Second Season - Episode 028

WHERE SILENCE HAS LEASE

Stardate: 42193.6 - 42194.7
Rating: 9 Humour: -- Action: - Tension: + Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "ILLUSION ODER WIRKLICHKEIT"

Written By: Sowards, Jack B.
Director: Kolbe, Winrich
Music: Jones, Ron
Executive: Roddenberry, Gene
Co-Executive: Berman, Rick
Hurley, Maurice
Producer: Armus, Burton
Gray, Mike
Mason, John
Line-Producer: Livingston, David
Camera: Brown, Edward R.

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
Doctor Katherine Pulaski: Diana Muldaur
O'Brien: Colm Meaney
Nagilum: Earl Boen
Haskell: Charles Douglass

Plot

The Enterprise discovers a new phenomenon in the Morgana quadrant - a void that they can see but their sensors can't. It is inhabited by a strange being, Nagilum, who wishes to study the humans and is particularly curious about how humans die.

Quotes

Data: "One of the most importaint steps in science is 'I do not know'."

[Watching Nagilum apearing]
Data: "Sensors indicates absolutly nothing outthere."
LaForge: "Sure is a damn ugly nothing."

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

Riker: "At ease, Lieutenant!"

Riker: "Yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur wholeheartedly!"

Picard: "A simple yes would have been enough, number one..."

Riker: "And ensign, if you encounter any holes...steer clear."

Picard: "Well Nagilum, I hope you got what you needed.."

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