First Season - Episode 019

COMING OF AGE

Stardate: 41416.2
Rating: 10 Humour: - Action: - Tension: + Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "PRÜFUNGEN"
Danish: "I DE VOKSNES RÆKKER"

Written By: Fries, Sandy
Director: Vejar, Michael
Executive: Roddenberry, Gene
Co-Executive: Berman, Rick
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
Admiral Gregory Quinn: Ward Costello
Lt. Commander Dexter Remmick: Robert Schenkkan
Mordock: John Putch
Chang: Robert Ito
Jake Kurland: Stephen Gregory
T'Shanik: Tasia Valenza
Oliana Mirren: Estee Chandler
1st Technician: Brendan McKane
2nd Technician: Wyatt Knight
Rondon: Daniel Riordan

Plot

The Enterprise travels to Relva 7 where Wesley takes his entrance exams to enter Starfleet Academy. Meanwhile, an old friend of Picard's, now an ad- miral, arrives with an aide from the Inspector General's office to investi- gate the ship and its crew on the pretext that something is wrong on the Enterprise.

Quotes

Mirren: "It's a good thing you're cute, Wesley, or you could really be obnoxious."
Wesley: "Did you hear what she said, Mordock? She said I was cute."
Mordock: "Is that good, Wesley?"
Wesley: "Yes........ I think."

Worf: "Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy."

Worf: "Only fools have no fear."

Rondon: "How dare you! I am Rondon! You despicable Melonoid slime worm! Liar!"

Wesley: "Do you want this to become violent?"

Data: "There is nothing wrong with Captain Picard or with the ship's logs. Therefore, there must be something wrong with your original assumption."
Remmick: "That is not acceptable, Mister Data."
Data: "Acceptable or not, sir, it is the truth."

Remmick: "You don't like me very much, do you?"
Worf: "Is it required...sir?"

Beverly: "My personal feelings about Captain Picard are irrelevant to this investigation, and none of your business."

Wesley: "Then... You're not disapointed ?"
Picard: "Wesley, you have to measure your failures and your successes within, not by what I or anyone else might think..... But if it helps you to know this, I failed the first time too.. And you may NOT tell anyone"
Wesley: "YOU....... You failed ???"
Picard: "Yes, but not the second time..."

Quinn: "Maybe I have been playing politics too long. Perhaps I see conspiracies ...everywhere."

Revised: 13061997