineering, where Geordi, Shelby and others are working on repairs. The deflector's back up, and the reactor core is almost working, but auxiliary generators keep going down: there's probably 2 to 3 hours left of work. Riker commends Shelby for her away team duty, and says he wants her to keep him on his toes. When she remarks that that's usually the duty of a first officer, he tells her she has a lot to learn: "almost as much as I had to learn when I came on board as Captain Picard's first officer, which he remarked on when I told him what a pain in the neck you were."
Hanson calls from Wolf-359, and says the battle does not go well-then communications are abruptly severed. As the repaired Enterprise heads for Wolf-359, Riker tells Data, Worf, and everyone else that he needs them where they are, and somewhat reluctantly makes Shelby his first. The senior crew discuss possibilities: the heavy graviton beam won't do enough, newly destructive Nanites would take too long to engineer (2 to 3 weeks), and all the newly adapted phasers (adapted to be random with every shot) will do is slow them down.
Riker arrives in Picard's ready room and asks the empty chair, "What would you do?" Guinan suddenly barges in, saying she's just "used to having the Captain's ear", and reports to Riker: morale is very bad-everyone's expecting to die tomorrow, and only Riker can turn it around. She says that he must do something very difficult: let go of Picard. (When he argues that he tried to kill Picard yesterday, she claims that he was trying to kill "that thing on the Borg ship", not Picard.) She tells him that her relationship with Picard goes beyond friendship and family, and she's prepared to let him go. He must as well-- there's only room for one Captain, and he's it.
The Enterprise arrives at Wolf-359, where it finds the fleet-- in pieces. Starship wreckage is everywhere, with no life signs anywhere. Shelby (now with three full pips on her uniform, by the way) mentions three dead ships by name: the Tolstoi, the Kyushu-- and the Melbourne. They find traces of the Borg's trail and follow. He orders Shelby to prepare to separate the saucer, remarking that he's counting on Picard having been briefed on that tactic, and then tells Data and Worf he has a special mission for them.
Locutus sees the Enterprise approaching on the Borg viewscreen (also cubical, and rotating!), and hears "Captain William T. Riker of the starship Enterprise" hailing. Locutus demands an unconditional surrender, and dismisses Riker's wish to talk terms as a deception, until Riker points out that Picard trusted him implicitly and that he's never lied to Picard. He then simply terms it irrelevant. (The sensors, meanwhile, manage to pinpoint Locutus's position to within 30 meters, but the Borg EM field has been adapted to prevent the main transporter from working.) When Riker asks for time, Locutus says it's not necessary, and threatens them with destruction if they intervene.
Riker says that Locutus had better take his best shot, and all hell breaks loose. Communications are scrambled (code Riker-1), the saucer separates, and the stardrive opens fire. The Borg, ignoring the saucer, try to lock onto the stardrive with the tractor beam. The stardrive evades (with maneuvers Riker-alpha and Riker-beta), and Riker signals Shelby (commanding the saucer) to commence her attack. She does so, launching antimatter charges, which seem to confuse Locutus a bit. Meanwhile, Data and Worf launch their shuttle, cutting their engines when it looks like the power's been sensed, and penetrate the EM field. Once inside the field, they beam in close to Locutus, subdue the few Borg near him, stun him, beam back to the shuttle, leave the Borg field, and are beamed off milliseconds before the Borg destroy the shuttle.
The saucer has sustained impulse damage, and the Borg power back up and leave, heading for Earth again, as the Enterprise reconnects and pursues. Meanwhile, Bev studies Locutus, whose DNA is apparently being rewritten near all the implants. Riker, hoping the Picard/Borg link goes both ways, has Bev wake Locutus, who calls the stratagem ill-advised and futile (saying "Picard never would have approved" of risking all for one man), but says he means no harm, and will simply continue to speak for the Borg as they head for Earth.
Data finds that Locutus is linked into the Borg consciousness via a transporter-like subspace field. It's jammable, but would probably cause Locutus to self-destruct just as the damaged Borg did when they were cut off (the severing being what was done whenever Borg had bits taken off them). Until that link is down, however, Bev cannot "separate the man from the machine." Data then decides to try to access the machine. After Locutus says the Borg merely wish to improve the "quality of life" for all species, and says they will all become one with the Borg (except for Data, who will be obsolete), Bev knocks him out and Data takes him to his (Data's) lab. Meanwhile, Shelby reports that the Borg have entered sector 001, as we see the Borg swing by Saturn.
Planetary defenses are up and functioning, but aren't expected to do much good. Worse yet, the Borg are only 27 minutes away from Earth at current speed, and the Enterprise is at least 42 minutes away from intercept. Meanwhile, Data tries to establish a neural link between himself and Locutus, with Bev checking Picard's vital signs, O'Brien monitoring Data's stats, and Troi scanning for any sign of Picard's consiousness. As the first stage of the 3-stage link is established, no important progress is made (as the Mars perimeter is swept aside with no effort). The second stage is equally unrewarding, but the final link hits the jackpot: as both systems run a little wild, Data links into the Borg consciousness, where he mentions his discoveries: although the Borg have subcommands relative to the three main functions (defense, communication and navigation), they all have root commands. As he's about to go into details, though, Locutus revives, knocks out a security guard, and almost deactivates the link, until Data grapples with him and rips off the tool-portion of his right-hand prosthetic.
Bev picks up increased neural activity, and Deanna finds that, despite no real success on Data's part, Picard's consciousness is starting to revive. The Borg, meanwhile, have stopped (clearly they're paying attention to this), and move to intercept the Enterprise, just as Data and Bev figure out the Achilles heel: they cannot cut the link to Lo- cutus, any more than we could cut off a leg and survive. Riker orders Data to plant a command in the Borg consciousness to disarm, but Data cannot (either to disarm or to power down), as all high-level commands are protected. The Borg lock on to the Enterprise, and weapons do no good.
Riker orders a collision course and warp power, but Data asks him to stand by, as Picard (not Locutus) says "sleep" to Data, who takes it as a suggestion. As Data acts on this, the Borg cutter breaks through the outer hull, and is about to break through the inner...when suddenly, it stops and sits dormant. Worf finds the weapons have powered down, and the EM field is nonexistent. When Riker asks what happened, Data tells him that he put the Borg into regeneration mode-- in effect, he put them to sleep.
Worf and Shelby beam over to check, and confirm that, but also find that the malfunction has triggered a self-destruct. Despite Bev's warning that the ship's destruction might be very dangerous to Picard, and Data's thoughts of further study, Riker lets the destruct go on, and they steer clear as the Borg ship goes up in smoke. The destruction shakes Picard up a little, but frees him, and despite the grand-daddy of all headaches, he feels "almost human." When Riker asks him how much he remembers, he replies, "Everything-- including some brilliantly unorthodox strategy from a former first officer of mine."
Some time later, Picard has been disconnected from all the prosthetics (though his head's still bandaged), and the Enterprise still has 5-6 weeks of repairs due at Earth Station McKinley. The door rings to the ready room, and both Picard and Riker say, "Come." It's Shelby, who's about to leave to take over the task force that's going to rebuild the fleet. When she says that Riker should have his pick of commands, he says "with all due respect, Commander... sir... my career plans are my own business, and no one else's." She leaves, as does Riker. Picard picks up his tea, but stops as he's about to drink, puts the tea down, and stares out his window, as the Enterprise sweeps majestically past Earth.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>While the Enterprise undergoes repairs on Earth, crew members reunite with family as Picard comes face to face with his jealous brother.</text>
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<text>With the Enterprise still undergoing repairs, many family reunions take place. Worf is surprised, and a bit distressed, to find that his parents are coming to visit, as Jean-Luc, insisting to Deanna that he's "fine" following his abduction (to wit: his physical injuries have healed, and at least his nightmares are gone) prepares to visit his brother Robert, who still lives in Jean-Luc's home village, and whom he hasn't seen in almost twenty years. Meanwhile, Beverly looks through some old keepsakes-including a message that Jack recorded for Wesley not long after Wes was born.
While Worf deals with his parents (his mother's just like any mother who hasn't seen a son in a long time, and his father's an old Starfleet man who has all the specs and diagrams to the Enterprise at home, as he tells everyone), Jean-Luc arrives, meeting Robert's wife Marie and son Rene, and we quickly see that Robert and Jean-Luc are not the best of friends. Robert is as oriented towards the past as Jean-Luc is toward the future, and is firmly against any invasion of technology into his life. It seems that Jean-Luc, by leaving the village for Starfleet, was something of an aberration in the family, though a well-- loved one. While Sergey and Helena (Worf's parents) discuss some of their con- cerns about Worf with Guinan (who tells them they've done a wonderful job as parents, and that he really does care for them), Jean-Luc finds from his old friend Louis that the Atlantis project, designed to raise some of the ocean floor, is in need of a director... and is disturbed to find himself interested. Not long after, Beverly gives Wes the message, and Sergey and Helena tell Worf that despite his discommendation (which he'd told them about in a letter home), he is not alone-they are with him, they are proud of him, and they love him.
Relations between Jean-Luc and Robert worsen, particularly as the subject of Jean-Luc's recent problems comes up. They argue, bringing up old jealousies (Robert, the "responsible" older brother, always resented that Jean-Luc broke all the rules and got away with it), and even get into a fight in the vineyard. It quickly leaves both brothers laughing, and the openness allows Jean-Luc to truly show his anger and frustration at what the Borg did to him. Robert reassures him, telling him that he's just human like everyone else. Jean-Luc, much heartened, decides that it's time for him to go back to the Enterprise. After we see Wes watching Jack's message (apologizing for all the mistakes he knows he'll make as a father, and hoping Wes'll understand why Starfleet is so important to him), we see Jean-Luc leave, and all is mostly smiles. He arrives back on board just as Sergey and Helena are leaving, and Robert and Marie watch Rene out on the lawn, looking up at the sky, dreaming of "starships and adventure."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Robert Picard - Jeremy Kemp
Marie Picard - Samantha Aggar
Sergey Rozhenko - Theodore Bikel
Helena Rozhenko - Georgia Brown
Miles O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Louis - Dennis Creaghan
Rene Picard - David Tristan Birkin
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>After being summoned home by his elderly creator, Data clashes with his evil brother, Lore.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is en route to a starbase due to a medical emergency. Due indirectly to a practical joke that Jake Potts played on his little brother Willie, Willie urgently needs medical attention. Data begins taking Jake to sickbay to see Willie (who's under strict quarantine, and also not particularly amenable to seeing Jake right now), but suddenly starts behaving strangely.
He quickly assumes control of the Enterprise by cutting off life support to the bridge. He establishes force-fields in enough locations that the others can't even get to the bridge, let alone recover it from him. They block site-to-site transport ability (meaning he can't beam directly off the bridge)-and Data, through a complicated series of force-fields, walks past entire security teams to Transporter Room 1, puts Riker and O'Brien behind a force-field, reactivates site-to-site ability, and beams off-ship. He enters a house, where a strange old man welcomes and reactivates him. He announces himself to be Noonian Soong, Data's creator, and quickly convinces Data that this is the truth. (He escaped the colony he was on before the crystal entity destroyed it, though exactly how is unclear.) Meanwhile, by diverting power from most of Willie's quarantine, the bridge crew make it back to the bridge, but are stopped by a security code that Data (masquerading as Picard) set up, which they have no hope of cracking. However, they do regain control over sensors, which picks up one human life-form on the planet below- and a small vessel entering orbit, with no life aboard.
Data and Soong talk for a while, about why Data joined Starfleet, and more importantly, the concepts of creation and procreation, and we find that Soong created Data for the same reason humans are driven to have children-for his own slice of immortality. However, their reverie is interrupted suddenly, as a similarly entranced Lore enters. Over Data's objections, Soong reactivates Lore, insisting that Lore will obey him. He does manage to keep Lore from attacking him or Data, reassuring Lore that he wasn't captured-- Soong, in fact, didn't even know Lore had been reassembled. When Lore, bitter and angry, decides to leave Soong with his "favorite son" Data, Soong tells him he's dying. Data accepts this with his usual aplomb, but Lore is hit surprisingly hard emotionally.
While Geordi and O'Brien begin attempting to convince the transporter to let them beam down, Soong tells Lore that disassembling him was the only option-after creating Data, he planned to go back and "fix" Lore. (We also discover that, at least according to Soong, Data is not "less perfect" than Lore.) Soong quickly tires of Lore's bickering about Data, and orders both androids to sit. He tells them that, after years of work, he's figured out what went wrong with Lore, and holds up a chip with the programming for "basic emotions"-- for Data, since he didn't even know Lore still existed. He goes into another room to rest, however, before starting the procedure.
As Riker, Geordi, and Worf beam down to search for Data, Soong inserts the chip into the android he thinks is Data-- but after it's over, he quickly discovers it's Lore wearing Data's uniform. He tries to convince Lore that the chip was not designed for him and won't work properly, but Lore, insisting that Soong owes him for past slights, not Data, tosses Soong across the room, knocking him out, then beams out. Shortly thereafter, Riker and company find Soong, just waking up, and a deactivated Data, whom Riker quickly revives. Soong tells Data that he has neither the time nor the skill to create a second chip, rebuffs all attempts to take him to sickbay, saying he has "no plans to die anywhere else", and removes Data's memory block. Data says goodbye to Soong alone, saying that it's all right for Soong to die, since he will live on in Data.
Several days later, Willie is recovering nicely, and he and Jake are playing happily. When Data observes that the children have settled their differences, Beverly says, "They're brothers, Data! Brothers forgive," and the episode closes on a rather pensive Data.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Rick Berman (Based in part on a premise by Susanne Lambdin & Bryan Stewart)</text>
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LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
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<text>Picard risks war when he refuses to return a human boy to the alien father who raised him, and may have abused him.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise responds to a distress call, and finds a Talarian training ship, with radiation leaks. They rescue five of the ship's crew, all teenagers-four are Talarian, but one is human. The human youth, named Jono, refuses to talk to anyone until he hears Picard's title of Captain-- then, he shows strict obedience to Picard's wishes. Beverly takes Picard aside and mentions that she found signs of rather severe injury some time ago-- possibly abuse.
Shortly thereafter, the crew find out that Jono's real name is Jeremiah Rossa-- he's the grandson of an admiral, and his parents were killed ten years ago by the Talarians in a border skirmish. Troi tells Picard that Jono needs a father figure right now, and as the only person to whom Jono's shown the slightest positive response, Picard's the lucky candidate. Picard, attempts to strike up friendly conversations with the boy, even bringing Jono into his quarters. However, when he brings up Jono's human heritage, Jono gets angry and storms out. Picard tries to tell Troi that he's not the best suited for the job, Troi instead convinces Picard that "no one is born a good parent," and he'll just have to do the best he can. Picard shows Jono a picture of his real parents, and as he leaves for the bridge, we see that Jono's memories of the attack are beginning to resurface.
Meanwhile, the captain of the Talarian ship K'Mer hails them, and when asked for an explanation of Jono's status, claims that Jono is his son. It seems that Endar claimed Jono during the attack according to Talarian tradition, and he absolutely refuses to let Jono return to the Federation, threatening war. (He also claims that Jono's past injuries were not abuse-- Jono merely injured himself in beast-riding and contests with other youths.) With reservations, Picard allows Endar to see Jono-- and when Jono says he wants to stay with Endar, Endar assures him he will, even if war is a result. As two more Talarian ships approach (the Enterprise came deep into Talarian space to answer the call), Picard and company decide to try to convince Jono to stay, reasoning that Endar cannot take Jono if he is unwilling to leave. After Jono receives a message from his grand-mother, Picard takes him to unwind by playing the 24th-century version of racquetball. During the game, however, Jono breaks down and cries. Later, after being assured that such feelings are part of humanity, he actually laughs in Ten-Forward at an unfortunate accident involving him, Wes, and a banana split. However, that evening, Picard wakes up to see Jono over him-just in time to feel Jono stabbing him with a dagger.
Fortunately, the blade was deflected by Picard's sternum, and his injuries are not life-threatening. However, Jono has now committed a Federation crime and must be dealt with by Federation justice. However, after hearing Jono say that he cannot betray Endar by drawing close to Picard, Picard realizes that he's made a terrible mistake in not considering Jono's feelings in all of this-- and just as Endar's patience finally runs out, Picard informs him that he will let Jono return. He beams Jono back, but not before Jono bids him farewell with a ritual normally reserved for Talarian fathers and sons.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
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<text>Wesley's experiment with warp fields result in the mysterious disappearance of the crew.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is docked at Starbase 133, and Bev greets her old friend Dr. Dalen Quaice, who's departing the base after his wife's death (the Enterprise will be taking him home when they depart). After getting him settled, Bev thinks about his comment that "the worst thing about getting older" is finding that everyone around you is gone, and goes to see Wesley. Wes is in Engineering, working on some warpfield experiments, and Geordi's telling him to finish sooner than possible, because he needs his engines back. As Bev watches, Wes hurriedly tinkers a little, and then there's a bright, completely unexpected flash. There doesn't seem to be any lasting effect, however (though Wes looks up not long after and seems puzzled not to see Beverly there), and the ship leaves.
The next morning, Bev goes to Quaice's quarters to invite him to breakfast, but after he doesn't answer the ring, she enters-- and finds neither him nor his belongings. Further, the computer claims that no such person is on board. She calls Worf, who is apparently not aware of Quaice's presence either, but he agrees to start a search. Stranger still, Picard doesn't remember seeing any mention of his visit, despite Bev's insistence that she sent the electronic paperwork about it to him weeks ago. When Bev becomes confused about why anyone might have intercepted her request and approved it, Picard suggests looking into whether Quaice had any enemies on the starbase.
However, things get worse. The starbase claims to have no record of Quaice's existence-- and he worked on the base for six years. Then, as if that weren't enough, O'Brien, whom we saw beam Quaice on board, doesn't remember doing so but does remember Bev coming in alone, looking around, saying "Thank you" and leaving. And, of course, there's no transporter trace of Quaice's existence, either.
While Worf, Riker and others start looking to see if the ship's somehow been tampered with, Bev checks O'Brien to see if he's all right. He's fine, but Bev finds that Drs. Hill and Selar, and four other medical personnel are gone as well-- and they've all been on board for months. After she reports this to Picard, the two of them proceed to Engineering, where Wes talks about his experiment. He'd been experimenting with Kosinski's warpfield equations, and when he tried to create them (i.e. make a stable warp-bubble), it destabilized. While a bubble could theoretically have swept up Dr. Quaice, it was limited to Engineering, so it can't be the culprit-and there's no way it could alter computers and memories like that either.
Bev goes back to sickbay-- and finds it completely empty. When she reports the absence of her staff to the bridge, they seem unsurprised-after all, says Data, she's never had one. And the complete crew assigned to the ship only numbers 230. As Bev reacts with somewhat understandable shock, Picard takes her aside and begins expressing concerns for her mental state. He believes her, and even sends the ship back to SB 133 based solely on her plea, but she agrees to talk to Troi.
Then, not much later, Bev's in sickbay, when suddenly a bright vortex appears out of nowhere, blowing papers and books everywhere, and nearly sucking Bev in. Geordi, however, looks for it after it disappears and finds no trace of it-or any evidence that it ever existed. By now, an analysis has shown that there are no malfunctions, and no other ships in the area (including a Ferengi cruiser) have reported anything abnormal-but now the complete crew only numbers 114. No one other than Bev finds the ship's emptiness unusual-- the space is necessary for transport of colonists, ferrying diplomats, emergency evacuations, and so on.
Worse yet, when Bev suggests working with Worf on something, she finds that no one knows whom she's talking about. She asks Deanna if she's going mad, and Deanna comforts her, saying first that Bev has "acted in... the best interest of the ship and the crew-- what more could anyone ask?", and then that if this is all just a big misunderstanding, all that happens is that they're a little late at their next destination. Bev starts wondering if they'll even reach the starbase, then runs off in a panic, worried about Wesley.
Bev goes to find Wes in Engineering-- fortunately, he's still there. She tells him that they've got to find someone who can help-- someone who understands all about warp-bubbles. Unfortunately, Kosinski's no help, and they're his damned equations. However, Wes mentions that Kosinski's "assistant", the Traveller, might be able to assist-but no one knows where, or even if, he is. The two of them head up to talk to Picard-- but only Bev gets as far as the turbolift. Now truly panicked, she runs to the lift and goes to the bridge, finding a sole occupant-- Picard.
Picard, despite Bev's vivid descriptions, has no memory of any of the people she mentions (Riker, Data, Troi, O'Brien, Worf, and Wesley), insists that the ship's "never needed a crew before", and doesn't remember the Traveller. To make her feel better, he agrees to have his vital signs continually monitored, and the computer starts talking about them continuously in the background. Bev apologizes for her outburst, but Picard says that if she's right, and he has forgotten people who were once his closest friends and associates, then he deserved every bit of it.
She promises not to forget any of them, and to try to get them back. She tells Picard that she's got something to say to him-- but his seat is suddenly empty, and the computer is silent. Then, the vortex appears again, and Bev again just manages to avoid being sucked in. However, as we see her starting to recover from the vortex's influence, we hear Geordi and Wes trying to maintain something-but then they fail, and the vortex (in reality, a gate they tried to open) collapses. Wes gives up, saying they'll never get Bev back now. But a voice says "It's not over, Wesley...", and the Traveller phases in. "There's still a way."
The Traveller, on board the real Enterprise, says that Bev is still alive, for as long as she thinks she is. It would seem that a warp-bubble did capture someone-her; and while inside, Bev's thoughts created the reality she's currently in. He cannot go in and get her, any more than he can enter her thoughts, but together, he and Wes might be able to open a gateway. (However, she'll have to choose to go through it.)
Meanwhile, Bev tries to reason things out, but gets nowhere, despite managing to catch the computer in a contradiction (namely, that she's the only member of the crew, but alone she is incapable of fulfilling the Enterprise's primary mission). She tries to contact the Traveller's race, and then orders a course to Tau Alpha C, that race's homeworld-- despite it being 123 days away at Warp 9.5. But as she says "Engage", she finds that the planet has vanished from the computer's starfield.
As the real ship heads back to SB 133, and Wes begins to rework the equations, the Traveller tells him that he must let go of his guilt over what happened-he must exist solely for the here and now if he is to have a chance. Bev tries to raise the starbase and finds she cannot. She calls up the viewscreen, but sees only a mist outside, which the computer describes as a mass-energy field 705 meters in diameter.
She continues her enquiries, and finds that according to the computer, the known universe is a spheroid that is only 705 meters in diameter.
The Enterprise arrives at the starbase and begins to assume the precise location and position they had when the bubble formed. The Traveller senses the bubble, and Wes sees it again on his panel, but then the Traveller shudders slightly, and says that the bubble's collapsing.
Bev calls up a graphic of the universe, and when she finds it looks exactly like the schematic she saw in Engineering of the warp-bubble, realizes that she's trapped inside it herself. Then there's a sudden hull breach-when she investigates, she finds that reality is shrinking further; and she's only got 4 minutes 17 seconds left. As the Enterprise reestablishes the exact coordinates, Bev theorizes that her thoughts created this reality, but she can't figure out what to do next.
With about three minutes left, the Traveller starts phasing-and Bev realizes while talking to the computer that the vortex she saw must have been the gateway out of this reality. She decides to go to where the bubble originally established itself, in Engineering, traveling just to deck 36 when she finds the lift won't go directly to Engineering.
By this time, both the Traveller and Wesley are phasing, and the gateway is beginning to form, but now time's running short. Seconds after Bev leaves the lift, it vanishes, and now she starts outrunning entropy. She makes it to Engineering, and manages to dive through the gate just as the bubble vanishes entirely. She embraces Picard, thanks the Traveller, and clings to her somewhat exhausted son. And all is as it should be.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Cliff Bole</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>A rescue mission leads the crew to the birthplace of their late comrade Tasha Yar, where they encounter her mysterious sister.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise intercepts a distress call from the freighter Arcos, and heads to rescue it. However, it blows up just as they reach it. Data detects traces of an escape pod, heading straight for the lone city on Turkana Four-- Tasha's birthplace, and an extraordinarily violent place.
Riker, Worf, Data, and Beverly beam down and are almost immediately accosted by members of the Coalition, one of the two factions controlling the city. The Coalition leader, Hayne, tells them that the other faction, the Alliance, is holding the two surviving crewmen of the Arcos, and will probably want weapons as an exchange for them. He, on the other hand, wants weapons for his help-- "to keep the peace." Riker temporizes, and as the team leaves, Hayne starts researching the Enterprise, having heard them say that a dead comrade was born on Turkana Four. Not long afterward, Hayne hails Picard, and presents to him a liaison/guide to help with the rescue-- Tasha's sister, Ishara Yar. Despite great suspicion, Picard accepts Hayne's offering, and Ishara comes on board. She seems possessed of great strength, but she's initially quite bitter of what she saw as Tasha's cowardice in leaving the planet to join Starfleet. After the Alliance hails, demanding Federation reparations within twenty hours (or the crewmen die), the crew starts planning a rescue effort.
Geordi can locate them by boosting the tracers on the escape pod, and Ishara knows where it is. Furthermore, she offers herself as a diversion-- the magnetic implant she wears will set off alarms if she's in Alliance territory. The raid occurs, and though successful, Ishara is injured. Shortly later, Ishara is visited by Picard, who tells her of her sister's heroism, both in life and in death, which seems to warm Ishara somewhat. Meanwhile, the tracers show that the crewmen are in an underground compartment, far too far down to be able to transport through. Geordi suggests rigging the phasers to drill down far enough to transport, but that level's still a maze. Ishara says that she could guide them-if not for the implant. Data tells her they can remove it, despite the explosive charge, and Ishara not only decides she wants that, but that she wants to leave Turkana Four and perhaps join Starfleet. She is welcomed with open arms, but we see her say in a private communication to Hayne (ostensibly to say goodbye) that "it's working."
After the implant is removed and the phasers have drilled, the away team (Riker, Data, Worf, and Ishara) beams down. She guides them to the crewmen, but then slips away. When a guard she shoots down triggers an alarm, Riker and company move out-but he and Data remain behind to search for Ishara. Data finds her-rigging the Alliance's fusion generator to overload, thus shutting down the defenses and allowing the Coalition's troops to enter. Despite being hard-hit by Ishara's betrayal, Data stops her. Later, Hayne asks for Ishara back, and despite a revulsion at what's been done, Picard agrees, telling Riker that they all share some of the blame for trying to see too much of Tasha in Ishara. She leaves, telling Data that her friendship with him wasn't all deception. Days later, Data talks to Riker about friendship, trust, and the risk of betrayal. He counts himself lucky to be spared the "emotional consequences" of betrayal, but then finds himself staring at Ishara's implant, which she left him as a keepsake.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
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<text>When Picard is chosen to mediate a Klingon power struggle, Worf confronts the Klingon who disgraced him.</text>
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<text>While on a routine mission, the Enterprise meets a Klingon attack cruiser. Aboard is K'Ehleyr, on an urgent mission. She beams aboard-- with her and Worf's son, Alexander. Despite the fact that K'Ehleyr couldn't care less about Worf's discommendation, he does; and he refuses to even discuss the child at first.
K'Ehleyr informs Picard that the Klingon Empire is on the verge of civil war. The two factions that have divided the council for years are becoming openly hostile, because K'mpec, head of the council, is dying. The civil war is of the utmost importance, because Klingon wars have a habit of spreading-- according to K'Ehleyr, eventually it'll bring in everybody, including the Federation. K'mpec is also on board the cruiser, and wants to talk to Picard, who beams over.
K'mpec tells Picard that he's been poisoned (and there's no antidote). He tells Picard that he must arbitrate the dispute over leadership of the Council (and hence, the Empire) after K'mpec is dead-- and when Jean-Luc tries to decline, tells him both that to refuse would be a grave insult to all Klingons, and, more importantly, that it's too late: he's already given the order. K'mpec tells Picard that he's sure one of the factions' leaders poisoned him, and tells Picard to find out which it is-- Gowron, an outsider, or Duras, the Klingon responsible for almost killing Picard and for Worf's accepting discommendation. Picard, of course, accepts-- and then, scant seconds later, watches K'mpec die.
Meanwhile, Worf finds that Alexander knows nothing of Klingon ways (and doesn't even want to be a warrior), but when he confronts K'Ehleyr with this, she tells him that she is half-human, and that Alexander will choose his own way. She says she didn't tell him of the child last time she saw him because he would have insisted on the Oath, and she was not ready. When Worf cites his dishonor as a reason he cannot acknowledge Alexander, K'Ehleyr dismisses it as of no consequence, and demands to know what really happened in the Council chambers-- after all, she knows Worf wouldn't just withdraw his challenge.
The two factions' ships arrive: the Vorn, carrying Duras; and the Barruc, carrying Gowron. Duras is contemptuous of Picard's being named to mediate, but has little choice but to agree to it. He insists, however, that Worf be kept off Klingon ships. In private, Worf insists that Duras cannot be allowed to lead the Council due to his father's treachery, and when he hears of K'mpec's poisoning, insists Duras must be responsible. Picard, while acknowledging Duras's past deeds and promising to keep Duras's deceptions in mind, tells Worf that he cannot hold Duras responsible for his father's crimes-and reminds Worf that he chose to accept the consequences of Duras's lie.
Just under an hour later, on K'mpec's ship, the Son-Che ceremony takes place, in which Gowron and Duras ascertain for themselves that K'mpec is truly dead (by prodding him with Klingon pain-sticks). Duras demands that the rite of succession be completed immediately, and when Picard balks, there's suddenly an explosion, which kills two Klingons and injures others.
Not long after, Worf talks to K'Ehleyr again. When pressed to reveal his feelings, he admits that he would have demanded the Oath-- "but not just for tradition." She says she thought about telling him, but wasn't ready. Now, however, she's realized that she isn't complete without him either. They begin the Oath-but this time Worf cannot bring himself to complete it-- for if nothing else, the sake of Alexander, who will be "another traitor from a family of traitors!" K'Ehleyr doesn't fully understand, but eventually respects Worf's decision-- but she asks him "if you cannot be his father... at least be his friend."
Picard, who needs to delay in order to continue investigating both the explosion and the poisoning, asks K'Ehleyr how he can gain such time. When she mentions the old rites of succession, which take much longer than the modern ones, he decides to follow them. As she leaves, however, K'Ehleyr asks Picard about Worf's discommendation, since she knows he was there-- Picard says he cannot discuss it.
Duras and Gowron are anxious to begin the ritual combat which decides the Council's leader, and nearly attack each other before Picard manages to impose order. They're not thrilled to hear that Picard is holding the Zha-Juc, in which both candidates must give verbal evidence about the battles they've served in, awards they've won, and so forth, to qualify for the leadership. However, they have no choice but to agree.
After we see Worf showing Alexander the batlekh, a weapon that's been in his family for ten generations, we see K'Ehleyr talking to Gowron. Gowron points out that she could accelerate the selection process, offers her anything she desires up to and including a Council seat, and when she refuses, implies that she'll end up as dead as K'mpec if she doesn't help.
Then, in Engineering, Riker hears Geordi and Data report on the explosion. The explosive was a triceron derivative, but that's unimportant. Of interest is that the bomb was only about three cubic millimeters in volume (and thus could have been hidden anywhere)-- and more importantly, the detonator was triggered by molecular decay. And the only race that uses such detonators-- is the Romulans.
In conference, it's agreed that one of the faction leaders must be working with the Romulans-- which could significantly endanger the Federation. When K'Ehleyr, based on her conversation with Gowron, voices suspicions about him, Worf claims it must be Duras-and when K'Ehleyr asks why, Picard can say only that they've had indications in the past that he's untrustworthy. Due to the threat this poses to the Federation, Picard now insists Worf accompany him to the next gathering, despite the disruption it will cause.
As the Zha-Juc continues, K'Ehleyr begins researching the Enterprise's visit to the Klingon homeworld-accessing the ship's logs. The Zha-Juc is completed, and before declaring a short recess prior to the combat, Picard brings up the matter of the explosion, and brings Worf in. Worf's presence sparks massive outcries from both sides, and Duras threatens to bring the proceedings to a halt, giving in only when Picard tells him the only thing he can do now is forfeit his claim. Neither party is helpful, however, when Worf asks what their investigations have revealed, and neither claims anything was out of the ordinary. When the detonator is mentioned, both parties decide to return to their ship to confirm this.
During this, K'Ehleyr hooks into the Klingon information-- net, and when she finds that all the Council records on the Khitomer massacre were sealed by Duras, calls up biographical information on him. Through an aide, Duras gets wind of this and confronts her. She accuses his father of treachery and him of covering it up, and says, "The son betrays his people to the Romulans, just like his father did... Duras..."
We see Riker and Dr. Crusher discover that one of the dead Klingons had the bomb implanted in his forearm-Duras's man. Then, Worf and Alexander enter K'Ehleyr's quarters-- and find her alone, bloodied, and dying. Worf urgently summons a medical team, then hears K'Ehleyr say Duras was responsible. She takes Alexander's hand and places it on Worf's-- then her hand slips away, and she dies. Worf howls in anguish, then goes through the Klingon death-ritual. When he sees that Alexander has never seen death before, he tells him "then look-and always remember."
When Dr. Crusher and a medic arrive, he leaves the child with them and heads for his quarters, where he takes off his sash and communicator, picks up the batlekh, and leaves. As Dr. Crusher, Picard and Riker watch as K'Ehleyr's body is taken away, they page Worf-- and find he just beamed over to the Vorn. Riker begins assembling a team to get him back.
On the Vorn, Worf arrives and demands right of vengeance. When Duras claims that Worf, as a traitor, has no rights, Worf says that K'Ehleyr was his mate. Duras picks up the sword handed to him. We see Riker, Data, and a security guard enter the transporter room, phasers set to maximum stun-- then we see the battle between the two Klingons. Duras tells Worf that only he can prove Worf's innocence, but Worf is beyond caring. Riker and the team arrive just in time to watch Worf defeat Duras and plunge the batlekh right into his breastbone. Duras dies-- slowly.
The issue settled, all three Klingon ships leave. The Council is satisfied with the proceedings-- Picard, however, is not. He harshly reminds Worf that despite the many races on board the Enterprise, all have agreed to serve Starfleet-and if they can't do that, they should resign. He is relieved, however, that Worf does not want to resign, and merely tells Worf that a reprimand will be put on his permanent record. When he asks Worf if there's any point in keeping silent about Duras's guilt any more, Worf points out that the members of the Council all participated in the lie as well-- but one day, he says, he and his brother will "convince" them to speak the truth.
Finally, Worf tells Alexander that he will be sent to live with Worf's human parents, telling him that he needs a home and a family-something Worf cannot at present provide. In response to Alexander's question, he tells him, "Yes... I am your father," and embraces him.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Worf
Duras, Gowron
The Klingons</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>After an Away Team mission fails, Riker awakens in sickbay to discover sixteen years have passed and he now commands the Enterprise, and he has a son.
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<text>Riker's birthday party is interrupted when he has to lead an away team down to Alfa Onias Three. He, Worf, and Geordi find nothing of consequence, but a sudden gas buildup knocks Riker out before beam-up. He revives in sickbay, where a strangely altered Bev tells him that sixteen years have passed, and he is now captain of the Enterprise. (Apparently, he picked up a disease on the planet which only recently became active, and caused the memory loss, which may or may not be permanent.) Riker encounters one surprise after another. First, on the bridge, he sees Geordi, visorless; Worf, now a full Commander, sitting at Ops; Data, in red, as first officer; and a Ferengi helmsman. Suddenly, a Romulan Warbird uncloaks-- Riker instinctively orders red alert, then rescinds it after Data tells him that this ship, the Deseus, was expected. It hails them-- revealing on board Admiral Picard with his aide, Deanna Troi.
Before long, they beam on board, and tell Will that his amnesia couldn't have happened at a worse time-a treaty with the Romulans is imminent, and due to his past actions, Will's the chief spokesman. Will insists he cannot continue the negotiations, but Picard tells him that, ready or not, he's needed. Deanna takes Will to his quarters, where he finds another surprise-- a teenage son named Jean-Luc. (He finds out from Deanna that Jean-Luc's mother was killed two years ago in a shuttle accident, and was ship's counselor after Deanna left.) He doesn't remember Jean-Luc at all, but he soon starts to warm to the boy. The Romulan ambassador beams on board-- and Riker is not at all pleased to discover it's Commander Tomalak, an old enemy. Still, everyone else trusts him, and Riker's main fear-- that they're revealing the location of Outpost 23-is discounted, as the outpost hasn't been strategically important for years.
Then, Bev calls-- Jean-Luc's been injured. After seeing him in sickbay, Riker leaves with him, and they talk about losing old memories and building new ones. Riker resolves to always be there for Jean-Luc, the way his father wasn't there for him. In his quarters, however, when he manages to call up a picture of his wife, he sees that it was Minuet-and he suddenly becomes very grim. On the bridge, he catches everyone in inconsistencies. Geordi couldn't possibly be as incompetent as he's been; Worf can't explain his scar; Data can't zip through calculations, and then uses a contraction. He demands that the charade end-- and Tomalak nods, the "Enterprise" vanishes, and Riker finds himself in a Romulan holodeck.
Tomalak claims that their neural scanners helped them make such a good mock-up, but is astonished to discover that Minuet, whom Riker harbors such strong feelings for, was only a holodeck creation herself. He demands the location of Outpost 23, and throws Riker in a cell with Ethan, a boy who "Jean-Luc" was modeled after. Riker and Ethan (who claims to have been taken from a nearby research station on a planet Riker thought was deserted) join forces, and manage to escape from their cell. Ethan leads Riker to a forgotten storeroom, but there slips himself when he says that only Ambassador Tomalak can activate the Romulan communications. Riker deduces that this scene is fake as well, and refuses to play the game any more. The Romulans dissolve, and Ethan tells him that he was left there by his mother when his planet was invaded so that he'd be safe from his enemies. The neural scanners let him enact anything he wants, and he took Riker because he wanted to see someone real. Riker, touched, takes Ethan (now revealed as a vaguely insectlike alien named Barash) with him when he leaves.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Will Riker
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>After being accepted to Starfleet Academy, Wesley accompanies Picard on a final mission, only to find himself struggling to keep the captain alive.
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<text>As Picard prepares to leave to arbitrate a miners' dispute on Pentarus Five, he informs Wes that he's just gotten into the Academy-- and he'd like Wes to accompany him to the mediation as a final mission. An emergency call comes in to the ship from Songi, head of Gamilon Five-a ship has entered orbit, hasn't answered hails, and has increased radiation levels planetwide. The Enterprise warps off to help them, as Picard and Wes leave with Captain Dirgo in his mining shuttle. However, before they reach the planet, one of the shuttle thrusters blows off, and the ship careens out of control. With no other workable options, they crash-land on a moon of Pentarus Three which can support life (just). The three of them are all right, but the communications system is destroyed, along with the replicator-and Dirgo has no emergency food or water.
The Enterprise arrives at Gamilon and discovers the ship is an abandoned garbage scow carrying radioactive waste-- they promise to tow it out. Riker decides to send it into Gamilon's sun, but takes Geordi's advice to use remote construction modules rather than a tractor beam (so as to minimize radiation dosages on board the Enterprise). When they receive word from Pentarus Five that the shuttle hasn't arrived yet, they get working on the scow as fast as possible. Meanwhile, Picard, Wes, and Dirgo head for the mountains, despite signs from Wes's tricorder of strange energy readings, possibly life, and eventually find a cave. The Enterprise crew quickly find the construction modules don't work, as one of them blows itself off the ship, causing a further leak. To avoid danger to the planet, Riker orders shields extended around the scow and the tractor beam set, and they begin towing. Wes and the others, in the meantime, find a fountain of water-- but are repelled from getting to it by a force-field. Dirgo tries to shoot through it, but a mysterious energy-shape knocks away his phaser and causes a rockslide. Picard manages to push Wes clear of the slide, but is caught in it himself.
He's hurt badly, but despite Dirgo's insistence that Picard will never survive, Wes tries to keep him alive. As the Enterprise tries to find a way to speed up and still keep the tractor beam stable (so as to avoid fatalities), Wes starts studying the sentry's energy readings. He only gets as far as telling Dirgo that it must be sensitive to something in the phaser before Dirgo railroads him into setting off two phasers at once, so that one of them can cut through the field. The plan fails, and Dirgo is killed. While Wes tells Picard about Dirgo and talks with him about the good fortune he's had to serve with Picard, the Enterprise manages to get the scow clear of the asteroid belt (the reason they couldn't just push the ship towards the sun) just in time, and leaves to join the search for the shuttle. Wes tells Picard that everything he's done, he's done to make Picard proud of him, and resolves to find a way to keep Picard alive until help comes no matter what.
As the Enterprise finds the debris of the destroyed thruster and heads for the moon as the best option, Wes manages to stop the sentry and get the water, which he then gives to Picard. Some time later, the Enterprise arrives and rescues the two. As Picard is taken from the cave, he tells Wesley he will be missed.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Songi - Kim Hamilton
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<text>Corey Allen</text>
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<text>Kasey Arnold-Ince (Teleplay By Kasey Arnold-Ince and Jeri Taylor)</text>
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Wesley Crusher
moon of Pentarus Three</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley "Wes" Crusher</text>
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<text>Counselor Troi resigns her post after experiencing a mysterious loss of her empathetic powers.</text>
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<text>After we see Troi counseling Ensign Janet Brooks about dealing with the grief caused by her husband's death a few months ago, the Enterprise sensors pick up an array of plane-polarized objects... but only for a moment. As they flick in and out of sensor "view", Troi starts shuddering and whimpering with pain (Ens. Brooks has since gone). A diagnostic is run, but sensors are fine-- but then, suddenly, the ship can't get into warp, and starts being pulled somewhere at one-tenth impulse. While the bridge crew tries various alternatives in speed and direction to break free of whatever's holding them (to no avail), Bev finally answers Troi's call for help. While Troi now seems fine, she quickly discovers in the bridge conference that her empathic abilities have completely vanished!
Bev finds no physical traces of her problem, except for some unresponsive neurons... to wit, brain damage. She tells Troi that although she'll look into all possible ways to help, Troi may never regain her abilities, but Troi dismisses the problem as being of no consequence and insists on going back to work. Later, Will comes by to lend a hand, but Deanna rails against the way that everyone's attitude has changed and says she's doing fine. As Geordi and Data continue analyzing the area they're trapped in, Troi meets again with Brooks, and finds that she's unsure of herself without her powers to back her up. Later, at a briefing, where Data and Geordi tell the bridge crew that they're caught in the gravitational wake of a group of two-dimensional entities, she bristles at Geordi's perceived slight (when he says that it's a pity that they don't know whether the entities are sentient), walks out, and demands that Bev do something to help. When Bev says that she can't, and that Troi may have to get used to this, Troi simply yells at Bev for not coming to help more quickly, says she can never recover from this, and storms off to her quarters.
Not long afterwards, she meets with Picard and resigns as Ship's Counselor, saying that she is now unable to fulfill her duties and refusing to listen to anything Picard has to say. After Will comes by and tells her that now she's stuck on an equal footing with all "normal" humans, another escape attempt from the field is made, with no success. After Troi talks for a bit with Guinan, who manages to show Troi that even her human side has strengths in counseling, the Enterprise comes within view of the entities' final destination: a "cosmic string fragment" about 100 kilometers long, and gravitationally powerful enough to rip the Enterprise to shreds. After firing photon torpedoes ahead of and into the field in an attempt to disrupt it proves worthless, and Brooks comes by one last time to tell Troi that even their session without Troi's abilities helped, Picard asks Troi to help Data to communicate somehow with these entities, saying that even without her abilities, she's the best qualified. Eventually, after despairing that she feels as two-dimensional as the beings outside, she suggests they might just be acting on basic instinct, and they decide to try simulating the string's vibrational frequencies in an attempt to disrupt their single-minded pace. It works, and as the Enterprise gets away from them, the emotional "short-circuit" they caused vanishes, and Troi's powers are restored.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1990 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Janet Brooks - Kim Braden
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<text>Hilary J. Bader (Teleplay By Hilary J. Bader and Alan J. Adler & Vanessa Greene)</text>
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<text>Chip Chalmers</text>
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<text>Deanna Troi</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>A friend's impending wedding compounds Data's confusion about the nuances of human feelings.</text>
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<text>Data begins his "typical day" (one which he is recording commentary on throughout for Commander Bruce Maddox, the cybernetics expert) with a conversation with Keiko Ishikawa, fianc'e to one Miles Edward O'Brien (and the wedding's today!). As Data is one of Keiko's longtime friends (he introduced the two of them, in fact, and is also serving as the father of the bride for the wedding), she asks him to tell O'Brien of her decision to call off the wedding. O'Brien, to no one's surprise but Data's, is not pleased. Later, Data welcomes aboard T'Pel, a Vulcan Ambassador who immediately closets herself away with Picard alone. Stranger yet, a chance comment from Worf reminds Data that he must dance at the wedding. So, he turns to Bev for dance lessons-- but before they begin, he is called to the bridge and asked by Picard and T'Pel to examine Romulan deployments along the Neutral Zone, as the Enterprise heads for the Zone. When his analysis reveals that little has changed in Romulan policy, T'Pel insists that the "mission" still must go on as scheduled.
Later, in his quarters, Data talks to O'Brien, who apologizes for blowing up in 10-Forward earlier and asks Data to help Keiko "see reason." Data accepts, but finds that Keiko isn't particularly receptive-- and Deanna's advice is to simply leave it alone. After talking to Deanna, Data is called to T'Pel, who asks for security information about the Enterprise. When he informs her that his safeguards are such that he would have to inform Picard, she says that she was merely examining his security safeguards and withdraws the request. Later still, Data takes dance lessons. He masters tap easily, but has problems with the more traditional dancing Bev leads him to after he finally mentions that it's for the wedding. Afterwards, the Enterprise reaches the Zone border, and after receiving a message from a nearby Warbird, head into the Zone. There, they speak with Admiral Mendak, who welcomes T'Pel's mission-- but when T'Pel beams over, an apparent transporter malfunction kills her. Mendak, upon hearing of this, considers it a Federation plot "worthy of a Romulan", and suggests that the Enterprise leave before there is a second "accident."
However, nothing is visibly wrong with the transporter, and Data's later investigations (on Picard's orders) lead him to check the genetic code of the traces on the pad with T'Pel's trace pattern. He and Bev find that the material from the pad was not from T'Pel. What apparently happened is that a Romulan transporter beam took T'Pel off the pad and substituted what they found in her place-and when Picard hears of it, he orders the Enterprise back to the Zone to find the D'Vorus. They quickly catch up to the D'Vorus, but Mendak insists that no one is being held captive. Before long, a second Warbird shows up-- but Picard still demands the return of T'Pel, who then comes into view and introduces herself as Sub-Commander Selak, a Romulan spy. Mendak informs Picard that now, he must leave... which Picard does.
Later, Data apologizes to Keiko, but Keiko just tells him to hurry up and get dressed for the wedding, which confuses Data to no end. The wedding and dancing go smoothly, and Data ends the day resolving "to continue learning, changing, growing, and trying to become more than what I am."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Keiko - Rosalind Chao
Miles O'Brien - Colm Meaney
T'Pel - Sierra Pecheur
Admiral Mendak - Alan Scarfe
V'Sal - Shelly Desai
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<text>Harold Apter (Teleplay By Harold Apter and Ronald D. Moore)</text>
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<text>Robert Wiemer</text>
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<text>Data
Miles O'Brien
Keiko</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Picard must stop a renegade Federation starship which is making unprovoked attacks on a former enemy's ship.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is conducting a mapping survey near the Cardassian border. The Federation and the Cardassians made peace less than a year ago, after a long war. Their mission is interrupted, however, when they are attacked by a Cardassian ship. They manage to disable it without too much difficulty, and are told by its captain, Gul Macet, that a Federation starship has destroyed an unarmed science station.
Picard contacts Admiral Haden, who says that the news is true. The starship in question is the Phoenix, commanded by Ben Maxwell, a fine officer. Haden tells the Enterprise to find him and to preserve the peace, no matter what the cost. He also, to soothe Cardassian nerves, takes on board Gul Macet and two aides as observers, despite distrust from some members of the crew... particularly O'Brien, who served with Maxwell years ago aboard the Rutledge, and saw a massacre which, among other things, took the lives of Maxwell's family. Before long, the Enterprise locates the Phoenix-- but long-range sensors find that the ship is about to attack a Cardassian supply ship. When Maxwell repeatedly refuses to answer Picard's hail, Picard is faced with no choice but to accede to the Cardassians' wishes, and he gives the Cardassian warship (which is much closer to the Phoenix) the Phoenix's prefix codes.
Despite this imbalance, however, the Phoenix destroys both the warship and the supply ship. As the Enterprise speeds up to intercept, Picard talks to O'Brien, who is convinced that the Cardassians are somehow at fault, not Maxwell. Picard points out, however, that Maxwell's been angry for so long that, although he may not consciously be acting on revenge, the anger has become "comfortable", and he may not be able to think around it. O'Brien soon realizes that he has the same problem, because due to the Cardassians, he was once forced to cold-bloodedly kill one. After Worf brings in one of the other Cardassians, who was caught trying to access weapons information and is confined to quarters by Gul Macet, and Macet and Picard talk privately, convinced that a lasting peace is possible, they reach the Phoenix. Maxwell beams over, and seems friendly enough (particularly to O'Brien, not surprisingly). When he talks to Picard, however, it's a different story.
He claims that the Cardassians have been arming for war again, and that the ships and station he destroyed were all on military missions. He dismisses Starfleet as too bureaucratic to have done any good in the situation, and when Picard refuses to condone his actions, brands Picard a fool. Picard, not allowing Maxwell to continue on his crusade, orders him to take the ship back with the Enterprise to Starbase 211-- and informs Maxwell that he can command the ship back himself, or have it towed and be thrown in the brig. Maxwell goes back to his ship, but before they reach Federation space, veers off. The Enterprise catches him just as he reaches another Cardassian ship, which he claims is the proof Picard needs, and he demands Picard board it. Picard refuses, but he is spared having to fire on Maxwell when O'Brien beams over and manages to convince Maxwell to give up. All is well-- but before Gul Macet leaves the Enterprise, Picard tells him that Maxwell was right. (There are various pieces of evidence for this.) He tells Macet that he did not board the other vessel because he was there "to preserve the peace," but he tells Gul Macet to tell his leaders that "We'll be watching."
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Captain Ben Maxwell - Bob Gunton
Keiko - Rosalind Chao
Gul Macet - Marc Alaimo
Miles O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Telle - Marco Rodriguez
Daro - Time Winters
Admiral Haden - John Hancock</text>
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<text>Stuart Charno & Sara Charno and Cy Chermak (Teleplay By Jeri Taylor)</text>
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<text>Chip Chalmers</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Miles O'Brien
The Cardassians
Captain Ben Maxwell</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Picard fights to save a terrorist planet from a powerful woman who claims to be the devil.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise rushes to Ventax Two after Dr. Howard Clarke, head of a science station there, reports that the station is under attack by panicking Ventaxians. As they reach the planet, however, the mob breaks in. The Enterprise crew manages to beam up Clarke, but only Clarke. He tells Picard that the Ventaxians are panicking because the next day, they expect the mythical "Ardra" (the devil, more or less) to arrive and claim their world.
After communications are reestablished, Picard beams down to talk to Jared, the Ventaxians' leader. However, he, like the others, firmly believes in the contract their ancestors made with Ardra (a thousand years of peace and prosperity in exchange for their servitude thereafter), and expects her to come. Their conversation is interrupted, however, by an earthquake (one of the prophesied signs of Ardra's return), and Ardra's arrival. When asked who she is (by one of the Enterprise crew), a very cocky Ardra claims to have many names, including that of "Fecklar", the Klingon version of the devil. Picard, however, is skeptical to say the least, and asks that Data be allowed to inspect the ancient scrolls on which the contract was made. A short time later, in conference, Picard says that he's convinced Ardra is a simple magician, using Ventax for her own ends. As they return to the bridge, however, she's there. After taunting them all for a short time, she claims that her rights to the planet include anything in orbit about Ventax at the time of her arrival-- namely, the Enterprise and crew.
Later, Picard orders Data to look through the scrolls again, and search Ventaxian law for any possible loopholes. Then, later that night, a sleeping Picard is awakened by a seductive Ardra. He rejects her offers, however, and she angrily transports him down to the planet. When Data comes to get him in a shuttle (transporters are being blocked), they see the Enterprise literally disappear in front of them. Back on Ventax, Geordi and Dr. Clarke tell Picard that with a few more of Ardra's tricks, they might be able to pinpoint her power source. When Ardra arrives again to gloat, Picard demands arbitration, according to ancient Ventaxian precedent. She agrees, but only on the terms that if Picard loses, she wins his soul. Picard agrees, and they settle on Data as arbitrator.
Initially, the session does not go well. Ardra proves her identity to the court, and shows off her powers to convince Picard that she is who she says she is. Before long, though, Geordi shows up and tells Picard privately that they've discovered her power source: a cloaked ship. Picard, thinking fast, stages a scene in the courtroom where he "steals" Ardra's abilities, and explains both to Data and Jared that an Enterprise team has commandeered Ardra's ship-- and the crew have confessed that Ardra is a crook. The contract is abolished, and Ardra is taken away by Ventaxian authorities.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>Ardra - Marta Dubois
Dr. Clarke - Paul Lambert
Jared - Marcello Tubert
Marley - William Glover
Devil Monster - Thad Lamey
Klingon Monster - Tom Magee</text>
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<text>Philip Lazebnik and William Douglas Lansford (Teleplay by Philip Lazebnik)</text>
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<text>Tom Benko</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Data
Ardra
Ventax Two</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Picard and the crew are shocked to discover that Data is lying to them.</text>
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<text>During a rather uneventful period, the Enterprise picks up a T Tauri star, with a class-M planet orbiting, which is unheard-of. They go to investigate, but apparently pass through a wormhole and are knocked unconscious. When Picard and the crew revive, Data (who was immune) tells them it's been about thirty seconds. They were only thrown about a day's journey away, there are no serious injuries, and no damage, so all seems well. On Data's advice, Picard sends a probe to check out the planet in question rather than risk the wormhole again. The probe beams back images of a non-class-M planet, and Data suggests that the first reading was simply a wormhole-- induced glitch. The ship goes back to its old course.
However, this neat appearance begins to unravel. Bev finds that some samples of moss she had incubating show roughly 24 hours' growth, not 30 seconds. Data, when asked, suggests a rather ridiculous hypothesis which Geordi rejects (once Picard has sent Data down to help in engineering). Picard is concerned, and orders various other checks to begin. The checks turn up some startling results. Geordi finds that the chronometer has been tampered with, and the only two people who could have done it are him and Data. Bev finds that an ensign's circadian rhythms are way out of sync-clearly, she says, they were out longer than thirty seconds. Data cannot answer these queries, and an examination by Geordi reveals nothing physically wrong with him. Geordi then starts examining the probe, to see if it was tampered with as well.
It gets even worse. Beverly finds that Worf's wrist has been broken and reset, implying that not only has time passed, but that some or all of the crew were conscious during that time. Geordi finds that the probe simply beamed back altered library records-- "stock footage" of a planet, essentially, and launches a second probe himself. When Picard challenges Data about all this, Data says he cannot answer the questions, but says his lack of cooperation is "not by choice" and implies that he's doing it to protect the crew from something worse. Finally, the second probe sends back evidence that the planet is class-M, and Picard decides to head back to that system (despite a feeling that they may face grave danger). As they arrive, an energy field blocks their path. It sends out a small pulse, which does no damage, but takes over Troi's body. "Troi" then goes to Data, sounding very upset that "the plan has failed." Data, having just been called to the bridge, asks her to do nothing yet, saying that "it may yet be possible to salvage the situation." When he arrives, he tells Picard that they must leave immediately, but cannot explain why. Picard concludes that Data must have been ordered to conceal the truth, and eventually discovers that the order came from him, Jean-Luc Picard!
Before long, the field moves toward the ship and gets through the shields. Troi, speaking for the Paxons (a race of intense xenophobes), says that for their knowledge of the Paxons' existence, the crew and ship must be destroyed.
Data explains, via flashback, what happened: Picard talked the Paxons (again in Troi's body) out of destroying the ship by agreeing to erase all evidence of this event, including everyone's short-term memory, and ordered Data never to reveal any of it to anyone. When the Paxons claim that the plan has failed, Picard fervently suggests that it be done again-- this time, taking pains to leave no clues behind. The Paxons, impressed, agree, and work commences.
Then, Picard wakes up. Data tells him that the wormhole's influence stunned them all, and that about thirty seconds have passed. He suggests that returning to that system may be unsafe, and Riker suggests a probe. Picard agrees, and issues a hazard advisory to Starfleet. Since there were few injuries and little damage, they proceed on their way.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Miles O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Ensign McKnight - Pamela Winslow
Trixie - Rhonda Aldrich
Nurse - Patti Yasutake
Gunman - Thomas Knickerbocker</text>
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<text>Bruce D. Arthurs (Teleplay by Bruce D. Arthurs and Joe Menosky)</text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Data
Jean-Luc Picard
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Critically wounded during a first contact mission, Riker is mistaken for a hostile alien.</text>
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<text>We begin with a hospital, where an unknown patient is being wheeled in for treatment. He (definitely a he, for a beard is seen) is in with a severe head blow, but before long, the physicians in attendance note some unusual things. His cardiac organ, for example, is where they expected to find his digestive tract. And if that weren't enough, he has too many fingers and toes. "What are you?" asks a nurse, as the camera pans down to reveal... William Riker.
Later, when Riker (surgically altered to resemble the natives, Malcorians) revives, he talks to the facility's director, Berel. He claims to be named Rivas Jakara, and to be from the Marta community on the southern continent. His many abnormalities (as well as the above, his cranial lobes are clearly a surgical attachment) are attributed to a combination of birth defects and cosmetic surgery to help with said defects. The assistant director, Nilrem, is not impressed by the story, but Riker suggests that his "personal physician," Dr. Crusher, is familiar with his ailments-unfortunately, he says, she's taking a sabbatical, and probably can't be reached. Berel promises to try, and prepares to leave. As he does so, though, he asks Riker about a phaser they found on his clothing-- Riker claims it's a toy he was bringing home for a neighbor's child. And when Riker asks about his communicator (some "jewelry"), Berel tells him that nothing else has been seen.
After leaving Riker alone, Nilrem insists that Riker can only be a creature from outer space, but Berel will have none of it, not wishing to inspire a panic. He refuses to call Security, deciding to check his story and medical history for any cases remotely similar-- he also calls for 29-hour-a-day guard on the room, and most importantly, that everything be kept quiet.
Later, the heads of the government are in conference. Chancellor Durken, after hearing the end of Space Administrator Mirasta's report on warp technology (and hearing her say she's within ten months of completion), gives his approval to the final project, over the objections of Krola, Minister of Internal Security. Krola insists that the people are not ready for so many changes in so short a time, and that they are confused and frightened by space travel. Durken, however, insists that he "will not allow them to remain in the dark ages," and says that after the warp program is complete, then they shall slow down a bit, to let everyone adjust.
Mirasta retires to her lab-but before she's been there more than a few minutes, a transporter beam appears, and two aliens appear: Picard and Troi. They tell her that they come with information "about space, about the universe you are preparing to enter"-- in short, it's a first contact. They've come to her first because she's a big name in the scientific community, and scientists are generally more accepting of their arrival than others. Mirasta is understandably stunned, but when Picard offers to prove their identity to her, she eagerly agrees. "Picard to Enterprise-- three to beam up."
She sees Ten-Forward (complete with a Bolean drinking at the bar), and sees her world out the front window. She is impressed, and nearly giddy with excitement. As a child, she dreamed of things like this-- and now, she says, she's still waiting for the planetarium "lights to come up, and for the program to end." The conversation then turns to how they found out about her. As is normal for a first-contact situation, they began by monitoring broadcasts-- music, journalism, humor, and so forth (the first, understandably, elicits various reactions of amused horror by Mirasta). However, as that is clearly an incomplete picture, they've sent down teams for surface reconnaissance: specialists, trained for such things, and surgically altered so that they can blend in. Mirasta understands, but believes most of her world would not. She then discovers the difficulty which caused their contact to come more precipitously than they would have liked: Riker, Picard's first officer, is missing. She asks for (and receives) Riker's last location and cover, but warns that because of Malcorian ideology (that their race is the most advanced and superior in the universe), their arrival will be a massive shock to the Malcorian system. She agrees to take Picard to visit Chancellor Durken, but warns him not to speak of Riker or the surface teams, as Durken would call in Krola, who has his own motives.
Back in the med-facility, rumors are flying, much to Berel's chagrin. Berel talks to "Mr. Jakara," telling him that there is no such Dr. Crusher ("on this planet, anyway"), and that the address he gave was of a restaurant where no one had ever heard of him. He out-and-out asks Riker if he is an alien, but Riker dismisses it as preposterous. Berel admits that it is possible Riker's "mutations" are just that, but says that Riker is definitely hiding something, and that if he doesn't reveal it soon, the rumors could become more and more dangerous.
Meanwhile, Durken is doing paperwork, when Mirasta comes in almost unannounced. Durken is friendly, if busy, but Mirasta says, "Chancellor... I think you might want to clear your afternoon schedule for this...," and brings in Picard.
Later, Picard is showing Mirasta and Durken the bridge. Both are quite impressed by the technology (particularly Data), but soon Durken asks to speak to Picard in private, as Mirasta elicits news from Data that Riker still has not been found.
Durken enters Picard's ready room, where Picard pours some wine from his brother's vineyard and proposes a toast. Durken congratulates Picard on his adeptness with "the language of diplomacy," but says he is still not sure he trusts all of this. Picard assures Durken that they are not conquerors, that they only wish "a beginning," and that the pace of the contact is entirely up to Durken, up to and including if he asks them to leave the planet forever. He assures Durken that they will not interfere with the planet's natural course of development, and adds that yes, that noninterference directive does include not sharing their technology (but that this is for their benefit, not to maintain Federation superiority). Durken, a bit overwhelmed, nonetheless believes that today has been "a good day," and welcomes the contact.
Back in the hospital, Riker is about to smash a window in an escape attempt, when a nurse stops him, claiming that it wouldn't work. She is convinced that he is an alien, but is not afraid of him. She offers to help him escape-but only if he makes love to her first. Riker protests, but apparently to no avail. Some time later, she distracts the guards, and Riker tries to get away. Unfortunately, the attempt is botched, and Riker is nearly killed by a mob before Berel breaks it all up. His injuries have been aggravated, and Berel preps him for surgery (but also calls Central Security).
Durken talks to his Cabinet of his contact with the Federation, meanwhile. Krola is incensed that Durken can so easily "surrender" to these horrible aliens, and dismisses Mirasta's assurances of their intentions as naivete. He says that many people, himself included, are prepared to die to defend the old traditions and ways, and reveals that "we have captured one of their spies!" Mirasta, exercising as much damage control as she can, quickly tells Durken everything she knows about Riker, and about the surface teams. Krola is understandably thunderstruck that the aliens have been "influencing our young people, stirring up dissent...," despite Mirasta's claims that they have merely been gathering information. He tells Durken that Riker is being held at the medical facility, and that he will soon revive.
Shortly thereafter, Krola and Mirasta visit Riker's room. Krola orders Berel to revive him, using drugs that could be fatal given Riker's current condition. Berel refuses: "...he is a living, intelligent being. I don't care if the Chancellor himself calls down here. I have sworn an oath to do no harm, and I will not." Krola promptly sets in motion orders to have Berel replaced.
Picard beams down, right on schedule, to talk to Durken, but soon finds that Durken is rather upset by Picard's coverup of the survey teams. Picard takes all the blame for the decision, refusing to blame Mirasta. He explains that centuries ago, after a disastrous first-contact with the Klingon Empire led to a bloody war, it was decided to send surface teams to get more concrete information before making contact. He claims that he planned to tell Durken eventually, but that observations indicated that the initial reaction would be strongly negative. He admits that it was a mistake. "Yes," says Durken, "a mistake I might have made in your place. I rather like it, actually." It makes Picard seem more human. Durken refuses, however, to discuss Riker's release just then.
In the hospital, meanwhile, Berel has been relieved of his duties. His replacement, Nilrem, quickly revives Riker, who hears upon waking up that Krola knows who and what he is. Krola agrees to send for Riker's people, but only after getting a few answers.
In Durken's chambers, Durken chews out Mirasta for not trusting him enough to tell him of the surface observers, but then listens as Mirasta tells him of Krola's actions. He agrees that Riker should be interrogated, but is taken aback to hear that without prompt medical help from his ship, Riker may not survive the day.
Krola demands to know why the supposedly peaceful "conquerors" come bearing weapons of such power as phasers, and doesn't believe the claim that they're only defensive. He says that even if their goals are benevolent, they are still a threat to Krola's way of life. In an attempt to force Durken to permanently avoid relations with the Federation, he takes Riker's phaser, puts it in Riker's left hand, and fires it, point-blank, at himself.
Nilrem and an aide find the two of them, but before much can be done, another transporter beam appears, bearing Beverly, Worf, and a nurse. Beverly quickly contacts Picard (now in Durken's office) and tells him that both Riker and Krola need to be taken to sickbay, which Picard agrees to, after receiving permission from Durken.
Later, in sickbay, Bev tells Picard, Mirasta, and Durken that both Riker and Krola will be fine-the phaser, fortunately, was only set for stun. Krola is revived, and begs Durken not to continue relations with the Federation. Durken, saddened, is forced to admit that his people are not yet ready for contact. Over Mirasta's strong objections, he orders a delay in the warp program (shifting the funds to education to help his people ready themselves), and asks Picard to leave his world. Picard is disappointed, but agrees. After Durken assures Picard that the tales of the aliens will eventually pass, Mirasta asks one final favor-- that Picard take her with them. After Mirasta insists she is prepared, and Durken agrees wholeheartedly, Picard agrees-- and bids Durken farewell, hoping that one day they will meet again.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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Durken - George Coe
Mirasta - Carolyn Seymour
Berel - George Hearn
Krola - Michael Ensign
Nilrem - Steven Anderson
Tava - Sachi Parker</text>
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<text>Cliff Bole</text>
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<text>Marc Scott Zicree (Teleplay by Dennis Bailey, David Bischoff, Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore, Michael Piller)</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Will Riker
Krola
Malcor</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise stops at Starbase 313 to pick up some scientific equipment, and Geordi has the pleasure of welcoming on board Dr. Leah Brahms, whose image he fell in love with on the holodeck, and who is coming on board specifically to talk to him. He's ecstatic about finally meeting "his dream", but the ecstasy sours when Leah greets him as "the one who's fouled up my engine designs."
As the Enterprise diverts to investigate some interesting radiation readings, Geordi and Leah's relationship goes further downhill. His justifications of his many modifications (that theory doesn't equal reality, mainly) are met with a cold shoulder, and Geordi's repeated slips about things he assumes Leah knows and things he does know about her make her rather uneasy. This comes to a head when Geordi sets the stage for a textbook seduction in his quarters, but Leah is still mostly business and doesn't stay long. Meanwhile, the Enterprise encounters the source of the strange radiation-a space-born lifeform. Unfortunately, it attacks them, and the only way they save themselves is with a minimal phaser burst which kills the creature. Picard is thunderstruck at what he's been forced to do, and very depressed, but before he leaves the bridge, Data picks up some new readings from the creature... indications of a separate, smaller entity inside. "No wonder it attacked us..." says Picard. "It was about to give birth!"
As the bridge crew, on Bev's advice and over Worf's objections, prepare to help the child's birth by using the phasers to give a Caesarean section, Leah finally asks Geordi about his odd attitude towards her. He tells her that he's admired her (though not about the holodeck), and that he hopes they can become good friends-- and she's flattered, but surprised that Geordi doesn't already know that she's married. A rather bitter Geordi rails about how wrong the computer was to Guinan, until she brusquely points out that all Leah's done is failed to live up to his false expectations. The Caesarean, in the meantime, is successful, and the baby is born. The Enterprise prepares to leave, but before it can do so, the baby follows and attaches itself to the ship. Apparently, it's imprinted-on the Enterprise, and it begins to drain the ship's energy. After a brief conference where it's decided to head for wherever the mother was probably heading and then blow the baby off (by depressurizing the shuttle bay it's right over), Leah asks Geordi if she can take a look at a file of all the modifications he's made. He rushes off to the bridge, but she looks at the file-and then heads, unknowing, for the very holodeck simulation Geordi fell in love with Leah in. Geordi hears about this too late, and enters just in time to greet a very angry Leah who feels invaded and used. Geordi eventually calms her down (or at least quiets her down) and angrily claims that the only thing he's guilty of is offering her friendship.
The ship reaches the mother's destination-- an asteroid belt made up of those elements the creature needs to survive. Unfortunately, blowing off the creature fails, succeeding only in draining power much further and in making the baby call its relatives for help. Eventually, Leah and Geordi, by working together, reason that by changing the auxiliary power away from the frequency the creature is used to, they might "sour the milk." It works in the nick of time, and Geordi and Leah each realize that the "real" people aren't so bad.
Synopsis from the Star Trek Program Guide version 4.08
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991 Timothy W. Lynch</text>
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<text>3/9/91</text>
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<text>44614.6</text>
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<text>Thomas Kortozian (Teleplay by Maurice Hurley)</text>
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<text>Winrich Kolbe</text>
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<text>The Enterprise becomes surrogate mother to a huge alien creature after Picard is forced to destroy its real mother.</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Geordi LaForge</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise enters an uncharted binary system in search of a science vessel, the USS Brittaine, which has been missing for about a month. It finds the Brittaine, intact but adrift... and all the crew are dead of extremely unnatural causes.
All but one, that is. The scientific advisor, Hagan, a Betazoid, is alive, although catatonic and withdrawn. While Troi tries to get through to him, Geordi and Data try to restart the Brittaine's engines-- but although everything's working fine, there's no motion. Before long, Beverly tells Jean-Luc of her findings-- the crew of the Brittaine, with no apparent outside influences, killed each other. Meanwhile, Troi has a nightmare, of floating adrift in a fog with a voice saying only "eyes in the dark, one moon circles..."
Four days later, with no answers in sight, and tempers mounting (O'Brien gets paranoid about Keiko's alleged "affair" with another man, for example, and Picard hears his ready room door buzz many times with no one there), Picard decides to leave the area. Unfortunately, the engines suddenly fizzle out and stop working, leaving the ship adrift. Data's analysis (six days later...) shows that they're caught in a "Tychon rift", and need a large explosion (greater than even the photon torpedoes can generate) to break free.
Picard, realizing that one of the two top officers needs to keep hold of his sanity, sends Riker off to a nap. Unfortunately, neither one gets any rest: Picard hallucinates in the lift and comes to the bridge screaming like a baby, and Riker feels snakes on his leg moments after getting into bed. After a brief conversation with Data in which Data suggests the deflector burst (a la "The Best of Both Worlds") as a possibility, Picard tells Data that he'll need to help Picard out more and more as this continues.
After Bev has a brief hallucination, she figures out what's wrong: except for Troi, no one has had any dreams since this began, and the dream-deprivation is driving them all slowly insane. As unrest builds in Ten-Forward (with a crewman, Gillespie, deciding he'd rather go down fighting than quietly in his room), the deflector burst is tried, and fails miserably. After this, Worf,
feeling that his fear makes him no longer a warrior, tries to commit suicide, but Troi stops him and takes him to sickbay.
Finally, after Data's been appointed Acting Captain, Troi figures out that her nightmares are not dreams, but messages. There's another ship on the other side of the rift, and its beings are trying to communicate telepathically on Troi's mental frequency (thus jamming out all humanoid REM frequencies at the same time). After some study and a bit of good fortune, Troi and Data realize that the other crew needs hydrogen from the Enterprise in order to create the necessary explosion. As Data does this, Troi communicates to the aliens that they should release the catalyst, and both ships are freed.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
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<text>3/16/91</text>
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<text>Shari Goodhartz (Teleplay by Pamela Douglas and Jeri Taylor)</text>
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Trapped in a rift in space, the crew of the Enterprise are plagued by unexplained paranoia and hallucinations.</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Deanna Troi</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>A friend and former shipmate of Geordi's, Lt. Comm. Susanna Leijten, has come on board the Enterprise... and she's got a problem. About five years earlier, she led a team down to Tartiannen 3 to investigate a lost colony, and found no traces of any abductions, or anything wrong at all beyond the fact that the colony had vanished. But now, three of the five members of the team have just independently stolen shuttles and headed back to Tartiannen 3 for no apparent reason. The only two left are Susanna... and Geordi.
The Enterprise catches up to one of the shuttles, but Lt. Hickman, the occupant, doesn't answer any hails and ends up being incinerated in a faulty atmospheric entry. Riker takes down a team (consisting of Worf, Data, Geordi, and Susanna), and they find one of the other missing shuttles (the Cousteau, from the USS Aries). Nobody finds anything concrete, but Susanna sees footprints being made by nothing she can see, and when Geordi catches up to her, she goes a little crazy, prompting an emergency beam-up.
A little later, she's fine again, although Beverly says her blood chemistry is way off. Since she's not allowed at the moment to go back to the surface, and a preliminary report already exists, she and Geordi (who's tested out as fine) go to hear it. Data's report shows traces of alien skin cells on the uniform they found, and the footprints Susanna saw are from nothing native to Tartiannen. Geordi and Susanna decide to try looking for a link common to all five members of the original investigation-- something they all touched, ate, breathed, etc. Before long, though, Susanna, who's been getting more and more edgy, decides it's all a waste of time and insists that she and Geordi simply go down to the planet and find the answers there. When Geordi tells her that they can't, she ends up going into convulsions and collapsing-- and when Geordi gets to her, he finds bright blue veinlike structures on the back of her neck, and that her first three fingers on each hand have fused together somehow.
Bev's subsequent investigation would seem to indicate that Susanna's somehow being transformed into a completely different species, and that Geordi is very likely to be next, with little or no warning. After managing to persuade Picard and Bev to let him continue working until symptoms start appearing, Geordi goes back to work, and initially gets nowhere. As Susanna's condition
accelerates (causing Bev to decide that there must be something INSIDE her causing the changes), however, Geordi notices an anomaly in the original recording (to wit, an extra shadow), and orders a simulation in holodeck 3. He eventually manages to get an approximation of the "invisible" creature's form, but it's too late, as he succumbs to the same condition. Bev, meanwhile, manages to isolate and remove the parasite in Susanna's body, but by now Geordi has mutated to the point where he is undetectable by sensors, and he manages to overpower a transporter technician and beam down.
With time running out for Geordi, a much recovered Susanna joins the away team to search for him. Using UV light, they manage to find Geordi (along with several other similar creatures), and Susanna manages to break through the pure instinct of the "creature" to find Geordi's remaining scrap of humanity and bring him back. With Geordi returned and recovering, Picard orders
warning beacons on and around the planet, both to protect the Federation and the planet's creatures, and the ship continues on.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Nurse Ogawa - Patti Yasutake
Hickman - Amick Byram
Chief Hedwek - Dennis Madalone
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<text>3/23/91</text>
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<text>Dr. Crusher races against time to locate a parasite that threatens to transform Geordi into an alien creature.
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Tartiannen Three</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise has come to fix the Argus Array, a cluster of subspace telescopes at the edge of Federation territory. After they find a small probe that is presumably responsible for the Array's computer shutdown, Geordi and a much improved Barclay head out in a shuttle to check it over. While they're doing this, it flares up: Geordi is unharmed, but Mr. Barclay is knocked unconscious.
He seems to be fine once they get back to sickbay. The situation, however, is not: the probe starts moving towards them, they're too close to use photon torpedoes, they can't outrun it, and phasers don't seem to have any effect on it. (It's also sending out some kind of energy field which is in all probability threatening.) The day ends up being saved by Barclay, who channels warp power into shields in a previously unknown way, and strengthens the shields enough for the ship to be able to fire photon torpedoes safely and
destroy the probe.
But Barclay's intuition, intelligence and confidence don't stop there. A short time later, he proposes reprogramming the Argus central computer virtually singlehandedly in two days, rather than fixing each reactor individually (a task of at least 2-3 weeks' length). He gives a virtuoso acting performance, wowing both Beverly and Deanna, and later makes a pass at Deanna in 10-Forward. Finally, Geordi finds him arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein in the holodeck (and holding his own, at the very least). This is enough to set him worrying, and he takes Barclay to sickbay, where Beverly finds that his brainpower has increased incredibly, making him "the most advanced human being who has ever lived."
Since Barclay's hardly done anything that could be considered menacing, Picard decides to let him do his work. This only changes when Barclay decides the normal computer interface is too slow to let him stabilize the array properly (which is true, as the reactors are about to all go critical), and hastily constructs in the holodeck a device which allows him to directly patch into the computer. In effect, he becomes the Enterprise computer-- and by the time it's clear what has happened, his mind has expanded enough that forcing him back into his own body would be fatal.
Geordi, after hurried consultations with the bridge crew, gets to work on rigging a bypass that would at least let them move the ship to a starbase. Barclay, however, decides to use his newfound knowledge of speed and distance to manipulate subspace, creating a never before seen disturbance. He ignores Deanna's pleas to stop, and blocks Geordi's attempts just in time. He then manages to repel the attempt by Worf and a security team to forcibly remove
him, and sends the Enterprise hurtling smack into the center of the disturbance he's created.
After a major shake-up, the Enterprise emerges right by the center of the Galaxy. The face of an alien appears, babbling nonsense, but a reconstituted Barclay explains: their race, the Cytherians, also explore the Galaxy, but they do it by bringing other civilizations to them, rather than traveling themselves. In effect, they "reprogrammed" Barclay in such a manner as to let him bring the Enterprise here-- but they're benevolent, and only want to exchange information for a while. Several days later, the Enterprise returns to its own space intact, and Barclay settles down to being "plain old Barclay again", with Deanna's and Geordi's help.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
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<text>3/30/91</text>
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<text>A crew member is endowed with super human intelligence by an alien probe and threatens the fate of the Enterprise.</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Geordi LaForge
Reg Barclay
The Argus Array</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>After working for hours on a keynote address to the Federation Archaeology Council symposium that he must deliver, Picard goes to his quarters to get some rest, but finds a surprise waiting for him-- flowers, a card, a horgon, and Vash.
Everything seems fine at first, but Vash soon discovers that Picard plans to keep his public dealings with her strictly platonic, and further finds that he has never mentioned her or their adventures together to any of the bridge crew. Eventually, at the pre-conference reception, she confronts him about this. When he tells her that he feels it would have been "inappropriate" to mention her, she nastily apologizes for causing him so much embarrassment, and stalks off. Picard, already in a lousy mood, goes to his ready room--where he finds Q sitting in his chair, and grinning from ear to ear.
Q has returned, or so he says, to repay an old debt. Picard's attempt to rescue Q last time they met left him owing Picard something, and he wants to do something nice in return. Picard, however, will have none of it, and refuses his every offer. Q, annoyed, leaves.
After another fight with Vash, Picard is not happy, and becomes even less so when Q arrives later that evening and taunts him about having been made so vulnerable by a woman. He says that his gift should be to remove this weakness, but Picard angrily refuses. When Picard says that yes, he would have Q stand idly by while Vash "led him to his destruction", Q smirks and vanishes.
Q's plan becomes apparent, however, when during Picard's speech, the entire bridge crew vanishes, only to reappear in Sherwood Forest, appropriately garbed. Riker is cast as Little John, Data as Friar Tuck, Picard as Robin Hood... and as Q (as the Sheriff of Nottingham) gleefully comments, Vash, or Maid Marian, is to be put to death in Nottingham Castle at midday the next day. Picard is faced with a choice: risk his bridge crew or live with Vash's death.
Although Vash, confused by her situation, tries to salvage it by agreeing to marry Sir Guy, Picard soon appears (having come alone by his own choice) to save her. When she hears he has come alone, however, she refuses to go with him, and their bickering continues until guards burst into "Marian"'s tower. Before Picard can begin to fight, Vash takes his sword and captures "Robin" herself, giving him as a wedding gift to Sir Guy. (She too, however, ends up under a death sentence when Q discovers and calls attention to her hurried note to Riker and the Merry Men asking them to come save Picard.)
Riker and the others, not willing to stand idly by under any circumstances, show up in the nick of time to save Picard and Vash from the chopping block. "Robin" kills Sir Guy and rescues Maid Marian, and after Q observes that love brings out the worst in Picard (a statement Vash angrily protests), he sends everyone back except Vash. A short time later, though, Vash appears to say goodbye: she's taken on Q as a partner, and they'll explore the universe together.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Vash
Q
Sherwood Forest</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>An investigation is underway: there's been a security breach, followed by an explosion in engineering which may well have been the result of sabotage. A Klingon exobiologist, J'Ddan, is under investigation for the security breach, and lots of circumstantial evidence points to him. He denies any involvement.
Showing up to help the investigation is retired Admiral Nora Satie, who's smoked out many a conspiracy in the past. Her investigations, combined with some of Worf's findings, quickly point to obvious guilt for J'Ddan, who confesses to his crime. However, when Sabin, a Betazoid aide to Satie, says that he appears to be telling the truth in denying the apparent sabotage, Satie concludes that there's a conspiracy on board.
Satie, whose father was a revered judge in the Federation (required reading in the Academy, at least in Picard's time) quickly gets to work. J'Ddan had few associates, so the number of people to question is small. Since he often received injections, Dr. Crusher is an obvious choice, but she has nothing useful to give. However, after Simon Tarses, a med-tech, testifies, Sabin immediately claims that Tarses is frightened and covering up a huge lie-- and says "there's your man." Picard begins to get worried about this chain of events, refusing to hound an innocent man-- *especially* when Geordi and Data's investigation later turns up strong evidence that the explosion in Engineering was a random accident, not sabotage.
Satie, however, will have none of it, and insists that the lack of sabotage doesn't imply a lack of conspiracy. At the second hearing for Tarses (which is now open to spectators, incidentally), Sabin ends up using a blatant lie about the explosion in Engineering to get Tarses off balance, and accuses him of being a known liar about his ancestry (his grandfather was not Vulcan, but Romulan). Tarses refuses to answer Sabin's questions.
Picard becomes more and more upset at the turn of events, and reminds Worf that Tarses has committed no crime. (Worf, however, is by now convinced that he "must" seek out the enemies of the Federation.) When Picard talks to Satie and demands an end to the hearings, threatening to go to Starfleet Command, Satie informs him that she's been in touch with Command, and the hearings are to be *expanded*. In addition, her old associate Adm. Henry of Starfleet Security is now coming on board to observe the hearings. Picard vows to fight, and quickly finds himself ordered to testify at the next set of hearings.
At Picard's hearing, Satie shows little mercy. She questions his devotion to the Prime Directive, claiming he's broken it 9 times since taking command of the Enterprise. She asks how he can sleep at night after all the destruction and loss of life he caused as part of the Borg. The final straw, however, comes when Picard quotes her father's old warnings of curtailing freedom: she begins to rant that Picard dirties her father's memory by speaking of him, and vows to bring down Picard at any cost. Admiral Henry, in response, merely gets up-- and walks out without a word.
Later, the hearings over and the matter settled, Picard tells Worf that although Satie is now discredited, others like her will always exist, waiting for the right moment to surface. "Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we have to continually pay."
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu
"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Judge Satie</text>
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Sabin - Bruce French
Simon Tarses - Spencer Garret
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Admiral Thomas Henry - Earl Billings
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<text>A search for a spy aboard the Enterprise turns into a witch hunt in which Picard is implicated as a traitor.</text>
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Worf
Admiral Nora Satie</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Lwaxana Troi is on board, and quickly takes a shine to Timicin, a scientist from Kaelon 2 who's on board to conduct tests critical to revitalizing his planet's aged sun. Timicin, surprisingly, takes a shine to her as well, although not quite as strong as Lwaxana's.
Unfortunately, the test proves a failure, and he will not get another chance at one, for a few days later, he is to turn 60; and on Kaelon 2, everyone who reaches the age of 60 kills him or herself in "the Resolution". Lwaxana is outraged by this fact, and when Picard makes it clear that he will not interfere in the planet's local affairs, first tries to beam down herself and then goes into hysterics until Deanna comforts her.
After Lwaxana and Timicin end up spending an evening together (and not particularly vertically, or so it's implied), he tries to explain the custom of the Resolution to her. Unfortunately, she considers the custom barbaric, pure and simple, and despite valiant attempts by both sides, neither will change their views. However, when Timicin's analysis of the failed test turns up some promising options, he suddenly realizes that no one else has the knowledge to carry on his work and possibly save his world, and requests asylum on the Enterprise.
B'Tardat, the Science Minister on Kaelon 2, is outraged, and sends up two warships to ensure that the Enterprise cannot leave the system with Timicin on board. Timicin quickly finds that his decision isn't as easy as he thought, for the planet below will not accept any further reports from him, so that even if he finds a solution they will not accept it. The final straw comes when his daughter Dara beams on board to insist that he return-- she cannot bear the thought, she says, of him being laid to rest anywhere but next to her mother, and she is ashamed of him.
Timicin realizes that he is not the man to forge a cultural revolution, and agrees to return to Kaelon 2. Lwaxana, however, as a loved one, beams down with him to take part.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
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<text>Picard risks war when he offers asylum to a visiting scientist who wishes to escape the ritual suicide mandated by his society.</text>
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Kaelon Two</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Beverly's life has taken a turn for the better-- she's in love with Ambassador Odan, a negotiator of the Trill race, who's on board to get to a dispute between two moons of a world (sorry, didn't catch the name). However, Odan isn't quite what he seems--Troi keeps getting "fluctuations" of emotion from him, and when he's alone, we see... "something"... moving around in his stomach.
The trip is for the most part uneventful, marked only by Bev receiving a bit of ribbing from Deanna about her new flame. Once they arrive at the planet in question, however, things happen very fast. Odan and Riker attempt to shuttle down to the planet (Odan claiming he's not comfortable with transporters), but the shuttle is fired on. Riker manages, barely, to get it back to the Enterprise, but Odan is critically injured. Or rather, Odan's *host body* is critically injured-- as it happens, the Trill are a joint species, and the "parasite" within the host body is the true Odan.
The body dies, and a replacement host from the Trill is 40 hours away, far longer than Odan could survive alone, even in stasis. Since Odan "might" be able to survive in a human host, Riker volunteers to be that host temporarily. The process is a little bumpy, but it works.
The aftermath is a problem, however. First, Riker/Odan must convince both Governor Leka and the two representatives of the factions that he's legitimate. Secondly, Riker's body is slowly but surely rejecting Odan, and it's unclear how long he can last. Thirdly, Beverly is very...uncomfortable with this situation, particularly when Riker/Odan says he still loves her, and still wants her.
All three problems are resolved, more or less. Odan is accepted as negotiator by all three parties, and Beverly manages to accept that the man she loves is still there, inside Riker's body. Unfortunately, the rejection continues, and Odan makes Beverly swear to remove him at the end of the day's negotiations, regardless of whether the new host has arrived.
Fortunately, his negotiations are successful, and while Odan has to spend a little time in stasis between hosts, both Odan and Riker survive. The change of hosts, however, becomes too much for Beverly, especially when she finds that the new Trill host is a woman. Saying "I can't keep up," she tells Odan that although she still loves him and will never forget him, it's over.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
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Leka - Barbara Tarbuck
Kareel - Nicole Orth-Pallavicini
Kalin Trose - William Newman
Nurse Ogawa - Patti Yasutake
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Geordi's en route to Risa for an artificial intelligence conference and some general R&R. He tries to get comfortable on the shuttle, selecting some appropriate music and playing games with the computer. Suddenly, this idyllic setting is spoiled, when a Romulan Warbird decloaks right off the shuttle's bow. Geordi puts up shields and tries to call for help-- but his communications are jammed, and his shields quickly fail. A Romulan transporter beam yanks him off the shuttle...
Several days later. (Geordi's supposed to be gone for quite some time, so there's no concern about where he is.) The Enterprise is heading for the Kriosian system with Klingon Special Emissary Kell. Krios, an outlying Klingon world, is fighting for independence, and there are "enough problems on the home planet" that the Klingons don't want to divert resources to such a trivial rebellion. Why is the Enterprise wanted? Well, the Governor of Krios is claiming that the Federation is arming the rebels, and Kell is heading to look at the proof. It was Kell's idea to bring along the Enterprise, primarily because of the help Picard has lent to the Klingons in the past. Picard assigns Worf to keep Kell briefed, despite Kell's objections that Worf's discommendation make the situation "awkward."
Meanwhile, Geordi is being broken by the Romulans. Sub-Commander Taibak [note: I'm guessing at his rank, but since his superior is a Commander, it makes sense], with a shadowy partner, welcomes the captive and bound Geordi. After a double for Geordi (not an exact duplicate, but one looking fairly similar) heads off to Risa with instructions not to enjoy himself TOO much, Taibak removes Geordi's VISOR and hooks a machine directly to Geordi's visual cortex. The result of this is that Taibak can beam images directly to Geordi's brain, with all the attendant effects on Geordi's body and psyche. First he is shown suffering, then relief, then suffering again: "When our work is done, LaForge will act normally, totally unaware of his conditioning-- a perfect tool for our purpose," says Taibak-- and there will be no physical evidence of their work at all. Geordi howls in agony as Taibak alters the settings once more...
Kell and Worf examine the details of the rebellion. Two neutral freighters have been attacked (1 Ferengi, 1 Cardassian), and the pattern would suggest the rebels are hiding in a nearby asteroid belt, which shields them from sensors. After Worf bristles at a suggestion that the Federation may be helping them, Kell apologizes. He then thanks Worf on behalf of "some members
of the High Council", for killing Duras. He dismisses the fact that Worf did so for personal reasons, not political ones: "What matters is that you acted on that day--as a true Klingon."
Geo rdi then passes his first test, and kills a fake Chief O'Brien in a Romulan mock-up of 10-Forward. Although he eventually does so, he hesitates enough that Taibak orders another session.
Days later. The Enterprise is at Krios, and Geordi has just returned, ostensibly from Risa. He banters with Data a bit (chuckling when Data, true to form, completely misses a joke), and reports back to Picard on the bridge, where Picard tells him they'll need his help shortly in analyzing whatever evidence Governor Vagh comes up with. Picard and Kell leave to beam down, and Data detects a brief "blip" of E-band radiation, which is rare enough that Riker orders him to check it out before Riker too leaves for beam-down.
Governor Vagh is NOT a happy Klingon. He tells Picard, Riker and Kell that Federation medical supplies have been found in rebel strongholds. Riker points out that the Federation has never restricted access to their medical supplies-- and Vagh responds by asking about their weapons and tossing a phaser rifle to Picard. It appears to be legitimate Federation issue, and after Vagh agrees to let them take it up to the ship to examine it ("I have hundreds more," he says), he angrily points out that the Federation has much to gain by Kriosian independence, for Krios is the only colony close to the Federation/Klingon border, and would thus be a valuable buffer zone in case of attack. After he accuses Picard of "speaking the lies of a tar-kekh!" and Picard responds in kind, Picard, Riker, and Kell beam up.
Geordi, meanwhile, gets back to Engineering. Everything's running smoothly, so he leaves to "take care of something." That something, as it turns out, is to go to 10-Forward, where he walks up to O'Brien and spills a drink on him. He apologizes, and O'Brien dismisses it with a smile and goes off to change.
Later, Geordi and Data test the phaser rifle. Everything looks legitimate on the first test, but the energy output of the crystal is TOO efficient. They check the waveform pattern, and conclude that the rifle was charged via forced pulse, which is NOT Federation standard. There are 327 systems known that use that method, but Geordi knocks that down with a little common sense. "Who has
the most to gain from a conflict between the Federation and the Klingon Empire?"
Clunk. Geordi tosses the rifle back onto the table down in Vagh's chambers. "The Romulans." His argument is persuasive, but Vagh is still skeptical, and says that he's going to have his own people check it out. The Enterprise people and Kell beam back up. Data calls Riker over, having detected a second E-band "blip", but with a different intensity, thus ruling out a stationary source. Worried that it may be some form of Romulan communication, Riker has
Data retune the scatters to pinpoint a direction next time it occurs.
In cargo bay 4, Geordi reprograms some chips, diverts power to the transporters from a secondary system, diverts transporter control to planetary sensors, and beams off a cache of weapons. Once he's ascertained that the computer is erasing all memory of having done this, he leaves-- and arrives on the bridge just in time to hear a VERY angry Vagh accuse Picard of smuggling arms to the rebels. Vagh, understandably, will not listen to Picard's claims of innocence, and orders them not to leave orbit, sending up an attack cruiser and 2 Birds of Prey to punctuate his point.
Data quickly ascertains that there was an unauthorized transport, but nobody can track it down as of yet. After Kell says he's managed to talk Vagh into checking with the High Council (gaining only a few hours at best), Geordi and Data search through the power systems. They eventually find that the power was diverted from a replicator waveguide, and trace it to the cargo bay.
O'Brien checks out the cargo transporter and finds no evidence of any tampering, thus suggesting that the evidence was erased. Worf asks who might be capable of doing this, and Geordi lists only 4 names: himself, Lt. Kosta, Data, and O'Brien. Everybody but Geordi has an alibi, though, and Geordi gives his word that he was in his quarters alone. They begin a detailed scan on every chip to try to hunt down a trail.
Geordi and Data brief Picard and Kell a short time later: the chips were programmed to erase all evidence of operator commands shortly after transport. They're working on the tiny residuals left by the chips to track it down. As Data is called away by Riker (a third E-band blip, which Kell asks about with great curiosity), Picard asks Kell to tell Vagh that they're doing all they can-- and that if necessary, he *will* defend his ship. Kell agrees, and suggests inviting Vagh up to observe the investigation firsthand. Picard agrees to that, and bids the ambassador farewell.
Kell is eating in his quarters, when the door sounds. "Come in, Mr. LaForge." Geordi does. "The investigation is moving faster than we expected; you're in danger of being exposed. I will transport to the surface and when I return, I'll have Governor Vagh with me. Your captain and I will bring him to the cargo bay-- I want you to kill him there, in front of witnesses. Use a hand phaser. When he is dead, you will claim that you acted on behals of Starfleet in support of Kriosian independence." "I understand," says Geordi, and leaves Kell to enjoy his meal.
That evening, Geordi wakes from a nightmare and calls O'Brien--but then doesn't understand why he did so and apologizes. He goes to visit Beverly for insomnia problems, but she finds nothing physically wrong (aside from a very slight, not-at-all serious abnormality in the visual cortex) and gives him a somnetic inducer to help in the short term. Kell and Vagh, with two guards,
beam up and are escorted to the cargo bay.
Data, meanwhile, has pinpointed the transmissions. The first and third occurrences came from within the Enterprise itself, while the second was planetside. He speculates that it's being used by Romulan agents somehow, but needs more to go on. Is there any match with any Romulan form of communication? Negative. Any match with ANY known communication? Negative. Any match with ANYTHING? Yes-- a human brainwave pattern. "What sort of receiver would be capable of processing these signals?" "A system designed to modify the electromagnetic spectrum and carry those messages directly to the human brain," replies the computer.
In a reflection of Geordi's computer console in his quarters, we see Geordi pick up a phaser and leave his quarters.
Data checks Geordi's shuttle-- everything seems to be shipshape. Geordi is in the turbolift.
In the cargo bay, O'Brien certifies that that is the *only* transporter that has been tampered with. Geordi leaves the lift and walks down the corridor to the bay.
Data examines the shuttle more carefully, and finds evidence of microscopic stresses which suggest a tractor beam. Geordi enters the bay, visually follows Vagh, and is interrupted by O'Brien, who asks him for some help.
Data finds that the computer chips in the shuttle have some subtle flaws. "Probable cause?" "Replication." Further, replication with patterns identical to those used by Romulan replicators. O'Brien leaves Geordi, who begins looking over Vagh again.
Data hails Geordi, but gets no response. After determining that Geordi is in the cargo bay, he hails Worf. "Data to Lt. Worf: Priority One." "Go ahead." "Take Commander LaForge into custody immediately." "Sir?" "That is an order."
Worf attempts to do so, but is stopped by Vagh's guards. He calls out a warning, and Picard deflects Geordi's shot just in time. Vagh is shaken, but convinced the Federation is treacherous, until Data arrives to explain that Geordi was acting under Romulan conditioning: the E-band signals were being sent directly to Geordi's brain. When Kell demands to know who was sending
these signals to Geordi, Data replies that the signals must be very
close-range. Only two people were with Geordi all three times the signals were detected: Picard, and Ambassador Kell. Kell refuses to be searched for a transmitter by anyone on board. Vagh agrees-- "We will take the ambassador with us... and search him ourselves." Kell requests asylum, which Picard will be happy to grant-- "WHEN you have been absolved of this crime." Kell, Vagh, and the two guards depart.
We close with Geordi and Troi. Geordi is visibly shaken by his experience, in part because he vividly remembers his experiences ON RISA. Troi manages to break through the bare surface level of the conditioning, but tells Geordi this will take a long time. But they will reconstruct his memory eventually, together.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Taibak - John Fleck
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Jean-Luc Picard
The Klingons
The Romulans
Krios</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is exploring the Mare Oscurum, a "dark matter nebula," and Data is working extensively with his friend Jenna DeSora. Jenna's just come out of a lousy relationship, and Data appears to be everything she wants: kind, attentive, solicitous, handsome... "perfect," despite his lack of emotions. During one work session, she kisses him right before she leaves, leaving Data
quite puzzled.
As the Enterprise heads into the nebula (which is of much higher density than past examples they've seen) to examine a class-M planet they've detected, Data asks many people for advice on whether to pursue a relationship with Jenna. Guinan says she doesn't like to give advice on first relationships. Geordi says his advice is "find someone else to give you advice." Troi cautions him
to be "very" careful, as Jenna could really get hurt, but then says that if he tries, he'll have to be more than the sum of his programming. Worf tells him to "conquer", not "pursue", but cautions that he doesn't want Jenna (who's in his section) mistreated. Riker tells him of wonderful rewards, and tells him
to go for it. After all that, Data appears at Jenna's door with flowers. His initial attempts are somewhat... unsubtle... but Jenna realizes he's trying his best and lets herself be drawn in.
While Jenna tutors Data in the finer points of a relationship, the Enterprise crew begins to discover a few problems. At first, they're minor: Data's cat gets out of his quarters and shouldn't have been able to, and Picard finds his ready room's computer console under his desk and in pieces. Things get stranger still when they finally reach the location of the class-M planet, and find nothing at all-- especially when moments later, it's there again. Suddenly, there's a brief bout of atmospheric decompression in the observation lounge, but no apparent hull breach. Once standard pressure is restored, they go have a look and find no trace of what caused the damage, except for a few tiny electric current in the windows, which are often evidence of a subspace distortion.
Jenna gets a little unnerved by Data's precisely calculated
solicitousness, and then his forced and deliberate "lovers' quarrel".Picard decides enough is enough with these incidents (since more have occurred, but none causing any injuries yet), and decides to analyze them from outside the nebula. Unfortunately, before they can leave, a few more problems occur: a science station blows out, then an engineering station. A structural failure is detected between two decks, but when Geordi sends out a team, he quickly finds that one of the members fell halfway through the deck, which then resolidified, killing her instantly.
Data's figured out the problem: the high density of dark matter has caused minor gaps in space, which are drifting randomly and causing major havoc whenever they "blip" into this space. Sensors can be tuned to detect them, but only at ranges close enough that the ship could never get out of the way in time. Picard, in a shuttle, flies ahead to do so. The shuttle is eventually destroyed, but Picard is rescued and they got far enough out that they make a successful run out of the nebula. Finally, Jenna realizes that she's just repeating her old patterns (breaking up with one unemotional man only to get together with another), and severs her and Data's relationship.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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<text>The Enterprise is en route to the Klingon homeworld to install Gowron as the next leader of the Empire. However, after Picard briefly talks to Worf and urges him to challenge the Council and restore his family's honor, all aboard are surprised to find an escort; the Bortas, with Gowron himself on board. Gowron tells them they must hurry-- if they are to prevent a Klingon civil war.
Although Duras is dead, his legacy lives on. His family is still powerful, and Duras's two sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, are mounting their own challenge to the throne. Gowron asks Jean-Luc to see his duty as Arbiter of the Succession through to the end, and support Gowron's rightful accession. Picard says that he will only act within the bounds of Klingon Law: but that may not be enough...
Worf takes Gowron back to the transporter room (and Picard, based on past experience with Duras's family, orders a search for Romulan communications nearby), and then asks Gowron for the restoration of his good name. Gowron refuses, even after hearing that not only was it Duras's family that was responsible for the Kitimer attack, but that the Council members KNEW about
it. Gowron is isolated, and needs the support of the Council to survive-- so he cannot challenge them on Worf's behalf yet.
After Guinan and Worf talk on the phaser range for a bit (ending with Guinan's observation that Worf is only now discovering what it's really like to be a Klingon), Worf asks Picard for a leave of absence. Picard grants it, and wishes Worf luck.
Worf then locates and boards the ship belonging to his brother Kurn, now a captain. Kurn is initially AGAINST Gowron, preferring to sweep the entire Council aside in favor of new blood, but Worf, as the older brother, claims that he is the one to speak for the family. After Worf points out that they will not support him until he has nowhere left to turn (and insist on the restoration of their family's honor as recompense) Kurn agrees, and says he shall attempt to persuade his own allies to support Gowron.
Before the Council, Picard reports that Gowron is the choice for leader. At the last minute, however, there comes a challenge: from Toral, a mere stripling, and, apparently, Duras's heretofore unknown SON. Lursa and B'Etor tell K'Tal, interim leader of the Council, that Toral's bloodline is true, and K'Tal puts the whole matter in Picard's lap.
Some time later, Lursa, B'Etor, and Toral are talking to Movar, a Romulan. Movar is saying that everything is going well-- and his companion, cloaked in shadow, says that when the time is right, they will deal with the Federation, and Captain Picard.
Kurn reports to Worf that of his four squadron-commanding allies, three are with him, one is not. Most of the Fleet hasn't decided yet which banner to follow. Kurn says he will return soon. Worf then works with Data on accessing Federation records of the Khitomer massacre, but Picard briefly takes him aside and yells at him about using Federation influence and privileges to influence local politics. Picard realizes that he's primarily worried about
crossing that line himself (certainly he has no wish to see the Duras family in power), and backs off-- but he insists he cannot take sides. He allows Worf access to the Khitomer records, and will also open it to anyone else who wishes it-- but this is the farthest he will go.
Picard then goes planetside and briefly pays an invited visit to Lursa and B'Etor, who attempt to convince him that Toral's challenge must be approved. Picard, however, realizes that they've manipulated the situation to their advantage: if he rules in favor of Toral, they win; and if he rules against Toral, they claim Federation interference and declare war on Gowron (and, Lursa points out, if they win, it's the end of the alliance...). He congratulates them on a strategy worthy of a Romulan, and departs.
The next day, Picard rules in favor of Gowron, saying that Toral has done nothing to prove his worthiness. Toral claims interference and calls his allies to war; Gowron claims that the law is on his side. The Council splits, with nearly all in favor of Toral.
Later, Worf goes on the Bortas to offer his assistance to Gowron. Gowron is not impressed-- until Worf mentions that Kurn is his brother, and brings four squadrons. Gowron is then willing to listen, but also demands Federation help, and becomes very angry when Worf refuses to talk to Picard about it.
Their argument is interrupted, however, when the Bortas comes under fire from two ships. ("It's begun," says Picard.) The Bortas is heavily damaged, but Picard, bending over backward to avoid taking sides, merely orders the Enterprise out of the fighting area. Worf deceives the two ships and suckers them in close, managing to destroy one; and Kurn returns just in time, causing the other to flee. He offers his allegiance to Gowron, who accepts, and invites all down to witness his installment as leader.
His first act as leader is to restore Worf's good name, saying that in the recent struggle, he proved himself to have the heart of a Klingon. "Let your name be spoken once again. You are Worf, son of Mogh." Gowron then formally requests Federation aid as leader of the Empire, but Picard refuses to intervene in what is clearly an internal conflict, even refusing Worf's plea. Worf, unwilling to leave the sector in such a critical period, resigns his commission.
Later, Worf, in Klingon garb, is packing his bags. Picard comes by to check that he's certain he's doing the right thing. Worf is sure he is, and Picard congratulates him for taking the best of humanity into himself. Worf, with a full honor guard, makes his way to the transporter room and departs for the Bortas (there to serve as weapons officer).
Finally, we see Movar, Duras's sisters and son, and Movar's companion, still cloaked in darkness. Movar smugly reports, "Picard has rejected Gowron's plea for help. The Enterprise has left orbit." Toral, brash and foolish as ever, says "Coward! He didn't have the courage to face us! The Federation--"
"Celebrate later, Toral!" says Movar's companion, now stepping into the light to reveal a slim, blonde figure who bears more than a passing resemblance to Tasha Yar (although her name is not said). "You should not discount Jean-Luc Picard yet. He is human-- and humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them."
Freeze frame.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Worf
The Klingons
The Rolumans
Klingon homeworld</text>
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<text>As civil war threatens the Klingon Empire, Worf's loyalties are torn between the Federation and his people.</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Kurn's ship, the Hectar, is heavily damaged and running from two attacking Klingon cruisers. Worf, tactical officer, is advising a complete retreat-- Kurn has other ideas. He orders the ship dangerously close to a nearby star, and goes into warp just shy of the photosphere; the resulting distortion causes a wall of superheated plasma to form, which destroys both pursuers.
Meanwhile, Captain Picard tries to convince Fleet Admiral Sharanti [sp?] to let him set up a fleet along the Klingon-Romulan border. The idea is to serve as a blockade, to prevent supplies from being shipped from the Romulans to the Duras family-- or to catch Romulan ships in the act and reveal their connection. (And since Geordi has worked out a way to use tachyonic streams to weave a "net" to detect cloaked ships, it's got a chance of working.) He gets that permission. "I hope we know what we're doing." "So do I, Number One."
The fleet's stretched thin in that area, but he manages to assemble a fleet of 23 ships. Riker takes command of the USS Excalibur, and after asking if Picard considers him fit to command, Data takes command of the USS Sutherland. Meanwhile, Kurn, Worf, and other Gowron loyalists spend time in a bar with Duras loyalists. Kurn urges Worf to think of these people as fellow *warriors* for the evening, not as enemies-- and Lursa and B'Etor look on, decided to make Worf a very appealing offer. Data formally assumes command of the Sutherland, over objections from his first officer, LCDR Hobson, who doesn't believe androids are fit to command. All ships being ready, the Fleet heads into the breach...
A short time later, the convoy of supplies to the Duras family is running late-- Lursa and B'Etor are seething, but the Blonde Romulan tries to ease their worries. All, however, are taken by surprise when they receive word of the approaching Federation fleet; the Blonde Romulan orders Movar to assemble a Romulan fleet in response. After Worf's attempt to intercede in a challenge to Gowron's leadership results only in Gowron getting a clear shot at his opponent, the Fleet crosses into Klingon space and is deployed. Data deals with Hobson challenging his authority... temporarily, and the tachyon "net" is established. The Blonde Romulan, seeing this, sets Movar to work on finding a way to counter it, and she herself orders her ship to intercept the Enterprise.
They reach the Enterprise, decloak, and hail. Picard reacts, as one might expect, with very visible shock at her appearance. "Tasha?" "No, Captain. My name is Commander Sela. The woman you knew as Tasha Yar... was my mother."
Sela continues on, saying that the Romulan Empire cannot tolerate an "invasion" fleet along their borders, and gives them 24 hours to depart. After they break communications, Picard confers with Troi and Crusher. Crusher is skeptical of Sela's claim, as they all are-- but Troi sensed no deception at all. They depart, and Guinan enters.
She questions Picard about his knowledge of the Enterprise's predecessor, the Enterprise-C. He responds that it was destroyed in the battle of Norendra 3, and dismisses the stories of survivors from the Enterprise-C as rumours. Guinan disputes this. There *were* survivors, she says; and Tasha was one of them. Yes, Tasha was a child then-- but nevertheless, Tasha was on board *as an adult*. Furthermore, Guinan thinks that *Picard* sent her. He can't just dismiss it as her vague intuition, she says; because if she's right, then Picard is responsible for this entire situation.
Meanwhile, Worf gripes to Kurn about Gowron's conduct, but Kurn will hear none of it. He stalks out-- and two other Klingons come in, beat Worf senseless, and drag him away...
A short time later, Sela meets with Picard on the Enterprise. After a few comments back and forth about the military aspects of this situation, she addresses the question that's really on Picard's mind: how can she be Tasha's daughter? She gives her history: Tasha was on the Enterprise-C and was one of the few survivors of the battle. She was captured, and was saved from execution by a Romulan general who took her as consort. Sela was born a year later. Tasha is now dead, killed when Sela was 4 years old in an escape attempt which Sela herself foiled. Sela claims that her human half died that day, and that she is now totally and solely Romulan. Picard is completely unconvinced that her story is true, and insists it won't affect his judgement in any way--Sela responds by reiterating her ultimatum and stalking out.
Worf wakes, only to find Lursa and a very aroused B'Etor near him. They tell him that Toral *will* be the next leader of the Empire, but that he needs help...a father-figure. They offer that position to him, as B'Etor's mate. Worf, completely appalled, refuses and is dragged away to a cell.
Picard convinces Gowron to launch a new attack now, hoping to force the Romulans to try to run the blockade before the deadline. He and Riker confer, and outline a plan to open a "hole" in the net, only to have the Enterprise swoop in and catch whatever ships try to fly through it.
The attack begins, and Lursa and B'Etor, not surprisingly, call Sela for help. She and Movar see the hole form in the net, but Sela sees it for the ploy it is. She chooses an alternate strategy--fire a huge tachyon pulse at one of the ships, thus disrupting their ability to focus the net. They target the Sutherland, and fire.
Picard, realizing that the net is now leaking, orders the Fleet to fall back and regroup. They begin to do so, but Data quickly orders a full stop, realizing that Sela's tactic may have left the Romulans with a residual tachyon signature. Despite Hobson's multiple objections, and Picard's angered demands to know why he's disobeying orders, Data locates and reveals three ships with a photon torpedo burst. Sela realizes that the plot is foiled and orders a full-scale withdrawal. Lursa and B'Etor depart, leaving Worf to fight a Romulan centurion (whom he defeats) and Toral to face the justice of Kurn and Gowron.
Shortly thereafter, the Fleet has dispersed, and Picard is once again at the Klingon homeworld-- this time, to report to Gowron on the whole affair. After the briefing, Gowron gives Worf Toral's life in exchange for the damage done to Worf by the Duras family. Worf, however, spares him, saying that he will not kill Toral for the crimes of his family, and he returns to the Enterprise.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Gowron - Robert O'Reilly
Kurn - Tony Todd
Cmdr. Selar - Denise Crosby
Lursa - Barbara March
B'Etor - Gwynyth Walsh
Toral - J.D. Cullum
Larg - Michael G. Hagerty
Admiral - Fran Bennett
Movar - Nicholas Kepros
Miles O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Hobson - Timothy Carhart
Kluge - Jordan Lund
Helmsman - Stephen James Carver
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<text>Picard risks allout war with the Romulans when he involves Starfleet in a Klingon civil war.</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is in the El'A'Dral system to meet with the Tamarians, a race which seems peaceful, but have been described as "incomprehensible" in past encounters. Both sides try to converse, but no progress seems to be made; although the words are understandable, their meaning is not. The Tamarian captain, after a brief and heated discussion with his first officer about "Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra", beams off his bridge-- and Picard is beamed off the Enterprise at the same time. Attempts to retrieve him fail, as the Tamarians have set up a transporter-blocking field in the planet's ionosphere.
Worf's first assumption is that this is some sort of challenge ritual, e.g. personal combat. Picard at first believes this as well, and throws away the knife that Captain Dathon throws to him, refusing to fight. Dathon replies, frustratedly, "Chaka... when the walls fell." Riker's first attempts to communicate with the Tamarians fail, and he orders Worf to assemble a team and take a shuttle down to save Picard, hoping the Tamarians won't push things that far. Picard, meanwhile, is still getting nowhere-- Dathon appears friendly, and throws Picard a brand with which to light his own campfire, but communication is still seemingly impossible.
The shuttle tries to go down and is hit by Tamarian phasers-- but only with enough force to make them go back. Riker is puzzled. Geordi thinks that given enough time, he might be able to punch through a very tight beam and get Picard off, but it'll take at least a day to get ready. Riker orders him to get on it, and orders Data and Troi to work on establishing a communication of some sort.
They find very little at first-- "Darmok", used as a name of some sort, has 47 different meanings in nearby systems. After Troi expresses her frustration at the situation, they try again, this time with "Tanagra". It also has many meanings-- but the meanings for a particular planet combine nicely ("Darmok" is a mythical hunter-hero, and "Tanagra" is a mythical island). Meanwhile, Picard examines Dathon's campsite when he finds Dathon gone, and discovers some sort of captain's log. But just then, Dathon hurries back, and frantically tries to give Picard a knife again, saying "Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra!" repeatedly. Picard refuses-- but then a loud growl is heard from not very far away. "Darmok, and Jilad..." says Dathon with resignation, "at Tanagra."
Picard then takes the knife, realizing that the problem is not with Dathon. Since ship's sensors are picking up this creature (whatever it is) moving towards the two captains, Riker hurries Geordi along with the transporter, despite Geordi's warning that it might not work. Meanwhile, as the creature approaches, Picard makes an intuitive breakthrough, and finally realizes that the Tamarians communicate via *metaphor*, by citing examples from their own culture. "Sucat, his eyes uncovered!" exclaims Dathon in elation. However, the creature's attack easily breaks through the defenses of both men, and Dathon is sorely battered. Picard moves to help-- and is promptly seized by a transporter beam. The beam isn't strong enough to get him, though, and Picard (who screamed out *against* the beam when it came) is returned to the surface, just in time to see the creature vanish, and Dathon fall unconscious.
As the situation worsens in orbit (the interference field has now been strengthened, Data and Troi conclude that although they know *how* the Tamarians communicate, they don't know what the examples mean, and Riker prepares to fire on the Tamarian ship to remove the field), Picard "talks" with a wounded Dathon. Eventually, he pieces together the puzzle-- Dathon intended for the two of them to come down to the planet and fight a common enemy to form a bond between them, just as Darmok and Jilad did against the beast of Tanagra. Picard, in return, tells Dathon a tale of Gilgamesh and Enkidu-- just before Dathon succumbs to his wounds and dies.
When Riker receives word that Dathon's life signs have vanished, and that the creature has been detected moving towards Picard again, he decides they're out of options, and they open fire. The field is removed, and Picard is saved just in time. Both ships trade shots several times, and the Enterprise is close to destruction, but Picard manages to communicate the facts of the situation enough to the Tamarian first officer that both sides leave peacefully; not necessarily as friends, but certainly not as enemies.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu
Tamarian Phrases (compiled by David Landis)
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ΓÇó "Rhy and Jyry at Lunga" -
ΓÇó "Binta, his eyes closed" -
ΓÇó "Kalimash at Balah" -
ΓÇó "Darmok on the ocean" - alone
ΓÇó "Tenagra on the ocean" - the island/destination
ΓÇó "Darmok at Tenagra" - he finds the island
ΓÇó "Jelad on the ocean" - alone
ΓÇó "Jelad at Tenagra" - he also finds the island
ΓÇó "Darmok and Jelad, at Tenagra" - they meet and struggling together to overcome some obsticle.
ΓÇó "The Beast of Tanagra" - the obsticle
ΓÇó "Darmok and Jelad, on the ocean" - they become friends and leave together
ΓÇó "Shaka, when the walls fell" - failure
ΓÇó "Mirab, with sails unfurled" - lets go
ΓÇó "Temba, his arms wide" - giving
ΓÇó "Temba, at rest" - relax
ΓÇó "Uzani, his army at Lashmere" - the fight
ΓÇó "Uzani, his army with fist open" - surrounding/flanking/luring the enemy
ΓÇó "Uzani, his army with fist closed" - attacking
ΓÇó "Kiazi's children, their faces wet" - alright (crying because someone who was in danger is alright)
ΓÇó "Kemba at Bashi" - tell a story
ΓÇó "Sinda, his face black, his eyes red" - death
ΓÇó "Sokath, his eyes open" - understanding or rejoicing
ΓÇó "The river Temok--in winter!" - stop or calm down or "be still"
ΓÇó "Picard and Dathon, at El'A'drel"</text>
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<text>Philip Lazebnik and Joe Menosky (Teleplay by Joe Menosky)</text>
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<text>Picard is forced into a dangerous situation with an alien starship captain who can only communicate through symbols.</text>
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<text>45047.2</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Captain Dathon
El'A'Dral</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>After the Solarion 4 settlement is destroyed, and a race called the Bajora claims responsibility, Picard meets with Admiral Kennelly, who tells him that the Bajoran responsible is a terrorist leader named Orta. (The Bajorans' homeworld was annexed by the Cardassians generations ago-- they've been refugees ever since.) Picard's mission is to find Orta, and to get him back to the Bajoran settlement camps "any way he can". Kennelly offers amnesty to Orta, but nothing more than promises beyond it.
A possible snag in this mission is the very thing Kennelly proposed to help it: the presence of one Ensign Ro Laran, a Bajoran. Her past record is such that virtually no one on board wants her there (including Picard), but Kennelly insists she can be of help. She comes on board, with a sour disposition light-years across.
Despite her attitude, she manages to be of some help. Due in large part to her suggestions and efforts, Picard manages to locate Orta, and they head to the third moon of Vallor 1, his base. After Guinan takes an interest in Ro (despite Ro's opposition, and to the extent of calling her a friend), however, Ro receives a private communication from Admiral Kennelly. Everything is "going as [he] predicted," she tells him...
The next morning, the away team (Picard, Troi, Worf, and Data) prepare to beam down, and find that Ro did so six hours ago. They follow her, and are promptly captured by Orta and his people. Orta, horribly disfigured as a result of Cardassian torture, tells them that he felt abducting them was necessary, and says that the Bajora were *not* responsible for the attack. (Ro had beamed down early to try to stop the bloodshed she was convinced the mission will eventually come to.)
Picard is somewhat inclined to believe Orta, especially since Troi sensed no deception from him. However, he confines Ro to quarters for her unauthorized beam-down. She broods in her quarters, but Guinan again comes to the rescue, coaxing enough out of her to find that much more is going on than originally thought, and she convinces Ro to talk to Picard (and convinces Picard to listen, equally importantly).
Ro reveals that she was given a different mission by Kennelly: to offer Orta Federation weapons in exchange for returning to the camps. (He also gave her authorization for her beam-down.) However, with Orta's revelation, she no longer knows what to do or whom to trust. Picard decides that the best course might be to actually *take* Orta back to the camps, and then "see what happens"...
As the Enterprise escorts a Bajoran cruiser [at half impulse, the cruiser's top speed] to the camp, however, two Cardassian ships cross the border and forcefully "request" that the Enterprise leave this "terrorist" ship to them. Picard initially refuses, and is given an hour. Kennelly, far from helping, insists that the Cardassian treaty is the more important issue, and orders Picard to withdraw-- even after Picard openly states his belief that Kennelly was working with the Cardassians to draw Orta out so that they could destroy him.
Picard withdraws, and the Bajoran cruiser is destroyed. However, Kennelly is surprised to hear that no one was on board! (Picard and Ro, suspecting a chain of events like this might occur, planned it.) Picard informs Kennelly that the Bajoran ships are so old and obsolete that they were incapable of attacking the Solarion 4 settlement, and suggests that the Cardassians staged everything, hoping to find someone like Kennelly, naive enough to help them solve their problems. All is well-- and Ro, after Picard challenges her to stay in Starfleet, stays on.
<text>Lawrence V. Conley (Teleplay by Jeri Taylor)</text>
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<text>Cliff Bole</text>
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<text>When the Crystalline Entity reappears, Picard and Data try to establish communication with it before it is destroyed by a revengeful scientist.</text>
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<text>While Riker, Data, and Bev are visiting the Melona Four colony, the Crystalline Entity appears and utterly destroys it, although all but two of the colonists are saved. The Enterprise is sent to track the Entity down, with the help of xenologist Kyla Marr-- a woman who, although capable, has no trust for Data, due to Lore's previous assistance given to the Entity in the past. Picard, realizing that if her attitude will be a problem, it's best to know early, assigns her to work with Data in nearly every detail.
She doesn't take to it well initially-- she accuses him of collaborating with the Entity (thus "explaining" why this group of colonists wasn't killed like all the other attacks in 20-plus years), and reveals that her interest in the Entity began when her son was killed at Omicron Theta (Data's homeworld). However, after Data has provided help in several occasions (including finding a way to track the Entity by a method Dr. Marr had overlooked), she appears to realize that he really *isn't* much like Lore.
As the Enterprise follows the Entity (which is apparently headed for the Brechtian cluster), Picard has to point out to Marr that the intent is *not* to kill the Entity unless they absolutely have to-- he'd prefer to find a way to communicate with it, and see if its needs can be supplied in some other way. Marr is understandably skeptical, but agrees to work with Data to find a method of communication.
They find one-- and Marr further finds that through Data's programmed memories and experiences of the Omicron Theta colony, she can, in some respects, hear her son again. (After the Entity captures and "consumes" the inhabitants of another ship, Data reads one of her son's journal entries aloud in his voice, bringing tears to Marr's eyes.)
They eventually find the Entity and begin broadcasting a series of graviton pulses to it. It appears to respond, and emits a pattern which is almost undoubtedly a sign of intelligence, although they cannot yet decipher what the pattern of pulses means. Picard is elated-- but then Marr, who wrote most of the program, alters it to emit a continuous pulse of gravitons with rapidly increasing amplitude, and locks the program in such a way that neither Data nor Geordi can stop the emission before the Entity is shattered.
Data takes Marr back to her quarters, her mind virtually snapped. She asks "Rennie", through Data, to tell her that he understands she did it for him. Data demurs: from what he knows of her son through his journals and vivid memories, he believes Rennie would be very sad at the loss of both the Entity and of his mother's brilliant career.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>45122.3</text>
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<text>Data
Jean-Luc Picard
Dr. Kyla Marr
The Crystalline Entity
Melona Four</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is between missions and is struck by a quantum filament, trapping everyone more or less where they are, killing intraship communications, and knocking out primary life support and the warp engines. Picard, trapped in a turbolift with three elementary school children, is injured when the lift first falls. Meanwhile O'Brien, Ensign Ro, and Troi are stuck on the bridge, and Troi as the senior officer is placed in command. In Ten-Forward, Worf is left to take care of the wounded (and a very pregnant Keiko O'Brien) while Riker and Data head through a crawlway to try to get to Engineering. Finally, Bev and Geordi are trapped in a shuttle bay-- and a plasma fire is spewing radiation into the bay, threatening both the people and some canisters of chemicals, which are likely to explode.
Riker and Data end up with their retreat cut off by a coolant leak and their advance stopped by a huge current arc. Data volunteers to use his (non-conducting) body to block the circuit, claiming that his head will survive and can be detached for use in Engineering. Riker, having no other options, approves. While Picard tries to get the children working together to get them all out of the lift, Ro manages to power up the Engineering console and finds that the warp containment field is slowly failing, which will eventually lead to the entire ship exploding.
Once the lift's hatch is open (and the children refuse to leave the injured Picard behind), the group begins working on ways to leave and climb up to an open deck. Meanwhile, Bev and Geordi decide the only way to both keep the chemicals safe and put out the plasma fire is to depressurize the shuttle bay. And, as if things weren't bad enough, Keiko suddenly goes into labor.
While Troi decides not to follow Ro's advice (namely, to separate the saucer and get the hell away from the warp engines, assuming there's no one left alive in the drive section) and sends enough power down to Engineering so that anyone there can at least realize there's a problem, Picard and the children leave the lift (just in time, as its emergency clamps fail and it falls) and begin climbing to a door that will open. Bev and Geordi depressurize the bay, putting out the fire, and Bev manages to repressurize it just in time.
Riker and Data's head reach Engineering and manage to restore the containment field just before it collapses, Picard and the kids make it to an open deck, and a very inexperienced Worf manages to successfully deliver Keiko's daughter. Later, once everything is running smoothly again, the children give Picard a commemorative plaque to thank him for all his help.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>Keiko - Rosalind Chao
Ensign Ro - Michelle Forbes
Marissa - Erika Flores
Jay Gordon - John Christian Graas
Paterson - Max Supera
Ensign Mandel - Cameron Arnett
Ensign Monroe - Jana Marie Hupp</text>
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<text>Ron Jarvis & Philip A. Scorza (Teleplay by Ronald D. Moore)</text>
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<text>Gabrielle Beaumont</text>
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<text>45156.1</text>
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<text>Jean-Luc Picard
Worf, Keiko
Will Riker, Data
Deanna Troi, O'Brien</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is damaged in a collision and the crew are trapped throughout the ship, leaving Deanna Troi in command.</text>
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<text>Susan Sackett & Fred Bronson and Brannon Braga</text>
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<text>A few days after Riker is introduced to a strange new game while vacationing on Risa, he brings it back to the Enterprise, which is running a little ragged with a large science investigation underway. The game quickly spreads (to Deanna, and then to Beverly), as Wesley comes back on board for a vacation from the Academy.
Wes and Data talk for a bit about their mutual experiences at the Academy (among other topics, the Sadie Hawkins dance and practical jokes), and Wes then meets and quickly takes a shine to Ensign Robin Lefler, who has friends back at the Academy who've mentioned Wes to her. Meanwhile, Beverly calls Data to sickbay to help her with something-- but when he arrives, she deactivates him, moves him onto a med-table, and begins positronic brain surgery.
Picard and Wes talk for a bit about Wes's experiences at the Academy, only to be interrupted by a call from Bev about how Data's suddenly gone into the android equivalent of a coma. Geordi and Riker check Data's quarters to see if he's left behind any records about what to do in cases like this, but find nothing-- and Riker says that Geordi looks tired, and needs a break-- and he has just the thing...
Wes's and Robin's relationship is taking a turn for the better-- enough so that Wes, hurrying for a dinner date, doesn't have time to try the game, despite Beverly's best efforts. At dinner, conversation eventually turns to the game (everyone but the two of them seem to be playing it), and they eventually get a copy and test it on a med-simulation, which reveals that it stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain directly, and is highly addictive. (It also is somehow affecting the brain's higher reasoning centers, although they're not sure how.) Wes runs to tell Picard about this, who promises a full investigation-- but as soon as Wes leaves, Picard straps on his own copy...
Wes and Robin, besieged by requests and demands to try the game, decide to see what's wrong with Data, correctly reasoning that his sudden injury was just a little too convenient. They find that a few of his positronic pathways have been severed-- severed so finely, in fact, that only Beverly or Geordi would have the expertise to do it. Something more than a simple addiction is clearly going on. As a ship comes into range, Picard orders copies of the game distributed shipwide, including to Wesley. Worf and Beverly find Wes and Robin hooked already, and leave-- and Wes and Robin remove their fake games, relieved. Robin heads for Engineering (she's on duty), and the nearby ship comes close enough for Picard to hail her. "The Enterprise has been secured. We await your further instructions."
Those instructions involve spreading the game to other ships and starbases-- and, with Wes's presence, the Academy. Wes eventually goes to Engineering with a plan, but finds Robin hooked, and Riker and Worf in wait. He eludes them for a while, but eventually is caught, taken to the bridge, and forcibly made to "play". Just then, the lights dim, and a very functional Data (whom Wes managed to repair) shines a palm beacon with a particular series of flashes that snaps everyone out of it. The Kitarian ship is captured easily and taken to Starbase 82, and Wes and Robin bid each other fond farewells as Wes returns to the Academy.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>The fate of the Federation is in Wesley Crusher's hands when he returns to find the crew of the Enterprise addicted to a dangerous new game.</text>
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<text>Wesley Crusher</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Picard and Data travel to Romulas to investigate an unauthorized mission undertaken by the Federation's legendary Mr. Spock</text>
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<text>11/2/91</text>
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<text>Dokachin - Graham Jarvis
B'Ijik - Erick Avari
Perrin - Joanna Miles
Sarek - Mark Leonard
K'Vada - Stephen D. Root
Pardek - Malachi Throne
Romulan #1 (Jaron) - Daniel Roebuck
Neral - Norman Large
Soup Woman - Mimi Cozzens
Spock - Leonard Nimoy
Admiral Shanti - Karen Hensel</text>
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<text>Rick Berman & Michael Piller (Teleplay by Jeri Taylor)
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<text>Les Landau</text>
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<text>Their terraforming mission cancelled, the Enterprise is at a starbase where Picard meets with Fleet Admiral Brackett, who insisted on speaking to him in person. She informs him that one of the Federation's top ambassadors vanished several days ago, and was located by intelligence reports on *Romulus* two days ago. If he's actually defected, she says, the threat to Federation security would be almost incalculable. She calls up a record of the intelligence report, and enhances the image of the ambassador. Picard is stunned to see the face of none other than Ambassador Spock...
Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise is en route to Vulcan; Picard wishes to meet with Sarek to discuss this, but is very pensive about doing so, given Sarek's ill health and the bond the two share (a past mind-meld). He tells Riker that most of what he knows of Spock came from Sarek's meld, but that this is surprisingly little, as Spock and Sarek have been estranged for decades. As Sarek's wife Perrin makes preparations to come aboard, Riker and Geordi start examining reports of mysterious metal fragments of Vulcan origin found with the wreckage of (of all things) a Ferengi ship.
Perrin comes aboard and meets with Picard. She is, to say the least, bitter, and begins by railing about the fact that Spock didn't even bother to say goodbye when he left. She assures Picard, however, that Spock was definitely not abducted-- he put his affairs in order well in advance of his departure. She further elaborates that she became embittered toward Spock when he publicly challenged Sarek's arguments during the debate over the Cardassian war, and tells Picard that she doubts Sarek knows why Spock left. She does, however, consent to let Picard see him, solely because of the bond they share. (Meanwhile, Riker and Geordi find that the metal was definitely of Vulcan origin, and designed for use in space, but that Vulcan has no record of any stolen parts.)
Picard beams down to Vulcan and finds Sarek, wracked by emotional pain and wasting away in his bed. Sarek raves, but comes back to himself a bit when Picard mentions Spock's name. Sarek doesn't know why Spock left, but when pressed, says that he might have gone to see Pardek, a Romulan senator Spock has known since the Khitomer conference who is an extremely moderate element within the Romulan Empire. Sarek's mind deteriorates, however, and when the subject of Pardek comes up again a few moments later, his reaction is "Pardek? The Romulan senator? How do you know Pardek?" Sarek rambles on a bit about Spock's difficult childhood, and tries to bid Picard a traditional farewell, but is denied even that honor by his failing health (Picard must both force Sarek's hand into the traditional Vulcan symbol and finish the "live long and..." left unfinished by Sarek).
Picard now needs a cloaked ship to be able to infiltrate the Romulan Empire, so the Enterprise heads to the Klingon homeworld to obtain one from Gowron. (Data also obtains a visual record of Pardek in the meantime and discovers that Pardek is standing next to Spock in the intelligence photo. Pardek, he tells Picard, has always been a radical by Romulan standards, because he's been an advocate of peace for his entire nine-decade career.) Unfortunately, Gowron is in the process of rewriting Klingon history such that the Federation had nothing to do with the resolution of the recent Klingon civil war, and neither he nor anyone on the High Council will speak to Picard. Picard ends up giving a message to Diplomatic Junior Adjutant B'Ijik, and tells him that the benefit to the Klingon Empire of granting this favor would be the Federation's gratitude-- and that if he doesn't help, someone else in the Klingon Empire no doubt will, and that then *they* would have that gratitude. A somewhat perturbed B'Ijik relays the message, while Beverly starts going over Picard and Data to prepare the prosthetics to disguise them as Romulans.
Geordi reports to Riker that the metal they found came from a navigational deflector array-- and what's more, he can even tell what ship it came from: the Vulcan ship T'Pau, which was decommissioned four years earlier and is currently sitting in a supply depot (i.e. it's on the scrap-heap). Picard and Data board the Klingon ship currently sitting off the bow (courtesy of Gowron) and are very closemouthed to Captain K'Vada about his mission, despite his insinuations about "the defector" they must be going to get. The Klingon ship heads for Romulus, and Riker takes the Enterprise to the shipyard where the T'Pau is located.
After Picard and K'Vada have a minor clash of wills regarding quarters, food, and so forth, the ship reaches the border and cloaks. Meanwhile, the Enterprise reaches Qualor Two and hails Dokachin, the Zakdorn quartermaster. Dokachin, reluctant to surrender what little authority he has, is more than a little huffy-- but ends up relenting when Troi uses a softer approach. They head to where the T'Pau is supposed to be, and find that it's *gone*. Dokachin is appalled-- in the entire history of the Zakdorn administration of the yard, nothing has ever been lost. He finds that the navigational deflector array was routed to the Tripoli, a supply ship at the edge of the yard. They head for its coordinates, and find that it's gone as well. Riker orders the Enterprise to masquerade as part of the wreckage, figuring that whoever *did* pick up the deflector array will probably come back for another shipment (due in later that day), and the ship powers down to only life support and sensors.
Meanwhile, Picard tries to sleep on the metal shelf pretending to be a bed, but is very edgy and preoccupied, and ends up getting nowhere. He and Data continue conferring on Romulan society, but are called to the bridge, where Picard receives a subspace message that Sarek is dead.
Back in the junkyard, Geordi detects a ship coming in: unknown origin, no call letters, and well beyond armed to the teeth. The Enterprise powers up and asks what it's doing, but ends up getting static in response. The Enterprise ends up taking a couple of hits, but returns fire and knocks out one weapons system. Unfortunately, the density of weapons on the other ship is so high that that one shot sets off a chain reaction of explosions that destroys the entire ship, leaving Riker with no answers.
Picard and Data, now altered to resemble Romulans, discuss Sarek's death. Picard is somewhat taken aback by it-- now, he not only has to confront Spock about his disappearance, but also must inform him that his father has died (and thus that the chance for the two of them to resolve their differences is gone forever). After they're brusquely told by K'Vada that his orders "do not include *rescue missions*" in case there's trouble, they beam down to Romulus.
Pardek meets with Pro-Consul Neral, who shows him an image of Picard, whom Pardek denies any knowledge of. Neral informs him that Picard is en route (or possibly already on Romulus), and tells Pardek to circulate Picard's image to Security, reminding them that Picard is no doubt altered to resemble one of them.
Picard and Data quickly find the location of the intelligence photo, and wait for Pardek to appear (a study of his movements shows that he frequents the area quite often). While eating in a local cafe, they find him, but before they reach him, they're seized by Security officers and taken away.
They're taken to some deep caverns, where Pardek greets Picard by name. He regrets the deception, but says that he had to get Picard and Data off the streets as soon as he could, since the *real* Romulan Security knows of their presence. Picard, relieved to be among friends, tells them of his mission. "I'm looking for Ambassador Spock."
"Indeed!" A shadowy figure strides into the light, revealed as Spock himself. "You have found him, Captain Picard."
TO BE CONTINUED...
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Spock
Sarek
The Romulans
The Klingons
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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Sela - Denise Crosby
K'Vada - Stephen D. Root
Pardek - Malachi Throne
Omag - William Bastiani
Romulan #1 (Jaron) - Daniel Roebuck
Romulan #2 - Susan Fallender
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<text>Picard and Mr. Spock clash over over a proposed reunification of the Romulans and the Vulcans.</text>
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<text>The newly appeared Spock asks Picard what he's doing on Romulus. "That was to have been my question to you, sir." Picard, as a representative of the Federation, demands an explanation for Spock's actions, and dismisses Spock's claim that it's a personal mission of peace as inadequate, saying that this type of "cowboy diplomacy" is no longer acceptable. When Spock continues to stonewall, Picard says that he's also come as the bearer of unhappy news. "Sarek? ... Sarek is dead?" Spock pauses. "Walk with me, Picard." They head into a different cave.
Picard tells Spock that his father expressed pride and love towards him when he and Picard met. Spock dismisses this as part of the "emotional disarray" caused by Sarek's illness, but Picard disputes that--it was from the heart. Spock then gets to the heart of the matter: he is aware of a movement among the Romulan people towards Vulcan philosophy, and he has come to foster it, to provide the first step to the *reunification* of the Vulcans and the Romulans! He kept it secret because of the memories of the Klingon peace overture and the responsibility he bears for its effects on Captain Kirk and Kirk's crew; he has no wish to risk anyone else a second time. When Picard says that Spock sounds like he's being influenced by emotions, Spock accuses Picard of speaking as Sarek would. "I was involved in 'cowboy diplomacy', as you call it, long before you were born." Picard, regardless, insists that he cannot leave Romulus until Spock's mission is complete. "In your own way, you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew." "Then I'm in good company, sir."
Captain K'Vada is more than a bit annoyed to hear Data (now on board the ship) tell him that he must remain a bit longer, but Data insists. Data further requires access to the Klingon computer to attempt to break into the Romulan information-net. He obtains this access by promising (with Picard's authority) to fully share any information he gets from this task. Further, Data makes arrangements to "piggyback" a message to the Enterprise on a Romulan signal, so as to avoid detection and still communicate.
Spock and Picard, meanwhile, are in the tavern, and Picard is being filled in on the underground. The movement is very widespread-- wide enough to cause concern to the Romulan government. In response to Picard's skepticism that it's strong enough to turn the tide of the Romulan society, Spock says that he chooses to attempt to end the hostility rather than continue it. After they meet briefly with D'Tan, a Romulan child who is avidly interested in Vulcan and Vulcan culture, they meet with Pardek, who tells Spock that the Romulan proconsul [a very young man, possibly open to change] will meet with him.
The Enterprise, meanwhile, is still in orbit around Qualor Two, searching for the missing Vulcan ship T'Pau. Their investigations have led Riker to a rather seedy bar, where the piano player is the ex-wife of the now-deceased captain of the ship the Enterprise recently destroyed. Amarie is cautious, but eventually opens up, and tells Riker that within a few days, a fat Ferengi arms trader named Omag will come to the bar-- and he should have the information Riker needs.
Pardek ushers Spock in to meet with Proconsul Neral (and Pardek then leaves). Neral stuns Spock when he says that he's prepared to support reunification. Neral claims to believe it's inevitable, and says that the people have grown tired of the endless hostility, and that as a result he can probably muster the support of the Senate. He tells Spock that he is prepared to publicly endorse the peace initiative, and questions Spock about likely Vulcan reactions (which, of course, would be rather cautious). He urges Spock to help, and arranges another meeting for the next day. Spock leaves-- and moments later, Commander Sela enters through another door...
The underground's reaction to Spock's report is ecstatic, but Spock and Picard are both very skeptical about Neral's veracity. Picard thinks Neral might be out to expose the movement, but finds himself defending the Federation against claims that *it* is the one opposed to reunification. Spock declares that he will continue his efforts regardless. Picard naturally objects, and asks Spock where the logic is in ignoring Spock's own good sense. Again, Spock says that Picard's attitudes towards reunification (and perhaps towards Spock) have been colored by Sarek's perceptions. "This is the second time you have accused me of speaking with another man's voice," says Picard, steadfastly insisting he is speaking his own mind and not another's. After Spock apologizes (and comments that, in the end, the stimulating arguments between himself and Sarek were all they had), he goes on to say that he will follow this course even into a trap; if the Romulans *do* have ulterior motives, then it behooves them to find them out. "So... I will play the role they would have me play."
Some time later, Data is on board K'Vada's ship [back to his normal appearance, having removed the prosthetics], and Picard and Spock enter. While Picard leaves to remove his own disguise, Spock and Data work on decoding the Romulan cipher. While they do this, they discuss the Vulcan way versus the human way: Some Vulcans, after all, aspire for their entire lives to become what Data already *is* by design; but Spock, in choosing his Vulcan heritage over his human one, has abandoned the very thing that Data has sought after. Data implies that Spock is perhaps more human than he lets on, just as they break the code.
Meanwhile, back at Qualor Two, Omag finally arrives. Worf reports this to Riker, and Riker immediately beams down. Omag is a thoroughly disreputable fellow, and shows no sign of changing simply because of the two rather imposing-looking Starfleet officers standing in front of him after information. After a few minutes of putting up with Omag, Riker decides that enough is enough, and grabs him by the neck, explaining that if Omag doesn't tell everything he knows about the Vulcan ship, his right to travel in the sector will be cancelled, and that Riker... will be very unhappy. Omag says that he traded the ship to a Barolian freighter at Galorndon Core, a planet along the Neutral Zone border.
Riker confers with Picard briefly over subspace (the piggybacked signal is low-quality, however), and Picard orders them to Galorndon Core to check into this further, despite the fact that none of them can figure out how a stolen Vulcan ship fits into any of this. Data then finds records of a transmission from Romulan intelligence to Galorndon Core twelve hours earlier, containing only the message "1400".
Down on Romulus, meanwhile, Spock again meets with D'Tan and discovers that D'Tan and his family have been educating themselves as best they can about Vulcan ways for generations, to prepare for the reunification they know must come. Spock then meets with Picard and Data. When he hears of this message, he realizes that Neral's been deceiving him. He doesn't know precisely what's going on, but 1400 hours is when Neral had arranged for Spock's announcement of the peace initiative tomorrow over subspace. "Why would they need a Vulcan ship?" asks Pardek.
"That will become clear very shortly!" says Sela, who enters with several security guards. Pardek shouts that someone must have betrayed the camp's location, but Spock immediately points out that the only logical person to have done so is Pardek, who invited Spock to Romulus in the first place, arranged all the meetings, and knew of the information. Sela tells Spock and the others that their dream of reunification is not dead; "it will simply take a different form." Picard, Spock, and Data are then hauled off.
The Enterprise reaches Galorndon Core and finds no life signs, but then receives a signal from Romulus. The message, a coded signal, is from Picard, and tells them to hold position until they hear further; the diplomatic mission appears to be succeeding. Riker is skeptical.
Sela, confident of success, gives Spock a speech to read. The speech will announce that the *three* Vulcan ships (all stolen) heading to Vulcan are a peace envoy. (The Enterprise, she claims, will stay where it is thanks to "Picard"'s message; if not, they'll quickly find their hands full with something else.) Spock will tell Vulcan to welcome the envoy, and the Romulans will quickly overpower Vulcan and conquer it. The Federation will naturally respond, but the Romulans will be dug in, and very difficult to stop.
Spock naturally refuses to read the speech, even under threat of death (since, after all, the logical expectation is that he and the others will be killed anyway). Sela falls to her backup plan; a holographic simulation of Spock built up from holo-images taken over the past several days. It may not convince the Vulcans, but it doesn't need to; it only needs to confuse them. Sela leaves to prepare for the ships' entry into Federation space, leaving Picard, Data, and Spock alone. Since she still doesn't seem to know about their ability to access Romulan computers, they get to work arranging a diversion.
The Enterprise picks up the three Vulcan ships in the Neutral Zone and hails them. When Riker hears that the ships claim to be peace envoys, he's somewhat surprised-- but he gets Geordi to work checking whether any of those are the ship they've been seeking, and moves to intercept.
Sela returns-- to find an empty room. She reacts with surprise-- but is even more surprised to see Commander Riker and two security guards with weapons pointed at her and her guards! She and her guards take cover and fire at them-- and quickly figure out that "Riker" and the others are holograms. *Then*, however, Spock steps out of the "wall" [really a simulation of the real wall Data moved slightly further into the room] and nerve-pinches one guard. Picard steps out and punches the other one out. Sela moves to escape, but finds Spock pointing a disruptor at her. "I'm afraid I don't know much about disruptor *settings*." Sela drops her weapon, but maintains her defiance, saying that none of this will stop the Vulcan ships.
The Enterprise, moving closer to the Vulcan ships, suddenly receives an urgent distress call from a colony requiring prompt evacuation. With no proof of the Vulcan ships being anything but what they claim to be, they set a course for that colony, but wait to hear Spock's message, just coming on subspace:
"This is Ambassador Spock of Vulcan. By now, Federation sensors are tracking three Vulcan ships crossing the Neutral Zone. These ships carry a Romulan invasion force and must be stopped. I repeat, these ships..." And the signal is cut off. Riker immediately guesses that the distress call is a fake and moves to intercept.
Sela now tells Picard, Spock, and Data that they will never leave her headquarters. Data, however, has studied the layout of the building, and believes he can lead them all to safety. However, Sela cannot be allowed to warn her guards: and *Data* nerve-pinches her into unconsciousness. They leave.
The Enterprise reaches the Vulcan ships, only to see a Romulan Warbird uncloak between them and the Enterprise. They warn it off, but it fires-- at the three ships, destroying all of them. It then heads back to Romulan space, leaving Riker to prepare for Picard's return.
In some other caves (ones Pardek knew nothing of), D'Tan and the others tell Picard that they will keep striving for reunification, awaiting the day when it *will* work. Picard and Data prepare to leave-- but Spock tells Picard that he's staying behind. His reasons are clearer than ever: these people, this small movement, is the beginning of an inexorable move toward a Vulcan way of life. It may take them a long time to reach it, but they will-- and he must help. After Picard mentions Sarek one last time, Spock observes that Picard probably knows Sarek better than he does, for Spock and Sarek never chose to meld. "I offer you the choice to touch what he shared with me," says Picard. Spock and Picard meld, and Spock and Sarek are, however slightly, however briefly, unified.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Data
Spock
The Romulans
The Klingons
Romulus</text>
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is en route to Penthara Four, where an asteroid impact has caused a dramatic drop in temperature on a global scale. They find a temporal distortion along the way, however, and are greeted by one Professor Berlingoff Rasmussen, a historian from the late 26th century!
While his manner is at times irritating, Rasmussen's credentials are solid enough to Picard that he's willing to grant Rasmussen every courtesy, including filling out the questionnaires Rasmussen intends to distribute among the bridge crew. Rasmussen marvels over everything, from little details in Picard's ready room to Data, "the Model-T of androids." However, he refuses to answer any question *about* the future, claiming that he doesn't want to influence the past, which is sensible enough.
As the Enterprise reaches Penthara Four and prepares to trigger a greenhouse effect by drilling down to pockets of carbon dioxide in the crust of the planet, Rasmussen continues his study. Although he still says nothing, he more and more frequently drops hints that something big is going to happen that day-- and even more peculiarly, seems to be surreptitiously pocketing items (a scanner, a tricorder, etc.). The phaser drilling begins, and is successful-- the planet now has enough time to fix itself. Picard is pleased, and Rasmussen seems almost jubilant.
Rasmussen continues his enquiries, trying to win Troi's trust (an attempt which fails) and trying to romance Beverly (which also fails, when Beverly points out that she could easily be his "great, great, great, *great*... grandmother"). However, the bridge crew's slight annoyance at Rasmussen's attitude is swept away when a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions begin rocking the planet below them-- and all of them occur exactly where the drills were. Further, the volcanic ash being thrown up is compounding the problem, and before long the sunlight will be completely blocked, plunging the planet into an ice age. After some analysis, Geordi and Data come up with a plan with both good and bad aspects. The good news is that they can, in effect, turn the Enterprise into a "lightning rod" and sweep the dust away with an ionizing phaser blast into the upper atmosphere. The bad news is that the margin of error is very small-- and if it isn't done just right, the entire atmosphere will burn off, killing every being on the planet.
Picard, caught in a dilemma, turns to Rasmussen in the hope that he can point Picard the way. Rasmussen refuses, however, since anything he may say or do could end up altering Picard's choice, and thus his own history. Picard tries his best to persuade him otherwise, but to no avail. In the end, he decides to try Geordi's plan-- and to his relief, it's successful.
Rasmussen then prepares to leave, but is surprised to find the Enterprise crew blocking his way into his ship. It seems that they've noticed the various missing items, and want a look inside his ship for them. He initially refuses, but after it's pointing out that he'll never get in if they can't, agrees to let Data, and Data *only* (as Data can be ordered never to reveal any future secrets he sees) come inside to look. Data finds the items, but is threatened with a phaser by Rasmussen, who turns out not to be an historian from the future, but rather a disgruntled inventor from the PAST. He swiped the time pod from the *real* 26th-century historian who visited him several weeks "ago", and planned to take the items he stole back to his time and "invent" them over a few years. He now intends to take Data as well-- but fortunately, the computer picked up the weapon when the door was opened and deactivated it. Data drags Rasmussen back out, and the now-emptied time pod vanishes back to where it came, leaving Rasmussen to the mercy of 24th-century historians who will, no doubt, be very interested in studying him.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1991, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Hail Mosely - Stefan Gierasch
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<text>Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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<text>A historian from the 26th century comes back in time to study the Enterprise crew and it's handling of a crisis.</text>
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<text>Worf learns some painful lessons about parenting when his son Alexander arrives to join his father on the Enterprise.</text>
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Helena Rozhenko- Georgia Brown
Ms. Kyle -
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Dr. Ja'Dar - Richard McGonagle
Lowry - Jennifer Edwards</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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<text>While the Enterprise is heading to Bilana Three to help with some tests of a new propulsion method, the Soliton Wave, Worf gets a visit from his mother Helena and his son Alexander-- but it turns out that Alexander is coming to stay. When he asks his mother why, she answers that he needs to be with his father for guidance, and that he's been having "difficulties", mostly about disobedience and dishonesty.
After she leaves for Earth, Worf and Alexander go to enroll Alexander in school-- their conversations are distant and formal. The teacher, Ms. Kyle, is very happy to meet Alexander, but he does not return the sentiment, giving information only reluctantly and haltingly.
After a briefing about the Soliton test (a test ship will be hit with the wave and thrown into warp without benefit of engines, the Enterprise will follow a mere 20 km away to monitor, and when it reaches a planet 3 light-years off, a scattering field will be set up to stop the wave), Troi badgers Worf into going on a father-son field trip with Alexander and his classmates.
The trip, unfortunately, does not go well. Alexander steals one of the models and then denies having done so to Worf. Worf angrily takes Alexander back to their quarters, lectures him on honor and shame (complete with a story from Klingon folktales of Kahless and his brother Morath), and talks of his own past losses. Alexander promises he won't do it again, and Worf is satisfied. Troi, however, is less convinced that it's as over as it seems.
The Soliton test starts, and works beautifully at first-- the ship jumps into warp, and the Enterprise follows close behind. Shortly thereafter, though, a power fluctuation on the test-ship goes wild, and the wave spins out of control, destroying the test-ship and damaging the Enterprise (sensors and warp engines are down, shields are minimal).
Worf talks to Kyle about Alexander, at her behest. Apparently, his attitude is worsening-- he's bullying people and then denying it, claiming to her that Worf told him "Klingons do not listen to teachers", and so forth. She suggests a session with Counselor Troi, but Worf storms off to find Alexander, who's busy in the holodeck with Worf's calisthenics. Worf tells Alexander that he will be enrolled in a Klingon school, where he can learn the lessons Worf has failed to teach him.
With the sensors back up, Data locates the wave, now moving at warp 4.1, and gaining energy quickly. A call to Dr. Ja'Dar, head of the project, reveals that at the energy level it's expected to have once it reaches the other end of the test, it would destroy both the colony there and most of the surrounding planet.
Worf talks to Troi, who without intruding manages to point out that perhaps Alexander felt abandoned when Worf sent him to Worf's parents in the first place, and is acting out those feelings now. With memories of K'Ehleyr, she tells Worf that they *both* have some healing to do. Worf tries to talk to Alexander, but Alexander is angry and will not listen, and Worf is then suddenly called away. Alexander stalks off.
Picard decides that the best option to stop the Soliton wave is to get in front of it and fire several torpedoes-- this option unfortunately, however, entails going *through* the wave to get there, a difficult task at best. As they catch up to the wave and prepare to go through it, Alexander finds himself back in the biolab where the field trip was. The Enterprise traverses the wave, but is shaken. Shields have buckled to the point where several sections have to be sealed off and evacuated before firing torpedoes, and one such section includes the biolab, now on fire. Worf and Riker head to the biolab and manage to rescue Alexander with scant seconds to spare, and Worf "challenges" Alexander to remain with him, a challenge Alexander accepts.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Ensign - Sheila Franklin
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>The Enterprise approaches the Black Cluster (a group of collapsed protostars with an extremely strong and erratic gravitational pull) in search of the science vessel S.S. Vico, which went missing there two days earlier. They find the Vico, adrift and with a large amount of structural damage-- and when they beam aboard to obtain the logs, they also find a survivor: Timothy, a child trapped under a beam.
Transport proves impossible without moving the beam, and moving it is likely to cause structural failure of the surrounding area, so Data sends back the rest of the away team and rescues Timothy on his own. Once in sickbay and attended to, Timothy says that the Vico was attacked without warning, and that he just barely managed to hide from a brutal boarding party. He also tries his best to keep Data in the immediate area, but once he falls asleep, Data goes to assist Geordi in Engineering.
They find that an EM pulse of some kind corrupted nearly all the Vico's logs, including all the sensor data. As they get to work on what they can save, Geordi tells Data [at Data's behest] of being caught in a fire once, and notes that for a long time afterwards he wouldn't even let his parents out of earshot. Meanwhile, analysis of the Vico from the Enterprise sensors shows that any attack must have occurred inside the Black Cluster, probably with disruptors rather than phasers, and at *very* close range. It's possible, although unlikely-- but when Geordi hears talk of a boarding party, he protests that based on available data, that *is* nearly impossible-- which means Timothy's hiding behind a convenient lie. Troi suggests that Data spend more time with Timothy, since he already has Timothy's trust and can do the most to help him out of shock.
After Data visits Timothy for a short time, they discuss Data's android nature. When Timothy realizes that Data is smarter and stronger than humans, and has no emotions, he takes this as a model, and greets Troi shortly thereafter as an "android".
Picard, with little time remaining before they must enter the Cluster to find out what happened, is less than enthusiastic about this twist. Troi, however, is not surprised-- she says it's a new way for Timothy to suppress the trauma, and says he'll grow out of it before too long. In the meantime, Picard orders Data to make Timothy "the best android he can possibly be".
Timothy tries his best to *be* an android, tentatively shaking off questions about nightmares with "I... do not require sleep", imitating Data's head motions startlingly well, and even making Beverly put her medical data on him in android-type phrasing (e.g. "optical sensors functioning normally"). Eventually, as the Enterprise enters the Black Cluster, he begins to show signs of becoming human again (laughing, for a start). Data, at Troi's suggestion, then starts telling Timothy of his own quest for humanity, pointing out that although he can't feel bad, he also can't take pride in his abilities, take pleasure in his accomplishments, or even savor the taste of a good dessert.
As the Enterprise approaches the center of the cluster, they find both sensors and phasers completely useless. As Data notes that the same would apply to both disruptors and cloaking fields (making it impossible for a ship to have attacked the Vico inside the cluster), Picard calls Timothy to his ready room. Timothy initially sticks to his story, but when told by Data that "androids do not lie", says that the destruction was his fault.
That belief is quickly found to be in error-- nothing he could have accidentally touched while falling could have endangered the ship with safety precautions in place-- and Timothy starts telling Data everything he remembered the Vico's crew saying as the situation worsened. With the gravitational distortion increasing faster than their shield power, Data puts Timothy's memories together with his own reasoning and orders shields down. It works: the effect was a harmonic amplification of their own shields, and dropping them dissipated it. The ship leaves the cluster, secure in knowing what happened to the Vico-- and Timothy, now once more in the world of humanity, still hopes to be Data's friend.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>Troi, Riker and Dr. Crusher fall into unexplained comas while the Enterprise plays host to an alien race.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is ferrying three Ullians to an "archaeological" mission of sorts. They're telepathic, and retrieve other people's memories. The eldest, Tarmin, is frequently huffy, overbearing, slightly pushy about his talents [attempting to convince both Beverly and Worf to have themselves probed, for instance], and extremely talented. At a dinner, he humiliates his son Jev's lack of experience. Jev leaves, with Troi following to make sure he's all right. They discuss the strategies for dealing with overbearing parents [Troi does, after all, have some experience in these matters...], and then part on friendly terms.
As Troi gets ready for bed, however, she has a memory flashback: poker chips falling, Will asking her "have you stopped thinking about us?", and her attempts to fend off some advances. Suddenly, the scene turns violent--and Riker changes into Jev. Vision-Troi screams-- and the real Troi slumps to the floor in a coma.
The next morning, Bev's still unable to bring her out of it, and has no clue what might have caused it. Thinking that perhaps the Ullians might have unintentionally carried something harmful on board, Riker goes to discuss the matter with Jev. He's rather blunt about his suspicions, however, and brusquely leaves once Jev fully agrees that all three of them will cooperate. That night, Riker talks to Deanna and tells her to wake up soon; Beverly orders him to bed.
Then, as Riker's in his quarters, he has a flashback: An emergency of some sort in Engineering, involving an isolation door coming down and trapping an ensign on the other side. Suddenly, the ensign accusing Riker of "you killed her!" turns into Jev, and starts appearing in various locations. Vision-Riker looks around, frantic; and the real Riker slumps to his bureau in another coma.
The next day, Beverly's ruled out any known medical cause [the only illness that leaves traces similar to what she's found also has other side effects which have not appeared]. She puts Geordi to work searching for other possible causes of the electropathic activity she's found-- and since the activity was located in the thalmus [the memory center], she suggests Picard once again question the Ullians.
Tarmin is indignant, but all three again offer their full cooperation in the matter. Beverly scans Keiko, who had a memory retrieved by Tarmin days earlier, and finds no trace of any abnormal activity. As Geordi's search also turns up empty, Bev searches for other causes-- and then she has a flashback. It's nearly twenty years earlier; she and Jean-Luc are on their way to see Jack Crusher's body. Jev slips in and out of Picard's position as they approach the body-- and as the coverlet is removed, Beverly sees Jev/Jack open his eyes and stare back at her. Vision-Beverly screams: and by the time Geordi and Data report to her, she's slumped at her desk in yet another coma.
Picard orders Geordi and Data to search the records of the previous planets visited by the Ullians during this mission, and then asks the Ullians to voluntarily confine themselves to quarters temporarily. Jev suggests probing the now-revived Deanna [she remembers being scared and upset, but not what frightened her] to prove their innocence. Tarmin refuses to have anything to do with it, and Picard demurs, but Inad convinces him that they deserve that much of a chance. As Geordi and Data find correlations between comas on some of the planets and the Ullians' visits to them, Jev probes Troi, who relives the events of three nights previous-- except that this time, the invader of her memories is not Jev, but *Tarmin*.
Tarmin is monitored by both Jev and Inad, and Jev apologizes to Picard for his conduct, saying that what he has done is a grave crime in their society. (Tarmin is claiming innocence.) Data and Geordi, meanwhile, find from the last two planets' information that Tarmin was not on one of those worlds when several unexplained comas broke out. Jev goes to say goodbye to Deanna, but her kindness towards him causes him to lose control. He again invades her mind, this time coupling it with a physical assault-- but Data and Worf show up in time to stop him. Tarmin, deeply grieved by his son's actions, tells the three victims [all now awake] that Ullia's best physicians will help them back on the road to full recovery.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>James Kahn & Adam Belanoff (Teleplay by Adam Belanoff & Michael Piller)</text>
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<text>Picard's efforts to save a genetically engineered society from a natural disaster threaten to destroy it.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is investigating the effect of a runaway "stellar core fragment" on nearby planetary systems when it finds out one of them is, unfortunately, inhabited. The leader, Aaron Conor, only consents to talk to them after Picard makes it clear just how much danger they're in. He allows them to come down to their sealed biosphere (initially intrigued by their transporter) to talk over alternatives to evacuation.
The problem soon becomes apparent. The colony here on Moab Four is a genetically engineered one, apparently superior to normal humanity. It is completely in tune with its surroundings, and to uproot it would be disastrous for the social fabric of the colony. [Conor was bred to be the leader of the colony, and has never been anything but contented in his role--*everyone* is perfectly content there.] Geordi gets to work with Hannah Bates, a brilliant theoretical physicist, while Troi stays to visit the colony, fascinated by this culture. Geordi and Hannah hit upon a possibility (a multi-phase, much strengthened tractor beam), but need to adjourn to the Enterprise to work further. With much concern over Hannah's temporary departure, Aaron allows her to leave.
Three days later [with about three remaining until the core passes by], no real progress has been made. Troi, on Picard's orders, works on making sure Aaron can understand the consequences of whatever decision he chooses to make. Meanwhile, as Hannah and Geordi take a break and discuss Geordi's VISOR, Geordi gets the revelation that the data-compression feature of the VISOR could solve the technical problems they're experiencing-- and notes the irony that the solution to the problem came from something built for a man who wouldn't even exist in Hannah's culture. Meanwhile, Troi finds herself warming to Aaron's charms, and against her better judgement is seduced by him.
The tractor beam will work to a fault, it turns out, but the Biosphere shield will also need to be strengthened, which will require approximately fifty people from Engineering down on the surface. Aaron, recently taken aback by Troi's sudden iciness [she realizes she's made a *vast* mistake in contaminating their culture], rather numbly agrees to the plan, seeing no other choices. With everything ready, the solution is implemented-- and with no leeway left over, manages to work. Everyone is relieved-- but Hannah seems pensive about returning to the colony.
Hannah fakes a breach in the Biosphere in an attempt to force the colonists to evacuate anyway. When that fails, she simply decides to tell Geordi outright that her culture is, in her opinion, sitting in the Dark Ages, with no progress, no drive, and no innovation. She requests asylum on the Enterprise-- and she's not alone. Picard is taken aback by this [the gaps caused by these colonists' departure could destroy the fabric of the colony], and confers with Aaron. He tells Aaron that he will speak to them and urge them not to make rash decisions, but also says that if they finally decide to leave, he can't turn them away. Aaron asks Hannah for six months to show her how they can adjust, but Hannah and the others will hear none of it; the damage is already done, and the perfect society is already dead. They leave with the Enterprise-- and Picard wonders whether the literal saving of the colony was worth the damage the Enterprise inadvertently caused.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Geordi LaForge
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<text>While suffering an unexplained case of amnesia, the crew finds themselves fighting a war they do not remember or understand.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise is tracking some odd signals which could be a sign of intelligent life. Troi and Data are in Ten-Forward: Troi manages to beat Data at three-D chess and then coaxes Data into paying off his bet. Beverly, meanwhile, is examining a diver who missed a dive by a little too much. Riker and Ro, en route to the bridge, are arguing over innovative techniques and proper procedure. Once they arrive, a ship comes into range, and appears to be the origin of the signals. It's a one-man craft with minimal armament, so they hail it and keep shields down. The craft's scans then mimic an optical data reader and increase more than tenfold in power, so the shields go up.
Data, behind the bar, offers Troi her winnings: a Samarian Sunset [a drink], traditionally made. Suddenly, a green flash washes over Data, and then the rest of the crew in rapid succession. On the bridge, everyone seems oddly confused...and rightly so, for all have suddenly lost all memory of who they are!
They quickly realize that they're on a starship, and Ro (at helm..."Looks like I'm the pilot") finds that the helm is down. Riker and Worf examine tactical, which is also inoperative. Everyone's ability to do these things makes it clear that while their identities have vanished, their basic skills have not. Riker notes that Picard, with four pips, is probably the starship's leader, although Worf (also decorated, with the sash) points out that there are other possibilities. Picard, however, points out that who leads is unimportant right at the moment; the important thing is to find out their identities and mission. And, as an unidentified person in a commander's uniform points out, they need to know what happened to them, and how.
Geordi scans and finds traces of debris in front of the ship. Ro theorizes that perhaps that ship somehow attacked them and caused all this, and that return fire destroyed it. If so, Picard reasons, other damage might also have occurred; but unfortunately, he finds no way to interface with the computer at present. Geordi calls up general system directories and finds that communications are out, which destroys any chance of a distress signal. They decide to talk to the crew, hoping they have their memories-- but they decide to do it carefully, as there may be a boarding party on board. Worf, taking charge, orders crewmembers to select a representative from each of their groups and report to the bridge that way, remaining calm.
In sickbay, we find Beverly and her patient equally affected. Bev's basic medical skills seem intact (she fixes her patient's arm without even thinking about it), but nothing else-- and the patient's even worse off, having no visible clues to what she does. ("I'm a patient in a bathing suit. That doesn't say much.") The eventual report to the bridge is that everyone's been similarly affected.
Worf, in the command chair, gives a rundown of their tactical capability, and concludes from their formidable armament that they're a battleship. Ro decides to go to Engineering to try to restore systems; and after Riker stops her from dashing off half-cocked, they and Geordi all go down (after receiving permission from Apparent Captain Worf).
Geordi and Ro make rapid progress. Riker suggests Geordi get essential systems control back up to the bridge [first priority being weapons, propulsion, and shields, second being personnel files], while he and Ro survey the personnel decks to see if everyone's all right.
Picard and the unnamed commander report to Worf that there have been no apparent injuries or deaths, and that all the systems are starting to come back. Worf says that combat-readiness is top priority, and rejects Picard's suggestion that the ship's logs are just as if not more important. The systems come back on line. "Now, we are ready." "The question is, for what?"
After a test of tactical systems reveals no problems at all, Picard suggests a full diagnostic of command systems. Worf initially objects, but when the unnamed commander agrees with Picard that damage may still be present, agrees. (Beverly's need for normal brainscans to compare to current ones, i.e. medical records, is given next highest priority.)
Riker and Ro finish deck ten and head for Ten-Forward, engaging in a little flirtatious bantering along the way. When they get there, they talk to the group's representative (Deanna), who tells them of two anomalies. First, the bartender is an artificial lifeform (Data); and second, she can sense strong emotions while the others cannot. She senses something vaguely familiar about Riker...but then Worf calls down to tell Riker and Ro that they've finally accessed the personnel files.
The biographical sketches are out of reach, but the crew manifest is there. The positions are as one would expect, except that Will Riker is now *second* officer, with the first officer being the heretofore unnamed commander, Commander Keiran MacDuff. Picard orders the rest of the bridge crew to the bridge, and tells an apologetic Worf to think nothing of his brusque behavior earlier.
A bit later, the crew has a conference. They've discovered their situation. The ship is called the Enterprise, they're all in the United Federation of Planets, and the Federation has been at war with the Lysian Alliance for years. It's likely that a new Lysian weapon, which has already resulted in the capture of over a dozen Federation ships, is responsible for what happened to them, and that it's turning the tide of the war. Their mission is to enter Lysian space and destroy the Lysian central command. Troi, disturbed by the violent nature of the orders, suggests confirmation with Starfleet; but Geordi and Worf hasten to point out that their orders include radio silence, and that any attempt to communicate with Starfleet would result in them being detected and stopped, thus jeopardizing not only their own safety, but that of all the other ships on other frontiers assisting in portions of this endeavor. Picard, faced with little choice, orders a course to the Lysian central command.
Riker shows Troi to her quarters, where she invites him in. She tells him that the war simply feels wrong to her, but acknowledges that war is likely to feel wrong in all cases. She again senses something familiar about Riker, and links it to past, pleasant emotions. Unnerved by the events of the day, however, she backs off, and Riker bids her good night. He returns to his quarters, only to find Ro there, dressed for bed. She tells him that "for all we know, we could be married," and suggests that they see where things lead them. "What if I snore in my sleep?" "What makes you think you're going to *get* any sleep?"
Later, the Lysian border is crossed, and 37 hours remain until they reach the central command. A vessel identified as a Lysian destroyer lies ahead, but scans show it to be negligibly shielded and poorly armed. The destroyer hails them, but before Picard can respond, MacDuff argues against it, saying first that their orders are to destroy all enemy ships, and second that it's quite possible the new Lysian weapon is transmitted via communications channels. Before Picard can decide what to do, the destroyer gives up its attempts at hailing and powers up its weapons. It fires, and the Enterprise responds, blowing the ship to bits. MacDuff is pleased, but Picard remains uncertain...
At a conference, Ro then recommends a randomly oriented approach to the central command in an effort to shake off whatever Lysian pursuit there may be. Beverly points out that there are techniques which may restore their memory, but that without the medical records it could be very hazardous to try. Geordi and Data renew their efforts at locating the records (speculating simultaneously on Data's origins; why is he the only one among the crew?), and finally break through to the relevant section. They find, however, that the mission reports, the crew recordings, the personal logs and the medical logs are all gone. In short, everything that could possibly give them a clue to who they are is missing.
Troi, meanwhile, visits Riker in his quarters, feeling restless and claiming that *everything* feels wrong to her. Riker, to put her at ease, starts talking about what he's found out about himself: his trombone [which he appears to play better than he did before] shows he's musical, a souvenir from "a place called Alaska" shows that he's athletically inclined and interested in mountain climbing, he's interested in exotic food, and "I vacation on a planet called Risa," as the horgon makes clear. Troi notices a book, and opens it to read a dedication: "To Will. All my love, Deanna." This, as Riker points out, may explain the familiar feelings she's been having. Suddenly, Ro walks in. Troi and Riker insist nothing was being interrupted, and a somewhat flustered Troi beats a hasty retreat. Ro asks if Riker's sure nothing was going on, because "I have a feeling that I used to be the jealous type."
Geordi tells the others of just how specific and selective the damage to the computer was, but MacDuff points out that it is consistent with the information they have on the Lysian weapon. Beverly says that she could try the procedure without the records, but it would be dangerous; and MacDuff hastily volunteers for the process. Unfortunately, he appears to go into convulsions early on: the process is too dangerous, and isn't making any progress. Beverly concludes she's back to square one.
Picard and MacDuff talk about the mission. Picard is concerned about the utter lack of corroborative evidence, and the circumstantial evidence against their orders (namely the lackluster Lysian ship). He compares their situation to being "handed a weapon, taken into a room, and told to shoot a stranger", and says he simply can't do it without some moral context. MacDuff agrees that it would be nice if "all the questions were answered," but points out in return that Picard may, simply due to his own moral discomfort, end up prolonging a war and causing thousands of deaths on both sides. Picard broods.
MacDuff, meanwhile, calls Worf to his quarters. When Worf arrives, MacDuff appeals to him as another person "born to combat"; in short, as a fellow warrior. He says that their skills make them uniquely qualified for the battle ahead, and implies that Picard's wavering on the issue may force them to take matters into their own hands. The mission must, after all, succeed.
The Enterprise finally enters the Lysian system, and sails through a barrage of sentry pods with negligible effort. Riker immediately points out that it seemed *too* easy, but agrees that no battleships have been seen yet. They reach the central command, and find no vessels arrayed to defend it, minimal defenses (a single photon torpedo could destroy it), and over fifteen thousand people on board.
Picard orders a standby. Troi claims it all is simply wrong, Riker points out that the Federation's mortal enemies can't be that far behind in weapons technology, and MacDuff argues that others are depending on them, that they must attack, and attack now. Picard decides otherwise. "I shall not fire on defenseless people." He orders a channel open-- and MacDuff belays it. He claims that something is wrong with Picard, claims command, and orders Worf to fire. Worf refuses, but when he tries to prevent MacDuff from doing so, MacDuff tosses him aside easily. Riker and Worf fire on MacDuff, stunning him and revealing him as something not human at all!
Some time later, with the crew's memories restored, the Lysians identify "MacDuff" as a Suttaran, the Lysians' true enemies and their equal in weapons technology. "MacDuff" attempted to use the Enterprise to end his race's war in one swift stroke, and almost succeeded. Picard expresses deep regrets to the Lysians for what has happened, and Riker tries to deal with the aftermath of his abortive romances with Troi and Ro, only to find the two of them together, and seemingly perfectly accepting of everything he did. They leave him confused and befuddled.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>The Enterprise follows a distress signal to a deserted moon. The signal turns out to be from a 200-year-old starship, the USS Essex; and although the surface is so unpleasant that no one's likely to be alive, Troi feels the presence of *something* alive down there. Since transporters can't cut through the electromagnetic storms on the surface, Riker, Troi and Data take a shuttle down. The shuttle crashes, however, leaving all shaken and Riker with a broken arm. As Troi senses the life-forms coming toward them with a storm front, O'Brien boosts the transporter enough to beam down with a pattern enhancer; but while there, all are struck down by lightning, and all but Riker are entered by strange energy. Once they're back aboard, Beverly makes short work of their injuries and returns them to duty.
Data, however, strongly suggests that they assume an orbit around the southern polar region; when Riker demurs, he programs it in anyway. When discovered, he, O'Brien and Troi attempt to take control of the bridge. Riker manages to transfer controls to Engineering, however, locking the three out, and they leave in a turbolift. As those remaining on the bridge (Picard, Riker, Ro and Worf) attempt to stop them, the three make their way to Ten-Forward, where they take the entire group inside hostage (including O'Brien's wife Keiko, and their child). Worf arrives with a security team, but the team is made short work of, and they become prisoners as well.
As the threesome quickly cement their position by isolating Ten-Forward from the rest of the ship, Picard puts Beverly to work on possibly finding out what happened to them on the moon below. Troi demands a polar orbit (threatening the hostages' safety if balked), and Picard agrees, but ordering the helm to do so as slowly as possible. Beverly quickly discovers traces of extra synaptic activity in the threesome's brainscans, and theorizes there's a second entity controlling each of them. Riker was somehow immune; she theorizes that the pain from his arm was the cause, and further suggests that causing them pain will force them to leave. She works on a way to contain them, while Geordi and Ro leave for the deck above Ten-Forward to set up a scanner and a plasma inverter for the rescue attempt.
To insure the prompt medical treatment of the injured hostages, Picard takes their place, assuring Riker that he will attempt to offer them another rescue opportunity if Geordi and Ro fail. "Troi" introduces herself to Picard-- as the captain of the USS Essex. According to her, the bridge was struck by lightning just as the ship was ripped apart in the atmosphere, and it somehow trapped them in permanent "spirit" form. Picard quizzes her on details, and she passes with flying colors, but Picard remains privately skeptical.
Geordi and Ro arrive above Ten-Forward and begin calibrating the inverter, as Bev applies the finishing touches to a containment field. As Data's possessor shows increasing sadism, O'Brien's terrorizes Keiko. Finally, as the ship reaches the polar region, Troi orders Picard to beam up their bodies and return them to Earth. Picard refuses to cooperate without the release of the hostages, and Data threatens to make Picard choose between killing Worf and killing Keiko. As he does so, however, all three are within range of the inverter, and Ro fires. The shot is a second too late, however, as Data leaves the circle, and while the other two writhe in pain, he puts a stranglehold on Picard and forces the Enterprise to abort the attempt.
The storms' interference near the Essex is so great that transporters will not function at the present time; Picard suggests O'Brien work with them, and offers all three safe passage to cargo bay 4 if they release the hostages. After ensuring that the transporter cannot be used against them, they agree, but take one hostage apiece for safety: Picard, Worf, and Keiko. As O'Brien prepares to beam up the "bodies", however, Picard coaxes the truth from Troi: they're not from the Essex, they are three out of hundreds of convicted prisoners, set adrift there five centuries ago as punishment. Riker, however, having taken the hint from Picard's choice of location, orders the containment field used just as the other entities beam up. Picard, seizing the opportunity, convinces Troi that her only options are to give up, or to die when the bay hatch is blown minutes later. Angrily, Troi agrees, and the three officers are freed, as all the prisoners are beamed back to the moon.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Data
Miles O'Brien</text>
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Miles O'Brien - Colm Meaney
Keiko - Rosalind Chao
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<text>Loyalty and ethics clash when a paralyzed Worf asks Riker to help him commit suicide.</text>
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<text><span class="style1"> random accident critically injures Worf, paralyzing him from the waist down (and the prognosis is that the damage is permanent). A neurospecialist, Dr. Toby Russell, comes aboard and begins working with Beverly on possible treatments. After three days and no progress, Riker visits Worf in sickbay. He is appalled, however, to find that Worf considers his life over, and that he wants Riker to help him commit ritual suicide!
Meanwhile, with traditional treatments apparently ineffective, Dr. Russell mentions a new line of research she's been working in, that of "genotronic replication." If successful, it would leave Worf as good as new; but if not, Worf would die. Further, she's never used it on a humanoid before, and her success rate on holodeck simulations is only 37%. Beverly decides the risk to Worf is unjustifiable, and decides to continue searching more conventional options. Then, to make matters worse, word comes in of a crash-landed ship nearby with over five hundred people aboard, throwing the Enterprise medical staff into overdrive.
After Picard tells Riker that he cannot make Riker's decision for him (and exhorts Riker to keep as open a mind as possible), Troi comforts Alexander, who is angry at not being allowed to see his father (at Worf's own request). She later upbraids Worf for putting his honor above his son. Beverly and Dr. Russell arrive, and tell Worf of a treatment with artificial implants that would eventually result in his regaining about 60% of his mobility. Worf makes a halfhearted attempt to use the training device, but angrily rejects this line of treatment as repugnant. Russell, seeing an opening, quickly mentions her genotronic treatment, pointing out the possibility of a complete recovery. As they leave Worf to ponder this, Beverly angry upbraids Russell for overstepping her authority, and using a patient's desperation to advance her own research. Their conversation is interrupted, however, as the Enterprise reaches the crash site, and both doctors apply their efforts to the emergency at hand.
During this treatment, however, Russell oversteps her bounds and uses her own treatments rather than conventional methods on one patient. The patient dies, and a livid Beverly removes Russell from all medical duty. A few hours later, however, Picard quietly suggests to her that she allow Russell to use the genotronic method on Worf, pointing out to her that the choice Worf faces in his own mind is that of suicide or risking death for a full cure. An upset Beverly ponders this, while Riker confronts Worf about the suicide ritual. He angrily takes Worf to task for his attitude throughout the whole affair, and clinches matters by saying that Klingon custom does not allow Riker to be the one who assists; that falls to the oldest son (i.e. Alexander). Worf, unwilling or unable to ask Alexander to help him die, chooses the option of the genotronic treatment.
Beverly grudgingly allows the treatment, and the procedure begins (after Worf asks Troi to raise Alexander should he die in the process). While Picard, Riker, Troi and Alexander all busy themselves with nonessentials, things in surgery go smoothly, for the most part. However, once the new spinal column is in place and Worf's brain is taken off life support, he suddenly goes into cardiac arrest; and despite Beverly's best efforts, dies on the operating table. She tearfully tells Alexander the bad news-- but when Alexander goes in to see him, Worf suddenly twitches. The Klingon anatomy's many "unnecessary" redundancies are the very thing that saved his life. Beverly stonily bids farewell to Russell, and Worf begins the road back to recovery.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu
</span><span class="style22">"You scare me, doctor. You risk your patients' lives, and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time--sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you. You take shortcuts--right through living tissue. You put your research </span><span class="style23">ahead</span><span class="style22"> of your patients' lives, and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, doctor; I'm not sure I could."</span></text>
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<text>A rescue mission leads to a dangerous romance between Riker and a rebellious member of an androgynous race.</text>
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<text>The Enterprise has teamed up with members of an androgynous race called the J'naii, in a joint attempt to find and rescue the crew of a missing J'naii shuttle. They quickly find that the shuttle has, in all probability, fallen into a pocket of "null space", where their electromagnetic energy is slowly being drained and signals cannot get out. Riker teams up with one of the J'naii, Soren, to work on charting the pocket. Soren and Riker are each puzzled and fascinated by the differences in each other's culture: the concept of gender is so deeply ingrained to Riker, and so foreign to the J'naii, that it's an incredibly confusing gulf. Nevertheless, the two quickly become friends.
The charting mission is successful, and preparations ensue to modify the shuttle in such a way that it can enter the pocket long enough to rescue the crew. However, the night before the shuttle is to be launched, Soren confesses to Riker that she finds him attractive. She tells him that this can never be made public, however; the J'naii find the concept of gender repugnant and deviant, and those who demonstrate tendencies toward one gender or another are labeled deviant and "cured" through brainwashing. Soren, and those like her, live lives filled with secrecy, pretense, and fear. Riker is stunned.
The following morning, the two successfully rescue the crew of the J'naii shuttle (just barely, and at the cost of their own shuttle). At the reception on J'naii that evening to honor them, however, Riker and Soren slip away to enjoy their rapidly growing love; and Soren's departure is noticed by her former teacher, Krite.
The Enterprise remains in orbit to chart the pocket in detail. However, Riker is shocked when, upon entering Soren's quarters, he finds Krite there instead. Krite informs him that they know what he and Soren have been doing, and that Soren is in custody to ensure it cannot happen again. Riker immediately beams down to the surface and interrupts Soren's trial. He claims that nothing happened, and that any attempts that were made were entirely on his initiative. Soren, however, refuses to add another lie to the proceedings, and boldly announces that she *is* female. She points out how similar she and those like her are to "normal" J'naii: they laugh, cry, complain, and so on. "What makes you think you can dictate to us how we love one another?", she cries.
Regardless, the J'naii leader Noor is unmoved. She accepts Soren's confession of her "perversion" and orders her taken away for treatment, over Riker's protestations. Riker angrily tells Picard of all that has happened, but Picard says that if Noor is so adamant, nothing can be done-- and he cautions Riker against taking matters into his own hands. However, Riker beams down anyway (with Worf coming along to help his friend) and attempts to rescue Soren. To his horror, however, he discovers he's too late; Soren now believes her past actions were "sick", and claims to be much happier as a "normal" J'naii. Heartsick and weary, Riker leaves with the Enterprise.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data</text>
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<text>Disaster has struck. Casualties are mounting. The starboard nacelle has taken a direct impact and is leaking drive plasma. Geordi attempts to shut down the warp core as Riker orders the crew to the escape pods. The shutdown is unsuccessful, and the ejection mechanism for the core is not off-line. Picard gives his final orders. "All hands abandon ship! Repeat, ALL HANDS ABAN--" And the Enterprise goes up in a fiery explosion.
Stardate 45652.1. The Enterprise is entering and beginning to chart the unexplored Typhon expanse. At a poker game that evening, Bev manages to call Riker's bluff and win handily. When asked how she knew, she says it was just a feeling. She's then called to sickbay to assist Geordi, who's been feeling dizzy and disoriented. The symptoms are those of an ear infection, but there's no apparent physical cause. She suggests it's overwork and prescribes him something for the dizziness-- and then suddenly has the feeling that they've had that conversation before, despite Geordi's insistence that he's never had those symptoms before. Later, when Bev goes to bed, she hears incomprehensible voices just after turning off the light. She turns the light on (breaking a glass on her nightstand in the process)-- and then hears nothing.
The following morning, as strategies for charting the Expanse are discussed, Bev reports the previous night's voices. Nothing anomalous appeared on the sensors then, however, and Troi sensed nothing odd-- but ten other people reported the same voices. Picard makes a note to have the sensor logs checked later--but then Worf calls, with news of something very close off the starboard bow. It's a very localized distortion of the space/time continuum. Picard orders Ro (at the helm) to slowly back off-- but then thrusters suddenly don't respond. The distortion fluctuates--and the Enterprise systems go down. The distortion field builds up power-- and another ship suddenly comes barrelling through the rift, heading right for them. Thrusters don't respond, shields are down, and hailing them brings no response. Riker suggests depressurizing the main shuttle bay to move them out of the way, and Data suggests using the tractor beam to push the other ship out of the way. Picard orders the latter-- and while the ship avoids a head-on collision, it scrapes the Enterprise's starboard nacelle.
Disaster has struck. Casualties are mounting. The starboard nacelle has taken a direct impact and is leaking drive plasma. Geordi attempts to shut down the warp core as Riker orders the crew to the escape pods. The shutdown is unsuccessful, and the ejection mechanism for the core is not off-line. Picard gives his final orders. "All hands abandon ship! Repeat, ALL HANDS ABAN--" And the Enterprise goes up in a fiery explosion.
Stardate 45652.1. The Enterprise is entering and beginning to chart the unexplored Typhon expanse. At a poker game that evening, Riker begins to run a bluff-- but then realizes Bev will call it and quits while he's ahead. When asked how he knew she would call, he says that he just had a feeling; and Bev says she had the same feeling. She's called to sickbay to help Geordi, and this time *both* of them have a sense of deja vu about their conversation. A check of the medical logs, however, shows no sign of Geordi ever having had these symptoms. "Must be deja vu." "Both of us? About the same thing?" Disturbed, Beverly goes to bed-- and again hears voices. She turns on the light, breaking the glass in the process-- and the voices are gone. She goes to talk to Picard in his ready room. He suggests that it's probably just insomnia, but says he'll have Geordi and Data run a diagnostic to make sure everything's all right.
The next morning, Geordi and Data report they've come up empty--but again, ten other people reported the same voices. Suddenly, Worf calls with news of the space/time distortion. Picard orders Ro (at the helm) to slowly back off-- but then thrusters suddenly don't respond. The distortion fluctuates-- and the Enterprise systems go down. The distortion field builds up power-- and another ship suddenly comes barrelling through the rift, heading right for them. Thrusters don't respond, shields are down, and hailing them brings no response. Riker suggests depressurizing the main shuttle bay to move them out of the way, and Data suggests using the tractor beam to push the other ship out of the way. Picard orders the latter-- and while the ship avoids a head-on collision, it scrapes the Enterprise's starboard nacelle.
Disaster has struck. Casualties are mounting. The starboard nacelle has taken a direct impact and is leaking drive plasma. Geordi attempts to shut down the warp core as Riker orders the crew to the escape pods. The shutdown is unsuccessful, and the ejection mechanism for the core is not off-line. Picard gives his final orders. "All hands abandon ship! Repeat, ALL HANDS ABAN--" And the Enterprise goes up in a fiery explosion.
Stardate 45652.1. The Enterprise is entering and beginning to chart the unexplored Typhon expanse. At the poker game, Worf is the first to announce a sense of deja vu, but everyone aside from Data feels it. First Beverly, then Worf, and then Riker in turn announce the cards Data is about to deal. Bev calls sickbay to ask about Geordi about five seconds before he comes in. Later, Picard enters sickbay to hear her report. This time, Bev's feeling that a regular analysis wouldn't work was so strong that she tried an optical diagnostic, and she discovered a phase shift in the response of Geordi's VISOR, in effect giving little afterimages of nonexistent things. She checked further and found evidence of tiny distortions in the surrounding decyon field. Geordi goes to check the warp-field coils and to do a localized subspace scan.
That night, Beverly moves her glass far from her nighttable before going to bed. When she hears the voices, she records as much as possible with her tricorder, then turns on the light and calls Geordi. Upon hearing that he and Data just picked up something on their scan, she runs down to join them-- and knocks the glass over with her lab coat en route. Geordi and Data hear the recording, and confirm that it's both real and voice output. Data tries to differentiate the voices himself, and discovers that it's approximately a thousand voices, belonging to the Enterprise crew-- them.
At a conference very early the next morning (it simply couldn't wait until 0700, the time of the conference on previous iterations), Geordi presents his hypothesis. He believes they've somehow been caught in a temporal feedback loop, where they're repeating their actions and events over and over. They could have been in it for hours, days, or years. Data plays the three significant voice recordings he gathered from Bev's tape (which appear to be from previous loops): in turn, they are "...a highly localized distortion of the space-time continuum...", "...collision course, impact in 36 seconds...", and "All hands abandon ship! Repeat, ALL HANDS ABAN--" Geordi theorizes that the explosion of a starship so close to a distortion such as this might have caused the loop in the first place--and thus, by avoiding the collision might avoid the loop. While reversing course is ruled out as an option, all precautions are ordered. Geordi then points out that they may not figure out where they went wrong until it's too late, and that the crucial thing is to make sure the next loop doesn't start back at square one. The best way to do this appears to be to make a deliberate decyon emission which will be received by Data's brain, "subconsciously". But it'll have to be short-- no more than a word, probably; and there's also no way to gauge exactly how Data will perceive it.
Regardless, the emitter and receiver are set up-- and Bev and Geordi note they feel no sense of deja vu in this case, which might be a good sign. Then, they're called to the bridge by Worf; the distortion has just been found, and Riker wonders aloud how they might have handled it the last time. Picard orders Ro (at the helm) to slowly back off-- but then thrusters suddenly don't respond. The distortion fluctuates-- and the Enterprise systems go down. The distortion field builds up power-- and another ship suddenly comes barrelling through the rift, heading right for them. Thrusters don't respond, shields are down, and hailing them brings no response. Riker suggests depressurizing the main shuttle bay to move them out of the way, and Data suggests using the tractor beam to push the other ship out of the way. Picard orders the latter-- and while the ship avoids a head-on collision, it scrapes the Enterprise's starboard nacelle.
Disaster has struck. Casualties are mounting. The starboard nacelle has taken a direct impact and is leaking drive plasma. Geordi attempts to shut down the warp core as Riker orders the crew to the escape pods. The shutdown is unsuccessful, and the ejection mechanism for the core is not off-line. Picard gives his final orders. "All hands abandon ship! Repeat, ALL HANDS ABAN--" And the Enterprise goes up in a fiery explosion-- but not before Data hurriedly makes a decyon transmission...
Stardate 45652.1. The Enterprise is entering and beginning to chart the unexplored Typhon expanse. At the poker game, all but Data feel a sense of deja vu; and Beverly again reads off the cards she believes Data will deal. As Data deals, however, the hand is *different*. All four hands get a 3, and then all get three of a kind. All are at a loss to know what it means, and Beverly goes off to answer the call from sickbay. She helps Geordi, and again decides to try an optical diagnostic, discovering the phase shift (discovered last time around to be afterimages in time). Again, Picard is informed, and Geordi goes to check the coils and subspace scans.
This time, however, as Geordi and Data run the diagnostic, the monitors are filled with the number 3. They are puzzled, but then pick up the decyon fluctuation just as Beverly calls from her quarters. She comes down to see how they're doing; and they hear a glass breaking from her quarters... At the conference later that morning, the same conclusions are reached as in the last loop, but the number 3 is met with puzzlement. Geordi and Troi believe it may well be a message from the previous loop, but neither can figure out what it might mean. They decide to run a level-3 diagnostic on all systems-- but then Ro calls about the distortion and all head to the bridge. While wondering what they did the last time around, Picard orders Ro (at the helm) to slowly back off--but then thrusters suddenly don't respond. The distortion fluctuates-- and the Enterprise systems go down. The distortion field builds up power-- and another ship suddenly comes barrelling through the rift, heading right for them. Thrusters don't respond, shields are down, and hailing them brings no response. Riker suggests depressurizing the main shuttle bay to move them out of the way, and Data suggests using the tractor beam to push the other ship out of the way. Picard orders the latter-- but as Worf implements it, Data finds himself facing Riker's rank insignia-- with THREE pips. He immediately concludes that the tractor beam will not work and also depressurizes the bay. The impact pushes them back slightly; and the two ships miss each other entirely.
As power comes back up and Data explains his reasoning (apparently he subconsciously arranged the deck in the poker game to come up all threes, along with all the occurrences on the monitors), Worf checks a timebase beacon and finds they've been trapped in the loop for 17.4 days. The other ship hails, and is identified as the USS Bozeman, a Federation ship-- but of a class not used in over 80 years. Picard talks to Captain Bateson and suggests that they too were caught in a temporal loop. Bateson dismisses the idea as absurd, but when asked the year, responds immediately that it's 2278. "Perhaps you should beam aboard our ship," suggests Picard. "There's something we need to discuss..."
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>Caught between loyalty to his friends and the need to tell the truth, Wesley becomes involved in a cover-up when his Starfleet Acadamy squadron suffers a deadly collision.</text>
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Boothby - Ray Walston
Nicholas Locarno - Robert Duncan McNeill
Lt. Commander Albert - Ed Lauter
Admiral Brand - Jacqueline Brooks
Captain Satelk - Richard Fancy
Hajar - Walker Brandt
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<text>As the Enterprise heads to Starfleet Academy for Picard's commencement address, Picard receives word of an accident in which Wes was involved while he and his flight team, the Nova Squadron, were practicing maneuvers. He's fine, but one of the team members, Josh Albert, was killed, and an investigation is underway, headed by Admiral Brand, the Academy superintendent. Picard offers to help, but there's no need.
Picard explores the grounds before the hearing, and finds the old groundskeeper Boothby, who helped him through trying times when he was a student there. Boothby dismisses Picard's attempts at thanks, saying that what Picard's done with his life since is thanks enough, and that he didn't do anything. "You knew what you had to do, what was the right thing. I just made sure you listened to yourself." Meanwhile, the squadron leader, Nicholas Locarno, gives the squadron a pep talk before the hearing, saying that everything will be fine-- as long as they stick together. Nick testifies, saying that while in a "diamond-slot" formation, they entered a maneuver called a Jaeger loop, and that nine seconds later, Josh Albert's ship crashed into another cadet's, causing the eventual destruction of all five ships.
Cadet Hajar, the cadet whose ship Josh crashed into, testifies that the ships did not deviate from their flight plan-- and when pressed, admits that they did, but by amounts small enough that she didn't feel it was important. She also claims not to have seen Josh break formation, being unaware of a problem until her proximity alarm went off. Cadet Sito, who was in the rear, also claimed not to have, saying she was flying only on sensor readings at the time-- but when pressed, cannot even describe the orientation of Josh's ship. Nick breaks in, saying that lately, Josh had been having "difficulties" in formation flying, and that he must have panicked. Admiral Brand is very disturbed by this news, and adjourns the hearing until the following day, when data from Wes's flight recorder should be ready. "Everything's fine," Nick tells Wes. "Trust me."
As Picard, citing Wes as "one of our own", asks Geordi and Data to examine the evidence themselves, Wes protests Nick lying at the investigation, saying that he said no one would have to lie. Nick responds by saying that he *didn't* lie, that Josh probably did panic and "we all know it". Reluctantly, Sito and Hajar agree. Nick says that the only data recoverable from Wes's recorder is all before the collision, so that as long as Wes doesn't volunteer extra information, all will be fine. And after all, as Sito points out, if they said what *really* happened, they all might as well start packing. Nick tells Wes that he knows what it's like to count on a team for his life, since he's been out in space.
Despite qualms about this, compounded by Josh's father apologizing to Wes for Josh letting them all down, Wes sticks to the story when describing the recorder's data. He adds nothing, and when asked whether the ships remained in formation just after the Jaeger loop, firmly says yes. Data from a navigational satellite around Saturn is then shown, proving without a doubt that the ships were NOT in formation seven seconds after the loop was completed. "What is your explanation, Mister Crusher?" "I have none, sir."
Beverly attempts to comfort Wes, but her firm belief that the data was somehow tampered with to frame Wes only upsets him more, and he begs her not to try to protect him from any of this. Picard talks to Boothby, and finds that the Nova Squadron is considered heroes by the entire Academy, and that Nick Locarno's personal charm and magnetism is what holds the team together. "If he asked them to do something," Boothby says, "they'd do it. Even if it means going right over a cliff." When Geordi and Data find that Wes's coolant interlock was open just before the crash, and that one of the reasons for doing that is to purge drive plasma (a dangerous move likely to ignite the plasma), Picard realizes that that's exactly what they were trying to do...
Picard calls Wes into his ready room and shows him a simulation of a maneuver known as the Kolvord Starburst-- a very flashy, very spectacular, and very dangerous flight stunt. It's been banned at the Academy for over a hundred years, ever since a group of cadets tried it and failed, all five losing their lives in the process. Picard reasons that Nick Locarno wanted his Academy career to go out with a blaze of glory, and that he talked the rest of them into learning the stunt, and then covering up the truth when disaster ensued. When he asks Wesley if that is correct, Wes first remains silent, then chooses not to answer.
Picard is livid, for Wes has already *given* an answer to the inquiry, and that answer was a lie. Wes protests that it was not a lie, but Picard angrily points out that "a lie of omission is still a lie!" He reminds Wes of his first day on board, when even annoyed at Wes's apparent presumption on the bridge, Picard was impressed at the depth of his knowledge. He goes on to say that ever since he made Wes an acting ensign, he'd always been convinced that Wes would be a superb officer-- until now. "The first duty of a Starfleet officer is to the truth--be it scientific truth, historical truth, PERSONAL truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet was founded!" And, he continues, if Wes cannot face up to the truth, then he doesn't *deserve* to wear a Starfleet uniform. Picard presents Wes with a simple choice: either Wes tells Admiral Brand what really happened, or Picard will. Period. End of discussion--and Picard shouts Wes out of the room.
Wes, panicked, tells Nick that Picard knows everything. Nick, upon hearing Picard has no evidence, says there's no problem, that all they need to do is deny Picard's theory. Wes balks at this, unable to call Picard a liar-- but Nick lambastes Wes for having the arrogance to decide the fates of all four of them by his own single actions. He says that the team, Nova Squadron, is bigger than any one of them. He says that without hesitation, if he were in Wes's position he'd resign his commission rather than turn the team in, and he urges Wes to do the same.
The hearing comes to a close. Brand says she is very disappointed and disturbed by the inconsistencies between the data and the squadron's statements, and says it suggests that they have been lying. However, since they have no proof, they close the investigation by only giving them each a formal reprimand and terminating their flight privileges. "This hearing is concluded."
"Sir." Wesley rises. "I would like to add something to my testimony..."
Wes confesses all, and tells Josh's father outright that Josh didn't let them down. Nick, when asked if he has anything to add, simply says no.
Later, Picard talks to Wesley on the grounds. Nick has been expelled, and the rest of them nearly were-- except that Nick pleaded to take full responsibility, saying that he pressured them all into it. As he said he would, Nick went down for the team. Wes feels awful, but Picard isn't finished. In addition to the reprimand, Wes's credits for the year have been revoked, and he will not advance with his class-- he will pay for his actions. And what's more, he'll remain on campus, with everyone knowing what he did. "You have difficult times ahead."
Wes stares at the ground, downcast.
"You knew what you had to do. I just made sure that you listened to yourself. Goodbye, Cadet."
"Goodbye, Captain." The two part company.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
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Alexander - Brian Bonsall
Campio - Tony Jay
Mr. Homm - Carel Struycken
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
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Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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<text>The Enterprise destroys an asteroid about to crash into an inhabited planet, and then moves on to continue its mission-- but as it leaves, dustlike debris from the asteroid seems to settle on the ship. Deanna counsels Worf and Alexander, suggesting they settle their dispute over rules by drawing up a contract that both sides would then adhere to. She reassures Alexander that one day he'll come to respect his father-- and just then receives word that her mother is on board.
Lwaxana, it turns out, is getting married while on board, although to a man of some stature that she's not yet met. She quickly takes a shine to Alexander and rails against the contract they've been discussing, calling it a sign of distrust. As the asteroid dust continues to move throughout the ship unnoticed, Alexander confides to Lwaxana that he hates Worf. She consoles him, and takes him to a fantasy world on the holodeck where his every pleasure can be attended to. Both enjoy themselves a great deal-- at least, until a very annoyed Worf and Deanna search them out.
Deanna argues with Lwaxana about the mixed messages she's sending Alexander and the trouble she's causing, then turns to the upcoming wedding. Lwaxana dismisses her concerns as nonsense, and then finds the replicator isn't working properly. Hundreds of them have suddenly malfunctioned, and when Geordi and Data check out a related problem in an access corridor, they find some form of gelatinous matter they can't identify. Alexander and Lwaxana discuss marriage, and Lwaxana confesses that she is compromising in order not to be alone and afraid.
As the investigation continues, the ship's stabilizers temporarily go offline as well, and the same residue is found when they're checked out. Minister Campio, the groom-to-be, is beamed aboard and found to be rather officious and stuffy. After further study of the commonalities between the two systems, Geordi and Data hypothesize that there's a parasite of sorts consuming the nitrium in the Enterprise-- and nitrium is also found in the dilithium chamber and other essential areas.
After Lwaxana offends virtually everyone she's seen so far (particularly Campio and his Protocol Minister) by whisking Alexander away to another holodeck visit, Alexander inadvertently prompts Lwaxana into wondering if she isn't rushing into this too fast. Picard attempts to return the Enterprise to the Pelloris Field (where the asteroid originated) in an attempt to lead the parasites to another food source, but the parasites spread so fast that nearly all essential systems go down. All members of the crew but Data fall unconscious due to low levels of life support, but Data manages to drive the parasites away in the nick of time, and all is restored. Lwaxana shocks Campio at the wedding ceremony by appearing naked, and he flees in shock and terror. She, Deanna, Alexander and Worf realize that they've taught each other lessons as they relax once more on the holodeck.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Alexander</text>
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<text>A beautiful woman, chosen by her people to serve as a peace offering to end a centuries-long war, falls in love with Picard.</text>
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Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
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<text>The Enterprise is ferrying Kriosian ambassador Briam to a meeting with his opposite number, Voltan ambassador Alrik, where the two warring systems will finally settle their differences on board the Enterprise. Briam brings along some strange cargo, and asks that the cargo bay be kept off limits until the meeting. Unfortunately, a pair of Ferengi are "rescued" from a damaged ship and attempt to sabotage matters. One tries to talk Briam into giving them trade concessions, while the other sneaks into the cargo bay and begins scanning a glowing, floating cocoon.
Worf and a security team intercept the latter Ferengi, who in falling knocks a cargo barrel into the cocoon's supports. As Picard, Riker, and Briam arrive, the cocoon opens, revealing a beautiful woman named Kamala. She looks around, approaches Picard, and says, "I am for you, Alrik of Volt."
Briam corrects her, then hastily justifies the entire situation to Picard and Riker. He and Kamala explain that she is a rarity, a female empathic metamorph, who unconsciously molds her personality to meet the desires of those men around her. Eventually, she will bond to one man, and she has been intended since birth to bond to Alrik, ending their bitter feud. Riker takes her to some quarters, but she quickly turns herself into his ideal woman and tries to seduce him.
The following morning, after being told by a very angry Beverly that Briam has Kamala confined to quarters, Picard goes to see her. She explains that her presence could be detrimental to the crew, and when Picard asks her to stop changing herself in this way, she explains that it's part and parcel of who she is; "one might as well ask a Vulcan to forgo logic." Picard asks her what she and other metamorphs do or want when there's no one else to mold to. She says, simply, that she's incomplete. Picard leaves, visibly disturbed by her forceful approach.
After initially failing to convince Briam that she can move freely, Picard appoints Data her chaperone. Even Data has his hands full, however, when Kamala causes trouble in Ten-Forward with a group of miners. Kamala later tells Picard that she thinks she should remain in her quarters, and will-- but only on the condition that he visit. Picard first demurs, then becomes fascinated when she shows a sudden interest in and knowledge of archaeology. Panicking at his own interest, Picard attempts to convince her that he's really a very dull fellow. She doesn't believe him, but he manages to make his refusal stick.
However, shortly thereafter, the Ferengi's attempt to bribe Briam results in Briam being severely injured. The Ferengi are sent to a nearby Starbase, but now the negotiations are in jeopardy. A delay is not possible, since Kamala's ability to permanently bond does not last long, and Picard is put in the position of having to conclude the negotiations-- and worse yet, work closely with Kamala for days in preparing for them.
They become closer over those days, and Kamala admits that until this voyage, she had never been alone at all. She understands her place in history, and intends to fulfill it, "but I find it ironic that on the eve of this ceremony, which I spent my entire life preparing for, that I should meet a man like you." Alric arrives that evening, and is woefully stuffy; by his own admission, he's far more interested in the trade agreements between their two worlds than he is in Kamala. Picard brings Kamala up to date on the arrangements (she is to be presented to Alrik the following morning at ten), but Kamala asks him not to leave. He tries to simply sit and talk, but Kamala draws ever closer, not even entirely knowing why.
The following morning at tea, a morose Picard bares his soul a bit to Beverly. He says that although he realizes she "will change as soon as the next man comes in the room... and I find myself hoping the next man won't come in." Bev sympathizes, but tells him she doesn't think she can help. Picard arrives to escort Kamala, only to have her tell him that she's already bonded; to *him*. Regardless, she intends to go ahead with the ceremony; being empathic, she can still please Alric and ensure that he never knows. Picard gives away the bride, looking rather stricken. Finally, the recovered Briam heads back to his ship--but when he asks Picard how he could possibly have resisted her influence, Picard merely tells him to have a safe trip home.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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QOL - Michael Snyder
Miner #1 - David Paul Needles
Miner #2 - Roger Rignack
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<text>A child on board as an imaginary friend, but is it imaginary?</text>
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<text>Troi is busy talking to Clara Sutter, a young girl who's essentially a "Starfleet brat"; she's been on one ship after another following her somewhat remote father's career, and has never stayed in one place too long. Clara has an imaginary friend named Isabella; but although her father is worried that "Isabella" is keeping Clara away from making any real friends, Troi reassures him that it's perfectly normal.
Meanwhile, the Enterprise enters a mysterious nebula, only to have a small glowing object enter the ship. It inspects things for a bit, then finds Clara working in the arboretum. It reads her thoughts, and then reforms; and "Isabella", now very real, greets Clara. Clara's very puzzled, but happy to see Isabella turn real, and Isabella quickly talks her into leaving the arboretum and roaming the ship.
Suddenly, the Enterprise shudders as if hit by something. Strangely, the shields registered an impact, but the sensors showed nothing of the sort. The continued drag on the ship slows it down more and more, until Isabella (invisible, after Clara had entered and been told by her father to go back to quarters) sneaks into engineering and somehow fixes things. Geordi and Data are mystified, but recommend staying around and collecting samples; Picard approves.
As Ensign Sutter talks to Geordi about Geordi's own childhood living from ship to ship (and is reassured by Geordi that Clara should turn out fine), Clara winds up in Ten-Forward, where Guinan keeps her busy until Troi arrives to bring her back to her quarters. Troi sternly tells her that she should be able to tell Isabella (whom no one believes is real and no one has seen) not to take her places she's not allowed, but Clara says Isabella won't listen. Concerned, Troi arranges to take her to a ceramics class without "Isabella" present later that day. As Isabella tries to manipulate Clara into going to engineering again, Troi arrives and whisks Clara off to class.
As the Enterprise registers another mysterious impact, and Geordi finds that they've been hitting "strands" of coherent plasma which the warpfield should illuminate for them, Isabella becomes more vindictive, wreaking some havoc in the ceramics class and then telling Clara that she no longer cares. "Now... when the others come... you can *die* with everyone else." The Enterprise finds that the strand density is getting thick enough to be a problem, and attempts to turn around and leave the nebula.
Meanwhile, a terrified Clara refuses to go into her room, and it takes Troi's promise to go in with her and make sure Isabella isn't around to get her inside. The search Troi makes for "Isabella" turns up negative at first; but when Troi looks in the closet, Isabella appears behind her. Troi turns and gasps, just as Isabella zaps her with some sort of ray and knocks her unconscious. Troi revives later in sickbay and tells Beverly and Picard of Isabella. They take what measures they can, but then the "web" of strands around them tightens, and more entities like Isabella attach themselves to the ship and begin draining the shields. With no other choice, Picard takes Clara back to the arboretum and manages to bait Isabella into appearing. She tells him that her people need energy, and that the crew's cruel behavior towards Clara suggests that they should be destroyed. Picard manages to clarify that the rules Isabella sees as so restrictive are actually to protect Clara from harm, and Isabella calls her people off and leaves, later appearing one last time to Clara to apologize and hope that she'll one day return.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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<text>Picard and the crew suffer from conflicting emotions when the Enterprise rescues a critically-injured Borg.</text>
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Jean-luc Picard
Guinan
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<text>As the Enterprise begins exploring a system that is a possible site for colonization, it comes across a signal of unknown origins. Reasoning that it might be a distress call, and seeing that it comes from a habitable moon, Picard sends an away team down, consisting of Riker, Dr. Crusher, and Worf. They find a crashed ship, and under the debris: a live, and still functioning, Borg.
Riker informs Picard of the situation, who stiffens and prepares to bring the team back at once. Bev, however, demurs; the Borg is badly injured, and would not survive to rejoin its superiors if left untended. Although the danger would be great, and Worf quickly suggests simply killing it at once, Picard agrees to bring it on board for a short time. A detention cell is prepared and a subspace damping field placed around it (to prevent the Borg from sending any signals out to its fellows). As the team and the Borg are transported up, Picard retires to his ready room. Troi follows, concerned that Picard is reliving old feelings from his capture by the Borg, but Picard reassures her that he's doing just fine, and that he is perfectly comfortable with the decision he's made.
Back in the cell, Beverly tends to the unconscious Borg. Some of the implants in his brain are damaged, but Geordi says he'll be able to replace them without major difficulties. Picard asks Geordi if he might be able to access the root commands of the Borg with the new implants; if so, then they could introduce an invasive program that would act as a slow-acting virus, killing the entire Borg collective from within. "Infect it? You sound like it's a disease," queries Bev. "Quite right, doctor," answers Picard. "If all goes well...a terminal one."
Studies show that it would only be a matter of months from the introduction of the program to the complete destruction of the Borg race. Bev is very unsettled by this, though, as it appears to be pure genocide. Picard agrees that normally it would be unacceptable, but claims that the Borg have left them no other options, and that they must do whatever is necessary to survive the Borg "war". Shortly thereafter, the Borg regains consciousness and explores its small cell. It searches for a terminal with which to access the collective, but cannot-- and Beverly also theorizes that it's hungry for energy. As Geordi begins preparations to provide it with a power conduit to feed from, Bev observes that the Borg almost seems *scared* to be so alone.
Picard and Guinan fence, both physically and verbally. While Picard rationalizes that having the Borg on board is not too great a risk, Guinan suggests the danger is greater than he knows; and when Picard refers to humanitarian reasons, Guinan demonstrates the danger in that by suckering Picard into an easy defeat.
Worf and Geordi enter the cell and provide the Borg with the power conduit. The Borg (designated "Third of Five"), however, shows no real gratitude or humanity whatsoever, merely repeating over and over that they will all be assimilated and that "resistance is futile." Geordi and Worf finish their work and leave the Borg to its aloneness.
Some time later, Geordi and Beverly are preparing for the perception tests they'll be giving the Borg, but Beverly still voices a great dislike for the proceedings. The Borg is beamed directly into their lab and introduced to Beverly. After a brief discussion of how and why she saved its life, and a mention of the upcoming tests, the conversation turns to names. Beverly explains that she and Geordi have names, not designations; and when the Borg asks if it has a name, Bev and Geordi eventually settle on "Hugh".
Hugh passes the spatial relations portion of the test with ease, and Geordi realizes the prosthetic eye has a great deal to do with it. Hugh quite placidly hands over the prosthetic for examination, and listens to Beverly explain that humanity doesn't *want* to be assimilated. Hugh is puzzled, because here he no longer hears the "voices" of the other Borg that permeate his existence under normal circumstances. Bev explains that he's lonely, and Geordi tells him that after the tests are done, Hugh can be returned to the collective-- a statement that seems almost to make him pleased.
Geordi begins to have second thoughts about their plan, and voices them to Guinan. Unlike most occasions, however, Guinan is closed to him; she merely warns him of what the other Borg would do and dismisses his soul-searching. When Geordi suggests she go talk to Hugh, she refuses. "Then just listen; that is what you do best, isn't it?" Meanwhile, long-range sensors pick up a Borg scout ship about 31 hours away...
Guinan reluctantly visits Hugh, now back in his cell, and angrily informs him that resistance is *not* futile. She describes her people's struggle against the Borg onslaught, and bitterly recounts how there are now very few of them left. "What you are saying," responds Hugh haltingly, "is that you are lonely. So is Hugh." Guinan, for one of the first times in her life, is left speechless.
Later, Geordi continues to examine Hugh, who is now curious as to why all the examinations are being done. He responds to Geordi's explanation (that they want to learn about other species) by pointing out that assimilation allows the Borg to learn *everything* about a species. When he becomes confused about why humans don't wish to be assimilated, Geordi talks of individuality, and of a sense of self. Even now, he points out, Hugh always refers to himself as "we", never "I". When Geordi responds to the issue of loneliness by bringing up and defining friends, Hugh responds to the definition with "Like Geordi...and Hugh."
Geordi and Data present the invasive program to Picard, who is impressed. As Data continues work on it, Geordi voices doubt to Picard about their plans. He tells Picard that Hugh doesn't seem... well... very Borglike any more, and that it doesn't feel right to use him as an instrument of genocide. Picard, however, will have none of it; he likens Geordi's attitude to that of twentieth-century scientists growing attached to laboratory animals, and tells Geordi to "unattach" himself from Hugh.
That evening, Guinan visits Picard in his quarters. After some small talk, she brings up Hugh. After her visit, she has doubts about the rightness of Picard's plan, and wants him to convince her. She suggests that at the very least, Picard should talk to him before committing to this. "If you're gonna use this person--" "It's not a PERSON, damn it, it's a Borg!" "If you are gonna use this *person* to destroy his race, you should at least look him in the eye once before you do it... because I am not sure it *is* still a Borg."
Picard is apparently unmoved, but later has Worf and Hugh beam to his ready room. Worf leaves, and Hugh addresses Picard-- as Locutus. Picard plays along as Locutus, attempting to bring out Hugh's full Borglike nature. However, this attempt fails, and actually brings out Hugh's full individuality instead. Picard's reference to Geordi causes Hugh to *personally* refuse to help. "I will not assist you." "You said 'I'. But you are Borg." "No. I am Hugh."
Picard is shocked, and hastily calls a conference to get other options. Riker suggests returning him with his memory wiped, but both Geordi and Bev demur at that. Picard eventually comes to the hopeful conclusion that although the Borg would almost certainly erase Hugh's memory of these events, there might be a short time in which Hugh's "singularity" would impact on the entire Borg collective consciousness, perhaps altering them forever. However, Bev quickly asks what happens if Hugh doesn't _want_ to leave.
Picard and Geordi give Hugh the choice, which confuses Hugh. He decides that he truly *wishes* to stay, but that it's too dangerous for him to do; he asks to be taken back. As the Borg ship nears the system, Hugh is beamed down--but so is Geordi, who asked to be allowed to go down to the planet and who rightly expects to be ignored. As the Enterprise hides in the system's star's chromosphere, the Borg ship arrives and two Borg beam down to the moon. As Geordi watches, they link up to Hugh and are briefed. The three quickly reclaim the circuits of their dead comrades and return to their ship; but as the beam whisks them away, Hugh ever so slightly turns his head to nod a farewell to Geordi...
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Mirok - Thomas Kopache
Varel - Susanna Thompson
Ensign McDowell - Kenneth Meseroll
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Brossmer - Shelby Leverington
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Ro Laren
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<text>The Enterprise assists a critically damaged Romulan vessel, but when Geordi and Ro beam back with some damaged equipment, something strange happens in transit. They fail to rematerialize, and no sensors can locate them. The Romulan ship manages to save itself by ejecting its engine core (with some help from Riker, Worf and Data), but they continue to need power from the Enterprise while conducting repairs.
Meanwhile, Ro wakes up in a hallway and heads for sickbay. Oddly, however, no one seems to notice her, even when she arrives in sickbay and asks people for help. Then, to her shock, she hears Picard and Beverly talking, and Beverly expressing dislike for making out death certificates; namely, those of Ro and Geordi. As she tries to convince them both that not only is she not dead, but she's right *there*, Picard leaves-- and walks right through her on the way out.
As repairs continue on the Romulan ship, and Data begins preparations for a memorial service, Ro finds Geordi in engineering, as confused as she. They're both in the same boat, but at least they seem solid enough to each other. Ro tells Geordi that she's concluded they're dead, but Geordi refuses to believe it. He leaves through a bulkhead for transporter room 3, leaving Ro to "make peace with her former life."
There, he finds Data examining the situation and theorizing that damage to the Romulan cloaking device may have caused the transporter malfunction, noting that there is a substantial chroniton field present on the Enterprise. Ro tries to say goodbye on the bridge, but gets drawn into following a discussion of the memorial service; at least, until Geordi arrives and convinces her to join him on the next shuttle to the Romulan ship to check the situation out.
They board that shuttle, which Data and Worf are piloting. After Geordi and Ro listen to Data and Worf plan their funerals (an eerie feeling, at best), they all arrive on the Romulan ship and investigate. Data and Worf find little, but Geordi and Ro discover two things of note. First, Geordi finds a molecular phase inverter, which quickly leads him to believe that he and Ro are both cloaked and "phased", a process which must somehow be reversible. Second, they hear two Romulans planning to rig a boobytrap via the energy beam supporting them, which will trigger and destroy the Enterprise when it goes into warp. They leave to attempt to warn the Enterprise somehow; and a spectral Romulan gets up and follows them every step of the way.
Data's inspection of all the chroniton fields turns out to correlate with every place Geordi or Ro have appeared, and Geordi quickly comes to believe that it's their interactions with normal matter such as the bulkheads that causes the fields. He begins walking through everything he can to get Data's attention, just as Ro, on the bridge, is accosted by the Romulan, who demands she take him to Geordi. Geordi discovers that the anion beams Data uses to wipe out the chroniton fields help him to solidify-- but at this setting, it's both slight and temporary. En route to Geordi, meanwhile, Ro double-crosses the Romulan and tries to get away. A long chase ensues, triggering a run of chroniton fields that Data (and Geordi close behind) follow. Eventually, Data is none the wiser, but Geordi arrives just in time to save Ro, accidentally knocking the Romulan out through a bulkhead and spinning off into space in the bargain.
The Romulan ship, repaired enough to get home, leaves, and only the decontamination procedures used on the chroniton fields prevent the Enterprise from going into warp. Frantic, Geordi and Ro realize they have to have a high-intensity anion beam directed at them, and it'll be short duration enough that it had better be in front of a lot of people. They proceed to their own wake in Ten-Forward, where with a little judicious action (including setting the Romulan disruptor on overload, finally), they manage to induce a high enough anion beam to allow Picard and Data to see them for a moment. Data orders a highest-power anion beam to flood Ten-Forward, and Geordi and Ro return to normal. All is well, but Ro finds herself questioning her earlier skepticism out Bajoran beliefs in an afterlife.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Meribor - Jennifer Nash
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<text>The Enterprise encounters an object; a probe of unknown and fairly primitive design, which quickly begins matching their course and speed. It initially seems nonthreatening, but soon emits a beam of nucleons. The shields go up, but it manages to break through the shields in a very narrow region, and Picard suddenly faints. He blearily sees Riker holding him... and then Riker dissolves into a youngish woman with a careworn look on her face, who asks Picard if he's feeling better, referring to him as "Kamin". Picard initially believes he's stuck in a holodeck program and attempts to leave, but to no avail. Feeling trapped, he paces. "What is this place?" "This... is your home, of course."
Picard is taken aback; is he a prisoner? Of course he's not, as she makes clear; he's been feverish for over a week. She says he's still very weak and asks him not to go outside, which he promptly does. He finds himself in the middle of a small village, where a large and happy man has just finished planting a sapling in the courtyard, as an "affirmation of life" and a symbol of hope, despite the devastating drought. As the crowd moves on, Picard accosts this man, who also welcomes "Kamin" back to the land of the fit. Upon hearing Picard's questions, however, he comes to believe that Picard has amnesia. Picard, realizing he needs answers, decides to play along with this. He discovers that his name is Kamin; that the man with him is his friend and Council leader Batai; that the woman is his wife Eline; and that they're in the community of Ressic on the planet Kataan. He takes a walk, to "reacquaint himself with the surroundings", and wanders for hours, seeing a gleaming city far away.
He returns home to Eline, who tells him she's been worried sick. As she gets him some dinner ("It's delicious." "You always say that."), he asks her a number of questions. First, he intends to send a message the next day, though he's not sure to where. Then, with a little prompting, he begins asking about them. "We're... married?" "Three years ago. The happiest day of my life was the day we got married." He discovers that he's an ironweaver, though he prefers to play his flute (poorly). He thanks her for her help, and she takes his hand and asks him to come to bed. He demurs and attempts to make excuses, but she is insistent. He begins to rise, and then sees the charm she wears, which is identical in shape to the probe they encountered. When he demands to know where she got it, however, he discovers that it's the first gift he ever gave her. He watches it twirl... and Riker, on the bridge, calls to Sickbay for help, as Picard's body slips into a coma.
Bev arrives and does some scans, finding incredible neurotransmitter activity. They reason that the probe has somehow connected itself to him like a tether, and find that the beam is nigh unto unblockable at present. They can destroy the probe, but Bev strongly urges against that. They wait.
Five years pass on Kataan. Picard is looking through a telescope of his own construction, charting the sun's path to attempt to find the cause of the drought. Eline, however, believes he's still looking for that ship of his, and hurtly upbraids him for not paying attention to the life he has *now*. When, she asks, will she get him back? When will they start a family?
Batai interrupts to take "Kamin" to the Administrator's visit. The Administrator is somewhat unsympathetic and unctuous, but Picard seems to impress him somewhat. Regardless, his idea to build atmospheric condensers is quickly dismissed as costly and unworkable, and the Administrator leaves with no firm plan of action in hand (or even in mind). Picard broods, but Batai notes that it's the first time in years he's heard "Kamin" speak like a true member of the community again. They return to Picard's house for dinner.
Later that evening, Picard and Batai sit while Picard plays the flute. Eline gently tells Batai that it's time he went home, and then chides "Kamin" about leaving his shoes everywhere. The conversation quickly turns more serious, with Picard acknowledging her points of that day and apologizing for not being a better husband to her. He asks her permission to build something else. She points out that he didn't need her permission to build the telescope, or the laboratory, and he doesn't need it now, but he insists. He wants to build a nursery. "Really?" "Unless, of course, if you would prefer a porch; it would be much easier to build, and I could start on it right away--" He gets no further.
Meanwhile, on the bridge, Geordi launches a probe to follow the radioactive traces of the alien probe back to their source. Data has figured out a likely way to disrupt the beam, and despite Bev's misgivings about the idea, Riker decides to do so.
Several years pass on Kataan. Kamin and Eline are holding the naming ceremony for their second child, named Batai for their late friend. After the formalities are concluded, they look at their daughter Meribor and note how fast she's grown. (Eline notes that she's accompanying Kamin all over the place, and is surely her father's daughter.) Kamin remarks that he once thought he never needed children, but that now he can't imagine life without them. Suddenly, he turns pale, shudders, and collapses. Eline calls for the doctor--
--and Bev and Ogawa try frantically to stabilize Picard, but to no avail. With no choice, Data hastily manages to reestablish the beam, and Picard stabilizes.
Ten years or so later on Kataan, Meribor is in her late teens, and is turning into quite the scientist herself. She's continued her father's work on the drought, and has discovered that the soil is simply dead. She tries to voice the unspoken conclusion of her work, but Kamin tries to avoid it and change the subject. Eventually, however, she voices what he already knew: the planet is dying. He is saddened that she must bear this knowledge as well, but she bears it well. "I think I should marry Danek sooner rather than later, don't you?" "Seize the day, Meribor. Live now; make *now* always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
...And on the bridge, Geordi's managed to trace the probe's path back to its origin, a system called Kataan. Unfortunately, there are no inhabited planets there; the sun went nova and all life in that system died roughly a thousand years ago.
Several more years pass on Kataan. Eline comes out to see a very aged Kataan, still working on his telescope, and who urges Eline to lie down after her recent surgery. When they hear Batai playing the flute, she suggests Kamin talk to him, hinting that there are things that need to be said. Batai comes out to talk to them, and tells Kamin that he's leaving school to concentrate on his music. "*This* is the life I want to lead." Kamin is initially aghast at this, but eventually comes around, telling Batai that they will "discuss" it later. He explains to a surprised Eline that he doesn't think he should stand in his son's way; and besides, he may not have much longer to lead his life anyway. Kamin notes that he'll be talking to the Administrator tomorrow and will possibly be expelled from the Council for his findings.
The next morning, he and the Administrator argue. At first, the Administrator simply refuses to listen, but he eventually tells Kamin in confidence that their scientists found the same conclusions roughly two years ago, but have kept it quiet to avoid starting a panic. A plan is currently underway to save *some* facet of the civilization, but more cannot be said at this time.
Suddenly, Batai comes running to Kamin; it's Eline. Kamin rushes home, but there's nothing that can be done. She asks Batai for a moment alone with Kamin, and is relieved to hear that he won't be thrown off the Council. "Remember...put your shoes away." "I promise." Eline dies, and a heartsick Kamin grieves over the body.
Years afterward, an extremely old Kamin is chasing after his grandson. Meribor and Batai come to take both of them to see "the launching." Kamin is initially not interested, but is talked into it. They head out to the courtyard, where Kamin sits on a bench at the outskirts. "What is it they're launching?"
"You know it, father. You've already seen it." "Seen it? What are you talking about? I haven't seen any missile." "Yes, you have, old friend. Don't you remember?"
Kamin turns, awestruck, to see his friend Batai again, as hale and hearty as he was in the prime of life.
"You saw it just before you came here. We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future-- someone who could be a teacher, someone who could tell the others about us."
"Oh...oh, it's me...isn't it? I'm the someone. I'm the one it finds. That's what this launching is-- a probe that finds me in the future!"
"Yes, my love." This comes from Eline, now alive again and flush with the beauty of youth. "The rest of us have been gone a thousand years. If you rmember what we were, and how we lived, then we'll have found life again."
"Eline..." He watches the missile lift off.
"Now, we live in you. Tell them of us...my darling..." Kamin stares...
...and Picard wakes up on the bridge of the Enterprise as the probe breaks contact and shuts down. He's initially very disoriented, but quickly reacquires at least a cursory knowledge of the situation. He discovers that he's only been unconscious for 20 or 25 minutes, and accompanies Bev to sickbay.
Some time later, Riker visits Picard in his ready room. As Picard gets used to the fact that this is once again his home, Riker hands him a small box they found inside the probe after they examined it. He leaves, and Picard opens the box, to find his flute. He cradles it to his breast, then softly plays it, as we see the ship fading off towards the stars.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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Doorman - Barry Kivel
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<text>The Enterprise has been called back to Earth to investigate evidence of extraterrestrial visitations to San Francisco in the late 19th century. The evidence consists of a sealed cavern with 19th-century relics, triolic radiation (which has never been used on Earth)...and as the greatest shock to everyone, Data's head. As the head is inspected (and verified as Data's, not Lore's), everyone is very edgy to be seeing this apparent sign of Data's death. Everyone, that is, except Data himself, who is almost comforted by that fact, seeing it as a sign that he may not have to worry about outliving all of his friends. When Guinan hears about this, moreover, she becomes very thoughtful, muttering under her breath, "Full circle..."
Triolic waves are damaging to most organic life-forms in sufficient quantities, and many of those species immune are shape-changers, so it's hypothesized that the aliens visiting Earth might have appeared human. The trail (by way of a unicellular fossil) leads them to the planet Devidia Two; no life signs are found, but temporal anomalies are sensed, and triolic waves identical to those on Earth are also picked up. Riker takes down an away team which specifically excludes Data (a bit of "protection" Data finds irrational and useless, but accepts), and there Deanna senses traces of terrified life-forms; *human* life-forms.
Data finds traces of "sinchronic" disturbances in the area, which implies that whatever other life on the planet is out of phase with the Enterprise crew, if only by a fraction of a second. It is possible to use a subspace field to align the away team with the aliens, but the only phase discriminator sensitive enough for the job is in Data's brain. He beams down and uses a portable subspace generator to align himself with the inhabitants of the planet. He speaks to the away team (one-way only, unfortunately) of faceless aliens consuming energy globes. He finds a caged snakelike creature, which is picked up by two aliens. A temporal tornado of sorts arises, however, and with a blinding flash, the field generator returns, without Data.
Data, meanwhile, awakes to find himself in 1893 San Francisco. After talking with a derelict for a short time, he seeks a room at a nearby hotel. Lacking money, however, he cannot get one, but he hears tell of a poker game going on in the hotel. He crashes this game, joins in, and wins enough money to keep himself going indefinitely. He befriends the bellboy (at least, after remembering to tip him) and hires the boy to get supplies for his coming "inventions." As the bellboy rushes off to collect these supplies, the derelict Data spoke to is approached by two well-dressed humans, one carrying a cane and the other a handbag. As he coughs his way to a possible death by cholera, one of the visitors raises her handbag, which emits a beam that strikes the derelict. He stiffens, and a small globe of energy leaves his body for the bag. They close the bag and walk off.
Meanwhile, in the 24th century, the mission continues over the crew's worries about Data. Geordi gets to work on jury-rigging a bigger and better field generator, and Worf points out that it could be the next away team's fate to die *with* Data in the past. Guinan, shortly thereafter, tells Picard in no uncertain terms that he must accompany the away mission; if not, she says, the two of them may never meet. Back in San Francisco, Data's mysterious invention is proceeding apace, but he comes to a halt when he sees an advertisement in the local newspaper. The ad is for a literary reception, hosted by a wealthy socialite: one Madame Guinan.
At this reception, Guinan and Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) discuss the geocentric theory and the possibility of other worlds, but both are essentially on the same side of the argument. Data crashes the party and attempts to talk to Guinan. She shows no signs of knowing who he is, but when he mentions a starship, she quickly assumes an air of friendship and hustles him out of there. They talk in the back of the house, where he explains to her who he is and where he's from (he falsely believed she had come back in time to find him). Their explanation is interrupted, however, when they notice the eavesdropping form of Mr. Clemens...
Back in the 24th century, Picard joins the away team and sends Worf back to watch over the ship. The field is activated and tuned, and they find themselves seeing the aliens Data spoke of: glowing...faceless...sitting... *feeding*. The energy globes, their "food", seem organic in nature, but Troi suggests that what she's sensing is traces of the last moments of people's lives, and that they all died in terror. Suddenly, a glowing "gate" opens, and two aliens come through, one holding a handbag. The bag is attached to an apparatus near the away team, and more globes pour into the device. The other alien is carrying a snakelike creature, who hisses, reactivating the gate. The aliens walk back through, presumably back to San Francisco.
The away team follows.
The gate closes.
Plot Synopsis : Copyright 1992, Timothy W. Lynch
E-mail: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu</text>
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