First Season - Episode 018

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Stardate: 41463.9 - 41464.8
Rating: 9 Humour: - Action: + Tension: + Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "EIN PLANET WEHRT SICH"

Teleplay By: Sabaroff, Robert
Story By: Guers, Karl
Sabaroff, Robert
Sanchez, Ralph
Director: Allen, Corey
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
Kurt Mandl: Walter Gotell
Louisa Kim: Elizabeth Lindsey
Bjorn Benson: Gerard Prendergast
Arthur Malencon: Mario Roccuzzo
Female Engineer: Carolyne Barry

Plot

The Enterprise visits a terraforming station on Velara III where there has been some problems, the crew has not reported as planed, but when the Enterprise arrives everything seems fine, until a member of the terraforming crew is killed by a laserdrill. Data starts an investigation, soon after the drill also attacks him. Based on that attack Picard decides that the terraforming should be on hold until an explination is found. Data and Geordi returns to the now powerless station to begin an investigation, however they've just started when they encounter something strange, which turns out to be a new lifeform, after being beamed up to the Enterprise for examination the lifeform declares war on humans and attempts to take over the Enterprise.

Quotes

Picard: "You're a man obsessed with what he does. Who knows what an obsessed man would do to keep going? Kill perhaps?"
Mandl: "I create life! I don't take it!"

Worf: "But... Is it alive ??"
Computer: "Posibility positive.."
Worf: "I wasn't asking YOU.."

Picard: "We have dertaiment that Data's discovery is life, but more than that... It's inteligent life.."
Riker: "How do you know, sir ?"
Picard: "It's trying to comunicate with us.."

Lifeform: "Ugly Bags Of Mostly Water we try at peace, you do not listen. Boy In Dome On Sand Of Home, we kill."

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