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Second season overview, Star Trek: TNG


STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Complete Second Season Episode Guide
By Jim S. Lyon (72571,3002)

The Child The Royale
Where Silence Has Lease Time Squared
Elementary, Dear Data The Icarus Factor
The Outrageous Okona Pen Pals
The Schizoid Man Q Who
Loud as a Whisper The Samaritan Snare
Unnatural Selection Up the Long Ladder
A Matter of Honor Manhunt
The Measure of a Man The Emissary
The Dauphin Peak Performance
Contagion Shades of Gray

REGULAR CAST: Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard); Jonathan Frakes (Wil-
liam Riker); LeVar Burton (Lieutenant Geordi LaForge); Michael Dorn (Lieu-
tenant Worf); Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katherine Pulaski); Marina Sirtis (Counse-
lor Deanna Troi); Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data); Wil Wheaton (Ensign
Wesley Crusher)
PRODUCERS: Gene Roddenberry (Creator / Exec. Producer); Maurice Hurley, Rick
Berman (Co-Executive Producers); David Livingston (Line Producer); Burton
Armus, John Mason, Mike Gray, Robert L. McCullough (Producers); Peter Lau-
ritson (Associate Producer)
CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Tracy Torme
STORY EDITORS: Melinda Snodgrass, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, Leonard Mlo-
dinow, Scott Rubenstein
MUSIC COMPOSERS: Alexander Courage, Jerry Goldsmith (Main Title Theme); Dennis
McCarthy, Ron Jones (Incidental Music)

---THE CHILD-----------------------Episode 27-----#127-------Stardate 42073.1--
Writers: Jaron Summers & Jon Povill and Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Seymour Cassel (Lt. Commander Hester Dealt); R.J. Williams (Ian); Colm
Meaney (Transporter Chief); Dawn Armenian (Miss Gladstone); Zachary Benjamin
(Young Ian); Dore Keller (Crewman)
Special Guest: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise completes a rendezvous with USS Repulse (NCC-2524) for
crew transfers, most notably that of the ship's new Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
Katherine Pulaski, and then heads for the planet 'aucdet Nine. A plague is ra-
ging out of control in the Rachelis System; the Enterprise's mission is to
transport samples of various other strains from the Federation Medical Collec-
tion Station on 'aucdet to Station Tango Sierra where the antidote can be cre-
ated. While the ship proceeds on impulse power due to the necessity of using
warp power for the replicators to create a suitable containment unit, an un-
usual speck of glowing energy penetrates the ship and enters Troi's quarters.
The next day, the crew learns that Troi is pregnant. The fetus is developing
at a fantastic rate -- she will be giving birth to a male half-human, half-
Betazoid being in 36 hours. Meanwhile, Wesley Crusher, who is preparing to
leave the Enterprise to join his mother as she heads up Starfleet Medical, is
convinced by Guinan, the tender of the new Ten-Forward crew lounge, that he
should remain. The Enterprise arrives at 'aucdet and the samples are trans-
ported up along with Hester Dealt, chief supervisor and medical trustee. Troi
gives birth to a young boy and names him after her father, Ian Andrew. But
when Picard and Pulaski see him only hours later, he has grown to a boy of
four years who can speak and walk. Ian seems unusual; he holds a fascination
for puppies in the nursery and purposely burns his own hand for the experi-
ence of it. Geordi, who is now the Chief Engineer of the Enterprise, and
Hester detect that one of the containers, Module L-73, is growing due to ex-
posure to Eichner radiation, and this particular strain could destroy all life
on the starship. It is discovered that Ian is the source of the radiation.
Knowing this, the young man wills himself to death to stop the radiation and
assumes proper form -- the glowing white light, who tells Troi that he was
born to her to experience humanity, and thanks her for the opportunity. The
ship arrives and transfers its deadly cargo to Tango Sierra where an antidote
can be developed, and Wesley notifies Picard of his decision to stay. The
Enterprise continues toward the Morgana Quadrant.
== Diana Muldaur joins the cast as Dr. Kate Pulaski, though she is billed
throughout the season as "Special Appearance", not in the main cast. Whoopi
Goldberg also joins in a recurring role as Guinan; she will appear in six
episodes throughout Season Two. This story was originally written for the
original Star Trek II TV series, and featured Ilia's child instead of Troi.
Original story and teleplay written by Povill and Summers.

---WHERE SILENCE HAS LEASE---------Episode 28-----#128-------Stardate 42193.6--
Writer: Jack B. Sowards
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: Earl Boen (Nagilum); Charles Douglass (Haskell); Colm Meaney (Trans-
porter Chief)

SUMMARY : En route to the Morgana Quadrant, Riker and Worf are engaged in a
test of wits on the holodeck that both are barely able to escape. Meanwhile,
the Enterprise is scanning a remote area of space and stumbles upon a "hole"
in space, a patch of darkness that they approach cautiously. After sending
two probes in, the hole literally devours them, trapping the starship in its
darkness. Picard orders the ship away from the cloud and it moves, but the
boundaries seem limitless where they were once very near. A marker buoy is
deposited but keeps reappearing, confirming their suspicions that they are
travelling in a circle within the void. A pattern approaches which proves to
be a Romulan vessel in cloak that fires on the Enterprise. The Federation
ship returns fire via photon torpedoes, one shot destroying the Romulan ship
all too easily. Soon, another Federation ship approaches, the USS Yamato,
NCC-1305-E, the Enterprise's sister ship. Riker and Worf beam over to the
Yamato but arrive away from where they want -- and after exploring the bridge
find a connecting bridge they are on as well. The ship is evidentally a mind
trap. Contact is lost with the Yamato while a hole opens up back into real
space. Picard avoids using the hole and abandoning his comrades; when he
refuses to leave, the hole closes and Riker and Worf are beamed back safely.
When all are safe, a huge face appears outside the ship, belonging to Nagilum,
an advanced alien for whom all this is, as Dr. Pulaski puts it, a laboratory;
in essence, the Enterprise is the mouse in this research lab. Nagilum is stu-
dying life and death, and to satisfy a small part of his curiosity kills Lt.
Haskell, a bridge officer, on a whim, then promises that between one third
and one half of the Enterprise crew will die. Picard and Riker activate the
self destruct mechanism. Picard is visited by Troi and Data who seem strange-
ly curious about death and realizes that they are spectres sent by Nagilum --
they vanish and the void begins to open. The ship speeds away, Picard keeping
his bluff until the last second when the ship is gone. Nagilum reappears for
a final time, Picard informing him that both races share one thing in common:
curiosity. Nagilum vanishes; the Enterprise continues....
== Writer Jack B. Sowards also worked on the story and screenplay for the
feature film STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN. Alternate title: "Where
Silence Holds Lease"

---ELEMENTARY, DEAR DATA-----------Episode 29-----#129-------Stardate 42286.3--
Writer: Brian Alan Lane
Director: Rob Bowman
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Daniel Davis (Professor James Moriarty); Alan Shearman (Inspector Les-
trade); Biff Manard (Ruffian); Diz White (Prostitute); Anne Elizabeth Ramsay
(Asst. Engineer Clancy); Richard Merson (Pie Man)

SUMMARY : The Enterprise arrives three days early at its rendezvous with the
USS Victory, giving the crew a much needed bit of respite. Data's fascination
with Geordi's creativity in constructing a naval model leads the two into the
holodeck, where Geordi has recreated Victorian London -- specifically, the
London of Sherlock Holmes. Data solves a particular case without any evidence
and Geordi becomes fed up -- after all, if Data knows how each case is going
to turn out, why bother? Kate Pulaski shares Geordi's opinion, leading her to
challenge Data to solve a REAL mystery in the holodeck. Geordi programs the
holodeck to create a mystery equivalent to the intelligence of Data, not
Holmes. Geordi, Data and Pulaski are watched when they arrive by Professor
James Moriarty, Holmes' longtime nemesis; it is here that a glitch in the
holodeck machinery -- due to the challenge to DATA's intelligence -- develops
and it diverts more power unto itself. Moriarty's ability to call the "arch",
or the exit to the ship, is created by the glitch, and out of Geordi's error
Moriarty begins to gain knowledge of the ship. Dr. Pulaski is kidnapped by
men and taken to Moriarty's study, while Geordi and Data attempt to learn ex-
actly what has happened to her. A murder of a London local leads Data and
Geordi to conclude that the computer is running programs independent of the
main task -- therefore, something faulty has developed. But when they ask for
the program to be terminated, they are unable -- the holodeck computer has
taken over. Data and Geordi take the situation to Picard, who joins the two
(with Worf remaining outside for security) in the holodeck to find Dr. Pulaski
and stop Moriarty. Moriarty, who has gained knowledge of the Enterprise --
including tracing its form on a chalkboard in his laboratory -- holds Kate
for information on the outside world when he is confronted by Picard. Mori-
arty has become more and more aware of the fact that he is a holodeck crea-
tion -- indeed, the very walls of the holodeck are beginning to show through
because of the increasing sense of reality -- and less and less the Holmesian
nemesis. In fact, he has ceased being Moriarty and has become a conscious
human being who wants to leave the holodeck. Picard promises him that it is
impossible -- but he will come back for him when it is possible. Moriarty
says his goodbye to Pulaski and promises he will miss her in whatever exis-
tence he leads. The London sequence is erased from the holodeck and the En-
terprise completes its rendezvous with the USS Victory.
== The original ending for this episode, following the departure from the
holodeck, was cut. Ramsey also appeared as Ensign Clancy in "Emissary".

---THE OUTRAGEOUS OKONA------------Episode 30-----#130-------Stardate 42402.7--
Story: Les Menchen & Lance Dickson and David Landsburg
Teleplay: Burton Armus
Director: Robert Becker
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: William O. Campbell (Captain Okona); Douglas Rowe (Debin); Albert
Stratton (Kushell); Rosalind Ingledew (Yanar); Kieran Mulroney (Benzan)
Special Guests: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan); Joe Piscopo (the Comic)

SUMMARY : While in the Omega Sagitta Twelve star system, the Enterprise comes
across a disabled starship, the SS ERSTWHILE, and meets its captain, the ro-
guish Thaddiun Okona. Okona is a cargo trader who runs a shipping line
between Atlek and Streleb, the two planets of the Coalition of Madina in this
system, and is a very lonely and vibrant young man whose first move is toward
the ladies of the Enterprise. He makes a suitable impression upon Wesley, who
is taken with Okona's sense of vagrancy, and upon Data, who becomes curious at
Okona's attempts at humor. To alleviate his curiosity Data pays a visit to
Guinan in Ten-Forward, who can't seem to help him. Geordi is put to work on
repairing Okona's damaged control system. Data creates a comedy club in the
holodeck, circa 20th century, where he meets an artificial stand-up comic who
tries -- and fails -- to show him the ropes of comedy. Meanwhile, another
vessel approaches the Enterprise, its lasers locked onto the mighty vessel.
Captain Debin, from the planet Atlek, accuses Okona of crime and demands that
Picard surrender the rogue to him. Picard is in no position to accept the
demand; Federation policy warns against involvement in domestic affairs. When
a second ship appears, though, belonging to Captain Kushell of the rival pla-
net Streleb, Picard begins to get suspicious. Neither man will admit to what
Okona has done. But when Debin finally admits that Okona has fathered a yet-
unborn child by his daughter, Yanar, Picard agrees with Okona that the best
thing to do might be to let Okona go to avoid war. A revelation from Kushell
that Okona has stolen Streleb's prized Jewel of Thesia does not help matters.
Eventually, Picard asks that both parties beam aboard the Enterprise, where
they confront one another. Both men are stubborn until the realization that
Yanar and Benzan, Kushell's son, are lovers; Benzan took the Jewel of Thesia
to present to Yanar as a wedding gift and Yanar's child is his. Okona merely
acted as a transport between the two worlds. Picard agrees to let Kushell and
Debin argue about where the couple will end up after they both realize that
such a marriage may be the best thing. Data creates an audience for his jokes
in the holodeck and realizes that he can program them to laugh, but it won't
make up for the real thing. Guinan has helped Data realize that laughter is
not the only thing that makes one human. Back on the bridge, Picard and crew
bid farewell to Okona; all is calm until Data makes an interesting wisecrack
that shows that he may very well develop a sense of humor....

---LOUD AS A WHISPER---------------Episode 31-----#132-------Stardate 42477.2--
Writer: Jacqueline Zambrano
Director: Larry Shaw
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: Howie Seago (Riva); Marnie Mosiman (Woman); Thomas Oglesby (Scholar);
Leo Damian (Warrior/Adonis); Colm Meaney (Transporter Chief); Richard Lavin,
Chip Heller (Warriors); John Garrett (Lieutenant)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise arrives in orbit around Ramatis Three, home of Riva,
a universally famous mediator. Among Riva's credits are the securement of the
Federation / Klingon peace treaty, and his talents are needed again to help
two warring factions on the planet Soleis Five achieve peace, something both
sides have requested. Picard, Troi and Worf beam down to greet Riva and are
suddenly confronted by the fact that the mediator is deaf. Riva's communica-
tion relies on his Chorus, three people who speak for him via telepathy --
a woman who speaks for harmony and wisdom, a warrior who speaks for strength,
and a scholar who speaks for intellect and logic as well as Riva's more artis-
tic side. All beam back aboard the Enterprise for the journey to Soleis.
Riva becomes taken with Troi, whom he invites to dinner, where the Counselor
learns that without his Chorus, Riva CAN communicate through sign language.
Geordi is told by Dr. Pulaski that she may be able to give him normal vision.
The journey to Soleis is free of incident, and when the ship arrives in orbit
Riva's group and Worf and Riker beam down. Both factions appear, but one of
the members of one becomes suddenly violent and before anyone can stop him,
he kills the three members of Riva's Chorus. Riker beams the rest of the away
team back to the ship, where Riva is furious -- his friends and his only
means of communication are dead. Picard orders Data to learn sign language,
and he does so at incredibly rapid speed. However, when Picard is able to
communicate with Riva again through Data's signing, Riva tells him to return
him to Ramatis, because he is no use to the Solari. In essence, he tells the
Captain, the three members of his chorus allowed him to perceive things in
different ways, enabling him to make decisions. Troi challenges Riva to take
advantage of his disadvantage, and Riva's mind is swayed. An away team beams
back down to reestablish the talks, and Riva asks everyone to leave -- he will
stay and teach the Solari sign language. The process will take many months,
but in learning to communicate with him, they will learn to speak with each
other, thereby forging peace on that planet. The Enterprise leaves Riva to
his significant task...
== This episode was the only one to be moved out of filming order for broad-
cast; it was shot after "Schizoid Man". Mosiman is married to John de
Lancie (Q).

---THE SCHIZOID MAN----------------Episode 32-----#131-------Stardate 42437.5--
Story: Hans Beimler and Richard Manning
Teleplay: Tracy Torme
Director: Les Landau
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: W. Morgan Sheppard (Dr. Ira Graves); Barbara Alyn Woods (Kareen Bria-
non); Suzie Plakson (Lieutenant Selar)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise receives a distress call from Graves' World, the dis-
tant home of Dr. Ira Graves, a brilliant molecular cyberneticist. Enterprise,
en route to a rendezvous with the doomed liner USS Constantinople, drops Data,
Troi, Worf and Lt. Selar, a medical officer, off on Graves' World via a "touch
and go" downwarping, where the foursome meets Kareen Brianon, Ira's young as-
sistant. Kareen, worried about Ira's condition, called the Enterprise in
secret because she knew of his unwillingness to summon aid. The group meets
Dr. Graves, a tetchy old man whom Selar prescribes as having Darnay's Disease,
which is completely terminal. Graves takes an interest in Data, who calls him
"grandpa"; Dr. Sung was a student of Graves long ago. Alone with Data in his
study, he begins a discussion with the android after acknowledging another
"mechanical man" in Earth lore -- the tin man of The Wizard of Oz -- and he
tells Data of his most recent discovery: the process of transferring a living
mind into a computer. When Dr. Graves dies alone with Data, the android seems
somehow changed. The Enterprise returns to Graves' World and the four beam
back aboard, eulogizing Graves in a burial ceremony (in which Data seems to
eulogize just a bit more than everyone else), then sets course for Starbase
Six to drop Kareen off to begin a new life. Data seems curiously interested
in the mourning Kareen, who loved Ira as more than a father -- her own died
many years ago, and Ira loved her in return from a distance, wary because of
his age and failing health. Data becomes agitated with everyone, especially
Picard when he escorts Kareen on a tour of the bridge. Data confronts Picard,
and the Captain becomes suspicious that there is something wrong with the
android -- for the first time in his life, he distrusts Data. After a psy-
chotronic stability examination orchestrated by Troi, Picard concludes that
Graves transferred his mind into Data before he died, and that his original
personality is being crushed and soon will be destroyed itself. Data/Ira con-
fronts Picard on the Engineering Deck, where he has rendered Geordi and other
crewmen unconscious by "accident". After striking Picard, Data/Ira realizes
his time is up, and the sudden accessibility of new life is beginning to make
him insane. When Picard wakes up, he discovers Data returned to normal, and
all of Ira's knowledge transferred into the Enterprise's memory banks. The
Enterprise drops Kareen off on Starbase Six, then proceeds out of the system,
with its own Data, suffering from a healthy amnesia, back among them.
== Plakson also appeared as K'Ehleyr in "The Emissary"

---UNNATURAL SELECTION-------------Episode 33-----#133-------Stardate 42494.8--
Writers: John Mason and Mike Gray
Director: Paul Lynch
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Patricia Smith (Dr. Sara Kingsley); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); J.
Patrick McNamara (Captain Taggart); Scott Trost (Transporter Ensign)

SUMMARY: While en route to Star Station India, the Enterprise intercepts a
distress call from USS Lantree, a class 6 cargo ship in the Gamma Seven sec-
tor. Locking in on the Lantree's bridge, the Enterprise crew discovers that
all, including 35-year-old Captain L.I. Tolaka, have died of old age. Picard
determines that the Lantree three days previous visited the Darwin Genetic
Research Station on Gagarin Four, and that the ship's crew were in perfect
health, save for the first officer's small bout with Thelusian Flu. The
Enterprise makes way for Gagarin Four, convinced the affliction was caused
there. When it arrives, the Enterprise is contacted by Dr. Sara Kingsley, the
station administrator and an admirer of Dr. Kate Pulaski's, who tells her that
the affliction could not have been created here because while they show the
same symptoms of geriatric aging, the Lantree's crew died first. Kingsley de-
mands that the "children" be brought aboard the Enterprise -- genetically cre-
ated children, telekinetic and appearing post-maturity -- because they have
been kept in isolation and have been given an immune system that has rejected
the aging virus. Kate Pulaski has one of the children beamed aboard while
under suspended animation and encased in styrolite, and determines that the
boy is not carrying the virus. However, Captain Picard will not let her take
him out of the styrolite case to continue the study, so Pulaski and Data take
a shuttlecraft outside and release him. Mere minutes later, Pulaski contracts
the virus, leading her to determine that the children are carriers. After the
shuttle, which is now under quarantine, lands at Darwin, Pulaski and Kingsley,
together with Data, determine that the immune systems of the children have
caused the acceleration of the DNA of normal humans -- their antibodies have
attacked the DNA as a result with their contact with the Thelusian Flu from
the Lantree first officer. Picard has Transporter Chief O'Brien construct a
mechanism for the transporter that will filter out the virus, but they need
a sample from Pulaski's DNA -- and a hair follicle, found in her quarters, is
enough to secure her release from the effects of the virus. The symptoms are
removed from the Darwin researchers the same way. The Enterprise departs Ga-
garin Four, where the researchers stay to one day release their children from
isolation, while the ship itself makes a final statement for the search for
knowledge, via photon torpedoes, in the fiery destruction of the USS Lantree.
== Colm Meaney, who has appeared in both seasons of ST:TNG as Transporter
Chief, gains a name in this episode: Chief O'Brien.

---A MATTER OF HONOR---------------Episode 34-----#134-------Stardate 42506.5--
Story: Wanda M. Haight & Gregory Amos and Burton Armus
Teleplay: Burton Armus
Director: Rob Bowman
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: John Putch (Ensign Mendon); Christopher Collins (Captain Kargan);
Brian Thompson (Lieutenant Klag); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); Peter Parros
(Tactics Officer); Laura Drake (Vekma)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise arrives at Starbase 179 to pick up several new crew-
members as well as Ensign Mendon, a Benzite and part of the new Starfleet
Officer Exchange Program. Picard informs Riker that he has been hoping some-
one from the Enterprise would volunteer and Riker accepts the challenge. The
Enterprise rendezvouses with the Pagh, a Klingon Bird-of-Prey class vessel
commanded by Captain Kargan. Riker beams over to the Pagh where he is ques-
tioned about his loyalty by Kargan and the ship's second officer, Lieutenant
Klag, who takes an immediate disliking to Riker -- but accepts him when Riker
bests him in a bridge battle. Meanwhile, Mendon detects some strange life
patterns on the hull of the Pagh but fails to notify anyone -- it is due to
Benzite custom that one tries to gather as much knowledge as possible in order
to make a full, accurate report. Riker eats with his Klingon shipmates --
having eaten Klingon cuisine before on the Enterprise -- who taunt him but
realize his good humor. Riker is most interested to discover that Klingons
do have a sense of humor, and they wonder if he is a "typical Starfleet offi-
cer". Kargan detects several holes in the ship's hull caused by the micro-
biotic lifeforms while on the Enterprise, the same is discovered and Mendon is
both denigrated due to his failure to notify anyone but praised for his suc-
cess in detection. Kargan rationalizes that the Enterprise transferred the
microbes onto the Pagh's hull during a two minute sensor scan (the very scan
Mendon used to detect them) and informs Riker he is going to attack the En-
terprise, after telling him that the Enterprise has been on course for inter-
ception of the Pagh for hours (Picard's detection took place long before Kar-
gan's.) The Pagh decloaks in the Enterprise's vicinity and nearly attacks
the Enterprise, but Kargan is beamed aboard the ship when Riker activates a
transponder that Worf gave him before he joined this ship. Riker, taking com-
mand of the Pagh, avoids a nasty confrontation between the two allied powers
by ordering the Enterprise to surrender, Picard accepting because of his
realization that Riker could never attack his own ship. Kargan, beaming back
aboard, hits Riker, ordering him off the ship, but Klag, who has realized that
Riker did what was best for his ship, helps him reach the transporters. Back
aboard the Enterprise, Riker is welcomed aboard, while Mendon realizes that
his trip aboard the Enterprise is analogous to the old expression, "When in
Rome...."
== John Putch also played the Benzite, Mordock, in last year's "Coming of Age"
and Collins was Captain Grebnedlog of the Pakleds in "Samaritan Snare".

---THE MEASURE OF A MAN------------Episode 35-----#135-------Stardate 42523.7--
Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass
Director: Robert Scheerer
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Amanda McBroom (Captain Philipa Louvois); Brian Brophy (Commander Bruce
Maddox); Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien)
Special Guest: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise stops off at Starbase 173, a brand new outpost con-
structed on the Neutral Zone border, for general port-of-call functions. While
Data learns the intricacies of poker from Riker, Kate, Geordi and O'Brien,
Picard encounters Captain Philipa Louvois, an old acquaintance. Louvois, the
head of the Judge Advocate General's office on Starbase 173, prosecuted during
the Stargazer court-martial hearings ten years previous and Picard still holds
a grudge, exemplified in their conversations. Admiral Nakamura, base comman-
der, boards the Enterprise with Picard and Commander Bruce Maddox, from the
Daystrom Technological Institute, who curiously has his eye on Data and for
good reason: Maddox has been given the go-ahead to disassemble Data in order
to study him. Furthermore, under Maddox, who has supposedly successfully
constructed a positronic brain, Data will be reproduced by the thousands --
yet there is no guarantee that the original will be spared. Angered by the
sudden transfer of Data, Picard confronts Philipa for his options, finding
only one: resignation. Data resigns from Starfleet, his fellow officers hol-
ding a small farewell celebration for him. Maddox pressures Philipa into
stopping the resignation, and does so; a late 21st century clause prevents
the action. Picard challenges the notion and ends up defending Data in a
hearing....with the prosecution being the next senior officer, Riker, who is
forced into the role and now must use all his power to prove his friend a
machine or automatically have Philipa rule in Maddox' favor. At first, it
seems as though Picard and Data fight a losing battle, for Riker accesses
Data's personal files and discovers his off switch. But after a talk with
Guinan, Picard realizes that what Maddox proposes is nothing short of slavery.
His defense, constructed on the "what is life?" prospect, confuses Maddox by
utilizing Data's self-awareness and bond of friendship with Tasha Yar and then
reassures Philipa that Data IS a machine, but is NOT Starfleet property. She
grants Data the right to choose....and Data refuses to take part in Maddox'
experiment. Back aboard the Enterprise, Data invites a shameful Riker to his
celebration, informing him that he did the only thing possible, and that he
will never forget that William Riker saved Data's life nearly at the cost of
his own career.
== With this episode, Melinda Snodgrass became Executive Story Editor. This
also featured a hologrammatic reference to Tasha Yar.

---THE DAUPHIN---------------------Episode 36-----#136-------Stardate 42568.8--
Writers: Scott Rubenstein and Leonard Mlodinow
Director: Rob Bowman
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Paddi Edwards (Anya); Jamie Hubbard (Salia); Colm Meaney (Chief
O'Brien); Peter Neptune (Aron); Madchen Amick (Teenage Girl); Cindy Sorenson
(Furry Animal); Jennifer Barlow (Ensign Gibson)
Special Guest: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise arrives in orbit around Klavdia Three, where the young
future leader of the planet Daled Four awaits. The Enterprise transports up
two people: Salia, the Dauphin of the people whose fate supposedly lies in her
hands, and her overprotective guardian, Anya. Salia seems entranced by the
Enterprise, which she has studied during her life on Klavdia, while Anya seems
to want to keep her away from any sort of close investigation. En route to
her quarters, Salia spots Wesley Crusher, and immediately an attraction forms.
Wesley goes to Geordi and Worf for help but when they cannot provide necessary
answers, he turns to Riker and Guinan. Meanwhile, in Salia's quarters, Anya
is revealed as an allasomorph, a shapeshifter who can change to meet her sur-
roundings. Anya undertakes a tour of the Enterprise and flaunts her wisdom,
telling Geordi that she will check up on his progress of an overhaul on the
deuterium control circuit later. But it is during her trip to sickbay that
Anya reveals her secret to the crew, when she demands that Dr. Pulaski kill
a patient infected with Andronesian encephalitus, normally not contageous --
Anya becomes a hideous alien that seems to nearly kill Worf before Picard ar-
rives on the scene and orders her back to her quarters under guard. When she
returns she finds Salia gone -- the young girl has gone to meet Wesley, who
has introduced her to Thalian chocolate mousse and ten-forward, and to the
holodeck, where she longs to see worlds that she probably never will. All of
this makes Salia doubt her destiny, and in a confrontation with Anya, she re-
veals her form to Wesley, who has been ordered to stay away from her by Picard
without reason. Devastated, Wesley rejects her. The Enterprise arrives at
Daled Four, and Salia demands to speak to Wesley, though he will not say good-
bye to her, a fact which leaves her drained. But before Salia leaves, Wesley
meets her in the transporter room, seeing her true form -- pure light. Salia
beams down, while Anya, who did all she did only to protect Salia -- a fact
that Worf acknowledges and respects -- beams to the third moon of Daled Four,
her own home. Lovestruck Wesley takes consolation in Ten-Forward from Guinan,
wondering if his damaged heart will ever mend...

---CONTAGION-----------------------Episode 37-----#137-------Stardate 42609.1--
Writers: Steve Gerber and Beth Woods
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Thalmus Rasulala (Captain Varley); Carolyn Seymour (Subcommander To-
ras); Dana Sparks (Weapons Officer); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); Folkert
Schmidt (Doctor)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise responds to a call from Captain Donald Varley of the
USS Yamato, suffering severe instrument failure and computer malfunction. The
source of the affliction cannot be found, but Varley informs Picard that his
vessel was hot on the trail of the homeworld of the Iconians, the long-dead
alien race whose means of transport and civilization has long been a mystery.
Shortly after contact with the Yamato, her systems critically overload and the
entire vessel self-destructs; at that moment, a Romulan ship enters sensor
range. Picard believes the Romulan ship to have something to do with the des-
truction of Yamato, though Geordi deduces that whatever caused the explosion
it was self-contained. The Romulan commander, Subcommander Toras, accuses
Picard of violating the Neutral Zone, but Picard insists that the ship push
on to the planet mentioned in the Yamato's log, which he believes is the lost
world Iconia. During the voyage, Enterprise suffers several mishaps which the
crew believes to be directly related to those that the other ship suffered --
and they are growing in number rapidly. Upon arrival, the ship is approached
by a mysterious blue probe that nears the vessel and almost scans the ship,
until Geordi goes to the bridge to prevent it; scan by the probe would have
meant destruction for the Enterprise. Picard learns that his ship has been
invaded by, in effect, a computer virus transmitted through the Yamato log and
now rewriting the software aboard the vessel. Deducing that whatever remains
on Iconia might be helpful in clearing the mystery, Picard, Data and Worf beam
down and discover a forgotten control station at which is a gateway to a host
of other planets as well as both the Enterprise and the Romulan ship; this is
how the Iconians managed to travel. Data is critically injured by the mecha-
nism while Worf takes him through the portal back to the ship, and Picard re-
mains to destroy the virus system by activating the remainder of the probes
and imploding them. At the moment of explosion, he travels through the portal
to the Romulan vessel and is nearly sentenced to death aboard her until Chief
O'Brien beams him away. Geordi deactivates the systems on the Enterprise and
executes a memory flush, destroying the virus program (as he learned from the
almost-dead Data) and Riker transmits this information to the Romulan vessel
to save it from destruction. The Enterprise leaves Iconia, long dead and now
unable to harm the rest of the galaxy.

---THE ROYALE----------------------Episode 38-----#138-------Stardate 42625.4--
Writer: Keith Mills
Director: Cliff Bole
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: Nobel Willingham (Texas); Sam Anderson (The Assistant Manager); Jill
Jacobsen (Vanessa); Leo Garcia (The Bell Boy); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien);
Gregory Beecraft (Mickey D)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise arrives in orbit about Theta Eight, a planet where it
has been reported a Klingon vessel stumbled upon wreckage. Detecting debris
in an elliptical orbit, Picard has a segment beamed over -- bearing a NASA
logo and United States insignia. Riker, Data and Worf beam down to a location
on the planet enclosed in an atmosphere bubble (surrounded by ammonia storms)
where they see a revolving door leading into nothing. Stepping through, the
Away team arrives in the Hotel Royale, a luxurious Edwardian complex where
they lose communication with the ship. The assistant manager checks them in,
assuming them to be three visiting foreign investors, and the group goes in-
vestigating. Data meets Texas, a wealthy playboy making moves on a young girl
named Vanessa, and learns to play Blackjack. After deducing that none of the
people in the hotel are real, but rather images meant to look human, Riker
begins to look for a way out but realizes that they are trapped -- the revol-
ving door only leads inside again and the walls are impervious to phaser fire.
On the Enterprise, Picard orders Geordi and Wesley to check into alternate
frequencies that can penetrate the atmosphere, which is reflecting communica-
tions. Data locks onto a signal from human DNA and the team ends up in a
hotel room, discovering the remains of Colonel Stephen Ritchie, captain of the
NASA vessel Charybdis, which was brought here by aliens; they took the book he
had, a trashy novel called "The Hotel Royale", and assumed it to be the stan-
dard of living for humans and created this for him to live the rest of his
life in. The novel is being played out around them and continues even now --
the bell boy is killed by Mickey Dee, a gangster, and departs through the
revolving doors that Riker, Data and Worf cannot leave through. Having pene-
trated the atmospheric interference, Picard signals Riker with information on
the book while Riker realizes the only way he can leave the Royale: by ful-
filling his role as a foreign investor and buying the hotel. Using Data's
skills at throwing craps -- all mathematically computed -- the Away team se-
cures enough money to buy the hotel and spread the wealth around, and then is
able to leave the hotel. Back aboard the Enterprise, Picard wonders how the
Charybdis managed to get out this far but is contented with the fact that this
is just another of the galaxy's many mysteries....

---TIME SQUARED--------------------Episode 39-----#139-------Stardate 42679.2--
Story: Kurt Michael Bensmiller
Teleplay: Maurice Hurley
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guest: Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise is three days away from the Endicor System, its next
port of call, when the ship detects a powerless shuttlecraft floating help-
lessly in space. The ship takes the shuttle inside and discover that it is
the El-Baz -- Enterprise shuttle #5 -- and on board is an unconscious double
of Captain Picard. Geordi and Data are unable to tap into the shuttle's log
system without a phase inverter, altering the power flow, while in Sickbay the
double of Picard does not respond normally to medication. When the shuttle
is tapped, the crew discovers that Picard-2 is from six hours in the future,
and that he and he alone escaped from the Enterprise before it was destroyed
in a strange vortex. Picard realizes that the Enterprise is caught in a time
loop, and that no matter what he does, the ship may be locked into a fiery
fate. During the voyage, the Enterprise is suddenly stopped by the strange
vortex, which appears virtually out of nowhere, and cannot escape -- maximum
warp is needed just to stabilize their position. Picard-2 begins to become
coherent as the time point of destruction draws nearer and although Troi warns
against it, and Pulaski protests, Picard lets Picard-2 loose to the shuttle
bay, where his double tries to take a shuttlecraft and continue the inevitable
loop. Picard, realizing that he must stop the loop here and now, shoots Pi-
card-2 with a phaser, and then has the ship turn around and speed toward the
center of the vortex, which Troi has concluded is a life entity acting not on
consciousness but rather on instinct. Hitting the dead center of the vortex,
it suddenly vanishes, leaving the Enterprise to continue on its normal course,
while Picard contemplates the effects of meeting yourself.
== Originally shot as "Time to the Second".

---THE ICARUS FACTOR---------------Episode 40-----#140-------Stardate 42686.4--
Story: David Assael
Teleplay: David Assael and Robert L. McCullough
Director: Robert Iscove
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: Mitchell Ryan (Kyle Riker); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); Lance Speller-
berg (Ensign Herbert)

SUMMARY: Plagued by minor computer malfunctions, the Enterprise changes course
for Starbase Montgomery. But Picard has another purpose in mind -- he has re-
ceived a communique stating that Commander Riker has been promoted to Captain
and given the command of USS Ares, an explorer ship in the Vega Omicron sector.
Starbase Montgomery sends a civilian advisor to the Enterprise in the form of
Kyle Riker, Will's estranged father whom he has not seen in 15 years. The re-
lationship is strained; Riker blames Kyle for the death of his mother. Kyle
has a fond reunion with Kate Pulaski, whom he nearly married many years ago.
Meanwhile, Wesley begins to notice something terribly wrong with Worf and asks
Geordi and Data for their opinions. Searching through Klingon record banks,
Wes discovers that it is nearing Worf's tenth anniversary of the Age of Ascen-
sion, a time of Klingon spiritual attainment where one must utter his most pro-
found feelings while under duress. Kyle tries to reconcile with his son but
Will keeps pushing him away. Kyle, a stubborn, egocentric man, has an audience
with Counselor Troi, who tries to get him to realize that Will has been pushed
away by his lack of respect for his father, but Kyle disbelieves her. Will
discovers Pulaski's former relationship and learns something about his father;
she nearly married him but did not because of their careers. His mission com-
plete, Kyle prepares to leave the Enterprise but during one last confrontation
with his son, he challenges him to a duel of anbojitsu, "the ultimate martial
art form". Wesley, Data and Geordi create a ceremonial place in the holodeck
for Worf, who endures pain at the hands of fellow Klingons on his journey
across a platform, and thanks them at the end; his confidence is restored.
Kyle and Will fight in the anbojitsu ring, dueling sightlessly -- shields over
their eyes. Will discovers his father cheated him many times when he was
learning, to strengthen his resolve. During the conflict, Will confronts
Kyle about his mother and realizes that his father loved her and was not res-
ponsible for her death. With that, Riker loosens his shields and embraces
his long-lost father. Kyle departs, and Will decides to remain with the En-
terprise because there's a lot more for him to learn.
== John Tesh of Entertainment Tonight cameoed as a Klingon.

---PEN PALS------------------------Episode 41-----#141-------Stardate 42695.3--
Story: Hannah Louise Shearer
Teleplay: Melinda M. Snodgrass
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Nicholas Cascone (Davies); Nikki Cox (Sarjenka); Ann H. Gillespie
(Hildebrant); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); Whitney Rydbeck (Alans)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise is currently investigating geological disturbances in
the five systems of the Selcundi Drema sector. Picard and Riker assign Wesley
Crusher to his first real assignment: to command the geological team that will
investigate the mysterious disturbances. Meanwhile, Data is examining some of
the lesser-used radio frequencies and comes across a cryptic message, "is any-
one out there?" His investigations lead to his contact with a young alien
girl named Sarjenka. Wesley doubts his ability to properly lead the team and
goes to Commander Riker for help, who tells him to ask himself what Captain
Picard would do. While Picard is in the holodeck engaged in horseback riding,
Data informs him of his communication in the past six weeks the Enterprise has
been in the Drema System with Sarjenka. Picard orders him to cease communi-
cation with Sarjenka and then holds a staff meeting to determine what exactly
can be done concerning the Drema problem -- the planet is decaying for unknown
reasons. Wesley's team discovers the answer: unstable dilithium lattices are
causing critical energy patterns thrown about the planet. Data asks to move
Sarjenka to a safer place and beams down, finally meeting her and moving her
back to the Enterprise, where she remains with Data. Wesley's team recommends
that photon torpedoes be loaded with resonators that can stabilize the dili-
thium energy patterns. The torpedoes are launched, and implant themselves in
the ground successfully, saving Drema Four. Data takes Sarjenka to sickbay,
where Pulaski erases her memory of her contact with Data, and then Data re-
moves her to the planet and her home. Data apologizes to Picard for nearly
breaking the Prime Directive, but Picard merely notes it as one step closer
for Data to humanity....

---Q WHO---------------------------Episode 42-----#142-------Stardate 42761.3--
Writer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: John deLancie (Q); Lycia Naff (Ensign Sonya Gomez); Colm Meaney (Chief
O'Brien)
Special Guest: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

SUMMARY: While Geordi LaForge deals with the arrival of a new engineering as-
sistant, Ensign Sonya Gomez, Captain Picard is suddenly stolen from the Enter-
prise and ends up in a shuttlecraft facing his captor: Q. Since his banish-
ment from the Enterprise, Q has been kicked out of the Q Continuum and now
wishes to join the crew on their mission, telling Picard that he could be of
great assistance to them. Q and Picard end up in Ten-Forward, where he is met
by Guinan, whom he knows rather well; Q insists she is someone not to be trus-
ted, danger follows in her footsteps. Riker and Picard do not believe Q's
bravado, and to prove himself, he sends the Enterprise hurtling several thou-
sand light years into another part of space where it is soon discovered by a
hulking cubical "ship" with no life forms aboard. Suddenly, the ship is en-
tered by an invader, half human, half robot, called a Borg; it gathers infor-
mation and then departs. Picard has a tractor beam that is holding the ship
destroyed and then waits in a standoff with the Borg vessel. Riker and Data
beam aboard the Borg craft, discovering that they are born humanoid but are
mechanised slowly after birth, and that they are all part of one collective
mind with one intent: to grow. Guinan informs Picard that the Borg destroyed
her own people many centuries ago and that this part of space holds many un-
known dangers. Q watches as the Enterprise accelerates away, followed by the
Borg ship which doesn't give up and cripples the Enterprise; 18 people die in
the Borg encounter. When it appears the Enterprise is done for, Picard rein-
forces Q's suggestion that they do need him, and they are brought back to
their own area of space -- Q's entire purpose here was to make Picard aware
that humans may not be ready as of yet to face all the galaxy's dangers. But,
since the ship has discovered that the methods employed by the Borg are very
similar to the destruction along the Romulan Neutral Zone, it appears that the
Borg are coming....and can't be stopped....
== This episode clears up a few details, including continuity from "The Neu-
tral Zone" last year. de Lancie also played Q in "Encounter at Farpoint"
and "Hide and Q". Naff also played Sonya in "Samaritan Snare".

---SAMARITAN SNARE-----------------Episode 43-----#143-------Stardate 42779.1--
Writer: Robert L. McCullough
Director: Les Landau
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Christopher Collins (Grebnedlog); Leslie Morris (Reginod); Daniel Ben-
zali (Surgeon); Lycia Naff (Sonya Gomez); Tzi Ma (Biomolecular Specialist)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise is en route to the Epsilon Nine sector for an astro-
nomical survey of a new pulsar cluster. Wesley is about to leave for Starbase
Scylla 515 to undergo more Academy tests and Dr. Pulaski insists on her own
authority that Captain Picard accompany him to the Starbase for some vital me-
dical attention. Underway in the shuttle Sakharov, Wesley and Picard have a
chance to chat. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is hailed by the Mondor, a virtual
heap of disjointed technology run by the Pakleds, a lethargically slow race
of humanoids. The Mondor is crippled, say the Pakleds (in uncertain terms)
and want someone to repair their vessel "to make it go". Wesley learns the
truth about Picard's medical problem -- several years ago his heart was in-
jured in a basic bar-brawl and he was given an artificial heart; only problem
is, the replacement is faulty and needs service, and Picard has been stubborn
enough not to seek medical attention. Geordi beams over to the Mondor to fix
the engines, replacing both the guidance system and the main power supply in
an effort to get it moving again. When he is about to leave, Geordi is at-
tacked by phaser and shields are raised, making it impossible to take him off
the craft. Troi detects the Pakleds' true intentions; their ship was never
crippled, they simply wished to have a bargaining chip in an effort to gain
access to the Enterprise's computer systems. The Pakleds are, in effect, not
as stupid as they first appeared. The Sakharov arrives at Starbase 515 and
Wesley undertakes his exams while Captain Picard enters into the medical cen-
ter. At first all seems fine but soon, the surgeon realizes that a serious
condition is underway and seeks the aid of a biomolecular specialist who tells
him that he cannot help...but there IS someone who can, far away. In space,
Riker assumes a ruse and contacts Geordi cryptically (referring to his "weapon
and defense expertise"). Geordi repairs the Pakled photon torpedoes and then
deactivates them in a critical moment, swearing to the Pakleds that the Enter-
prise has beaten them by engaging their "crimson field", in actuality mere
exhaust from the hydrogen collectors. Geordi is beamed back aboard and the
ship receives a priority call from Starbase 515. After a touch-and-go surgery
Picard awakens....to find Pulaski having completed his operation. Swearing
his ego is safe with her, she has him returned to the ship, where the Enter-
prise resumes its course for the Epsilon Nine sector.
== Collins also played Captain Kargan in "A Matter of Honor". Naff also ap-
peared in "Q Who".

---UP THE LONG LADDER--------------Episode 44-----#144-------Stardate 42823.2--
Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: Barrie Ingham (Danilo O'Dell); Jon de Vries (Granger); Rosalyn Landor
(Brenna O'Dell); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise responds to a distress signal received by Starfleet
from the Ficus Sector, a hitherto unexplored region of space. The distress
signal, which is Terran in origin, suggests that a lost colony has migrated to
here. Entering one of the planetary systems here, Picard learns that the star
has recently been prone to dangerous flares, prompting the distress signal
from the fifth planet. Riker beams down to contact them and returns to the
Enterprise with the Bringloidis, the naturalistic colonists which number 200,
led by Danilo O'Dell and his daughter, Brenna. Picard has them put in one of
the cargo holds until he can remove them to a Starbase. Brenna takes a liking
to Riker; to him, she seems very headstrong but also open-minded. When the
Enterprise is about to leave the sector, Danilo remembers to ask Picard about
"the other colony", whose people dropped them off on Bringloid before going on
to another planet. After an exhaustive search, the Enterprise finds another
class-M planet in the sector, occupied by a race called the Mariposans (after
the colony ship that brought both they and the Bringloidis to the Ficus sec-
tor, the Mariposa). Riker and Pulaski beam down to meet Prime Minister Gran-
ger, the leader of the colony, and are stunned to find out that the entire
Mariposan group is a race of clones, all reproduced from the five survivors
of the crash of the Mariposa 300 years before. Granger informs them that the
Mariposan colony is suffering from replicative fading, which stems from copy-
ing copies of copies in succession until the actual dominant traits are lost
and the race genetically dwindles. When they refuse to provide DNA cells from
themselves, Riker and Pulaski are stunned by Granger's men and cells are taken
surgically from them. When Geordi asks where they are, Granger denies know-
ing; later this helps him deduce that they disappeared and cannot remember.
Pulaski determines that clones are being created without their knowledge and
she, Riker and Geordi beam down and find two bodies being created. Riker des-
troys them and has Granger brought to the ship. Picard proposes the only lo-
gical solution: have the Mariposans cross-breed with the Bringloidis, in effect
uniting the two races which started out together on their flight from Earth.
After proposing his plan to Granger and O'Dell, the two men reluctantly agree,
although it will mean adaptation on the parts of both cultures and a lack of
monogamy to install that both races will not dwindle. After telling his plan
to Brenna, the real voice of the Bringloidis, she seems quite fascinated, and
the Enterprise departs to take both species to a new planet where they can
live as one.
== Originally filmed as "Send in the Clones"; alternate title, "Oh Come Ye
Back".

---MANHUNT-------------------------Episode 45-----#145-------Stardate 42859.2--
Writer: Terry Devereaux
Director: Rob Bowman
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi); Robert Costanzo (Slade Bender); Mick
Fleetwood (Antedian Dignitary); Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn); Rod Arrants
(Rex); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); Rhonda Aldrich (Madeline); Robert
O'Reilly (Thug); Wren T. Brown (Transport Pilot)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise transports up two delegates from Antede Three, a world
campaigning for membership in the Federation, to be taken to a UFP Conference
at the planet Pacifica. The two delegates are taken in hibernation, their
preferred way of space travel. While en route to the conference, a transport
ship intercepts the Enterprise carrying Lwaxana Troi, Deanna's eccentric mo-
ther, and her valet Mr. Homn. Lwaxana has been appointed as the Betazed re-
presentative to the Pacifica conference and transports herself and Homn to the
Enterprise for the journey. However, Mrs. Troi has different intentions; she
is undergoing what is known as "the Phase", analogous to Betazoid menopause
where a woman's sexual drive quadruples, possibly even more. Lwaxana sets her
sights upon Captain Picard and invites him to a private dinner where she makes
her own advances, but due to Picard's good fortune he is able to wrangle Data
into appearing at the dinner to keep her at arm's length. Lwaxana undergoes
scolding from Deanna, who is aware of the situation yet tries to temper her
anger with understanding. But Picard, who is unable to stop her, escapes by
fleeing into the holodeck, resetting the 1941 San Francisco program and once
again undertaking the Dixon Hill role. While experimenting with the program,
Picard is nearly killed by Slade Bender as well as a common thug, and Picard
realizes that the program is limited to the Dixon Hill novels, 'variations on
a theme' of violence. Dixon/Picard asks his secretary, Madeline, out to Rex's
Bar, a local joint where Madeline warns him to take a gun. Rex, the proprie-
tor of the bar, seems very cautious; evidentally, a Jimmy Cuzo wishes them
both dead. Meanwhile, Lwaxana sets her sights upon Riker and announces to the
entire crew that she is to be married to him on Pacifica when they reach the
conference. Pulaski keeps the Antedians alive while they slowly come out of
hibernation, while Riker and Data enter the holodeck to let Picard know that
Lwaxana's situation is getting out of hand. But she follows them, and sets
her sights on Rex, briefly, until she finds out he is a holodeck creation.
The Enterprise arrives at Pacifica and the Antedians are readied for transport
to the conference, but at the last minute, Lwaxana Troi, her head now cleared
of the Phase, senses their true intentions: their robes are lines with ultre-
tium, an explosive....they are in actuality assassins, ready to destroy the
entire conference. The Antedians are kept for questioning, while Lwaxana is
beamed down to Pacifica with her valet....but not before she makes one last
stab at embarrassing Captain Picard with her telepathy....
== Barrett and Struycken appeared in last season's "Haven". Aldrich appeared
in "The Big Goodbye" as the secretary; she received a name in this episode.
Fleetwood made a special guest appearance.

---THE EMISSARY--------------------Episode 46-----#146-------No Stardate-------
Television Story and Teleplay: Robert Manning and Hans Beimler
Based on an Unpublished Story by Thomas H. Calder
Director: Cliff Bole
Music: Ron Jones
Guests: Suzie Plakson (K'Ehleyr); Lance LeGault (K'Temoc); Georgann Johnson
(Admiral Gromek); Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien); Anne Elizabeth Ramsey (Ensign
Clancy); Dietrich Bader (Tactical Crewman)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise receives orders to divert to the Boratis system, where
according to Starfleet Admiral Gromek it will rendezvous with a Class 8 probe
containing a special emissary from Starbase 153. The probe, hollowed out due
to the lack of ships at 153, carries Special Emissary K'Ehleyr, a half-human,
half-Klingon woman. K'Ehleyr knows Worf from six years previous, where the
two shared a relationship before their careers and duty kept them away; now the
feelings between them are bitter. K'Ehleyr informs Picard of their mission:
the 75-year-missing Klingon vessel T'Ong has been reported in the Boratis sys-
tem, its crew in cryogenic suspension. The Boratis area of 13 planets is in
jeopardy; should the T'Ong's crew awaken, they will start destruction of the
outposts because of the imperatives ordered in their era -- the Enterprise must
find them before they awaken. K'Ehleyr believes that there shall be no solu-
tion but destruction of the T'Ong because another Klingon ship, the Pr'ang,
will not arrive for two days following the encounter; Picard on the other hand
believes that a peaceful negotiation can ensue if the right strategy is em-
ployed. Troi comforts K'Ehleyr, whose advances are rejected by Worf; the woman
has a terrible temper from her Klingon side and Troi suggests she work out her
frustrations in Worf's calisthenics program on the holodeck. Once there, she
and Worf do battle with holodeck creations before the mood of the moment causes
them to succumb to their Klingon passions. Worf assures her that they are
mated, while K'Ehleyr will not have any part of a marriage that will destroy
her career and his and refuses to take the Oath of bonding, assuring herself
that the only thing Worf cares about is his honor. The T'Ong draws close and
the Enterprise learns that her crew has already awakened when the ship fires
upon them. Worf comes up with a unique strategy and opens ship-to-ship com-
munications, posing as Captain (with K'Ehleyr as First Officer) and demands
that the T'Ong's captain, K'Temoc, lower his shields. When K'Temoc is con-
vinced that Worf means business, he does so. K'Ehleyr is ordered to take com-
mand of the T'Ong and Worf accompanies her to the transporter room, where she
tells him she almost took the Oath and he demonstrates that it was more than
a point of honor. K'Ehleyr transports to the T'Ong, Worf commenting that he
will not be complete without her...
== Plakson also appeared as Lt. Selar in "The Schizoid Man". Ramsey also
played Clancy in "Elementary Dear Data".

---PEAK PERFORMANCE----------------Episode 47-----#147-------Stardate 42923.4--
Writer: David Kemper
Director: Robert Scheerer
Music: Dennis McCarthy
Guests: Roy Brocksmith (Sirna Kolrami); Armin Shimerman (Bractor); David L.
Lander (Tactician); Leslie Neale (Ensign Nagel); Glenn Morshower (Ensign
Burke)

SUMMARY : The Enterprise rendezvouses with a shuttle carrying Sirna Kolrami, a
Starfleet master strategist from Zacdorn. Kolrami has been sent by Starfleet
to aid in a wargames simulation requested by Picard to test the Enterprise's
crew; the Borg threat has made such an event necessary. Riker is given com-
mand of the USS Hathaway, NCC-2593, a Constellation class starship orbiting
the third planet of the Braslota system, virtually an 80-year-old derelict.
Riker selects his team: Geordi, Worf and Wesley and a skeleton crew that has
48 hours to prepare the ship. Kolrami is a third level grand master at a game
called Strategema; Riker originally loses to him, which prompts Pulaski to
volunteer Data to challenge him, in the hopes that losing to Data will deflate
the man. Instead, Data loses the game and cannot figure out why; he therefore
resigns himself to search for a malfunction in his own programming and retires
to his quarters. When Geordi discovers that there are only fragments of dili-
thium on the Hathaway and no antimatter, Wesley, under the ruse of stopping his
plasma physics science project, beams over to the Enterprise and takes his
project with him -- it contains antimatter, enough to propel the Enterprise
into Warp One for two seconds. Data is first talked to by Troi and then Pu-
laski, but both are unable to convince him he is not in error. When Picard
confronts him, he is able to convince the android that losing does not neces-
sarily automatically mean error, and Data returns. Worf locks into the Enter-
prise's control code systems and when the actual battle begins, Picard is led
to believe a Romulan ship is attacking when instead it is an illusion, and the
Hathaway gets the first shots in. Thinking Riker and his crew extremely cle-
ver, Picard does not take notice when a Ferengi ship attacks -- only this time,
it is real; the Ferengi vessel has taken notice of the Hathaway and the Enter-
prise firing on each other and realized that if the Hathaway is being destroyed
it is probably worth something to them. The Ferengi DaiMon, Bractor, threa-
tens to destroy the Hathaway in 10 minutes, although the combined crews are
able to determine the best strategy. Instead of letting the Hathaway fall into
Ferengi hands, Picard aims the photon torpedoes at Riker's ship, presumably
destroying it in Ferengi eyes. However, Riker has used that two-second warp
jump and made a break for it at the exact moment of detonation. Using Worf's
sensor echo that made the Romulan ship appear, the Ferengi perceive a Federa-
tion battleship approaching and depart in a hurry. The Enterprise departs for
the nearest Starbase for repairs, towing the Hathaway. Data challenges Kol-
rami to a rematch....and wins; instead of looking for ways to win, he confesses
he was instead looking for ways to just stay even -- and henceforth a balance
of power that Kolrami, a master strategist, was unable to understand.
== Shimerman also played a Ferengi in last year's "The Last Outpost". The
Hathaway model was the same as the Stargazer for last year's "The Battle".

---SHADES OF GRAY------------------Episode 48-----#148-------Stardate 42976.1--
Story: Maurice Hurley
Teleplay: Maurice Hurley, Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
Directed: Rob Bowman
Music: Ron Jones
Guest: Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien)

SUMMARY: The Enterprise orbits Selvata Four, a primeval jungle planet where
Geordi and Riker are among members of a geological survey. Riker is attacked
by a native vine and injected with microorganisms. Pulaski beams down and
authorizes his transportation up to the Enterprise, where in effect Riker is
literally consumed by this parasite growing within his body. While Deanna
and Pulaski watch in horror, Riker slowly starts deteriorating. To stop the
progress of the organism, Pulaski installs a cerebral system to induce activity
of the neutral cells. Riker begins to dream...and Pulaski notices that the
dreams have an effect on the parasite. When Pulaski and Troi induce pleasant
memories of Riker's past liaisons -- Minuet, Mistress Beate, Brenna O'Dell and
the like -- the parasite growth rate increases. However, sad memories such
as Troi's child's death and the passing of Tasha Yar seem to slow it down.
More violent memories are called up -- Riker's service on the Klingon vessel
Pagh, the attack by the Parasite-controlled Admiral Quinn -- which seem to
slow the progress even further. Pulaski determines that it is strong, primal
emotion that seems to halt it, and lets Riker release that emotion in his
dreams to defeat it. The parasite withers and dies, leaving Riker to heal.
== Scenes from previous episodes were used as clips in this story, from "En-
counter at Farpoint," "The Naked Now," "The Last Outpost," "Justice,"
"Angel One," "11001001," "Heart of Glory," "Symbiosis," "Skin of Evil,"
"Conspiracy," "The Child," "Loud as a Whisper," "Unnatural Selection,"
"A Matter of Honor," "The Dauphin" and "Up the Long Ladder".


 
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