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Third season Part 1 - Overview of ST:TNG
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Season Three - Block One Episode Guide
By Jim Shaun Lyon (72571,3002)
EVOLUTION BOOBY TRAP
THE ENSIGNS OF COMMAND THE ENEMY
THE SURVIVORS THE PRICE
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS THE VENGEANCE FACTOR
THE BONDING THE DEFECTOR
REGULAR CAST:
Patrick Stewart - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes - Commander William T. Riker
LeVar Burton - Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge
Michael Dorn - Lieutenant Worf
Gates McFadden - Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis - Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner - Lieutenant Commander Data
Wil Wheaton - Wesley Crusher
Executive Producers - Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Michael Piller
Producers - David Livingston, Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, Peter Lauritson,
Ira Stephen Behr, David Livingston
Executive Script Consultant - Melinda Snodgrass
Executive Story Editor - Richard Danus
S E A S O N T H R E E
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"EVOLUTION" Episode #1 (#49)
Premiere: Week of 9/24/89 Stardate 43125.8
Paramount Coding: Episode 150
Story: Guest Stars:
Michael Piller, Michael Wagner Ken Jenkins - Dr. Paul Stubbs
Teleplay: Mary McCusker - Nurse
Michael Piller Randal Patrick - Crewman #1
Director: Special Guest Star:
Winrich Kolbe Whoopi Goldberg - Guinan
Music:
Ron Jones
SUMMARY: The Enterprise is at Kavis Alpha, a binary star system composed of a
red giant and a white dwarf close to supernova. Its mission is to relay the
experiment taken aboard by Dr. Paul Stubbs, a brilliant astrophysicist, that
will evaluate the decay of neutronium from the exploding star -- an event that
the Federation will not have a similar chance for in 196 years. While in close
proximity to the binary stars, the Enterprise encounters a strange malfunction
in its systems that the computer will not identify as a glitch. Suddenly, the
ship is thrown about and Dr. Stubbs is injured before the captain is able to
get it back under control. Stubbs is seen by Beverly Crusher, who has been
at Starfleet Medical for a year and who has missed watching her son Wesley go
through some difficult times, a situation Stubbs, known in his youth as a
"wunderkind," can relate to -- and a fact that makes him even more driven.
When a Borg ship seems to attack and then disappears, Captain Picard realizes
that these malfunctions are extremely important and that they may have to can-
cel the mission, which Stubbs protests violently. Wesley, meanwhile, discovers
the horrible truth about the computer glitches -- his science project, involved
in studying "nanites", or microscopic robots usually used for medical purposes,
and allowing them to intermingle to work together has accidentally been turned
upside-down....two nanites have gotten into the system and are evolving at a
dangerous rate, including reproducing themselves. Stubbs doesn't believe the
nanites are any threat, or that they are indeed sentient, but Data disagrees;
they may very well be evolving at a rate where they can think and help each
other. Stubbs induces a blast of gamma radiation at the main computer core,
killing millions of nanites, and in retaliation, they nearly kill him in his
own quarters. Believing them to be alive, Picard allows Data to try to commu-
nicate with them but after an attack on the bridge with nitrogen oxide gas,
Picard orders them terminated. At nearly the critical moment, Data gets
through to them, and allows them to enter his cerebral core to communicate in
verbal form. Sufficiently advanced to accept Stubbs' apology, the Nanites
subsequently request they be given something larger than the Enterprise to
evolve in. The Enterprise is released from their control, and they are allowed
to settle on one of the Kavis planets, while the explosion -- and the experi-
ment -- take place on schedule and Stubbs is left to his great moment of glory.
Beverly, who wondered if all of this proves Wesley isn't "normal" for his age,
sees him in Ten-Forward with a girl on his arm, and suddenly realizes -- with
Guinan's help -- that her son may be the typical 17-year-old after all....
== This episode features the return of Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden)
as well as introduces a new opening credits sequence.
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"THE ENSIGNS OF COMMAND" Episode #2 (#50)
Premiere: Week of 10/1/89 No Stardate
Paramount Coding: Episode 149
Writer: Guest Stars:
Melinda M. Snodgrass Eileen Seeley - Ard'rian Mackenzie
Director: Mark L. Taylor - Haritath
Cliff Bole Richard Allen - Noe
Music: Colm Meaney - Chief O'Brien
Dennis McCarthy Mart McChesney - Sheliak
SUMMARY: The Enterprise receives its first contact from the Sheliak in over a
century demanding the evacuation of Tau Cygna Five. The Sheliak are a race of
crystalline entities who signed a treaty with the Federation that is most spe-
cific in what each side is able to do; the Sheliak, under the treaty's auspi-
ces, want to settle Tau Cygna Five, which was settled 90 years before by the
crew of the spaceship Artemis, knocked off course from its original destination
by a guidance system failure. Tau Cygna Five has the added complication of
being bombarded by a form of radiation lethal to humans, although the inhabi-
tants of the planet have built up an immunity to it, and it is this reason that
persuades Picard to send Data alone in a shuttle down to the surface to con-
vince the colonists they must leave. The inhabitants of Tau Cygna Five are led
by Gosheven, a driven man who strongly believes in the work that his ancestors
-- especially his grandfather -- did here, and refuses to leave on Data's ad-
vising. The support for Data comes from Ard'rian MacKenzie, a young woman with
a more than passing interest in cybernetics -- and Data himself. Ard'rian tries
to convince some of the others she knows into leaving while Data interviews
some fifty of the colonists, with very mixed results. Meanwhile, Picard's at-
tempt at negotiation with the Sheliak is fruitless; their first colony ship is
due at Tau Cygna Five in three days, and at that time they will destroy what-
ever human life remains on the planet. At a town meeting on the planet, Data
nearly convinces everyone they must depart, but by Gosheven's words they are
resounded in their decision to stay. Ard'rian and Data attempt to talk to some
of the resistors but Gosheven nearly destroys Data by overloading his circuits.
Fed up with the Sheliak resistance to simple discussion, Picard takes the En-
terprise out of orbit to meet the first vessel, while Data is reawakened by
Ard'rian. He sets to work on altering his phaser to operate in the radiation
environment, and tells Ard'rian to inform Gosheven he will destroy their water
pumping station. Gosheven is surprised when Data nearly destroys it with only
the slightest effort; the violence is proof enough that the Sheliak assault
will be only more devastating. Gosheven agrees to urge the Tau Cygnans to
depart, while the Enterprise confronts the Sheliak vessel, which is unwilling
to speak to them. Due to Troi's urging and Picard's efforts on using the
treaty to his own advantage, Picard is able to give Starfleet the needed time
to get transport vessels to the planet -- one article of the treaty provides
for a third-party mediation, and Picard selects a party unable to mediate for
six months. With the mission successful, and transport ships on their way,
the Enterprise departs, with Data understanding a bit more about the struggle
involved in his chosen field....the beginnings, or ensigns, of command.
== Grainger Hines, who played Gosheven, was not listed on the credits of the
episode.
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"THE SURVIVORS" Episode #3 (#51)
Premiere: Week of 10/8/89 Stardate 43152.4
Paramount Coding: Episode 151
Writer: Guest Stars:
Michael Wagner John Anderson - Kevin Uxbridge
Director: Anne Haney - Rishan Uxbridge
Les Landau
Music:
Dennis McCarthy
SUMMARY: The Enterprise receives a distress signal from the fourth planet of
the Delta Rana star system, and arrives to see the entire planet leveled to
dust, all 11,000 people destroyed. However, a small patch of land and a single
home still stands mysteriously in the midst of the destruction, and two people,
elderly couple Kevin and Rishan Uxbridge, survived. Riker, Worf, Data, Geordi
and Beverly beam down to meet the Uxbridges, who are adamant that they do not
wish to leave their home. Rishan seems very friendly while Kevin is more eva-
sive. Data touches a music box of the Uxbridges', while on the Enterprise,
Counselor Troi begins to hear music in her mind, the very same tune that Data
listens to. A mysterious spacecraft enters orbit around Rana IV and fires only
a limited barrage against the Enterprise, then retreats. Troi's music becomes
louder, and she begins to have fits of pain. The Enterprise follows the ship
and chases it away, then Picard beams down to meet the Uxbridges, who still
refuse to depart although they don't believe in any real danger. Troi starts
to convulse and Beverly knocks her out, while the ship returns and fires an
even greater barrage against the Enterprise, nearly destroying it -- after
Picard told the Uxbridges that they wouldn't leave the planet. Fed up with
the situation, Picard visits the Uxbridges a final time, suspicious that they
may be responsible for Troi's torment, and tells them the only reason the
Enterprise will leave is when the two are dead. Shortly thereafter, the alien
ship attacks again but fires and destroys the home, before the Enterprise des-
troys it. Acting on a hunch, Picard tells Riker that they did indeed find two
people on Rana...but there was really only one survivor. Three hours later,
the home returns to the surface of the planet. The Uxbridges are forcibly
beamed aboard, where Picard tells Rishan that she is really only an illusion.
Kevin Uxbridge is really a Douwd, a pacifistic alien living among humans who
fell in love with Rishan....but when the colony was attacked, he would not
kill. When the attackers, the Husnock, destroyed Rishan, though, Kevin willed
their entire species to death. Picard, not understanding whether Kevin should
be embraced or punished for a hellish crime, takes the Enterprise out of orbit
content to let him alone with his illusion of Rishan and his guilty pain.
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"WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS" Episode #4 (#52)
Premiere: Week of 10/15/89 Stardate 43173.5
Paramount Coding: Episode 152
Writers: Guest Stars:
Richard Manning, Hans Beimler Kathryn Leigh Scott - Nuria
Director: Ray Wise - Liko
Robert Wiemer James Greene - Dr. Barron
Music: John McLiam - Fento
Ron Jones Pamela Segall - Oji
James McIntyre - Hali
Lois Hall - Dr. Warren
SUMMARY: The Enterprise is en route to the planet Mintaka Three, where a group
of three Federation anthropologists are studying the proto-Vulcan inhabitants
from close range behind a hologrammatic force field in a local rock formation.
Shortly after contacting the Enterprise, the team led by Dr. Barron is injured
when the power system malfunctions; the hologram fades and Palmer, one of the
team, escapes through the window. The Enterprise arrives in orbit and an away
team beams down; Crusher has Barron and Dr. Warren beamed back up to the ship
for medical treatment while Geordi sets forth in restoring the hologram. But
Liko, one of the Mintakan natives, and his daughter Oji have already spotted
the anthropological station. When Liko tries to climb up to see through the
window, he falls and is injured and Beverly beams up with him -- all in front
of Oji. Whilst on board the Enterprise, Liko awakens to witness his surroun-
dings as a heaven of sorts, and sees "the Picard", whom he believes is God.
Liko is safely beamed back down, but unfortunately, Beverly's attempt at mind-
erasure is unsuccessful due to the Mintakans' biochemistry; Oji finds him and
takes him back to the main encampment where Liko explains his trip to "heaven"
to Nuria, the leader of the camp, and Fento, a wise man. Meanwhile, Riker and
Troi are altered and given Mintakan garb and beam down to locate Palmer, who
cannot be found by the sensors; the two enter the camp just as Liko announces
his trip and his divine sight of "the Picard". Mintakan scouts locate Palmer
in a cave and bring him into the camp, where Liko announces that they should
keep him well to appease the Picard; Troi notes he needs medical attention and
tries to divert the encampment while Riker steals off with Palmer far enough
away to transport to the ship, while Troi herself is pronounced as Riker's
accomplice and is captured. Dr. Barron and Picard discuss the Mintakan's be-
lief system, where both agree that the Prime Directive has already been
breached and more desperate measures are needed; Picard has Nuria beamed aboard
and shows her the ship, attempting to convince her he is not a god but a man
far enough above her on the evolutionary scale to prove the old axiom about
any advanced science being indistinguishable from magic. At first, Nuria ap-
pears to understand, but Picard only gets through to her when Dr. Warren, woun-
ded beyond help, dies in Sickbay and Beverly cannot bring her back. When
Liko gathers enough courage to try to hurt Troi to make the Picard believe that
his people had no part in Palmer's capture by Riker, the Captain and Nuria
appear. Picard explains to Liko how he is only a man, not a god, and to prove
it takes an arrow to his heart; his blood is proof enough. When Picard is
well again, he bids the Mintakans goodbye, convinced they shall one day pos-
sess the strength enough to fly among the stars like Nuria did.
== A substantial part of this episode was filmed on location; the only other
episode utilizing location footage such as this to date has been "Justice".
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"THE BONDING" Episode #5 (#53)
Premiere: Week of 10/23/89 Stardate 43198.7
Paramount Coding: Episode 153
Writer: Guest Stars:
Ronald D. Moore Susan Powell - Lieutenant Marla Aster
Director: Gabriel Damon - Jeremy Aster
Winrich Kolbe Colm Meaney - Chief O'Brien
Music:
Dennis McCarthy
SUMMARY: The Enterprise arrives at the planet Koinonia, the first Federation
ship to arrive here for an archaeological survey of the planet whose inhabi-
tants destroyed themselves in a generational war. Worf leads an away team
that seems to have no trouble until Troi screams to have them beamed aboard.
When they arrive in sickbay, Lieutenant Marla Aster, the chief Archaelogist,
is dead -- she took the brunt of the explosion of a mine, the last casualty of
a forgotten war. Aster is survived by Jeremy, her 12 year old son, whom Picard
has the unfortunate duty of informing him of his mother's death; his father is
already long dead of an infection and his only living relatives are an aunt and
uncle on Earth. Geordi, meanwhile, takes a new away team to the surface and
discovers five more mines, all of which he attempts to diffuse, while Wesley
has problems dealing with the situation, which is remarkably like his own.
Worf, feeling guilty about Aster's death, performs a Klingon death ceremony
then consults Troi on wanting to perform the R'uustal, "the Bonding", where
Jeremy will become a part of his family. Beverly asks Wesley if he will con-
front Jeremy as a fellow survivor, but Wesley can only say he will think about
it; his problem lies in his own pain. On top of all the emotion, Troi senses
a presence on the ship....and in Jeremy's quarters, his mother suddenly ap-
pears. Worf tries to stop "Marla" from taking Jeremy, and the two nearly va-
nish off the ship before the entity disappears. But later, she reappears in
their quarters again, this time in an unusual duplicate of Jeremy's home crea-
ted in that room to fool him into trusting her. The entity is actually a rem-
nant of the Koinonians, now energy beings who look upon their earlier tragedy
with irony and now wish to help Jeremy by taking care of him after his loss
which they feel guilty about. "Marla" takes Jeremy once again but is stopped
by force fields and a philosophical Picard, who informs her that sorrow is a
necessary part of human nature, and it is something he will have to face --
with his own kind. Jeremy is finally convinced when Wesley gives in and talks
to him, informing Picard that the anger he felt was toward the Captain for
coming back when Jack Crusher did not; Worf asks Jeremy to let him help in dea-
ling with the pain he feels toward him. The Koinonian leaves, taking the illu-
sion of the home with it, and Jeremy and Worf are left to the R'uustal, where
they become brothers....and both families, now joined, are stronger.
== Michael Piller became the newest Co-Executive Producer with this episode.
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"BOOBY TRAP" Episode #6 (#54)
Premiere: Week of 10/30/89 Stardate 43205.6
Paramount Coding: Episode 154
Story: Guest Stars:
Michael Wagner and Ron Roman Susan Gibney - Dr. Leah Brahms
Teleplay: Colm Meaney - Chief O'Brien
Ron Roman and Michael Piller & Albert Hall - Galek Dar
Richard Danus Julie Warner - Christy
Director: Special Guest Star:
Gabrielle Beaumont Whoopi Goldberg - Guinan
Music:
Ron Jones
SUMMARY: The Enterprise has entered the Orelius Nine asteroid belt, created
by the remains of a planet destroyed in the war 1000 years previous between
the Promellians and the Menthars. While Geordi suffers from romantic problems
and tries to solve them -- and fails -- in a holodeck-located "date", the
ship stumbles upon a Promellian battlecruiser. Pulling rank because of his
longing to be a part of beaming over to the "ship in a bottle" as it were,
Picard joins Worf and Data in the away team to the dead starship, where they
find the remains of the Promellian crew (dead at their posts) as well as the
last log entries of the craft. A minute power drop is detected on the Enter-
prise, while the away team beams back over just in time to notice the sudden
loss due to a radiation influx. Riker and Data beam back over to the ship to
collect the log entries to find out what caused the battlecruiser's death,
while Geordi investigates into the negative computer readings every time the
Enterprise tries to get clear. Looking into the ship's records, Geordi finds
the log entries of Leah Brahms, one of the design techs who created the massive
vessel, and takes that data to the holodeck to reconstruct the design labs at
the Utopia Planitia shipyards at Mars, where the Enterprise was constructed.
During his viewing of the specs, the computer recreates Brahms as a simulacrum
in order to deal with Geordi, and on request the simulacrum is given a perso-
nality based upon Brahms' own psych profiles. Geordi and Leah discover that
the radiation the ship is being bombarded with is creating counterforces that
negate any energy usage, and are draining the shields to the point where radia-
tion exposure will kill the entire crew. The two propose a complex plan to
neutralize the counterforces by making small adjustments in course without the
use of power, and test their theories on the computer -- but realize that the
computer will have to retain control. Picard takes the helm of the Enterprise,
first allowing the impulse engines to start the ship in a particular direc-
tion, and then using thrusters every so often for course adjustments, guides
the ship around a massive asteroid to slingshot the ship clear of the asteroid
field. The Enterprise destroys the Promellian vessel and hence any reason for
entering the "booby trap" zone created by the Menthars, while Geordi discon-
tinues the holodeck simulacrum of Leah Brahms, realizing that she herself will
always be with him...wherever he goes with this ship.
== Richard Danus became Executive Story Editor with this episode.
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"THE ENEMY" Episode #7 (#55)
Premiere: Week of 11/6/89 Stardate 43349.2
Paramount Coding: Episode 155
Writers: Guest Stars:
David Kemper and Michael Piller John Snyder - Centurion Bochra
Director: Andreas Katsulas - Commander Tomalak
David Carson Colm Meaney - Chief O'Brien
Music: Steve Rankin - Patakh
Dennis McCarthy
SUMMARY: The Enterprise receives a distress call from the hostile planet Ga-
lorndon Core, just inside the Federation border of the Neutral Zone. Riker,
Worf and Geordi beam down to the surface to discover Romulan wreckage and a
survivor. While exploring, Geordi falls into a deep well and is unable to get
out; Riker and Worf, who meet back at the beam-back site, are helpless to find
him. Geordi loses his VISOR and when he regains it, he is able to climb out
of the well...and is discovered by a second survivor. A signal from a Romulan
vessel prompts Picard into answering, and Commander Tomalak insists that the
crashed vessel on Galorndon Core was a one-man craft. When Tomalak discovers
that a survivor was taken aboard the Enterprise, he seems nervous, and Troi
can sense that at even great distance. The survivor, Bochra, takes Geordi pri-
soner, even though he insists that they are both going to die on this planet
unless they work together. Meanwhile, Patakh, the Romulan survivor taken
to the Enterprise, is discovered to be dying, and the only thing that can save
him are a donation of ribozomes (a component of the bloodstream) from a compa-
tible donor. The only possibility....Worf, who refuses because of his hatred
of the Romulans for what they did to his family. Picard discusses the situa-
tion with Worf, but does not order him to do so; Worf maintains his honor in
the face of his enemy, even though Patakh tells him that he would not be
contaminated with "Klingon filth". Patakh's insistence and Worf's stubbornness
causes the Romulan's death, after Tomalak has ordered the Enterprise to deli-
ver Patakh to the Neutral Zone. Geordi's VISOR goes out due to the electro-
magnetic field on Galorndon Core and Bochra is left to fix it, using Geordi's
knowledge of engineering. Meanwhile, Wesley suggests implanting a neutron
field on the planet that Geordi can alter when he locates it, thereby signal-
ling the Enterprise. When Bochra repairs the VISOR for Geordi, he is able to
see the neutron field and goes there, and is successfully beamed aboard. To-
malak agrees to Bochra's release in exchange for a sudden and swift departure
to the Neutral Zone, and the Enterprise leaves Galorndon Core.
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"THE PRICE" Episode #8 (#56)
Premiere: Week of 11/13/89 Stardate 43385.6
Paramount Coding: Episode 156
Writer: Guest Stars:
Hannah Louise Shearer Matt McCoy - Devinoni Ral
Director: Elizabeth Hoffman - Premier Bhavani
Robert Scheerer Castulo Guerra - Mendoza
Music: Scott Thomson - DaiMon Goss
Ron Jones Kevin Peter Hall - Leyor
Dan Shor - Dr. Arridor
Colm Meaney - Chief O'Brien
SUMMARY: The Enterprise plays host to a diplomatic conference at Barzan II, an
environmentally hostile world to most races but its peaceful and enlightened
inhabitants. The conference is to decide the principal owners of the Barzan
Wormhole, the only stable wormhole -- a dimensional passage to distant points
in the galaxy -- known to exist. Among the delegates to the conference are
Bhavani, Barzan's premier; Mendoza, the Federation representative; Leyor of
the research-minded Federation competitors, the Caldonians; and Devinoni Ral,
a "hired gun" negotiator licensed out to the neutral Chrysalians. Ral seems
attracted to Troi, and vice-versa, for he subsequently makes a pass at her
that she seems unable to withstand. Meanwhile, a Ferengi vessel enters orbit
around Barzan II and its captain, DaiMon Goss, demands to be invited to take
part in the conference, during which they intend to purchase the Barzan Worm-
hole by matching anyone's price and offering an additional quantity of gold.
In secret, Goss incapacitates Mendoza and Riker is chosen as a replacement.
Picard, who suspects the Wormhole might have instability problems like all the
others, has Data and Geordi take a shuttlecraft inside....followed by Dr.
Arridor, a Ferengi scientist, on another shuttle. While in Troi's arms, Ral
confesses that he is a quarter Betazoid, and is capable of empathic contact;
he subsequently feeds Leyor's fear that his world cannot cope with the adminis-
trative details of the Barzan Wormhole and the Caldonians withdraw from the
proceedings. Riker wonders about him and worries that Ral may have an upper
hand. The shuttles successfully leave the wormhole but Geordi and Data de-
tect wild radiation readings and conclude that this end of the wormhole may
not be stable; they enter it again while an untrusting Arridor does not...and
loses any chance of getting back once the portal changes location. Ral is
able to manipulate Troi into not telling anyone of his power, while he and
Goss stage a phony plan to make Bhavani decide in Ral's favor against the Fe-
deration. Troi, who has been under a similar conflict of interest, denounces
the scheme, and indicates that the two were in collusion. But it doesn't
matter; the shuttle makes it back and all realize that they've reached a dry
well, that the Barzan Wormhole may not be worth anything in the course of a
few years. Ral, knowing he's lost this round, says goodbye to Troi, and while
he wishes her to come with him, she realizes that her place is here on the
Enterprise....though her whirlwind romance wasn't for nothing.
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"THE VENGEANCE FACTOR" Episode #9 (#57)
Premiere: Week of 11/20/89 Stardate 43421.9
Paramount Coding: Episode 157
Writer: Guest Stars:
Sam Rolfe Lisa Wilcox - Yuta
Director: Joey Aresco - Brull
Timothy Bond Nancy Parsons - Sovereign Marouk
Music: Stephen Lee - Chorgon
Dennis McCarthy Marc Lawrence - Volnath
Elkanah J. Burns - Temarek
SUMMARY: The Enterprise stumbles upon a looted Federation station and disco-
vers the culprits are the Gatherers, a group of nomads who left their planet,
Acamar III, some hundred years ago. Acamar's history is one of blood feuds
between rival clans that stopped about the time when the Gatherers left the
planet, but the Acamarians have since then wished reunion with their brothers
and have tried many times, to no avail. Picard takes the Enterprise to Acamar
and welcomes aboard Sovereign Marouk, the leader of the planet, along with her
servants and Yuta, her chef, and heads for Gamma Harami II, where a Gatherer
outpost is known. Worf, Data and Riker beam down into an ambush and are near-
ly killed until they manage to turn the tides on the event and capture Brul,
the local leader. Picard has Marouk beam down to talk to the Gatherers and
she eventually is able to convince Brull to lead them to the leader of the
group, Chorgon, on a starship in a distant sector. But Yuta mysteriously
kills one of Brull's men, Volnath, and makes it look like an accident. The
group is beamed aboard and heads for Chorgon's vessel, while Brul investigates
the ship and Yuta draws closer to Will Riker, though she seems very peculiar;
she can leave Marouk any time she wants, yet is compelled not to by something
Riker cannot discern. Beverly, who has been doing research on Volnath's death,
discovers that his cardiac arrest was caused by a virus in his bloodstream,
one that seems to be targeted for a certain person, and discovers he was
murdered. Enterprise arrives near Chorgon's ship, which fires on the Enter-
prise until Brull and Marouk are able to convince him that they mean to talk,
to discuss a possible return to Acamar. Picard beams over with the two to the
freighter, and begin negotiation, both sides unwilling to budge in their
stances, while on the Enterprise, Riker, Data and Beverly, sifting through
the Acamarian medical database, discover a second death by the same virus 50
years before, in the same clan as Volnath. Further information leads to a
connection between the Lornec clan -- of which Volneth and Chorgen are both
members -- and a feud with the Trelestas, who died out in a Lornec raid...or
at least presumably did, until a scan of a photograph convinces Riker that
Yuta is the last Trelestan survivor....and has lived for over a century. Just
as Yuta is about to serve Chorgon some brandy, which will kill him through the
disease she carries with her 'Midas touch', Riker beams over and tries to stop
her. When stun setting does not work, Yuta persists....and Riker is forced
to kill her. Endebted to Riker, Chorgon agrees to the pact and the Gatherers
return to Acamar, though Riker feels the sad loss of a woman whose destiny of
death she almost avoided....
== Ira Stephen Behr was added as Producer on this episode.
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"THE DEFECTOR" Episode #10 (#58)
Premiere: Week of 12/31/89 Stardate 43462.5
Paramount Coding: Episode 159
Writer: Guest Stars:
Ronald D. Moore James Sloyan - Admiral Jarok / Setal
Director: Andreas Katsulas - Commander Tomalak
Robert Scheerer John Hancock - Admiral Haden
Music: S.A. Templeton - John Bates
Ron Jones
SUMMARY: While Captain Picard is assisting Data in a Shakespeare lesson in the
holodeck, the Enterprise receives a priority distress signal from the Neutral
Zone. Investigating, the ship discovers a small Romulan scout vessel in close
pursuit by a Romulan Warbird. Picard orders the scout ship, whose captain is
demanding asylum, enveloped in the Enterprise's shields and the Warbird slows
at the border of the Neutral Zone. Before Picard can contact it, the Warbird
turns away, returning to the Empire. The pilot of the scout is beamed aboard
and is identified as Sublieutenant Setal, a logistics clerk, who has done what
many consider the impossible: defected to the Federation. Demanding to see
Picard, Setal informs him that the Romulan Empire is planning a massive attack
to reclaim the Neutral Zone in 48 hours, and that in order to do so, a base
has been constructed at Nelvana Three, a planet deep inside the Zone, where
a battalion of warships are centered. During their meeting, Setal's ship
explodes; this, and the computer records that indicate that the Warbird slowed
when Setal's did, lend themselves to a conclusion that the Romulan is lying,
that he is a spy sent to provoke a war between the Federation and the Romulan
Empire. Worf takes a communication from the Klingon Empire, while Picard is
informed by Starfleet that the matter is in his hands, though both Federation
and Klingon ships have been mobilized and Starfleet is on yellow alert. Data,
whose attempts at human intuition have so far been fruitless, studies Setal in
Ten-Forward, then leads him to the holodeck where he reconstructs a valley on
Romulus, all due to Geordi's "gut feeling" that Setal might be telling the
truth. It proves successful; Setal confesses that he is really Admiral Jarok,
familiar to the Federation in the Norcan attack that left that colony devas-
tated. Informing Picard that he took a false identity because Picard wouldn't
believe him, Jarok insists that he saw the technical reports and plans for the
invasion. Picard disbelieves him; realizing the captain will not change his
mind without proof, Jarok provides tactical specifications for the Romulan
Fleet as well as technical knowledge. The Enterprise heads for Nelvana Three,
where it stumbles upon....nothing. Picard concludes that the entire ordeal was
to test Jarok's loyalty, a test he failed; two Romulan ships appear out of
nowhere and attempt to convince Picard to surrender. The lead ship, who it
turns out is commanded by Tomalak (from "The Enemy"), blocks the Enterprise's
path, but suddenly, three Klingon ships -- which Worf contacted before -- ap-
pear from under cloak....stalemate. Tomalak orders his ship to depart, not
ready to die in the battle that will ensue. Jarok, devastated that his flight
was in vain and realizing that he will not see his family again, commits sui-
cide. But he leaves behind a note for his family that he know they will pro-
bably not see....until one day that, Picard believes, courage like Jarok's
will be more widespread, and the Federation and Romulan Empire will finally
make peace.
Coming Up:
The Hunted
The High Ground
Deja Q
A Matter of Perspective
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Sins of the Father
Allegiance
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