First Season - Episode 012

THE BIG GOODBYE

Stardate: 41997.7
Rating: 12 Humour: + Action: - Tension: ++ Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "DER GROßE ABSCHIED"
Danish: "DET STORE FARVEL"

Written By: Tormé, Tracy
Director: Scanlan, Joseph L.
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
Cyrus Redblock: Lawrence Tierney
Felix Leach: Harvey Jason
Lt. McNary: William Boyett
Lt. Whalen: David Selburg
PoliceChief: Gary Armagnac
Desk Sergeant: Mike Genovese
Vendor: Dick Miller
Jessica Bradley: Carolyn Allport
Secretary Madeline: Rhonda Aldrich
Ganove: Erik Cord

Plot

In a pastiche of Philip Marlowe's "The Long Goodbye" and other detective films of the 40's, Picard enters the holodeck and the fictional world of the detective, Dixon Hill. Picard becomes the investigator involved in his latest case. Meanwhile, an alien probe shakes the ship and damages the holodeck controls accidentally turning the fantasy world into a deadly trap. This episode won a Peabody award for costumes.

Quotes

Troi: "You spell 'knife' with a 'k'."
Picard: "I spell 'knife' with an 'n', but then I never could spell."

Wesley: [To Data] "Teenage mating rituals?"

Picard: "If I leave town, the town leaves with me."

Redblock: "Senseless killing is immoral. But killing for a purpose, can quite often be ingenious."

Picard: "It was a nice place to visit, Number One, but I wouldn't want to die there."

Picard: "Mister LaForge...schtep on it."

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