First Season - Episode 005

THE LAST OUTPOST

Stardate: 41368.4 - 41368.5
Rating: 8 Humour: + Action: + Tension: + Romance: --

Alternate Titles: German: "DER WÄCHTER"
Danish: "DEN SIDSTE FORPOST"

Teleplay By: Wright, Herbert
Story By: Krzemien, Richard
Director: Colla, Richard A.
Executive: Roddenberry, Gene
Supervisor: Berman, Rick
Justman, Robert H.
Producer: Hurley, Maurice
Co-Producer: Lewin, Robert
Wright, Herbert

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Lt. Natasha Yar: Denise Crosby
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
Letek: Armin Shimerman
Mordoc: Jake Dengel
Kayron: Tracey Walter
Portal: Darryl Henriques
Daimon Tarr: Mike Gomez

Plot

A Ferengi vessel steals an energy unit from a Federation base and the Enterprise pursues. Both ships are rendered immobile as they pass an unknown solar system. Believing each other responsible for the immobility, they discuss surrender. Meanwhile, an Enterprise probe discovers that a force- field on the nearby planet is actually responsible and a joint expedition of Ferengi and Federation personnel, beam down to explore. They encounter a mysterious being known as Portal who presents them a test.

Quotes

Data:	"Possibility, a malfunction in their engines, sir?"
LaForge:	"Breaks my heart."

Riker:	"Yankee traders, I don't like the sound of that."
Data:	"Well, sir, I doubt they wear red, white, and blue, or look anything like Uncle Sam."
Worf:	"Uncle WHO ???"

Worf:	"I say, 'Fight', sir. There's nothing shameful in falling to a superior enemy."
Picard:	"And nothing shameful in a strategic retreat either."

Picard:

"Merde."

Yar:	"I say put all available power into a full-out combined phaser and photon torpedo salvo. Destroy their ability to sustain this force- field, sir."
Worf:	"Yes! Hit them hard and hit them fast."

Data:	"Apologies, Captain. I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am stuck."
LaForge:	"My hero."

Riker:	"What do you make of these?"
Data:	"Crystalline, mostly inert. Nothing to write home about."

Letek:

"You work with your females, arm them, and force them to wear clothing."

Picard:	"He has the right to meet death awake."
Beverly:	"Is that a male perspective?"
Picard:	"Rubbish."

Ferengi:

"And they shamelessly clothe their females, inviting others to unclothe them. The very depth of perversion."

Beverly:

"Not a moment to soon Jean-Luc, I mean, 'Captain'."