Second Season - Episode 047

PEAK PERFORMANCE

Stardate: 42923.4
Rating: 12 Humour: + Action: ++ Tension: ++ Romance: --

Alternate Titles: German: "GALAVORSTELLUNG"

Written By: Kemper, David
Director: Scheerer, Robert
Executive: Roddenberry, Gene
Co-Executive: Berman, Rick
Hurley, Maurice
Producer: McCullough, Robert L
Line-Producer: Livingston, David

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
Sirna Kolrami: Roy Brocksmith
Bractor: Armin Shimerman
Ferengi Tactician: David L. Lander
Ensign Nagel: Leslie Neale
Ensign Burke: Glenn Morshower

Plot

In order to prepare for the Borg, the Federation has been holding war games. Riker is placed in command of the U.S.S. Hathaway in simulated combat with the Enterprise. Riker is given his choice of crew and 48 hours to ready the ship before the battle begins. The battle is interrupted however, when a Ferengi ship appears demanding the Hathaway be turned over to them.

Quotes

Picard: "Starfleet is not a military organization. It's purpose is exploration."

[Before the war-game even begins]
Riker: "You care to surrender now, captain?"

Pulaski: "Captain, he needs an attitude adjustment."

Worf: "ENTER!"
Riker: "Did I interupt something."
Worf: "Just finished."

Riker: "You're outmanned, you're outgunned, you're outequipped. What else have you got?"
Worf: "Guile."
Riker: [Big smile] "Join me."

Worf: "I have wagered heavily in the ship's pool that you will take him past the sixth plateau."
Riker: "And if I don't?"
Worf: "I will be...irritated."

Riker: "Wes, you've cheated"
Wesley: "No sir, you just told me to be creative.."

Riker: "Just remember, sir...Captain Riker's never lost."

Data: "In the strictest sense, I did not win."
Troi: "Data..."
Data: "I busted him up."

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