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Recap / Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E11 "Contagion"

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Original air date: March 20, 1989

The Enterprise is called into the Neutral Zone to help a fellow Galaxy -class ship, the USS Yamato , which is in the grip of a series of system malfunctions. They arrive too late to help , and Yamato quickly explodes from an antimatter breach . A Romulan warbird decloaks moments later, denying that they had anything to do with the Yamato 's explosion but threatening that the Enterprise will go the same way if she doesn't leave the Neutral Zone.

Geordi confirms that the Romulans weren't responsible for the Yamato 's destruction, but Picard isn't convinced. After a thorough study of the ship's logs, Picard determines its previous mission: its captain believed he had found Iconia, a mythological planet of "Demons of Air and Darkness," on the Romulan side of the Neutral Zone. They met... something... that seems to have caused their system failures. Since Iconia is said to have insanely powerful technology that the Romulans could use to crush the Federation, Picard sets course to the planet the other ship's captain believed was the fabled planet.

Unfortunately, the Enterprise starts coming down with its own set of systems failures, which Data and Geordi fail to solve or determine the cause of. Once they get to what is believed to be Iconia, a probe is launched from the planet's surface, which Geordi—finally realizing what's going on by that time—convinces Picard to destroy before it has a chance to do anything. By his calculations , the probe contained an Iconian computer program that transferred itself into the Yamato's systems when it visited the planet, then into the Enterprise with the ship's logs, and which is attempting to rewrite all of the Enterprise's software in its own image. If they can't get rid of the contagion, the ship will likely explode just like Yamato .

Running out of options, Picard takes Data and Worf down to the surface, into an underground installation discovered by the ship's sensors and proceeds to scout around, looking for anything they can use to determine the origin of or a means to destroy the program. What they discover is something more complex and sinister: an ancient transport union ripping open holes in the space-time continuum to travel through, thus earning the Iconians' nickname of "Demons of Air and Darkness" by their enemies. Picard can see how this technology could be used as a weapon by the Romulans, who promptly show up again to lay claim on the planet. Fortunately, the Romulan ship has come down with their own case of the Iconian computer flu, preventing them from acting on their threats.

This episode contains the following tropes:

• Actually Pretty Funny : Deanna quips that were it not for the life-threatening danger from the Enterprise 's malfunctions and the Romulans, various systems going on- and off-line for no reason could be funny.
• Ambiguously Evil : The Iconians had a mythical reputation as conquerors, and the probe launched from their homeworld causes the destruction of the Yamato by forcibly reprogramming it's computer with Iconian code. However, as the Iconians themselves are long since extinct, Data's analysis suggests the portal room wasn't for military purposes, and it's acknowledged that the probe's effects may be completely accidental, it's never confirmed whether or not the Iconians were a hostile species.
• Apocalyptic Log : Picard specifically searches Varley's log entries for those including the terms "Romulan" and/or "Iconian", unaware that the log entries including the Iconican program that led to its demise.
• Automatic Door Malfunction : The Enterprise crew witnesses its sister ship, the Yamato , explode with all hands lost due to a failure of its antimatter fuel containment. note  Antimatter + Matter + No way to keep them from interacting = boom. The clue leading them to the cause is within the Yamato Captain's personal log; a long-abandoned planet known as Iconia, and an alien scanning probe that the ship encountered while in orbit. As the Enterprise travels towards Iconia, they begin having systems problems, including the invoked trope of the automatic doors failing at random times. When they arrive, the Enterprise encounters an identical probe launched from the surface, and Captain Picard plans to tractor it into the ship to study it. Geordi, suddenly discovering the cause of the malfunctions, desperately tries to hail the bridge, but the communication systems go down at that very moment. The trope is then invoked for drama, as he also tries to use a turbolift in Main Engineering to quickly get to the bridge, but the doors fail to open there as well. Geordi is just barely able to get to the bridge in time, after being thrown about in the malfunctioning turbolift on his way, to warn Picard and the bridge crew of the danger that the probe poses.
• Blind Jump : Played with. Picard triggers the sequence that will destroy the Iconian facility, planning to use the gateway to escape. Even if he can't get to Enterprise , which the gateway will cycle to eventually, wherever he ends up will be better than being blown up. Fortunately, the gateway cycles to the nearby Romulan ship, which Picard figures is better than nothing. By this point, the Romulans have computer failure so bad that their ship is going to blow itself up, and the commander doesn't feel shooting Picard is even worth the effort. He's beamed off when Enterprise detects his signal.
• Captain Obvious : After the Yamato explodes, Data reports that he can detect no life signs on the ship currently disintegrating before the bridge crew's very eyes.
• Characterization Click Moment : In amongst the main plot and some world-building, another important moment in this episode is the establishment of Picard's fondness for tea, earl grey (hot), as well as his recurring archeological interest.
• Chekhov's Gun : In his Captain's Log , Varley mentions being scanned by an Iconian probe. This turns out to be the cause of his ship's malfunctions, as well as those on the Enterprise thanks to uploading some of the data through the comm system.
• Wesley references this trope during his conversation with Picard when he says the ancient Iconian technology sounds more like magic.
• Captain Varley of the Yamato compares encountering the Iconian technology to a caveman confronted by a tricorder.
• Contagious A.I. : The Iconian probes scan ships and try to reprogram them with Iconian software, possibly by complete accident. Unfortunately, said ships tend to get very explodey when the alien software overwrites the programs that keep things like the antimatter fuel safely contained in magnetic fields...
• Continuity Nod : Geordi references Bruce Maddox from " The Measure of a Man " after futilely attempting to repair Data, saying someone with his level of expertise on androids might have had a better chance at figuring out how to set up a proper repair.
• Curiosity Killed the Cast : Captain Varley's curiosity about the Iconians (and a more pragmatic desire to keep their technology out of Romulan hands) leads to the destruction of the Yamato and the deaths of of the 1,000 people aboard, as well as nearly causing the deaths of everyone aboard the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird.
• Disney Death : Data appears to die as a result of the Iconian programming, but after a quick cut to Picard on Iconia, Data wakes up, his own self-repair systems having saved him by wiping his affected memory.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength : When Geordi is unexpectedly shocked by a computer panel, Data pulls him away, but accidentally uses too much force and winds up tossing his friend to the floor.
• Due to the Dead : When Data appears to have succumbed to the Iconian programming, Geordi takes a moment to close his eyes respectfully.
• The Dreaded : Legends of the Iconians describe them as dangerous conquerors and "demons of air and darkness", though Picard notes that such accounts were written by the Iconians' enemies after the Iconians were gone .
• Elevator Failure : When the comm system fails before Geordi tells Picard to destroy the probe, he hurriedly tries to take the turbolift to get to the bridge in time. However, the turbolifts are also messed up, so he's thrown around upwards, downwards, and sideways before being flung out once it miraculously reaches the bridge.
• Failsafe Failure : The Yamato 's warp core breached because the computer dropped the antimatter containment field prior to all the antimatter being ejected.
• Flawed Prototype : Picard asks if the recurring malfunctions that destroyed the Yamato are an inherent issue with the newly-designed Galaxy -class starships. Geordi isn't able to rule the possibility out until they actually start experiencing the malfunctions for themselves.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus : Most of the Captain's Log entries from the Yamato are by Captain Varley, but the screen in Picard's ready room also lists entries by Commander Steven Gerber and Lt. Commander Beth Woods (presumably the Yamato 's first and second officers, respectively).
• Gallows Humor : When Picard leaves to lead the away team to Iconia, he informs Riker that "the Enterprise is yours". As soon as Picard is out of earshot, Riker mutters "for as long as she lasts".
• Good Old Ways : When one of the nurses in sickbay complains they can't use the bone-knitter to heal a fracture, Pulaski tells them to use a splint instead.
• Great Offscreen War : The war that destroyed Iconia. The only known facts is that it happened 200,000 years ago and that Iconia was devastated by Orbital Bombardment , wiping out all life on the planet.
• Have You Tried Rebooting? : After Data's "self-correcting program" resets him, Geordi reasons they can do the same thing with the Enterprise computers to wipe out the Iconian programming.
• Hero of Another Story : Captain Varley and the Yamato .
• Hope Spot : When the Yamato loses antimatter containment, the ship's primary hull is briefly thrown clear of the explosion intact, suggesting that people may still be alive on board (and prompting Data to run a scan), but within seconds, the entire saucer section's hull burns off, probably from sheer heat or radiation , meaning everyone on board is very dead.
• Idiot Ball : The problems on the Yamato begin almost immediately after they are "scanned" by the Iconian probe, and those of the Enterprise after downloading the logs of the Yamato , yet neither crew make any connection between the malfunctions and the probe, and Geordi only realises what is going on just seconds before the Enterpise is scanned herself, after twelve hours of research.
• It Never Gets Any Easier : When Wesley has trouble accepting the deaths of everyone on the Yamato , Picard tells him that it's no less painful for senior officers, nor should it be. Picard: If ever the time comes when the death of a single individual fails to move us ...
• Laser-Guided Amnesia : Data's positronic brain purges the Iconian programming from his system by shutting him down and deleting the affected memory files, leaving Data with a small gap in his memory from when he was on Iconia to when he awoke aboard the Enterprise . Justified due to Data's artificial nature and the fact that very specific memories were deleted.
• Lost Language : Iconian is a lost language, the Iconians having been wiped out roughly 200,000 years ago. The language is not known by any living being, though Data is able to approximate a rough translation by comparing Iconian glyphs to three other ancient languages (Dewan, Dinasian and Iccobar) believed to be derivatives of it. Very rough. Data: This would appear to be manual override. [presses a control and an Iconian gateway opens] Data: That was not manual override.
• Mood Whiplash : Picard's insightful speech on how dealing with death never becomes easy, even for experienced officers is interrupted by his ordered tea appearing in the replicator as a small potted plant.
• Morton's Fork : Riker isn't keen on Geordi's reboot plan, since it involves turning everything off including the deflector shields while they're "nose-to-nose with a Romulan Warbird." Geordi points out whether it's Romulan disruptors or their own malfunctioning warp engines, they're just as dead if they don't do this.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast : The Iconians' nickname of "Demons of Air and Darkness." Though Picard does put forth the theory that they were only called that because their technology appeared to be magic to those they interacted with, and those species were frightened enough to attempt to destroy the Iconians.
• Narrow Annihilation Escape : Picard, Worf, and Data beam down to the complex the probe was launched from on Iconia and find a control room for the probes, as well as a gateway that can transport individuals to distant planets and places. To keep the technology there from falling into Romulan hands, and prevent the probes from ensnaring anyone else, Picard jams the system by launching a probe, but keeping the bay doors shut. He is only just able to use the doorway to transport to the Romulan Warbird as the complex self-destructs. (Thankfully, the Enterprise crew have figured out the problem and are able to beam Picard away safely.)
• Not Worth Killing : When Picard suddenly teleports onto the Romulan bridge, security surrounds him before the commander calls them off, as the ship is about to self-destruct anyway. Picard is then beamed away by the Enterprise .
• No, You : Picard and Romulan Commander Taris go back and forth like this in their first conversation. Picard: Explain your illegal presence in the Neutral Zone. Taris: Explain yours.
• Oh, Crap! : When Geordi realizes that Picard was about to take the Iconian probe in tow.
• Portal Door : The Iconian gateway connects distant locations by ripping holes in space. It's technology beyond what the Federation can do.
• Rousseau Was Right : When an Iconian probe heads for the Romulan ship, the Enterprise has lost its weapons and can't destroy it, so the fate of the Romulans rests on whether they trust Riker when he says that they need to destroy the probe themselves. Though very suspicious, they decide to trust him and destroy the probe, saving themselves.
• He also previously insisted that Taris destroy the Iconian probe being sent to investigate them, since the direct scan by the probe would only accelerate the virus's progression. With the Enterprise's own weapons systems going up and down, he couldn't do it himself, but he makes sure that the Romulans are able to do it and prevent their own destruction.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! : Varley entered the Neutral Zone in violation of treaty because he discovered the location of Iconia and knew the Romulans could not be allowed to have any technology left there. Picard takes up the mission himself when he reviews Varley's logs and learns of the probe that scanned his vessel.
• Picard finagles one to destroy the gateway by launching all of the probes and forcing the launch bay doors to channel the rocket exhaust into the gate room.
• The Romulans have to deal with theirs being triggered (and then locked) by the Iconian virus.
• Skewed Priorities : Several Romulan officers take the time to surround Picard when he appears on their ship... which is about to explode. Their commander, at least, recognizes the futility of the act and calls them off.
• Smug Snake : Subcommander Taris tries to claim Iconia for the Romulan Empire and threatens to destroy both the Enterprise and the away team, but, given how obvious it is that her ship is suffering from the same problems plaguing the Enterprise , her threats have little weight. Troi suggests that Taris is just trying to project confidence out of pure frustration with her situation.
• Tempting Fate : When Picard asks if Captain Varley would like all the Yamato 's non-essential personnel to be beamed around the Enterprise as a safety measure, Varley declines, saying it would be too "presumptive". It's only a short minute later that the entire ship explodes.
• Thrown Out the Airlock : Varley mentions that he lost an entire maintenance team when the force field in the open shuttle bay they were working in shut off.
• Unusual User Interface : The Iconian console, which processes commands based on tapping different coloured portions of a logo.
• What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? : When the Enterprise makes contact with the Yamato . Picard: Donald, what's a nice Starfleet Captain like you doing in a place like this? Varley: It's good to see you again, Jean-Luc, despite your antique humor .
• Written by the Winners : Picard mentions this when he figures that the warlike depiction of the Iconians may have been wrong, passed down by those who feared and eventually defeated them.
• The Worf Effect : The USS Yamato , a starship of identical build and design to the Enterprise , being destroyed (complete with the saucer separating and then its hull burning off in front of the main characters!), is meant to show us and the crew that the Iconian computer virus is serious business.
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2.11 Contagion

Responding to a call from one of Picard’s old friends, Donald Varley (seriously, is there a single starship captain or Admiral that Picard ISN’T best friends with? Seems like the old boy network is still up and running in the future…) the Enterprise is forced to enter the Neutral Zone. After performing a masonic handshake, Picard and Varley discuss why they’re there.

It turns out Varley has discovered that the legend of the Iconion race is actually based in fact. Unfortunately his ship – the Galaxy Class Yamato – is malfunctioning, meaning he’s unable to complete his investigation. Or, for that matter, his conversation, because the ship explodes right in front of them, killing everyone on board.

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Everyone is briefly traumatised, but then a Romulan ship arrives. After determining that they didn’t destroy the Yamato, Picard insists to the Romulan captain that he be allowed to complete his investigation into the Yamato’s destruction. She allows him to, then cloaks her ship, leading everyone to assume they’ve probably left (as you would, right?)

As the Enterprise slowly begins to manifest the same malfunctions as the Yamato, Picard traces Varley’s findings back to a planet where there is evidence of the Iconians. The Enterprise heads there, hoping to prevent the Romulans from getting the extremely powerful Iconian technology. Or, to look at it another way, leading their cloaked ship directly to it (does paranoia not exist in the future?)

The Enterprise arrives at the planet and an ancient Iconian probe is released to scan them. La Forge realises that the probe will essentially deliver a computer virus that’ll wreck the ship completely, but can’t tell anyone because of communicator malfunctions. He sprints to the bridge, arriving just in time to order the probe’s destruction. Tense stuff! It turns out that the reason for the Enterprise’s malfunctions is that they downloaded the virus with the Yamato’s logs, but the probe would’ve delivered a more direct, and therefore deadlier version. Sounds plausible (even though it isn’t really).

La Forge sets about trying to purge the virus, while Picard insists on leading an away team himself because he’s an archaeology nerd. Worf and Data go too. As soon as they’re on the planet, the warbird decloaks (told you…). It and the Enterprise try to fight one another, but neither of their weapons are actually working and they meet an uneasy truce. Still, Riker keeps the shields up, even though this means he can’t beam the away team back!

On the surface, Data tries to translate the controls of an Iconian computer the away team has found. He unintentionally triggers it, opening a portal that cycles between various locations. This is the technology Varley was willing to risk war for! Unfortunately, Data is infected with a similar version of the Iconian virus and Picard instructs Worf to take him back to the Enterprise using the magic Iconian doorway. Before he goes, Data instructs Picard how to set the auto-destruct for the Iconians – he has to play a game of Simon: Blue, Yellow, Yellow, Red, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue.

Back on the ship, Riker and Worf rush Data to engineering where he appears to succumb to the virus. Then he wakes up again, missing his recent memories but purged of the virus by his own defensive systems. “Of course!” says Geordi. “We can purge the infected memory and restore our software from the protected archives!”. So it turns out the way to defeat this aggressive, semi-intelligent computer virus is to select all its files and press delete. What the hell have they been trying for the last half hour?! Don’t forget to empty the recycle bin after, you useless thundering idiots!

On the planet, Picard sets the auto-destruct and jumps through the portal, ending up on the Romulan ship, who are in the middle of a crisis caused by their own auto-destruct arming (they stole the Yamato logs, and thus have the same virus). Luckily O’Brien is there to transport him back to the Enterprise while he delivers a snappy rejoinder, mid-transport (however that works). Once he’s back on the ship, Riker and Geordi tell the Romulans how to save themselves, then they quickly leave just in case the warbird explodes anyway.

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As the episode ends, Picard tells Riker he realises why he insists on heading away teams himself – he’s trying to hog all of the fun! Well, at least he’s over the sudden, senseless death of his good friend Captain Whatshisname. The final shot is of the Enterprise flying away, as explosions on the surface of the planet indicate the complete destruction of the Iconian portal. Er, mission accomplished, I guess.

TNG WTF: At one point, besieged by malfunctioning medical equipment, Pulaski instructs one of her underlings to use a splint. Then she has to describe what a splint is, much to the horror of the man she’s talking to. My question is this: even given the advancement of technology, would you not expect a Starfleet medical officer to have training in basic, equipment-free field medicine, which (one assumes) would include the application of splints? Who is this guy and why is he pretending to be a medic?!

TNG LOL: After Troi suggests Riker finds some busy work to keep the crew distracted while the ship’s falling apart around them, he tells her to organise an evacuation. “But you might need me if you have to negotiate with the Romulan Captain again!” she suggests. Yeah, how will he cope without such crucial insights as “She’s extremely anxious.”?! “I’ll manage.” Says Riker. Understatement of the year.

Also, there’s a conversation where Picard is telling Wesley about how the Iconians could “travel great distances without a starship” and “appear from thin air”, prompting Wesley to remark that it sounds like magic. Personally I’d say it sounds like THE TRANSPORTER, WHICH YOU FREQEUNTLY USE INSTEAD OF ALMOST ANY VEHICLE. He’s clearly easily impressed.

Mistakes and Minutiae: I was surprised to see that this episode was co-written by the late Steve Gerber, star of 70s comics and creator of Howard the Duck. Nothing about it feels particularly Gerber-esque, based on what I know of his comics work, but presumably there wasn’t a lot of room for individual expression.

Time Until Meeting: 7:55. After the destruction of the Yamato, Picard demands that his staff learn the cause and present it to him in a meeting, 1 hour from now! Which they then do. Serious business. (There’s also another at 20:47 so that Geordi can explain the probe.)

Captain’s Log: As episodes go, it’s not terrible, but it isn’t exactly gripping TV. The mystery of the Iconians is the interesting part of the episode, but it doesn’t get played up enough. The Romulans, having announced themselves with sufficiently threatening intent at the end of the last series, turn up and prove themselves to be pretty ineffectual.

Similarly, the malfunctioning Enterprise gets old very, very quickly, mainly because it’s represented by lights dimming and undimming and doors failing to open. Although Geordi’s trip in a broken turbolift is pretty funny, especially if you try to figure out what direction it must have arrived from to spit him out onto the bridge like that.

As Trek episodes go, it’s pretty standard fare. There are some interesting character moments for Picard (it establishes his interest in both archaeology and tea, early grey, hot) but there’s no underlying philosophical point, bar one scene where Wesley is disturbed about witnessing the death of everyone on the Yamato and wondering how everyone else is coping. Picard gives him the old speech about hoping you never get used to it, although his upbeat manner at the end of the episode suggests that Picard has done just that. That besides, it’s mostly an episode about an unengaging mystery that gets solved by techno-nonsense. Yeah, one of those.

Watch or Skip? Skip it, unless you’re desperate to see some Romulans.

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There's trouble in the Neutral Zone. Following a distress signal, the Enterprise finds the USS Yamato stranded due to a systems failure, with the Romulans nearby. Even before the opening credits roll the starship explodes, killing everybody on board. Turns out the captain of the Yamato had been searching for Iconia, a planet legendary for its technological advances, and whose technology would be incredibly dangerous if it were to fall into the wrong (read: Romulan) hands. Then the computer virus that destroyed the Yamato starts to infect the Enterprise , and the Romulans show up and start threatening them. To make matters worse, Data himself becomes infected. A good yarn--and as the Internet continues to expand, stories like this one about computer viruses will become increasingly relevant. --Andy Spletzer

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Costarring Diana Muldaur as Dr. Katherine Pulaski.

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• Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches; 6.13 ounces
• Director ‏ : ‎ Beaumont, Gabrielle, Becker, Robert, Bole, Cliff, Bond, Timothy, Burton, LeVar
• Release date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 1995
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2006
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Burton, LeVar, McFadden, Gates
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ 6303115225

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" You do this every day?! "

The USS Enterprise -D is on a charting mission in the Morgana Quadrant . Commander Riker is taking part in one of Worf 's calisthenics holodeck programs, to the concern of Captain Picard . They are both attacked by a different monster but eventually both monsters are defeated. After defeating his monster Worf, energized by Klingon bloodlust, nearly attacks Riker until Riker orders him "at ease!" When the program ends, Riker asks Worf if all his workout programs are like this. However, Worf admits that others are more intense but "too personal" to share. Riker stands bewildered for a moment until leaving the holodeck when Worf asks if he is coming with him.

Act One [ ]

" There it is. "

On the bridge , Data detects an unusual reading from his station , an area of total blackness, seemingly devoid of space , matter and energy . It is like a " hole in space ." Captain Picard orders a probe to be launched into it. However, as soon as it enters the void it disappears. This alarms Worf and he recommends raising shields , for the void reminds him of an old Klingon legend about a space creature that devours "entire vessels". He soon realizes that he is being foolish, and Picard orders another probe to be launched. This second probe also vanishes, more quickly than the last.

A hole in space

Ensign Crusher tells Picard that he can determine the boundaries of the anomaly based on where the two probes disappears and suggests that he can bring the ship closer. Picard agrees and orders Crusher to bring the ship in closer using thrusters only. Suddenly, the blackness expands and envelopes the Enterprise .

Act Two [ ]

Data tries to scan the surrounding area, but there is absolutely nothing to see. Picard decides to proceed with the mission and orders Crusher to set a course out of the void, back the way they came. However, no matter how fast or how far they go, they cannot leave. They drop a beacon in order to help them get a fix on their position. They set off on a course away from the beacon, yet soon enough they are approaching it again. They are going in circles. Picard orders full stop.

" Our sister ship! "

Suddenly, they detect a decloaking Romulan D'deridex -class Warbird approaching them. Riker heads to join Worf at tactical while bringing the ship to red alert; ordering the photon torpedoes armed. Picard orders them to hold for his order as he sits down in his chair . When Wesley spots the ship decloaking, the Warbird fires on them as the Enterprise takes a direct hit with significant weakening of their shields. Picard issues a warning to the attacking ship that they'll return fire. When the message is transmitting, Worf informs the captain the warbird has armed another full spread. The Enterprise returns fire with a single torpedo, destroying their attacker immediately. Picard observes that the battle was far too easy and Data can detect no debris from the Romulan ship. Another ship appears on sensors . This time it is the Galaxy -class USS Yamato , their sister ship. They hail the vessel but there is no response. Sensors also detect no life signs . Riker recommends sending an away team over. Picard agrees, but only to have a minimal away team go over. Riker chooses Worf and they leave the bridge for the transporter room.

Act Three [ ]

" One Riker! One bridge! "

Armed with phasers and equipped with tricorders , Riker orders Miles O'Brien to beam them over to the Yamato 's bridge . On board, they find out they are not on the bridge, instead in corridors and furthermore, hear screams with no one to be found. They find that the ship makes no structural sense. When they do reach the bridge, there appear to be several of them. When one walks through a door, they wind up not where they expected. This situation infuriates Worf and he begins to lose his temper. However, Riker calms him down.

Meanwhile, relief conn officer Ensign Haskell on the Enterprise detects a gap, through which stars can be seen. It appears to be a way to escape, but Picard will not leave without the away team. The starfix suddenly disappears.

Suddenly, the Yamato too begins to vanish. Picard orders O'Brien to beam the away team back immediately. O'Brien succeeds, in the nick of time. Riker comes to the bridge, very agitated. He has had enough and suggests that they " put all this technology to work, and get the hell out of here! "

Act Four [ ]

O'Brien beams back Riker and Worf

Another starfix soon appears. A pleased Picard orders Ensign Haskell to set a course towards it, but as soon as this is done, it quickly closes again. Another starfix appears, but once again vanishes when a course is set towards it. Yet another starfix appears, but Picard ignores it, having enough of it. Haskell observes that it seems closer than the others, yet Picard still holds position. Standing at tactical , Dr. Pulaski thinks that the crew is being treated like "rats in a maze ". Counselor Troi says that she can sense a vast intelligence at work. Picard has had enough of responding to stimuli and decides to do nothing from now on.

Suddenly, a disjointed face appears on the screen. It introduces itself as Nagilum . It inquires about Pulaski's "construction" and how it differs from most of the other people on the bridge. Pulaski explains that she and Troi are female and that the others are male. Picard says that these differences are necessary for the propagation of the species. Nagilum asks for a demonstration of this but Pulaski refuses this request.

" You exist, and then you cease to exist. "

Nagilum then inquires about Humans ' "limited existence", in which " you exist, then you cease to exist. Your minds call it… death. " Suddenly, Haskell begins to shake violently. He grabs his face in a vain effort to control himself, but falls from his station screaming. He falls out from his seat at the helm and collapses on the floor, in a fetal-position, with his hands clasped over his mouth and dies with his eyes still open. Pulaski rushes to help him, but there is nothing that can be done. Nagilum watches his victim die, fascinated. " How interesting ", he mutters. Pulaski confirms with her tricorder that Haskell is dead, and an angry Picard declares, " We cannot allow you to do that! We will fight you! "

Nagilum replies that in order to completely understand death, he will need to observe "every kind of dying" and absentmindedly states that his studies would kill about a third of the ship's crew, possibly up to a half. Picard and the rest of the bridge are rendered speechless at the thought of such unspeakable suffering being inflicted so wantonly on the crewmembers of the Enterprise .

Act Five [ ]

" How long to prepare to die? "

Picard calls a staff meeting in the observation lounge and opts to initiate the ship's auto-destruct sequence rather than allow the entity to perform any more experiments on them and slaughter more of the crew. In engineering , Picard and Riker set the sequence for twenty minutes, an interval Riker thinks is a nice, round number for the Enterprise 's complement to prepare for their deaths.

Picard, while preparing himself in his quarters for the destruction of the ship, as well as his death, is visited by Data and Troi to discuss death and the implications of death. After a short discussion, Picard realizes that both are merely Nagilum in disguise, and that they are trying to trick him into aborting the self-destruct. Picard verifies Data's location, which is on the bridge. " It's not going to work, Nagilum, " he says. The two impostors vanish and suddenly the ship is back in normal space.

Picard goes to the bridge to make sure that they are free. With only a few seconds left to spare, he orders the computer to stop the countdown. When asked if he concurs, Riker replies, " Yes! Absolutely! I do indeed concur! Wholeheartedly! " The sequence stops and Picard jokingly informs Riker that a simple "yes" would have sufficed. Riker remarks that he didn't want there to be any chance of a misunderstanding by the ship's computer.

" As species, we have no common ground. "

Picard goes to his ready room and hopes that Nagilum got what he wanted. Suddenly, Nagilum appears on Picard's desktop monitor , and informs Picard that he got much more than he needed. Nagilum reports his conclusions to Picard. He says that Humans " seem to find no tranquility in anything. You struggle against the inevitable. You thrive on conflict. You are rash, quick to judge, slow to change. It's amazing you've survived. As a species, we have no common ground. You are too aggressive. Too hostile. Too militant ". Picard does not argue with him, but points out that they do indeed have one trait in common, curiosity. Nagilum, with a Human-like chuckle, agrees. Picard also says that they may meet again, but that next time, it will be out among the stars. Nagilum fades off screen.

Picard then returns to the bridge, and orders Crusher to put them back on their original course. Riker tells him to steer clear of "any holes".

Log entries [ ]

• Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2365

Memorable quotes [ ]

" I think it is perhaps best to be ignorant of certain elements of Klingon psyche. "

"Like the rat said: you can keep the cheese--I just want to get out of the trap."

"Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is 'I do not know.'"

"Remember the course in ancient history at Starfleet Academy? About the time when men still believed the Earth was flat?" "Mm, and that the sun revolved around it." "And that if a ship sailed too far out into the ocean it would fall off the edge of the world?" "Mm. Beyond this place, there be dragons."

" I have a question, sir. " " Yes Data, what is it? " " What is death? " " Oh, is that all? Oh, Data, you're asking probably the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging; they believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand, there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness. That all of our experiences and hopes and dreams, merely a delusion. " " Which do you believe, sir? " " Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that, matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond Euclidean or other "practical" measuring systems, and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality. "

" …Ten seconds to auto-destruct… " " Captain… " " Abort auto-destruct sequence. " " Riker, William T., do you concur? " " Yes! Absolutely! I do indeed concur wholeheartedly! " " Auto-destruct canceled. " " A simple 'yes' would have sufficed, Number One. " " I didn't want there to be any chance of a misunderstanding. "

" A ship has one bridge! ONE BRIDGE!! ONE RIKER!! ONE BRIDGE!!! "

" Why do I get the feeling that this was not the time to join this ship? "

" Sensors show nothing out there, absolutely nothing. " " Sure is a damned ugly nothin'. "

" Speaks right up for something your sensors say isn't there, Data. "

" I understand. The masculine and the feminine. " " It is the way in which we propagate our species. " " Please, demonstrate how this is accomplished. " " Not likely. "

" To understand 'death', I must amass information on every aspect of it. Every kind of dying. The experiments shouldn't take more than a third of your crew. Maybe half. "

" Ensign, put us back on course. Warp three. " " Yes, sir. Warp three. " " And, Ensign? If you encounter any holes… steer clear. "

Background information [ ]

Production history [ ].

• Final draft script: 26 September 1988
• Revised final draft script: 27 September 1988 [1]
• Premiere airdate: 28 November 1988
• First UK airdate: 10 April 1991

Story and script [ ]

• The title is taken from a line of the Robert Service poem The Spell of the Yukon .
• This is the first episode to feature a completely original script after the 1988 WGA strike. The premiere of Season 2, " The Child ", was adapted from the script of the same name for Star Trek: Phase II . ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 66))
• According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 68), the name " Nagilum ", "Mulligan" backwards, was an homage to actor Richard Mulligan , who was originally set to play the role, much as Sha Ka Ree was named for Sean Connery, the original choice to play Sybok in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier .
• In 2020, Patrick Stewart gave his personal annotated copy of the script for this episode to Pete Buttigieg on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! late-night talk show. [2]

Production [ ]

Shooting "Where Silence Has Lease"

• This episode marks Winrich Kolbe 's directorial debut on Star Trek . He later went on to direct many more episodes of The Next Generation , including the series finale, " All Good Things... ", as well as episodes from the other spin-off series, including the first episode of Star Trek: Voyager , " Caretaker ".
• With no new sets, this episode is a true bottle show . ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 68))
• For Kolbe, the challenge was to make the show visually interesting while shooting five days on the bridge set. He noted, " The bridge is intriguing when you step on it for the first time and you look at it for about ten minutes. Then it becomes an utter crashing bore, because it's nothing but tan walls and a few twinkling lights. I did a lot of choreography on that show. It's probably the script that has the most notes on where actors move – every step, which I very rarely do. I usually like the actors to drive themselves where they have to go. On something like 'Where Silence Has Lease' you have to keep the camera constantly moving, and that was a hell of a challenge. I spent a lot of time on that bridge on my belly, hanging down from the rafters and in any other position to try and figure out what I would do with the camera. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 173)
• As he awaits the Enterprise self-destruct countdown in his quarters, Picard listens to Trois Gymnopédies (specifically, Gymnopedie No 1. Lent et Douloureux, translated: Slow and Painful), by Erik Satie, a French composer and pianist.
• As Worf and Riker are exploring the derelict USS Yamato , in the moment when Riker notes the chemical composition of the bulkheads, the first door on the right-hand side of the blind corridor outside the transporter room can be seen open. This is one of only two instances in the entire seven-year run of the series that this door is seen open, with the other in " 11001001 " as Picard requests access to the Weapons Room. In Star Trek: The Motion Picture , that door had served as the entrance to the transporter room of the original USS Enterprise , while the wider door used in TNG had not been added yet. When the sets were redesigned for their appearances in The Next Generation , the back wall of the transporter room was moved closer to the transporter platform, and the space behind it was left open for possible use later. It should be noted that for both of these instances there was no standing set behind that door. The room behind the door was used as the sickbay science laboratory set in such episodes as " Home Soil " and " Evolution ".
• The false Yamato bridge has a notable sound effect: a subtly distorted version of the Enterprise bridge background noises, indicating that things are not quite right aboard the Yamato .

Continuity [ ]

• Near the end of the previous episode, " The Child ", before leaving Science Station Tango Sierra , we see Picard mentioning Morgana Quadrant as the new destination. Indeed, according to the Captain's log , the present episode takes place in the Morgana Quadrant.
• Worf's Klingon legend about a space creature eating starships may have some basis in fact, as seen in VOY : " Bliss " where just such a creature is encountered. It also might refer to the giant space amoeba in TOS : " The Immunity Syndrome ".
• The original USS Enterprise encountered a "hole" in space which couldn't be penetrated by sensors in " The Immunity Syndrome ", yet Data states " There is no record of any Federation vessel encountering anything remotely like this. "
• The registry of the USS Yamato is NCC-1305-E in this episode, but was changed to NCC-71807 for " Contagion ".
• While the false Yamato bridge is seen to be an exact copy of the Enterprise bridge in this episode, the bridge of the real Yamato is shown to have very subtle physical differences in " Contagion ".
• O'Brien , manning the transporter during this episode, is referred to as "lieutenant" by Riker, suggesting that he is a commissioned officer. Later episodes contradict this, and O'Brien would eventually be the token enlisted man on both TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . See also : Miles O'Brien's rank history
• This episode marks the first appearance of the new red alert lights which entirely flash on and off and they will be used for the rest of the show's run.
• This is the only episode where Picard says "come in" when his doorbell rings. The rest of the episodes have him saying "come".
• In " 11001001 ", when the self-destruct is set, Riker expresses his concern about the computer allotting a five-minute countdown. Picard agrees, but says "there is no other option". In this episode, the countdown now has a option to set the amount of time until the ship self destructs. When Picard hears the computer ask for the time interval, he says "interesting question", suggesting it was a change he'd not known about until that moment. It could be the result of the computer system upgrade the Enterprise was supposed to get in the mentioned episode.

Soundtrack [ ]

• The music to all three episodes was scored by veteran composer Ron Jones .
• There are hints of the classic Star Trek "Fight Music" (see TOS : " Amok Time ") in the holodeck scene with Riker and Worf.

Reception [ ]

• Maurice Hurley was quite pleased with the majority of the show, although he felt that the ending didn't work. He stated, " What that show was to me was our guys at three in the morning, they hear a noise in the attic. I put a pillow over my head and go back to sleep and hope it's nothing. They got up to find out, 'Oh boy, what is it?' That's what the show was. " The story appealed to Hurley as it was true to the series' premise of exploration. " I hate to keep saying it, monsters and creatures just didn't work. One of the things that sometimes has to be remembered, and I forgot it as much as anybody, was that you forget these are scientists out here, not soldiers. They're out there to learn, so that sense of learning and investigation is really important, more important than all of the running and jumping, more important than the Ferengi , more important than the Borg , more important than any of that stuff is to deal with an idea or something new. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 173)
• Director Winrich Kolbe thought the premise was interesting, although he wished it could have been further developed. He noted, " We look at things in our little universe and interpret people in a certain way and they make sense of us or they don't make sense of us. A foreigner, for instance. The way he or she thinks or sees things. You put that in outer space and have a totally different organization looking at us, now it seems to me that you want to push it further. You want that experiment to go further and us become almost like whatever they want us to be. Unfortunately it didn't go so far. That is probably my major beef. " Kolbe noted this was due to the limits of episodic drama. " [Y]ou only have 44 minutes and in those 44 minutes, unless you do story arcs , if you have to go out there and come back in 44 minutes you're kind of handicapped. You don't want to go out too far so you lose your audience and never catch them as you come back. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 173)
• Patrick Stewart quoted from Picard's conversation with the fake Data about death during the memorial service for Gene Roddenberry in 1991. ( Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry )
• A mission report for this episode by Patrick Daniel O'Neill was published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine  issue 6 , pp. 5-8.
• Winrich Kolbe also remembers, " That was murder. It was five days on the bridge. To shoot that long on the bridge was the worst experience I've ever had. I don't necessarily mean that in negative terms. It was just very challenging. That's where I began to move the camera. In the end, I think it's one of the best ones I've done. " ( The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine  issue 21 , p. 30)

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 14 , catalog number VHR 2467, 3 June 1991
• UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment ): Volume 2.1, catalog number VHR 4737, 1 March 1999
• As part of the TNG Season 2 DVD collection
• As part of the TNG Season 2 Blu-ray collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
• Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker

Also starring [ ]

• LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
• Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
• Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
• Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
• Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher

Special appearance by [ ]

• Diana Muldaur as Doctor Pulaski

Guest star [ ]

• Earl Boen as Nagilum

Co-stars [ ]

• Charles Douglass as Haskell
• Colm Meaney as Transporter Chief

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

• Majel Barrett as USS Enterprise -D computer voice
• James G. Becker as Youngblood
• Dexter Clay as operations officer
• Jeffrey Deacon as command officer
• Steve Kelso as insectoid opponent
• Tim McCormack as Bennett
• Jan Shultz as skull-faced opponent
• Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace
• Operations crew woman #1
• Operations crew woman #2
• Sciences bridge officer

Stunt doubles [ ]

• Matt McColm as stunt double for Jonathan Frakes
• Gerard G. Williams as stunt double for Michael Dorn

Stand-ins [ ]

• James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
• Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton
• Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn
• Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
• Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
• Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner
• Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton

References [ ]

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External links [ ]

• "Where Silence Has Lease" at StarTrek.com
• " Where Silence Has Lease " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• " Where Silence Has Lease " at Wikipedia
• " "Where Silence Has Lease" " at MissionLogPodcast.com , a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
• "Where Silence Has Lease" script  at Star Trek Minutiae
• 3 ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

U.S.S. Yamato

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The U.S.S. Yamato was a Federation starship in service to Starfleet in the mid- 24th Century .

In 2365, discoveries at an archeological dig on Denius III led the Yamato and its crew to the Romulan Neutral Zone , where the near-mythological planet Iconia was found to be located. The Yamato was lost with all hands when an Iconian computer virus infected the ship's systems and began causing catastrophic malfunctions ending in a complete loss of warp core containment.

Missions Involved [ | ]

• “Butterfly” (Mentioned): For Scenario Gamma, Gamma Team Leader Jelen proposes causing the destruction of the Denius III archeological site, thereby preventing the Yamato from discovering Iconia and alerting the Iconians to the current level of the Milky Way Galaxy races.

Legacy [ | ]

• In 2410, a new U.S.S. Yamato, registry number NCC-92199, is launched. The new Yamato is the first ship of the Yamato-class Dreadnought Cruisers .

External link [ | ]

• USS Yamato at Memory Alpha , the Star Trek Wiki.
• 1 Playable starship
• 3 Infinity Prize Pack - T6 Ship

• Personnel Manifest
• Yamato Discord

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