Fourth Season - Episode 076

FAMILY

Stardate: 44012.3
Rating: 7 Humour: + Action: - Tension: - Romance: +

Alternate Titles: German: "FAMILIENBEGEGNUNG"

Written By: Moore, Ronald D.
Director: Landau, Les
Executive: Berman, Rick
Piller, Michael
Roddenberry, Gene
Supervisor: Taylor, Jeri
Producer: Livingston, David
Sheldon, Lee
Co-Producer: Lauritson, Peter

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
Guinan: Whoopi Goldberg
O'Brien: Colm Meaney
Sergei Roszhenko: Theodore Bikel
Helena Roszhenko: Georgia Brown
Robert Picard: Jeremy Kemp
Marie Picard: Samantha Eggar
Rene Picard: David Tristan Birkin
Jack Crusher: Doug Wert
Louis: Dennis Creaghan

Plot

In this episode, several of the crew are faced with family related matters and relatives. Picard, having been rescued from the Borg returns to his home town to visit with his brother and his family. Worf is visited on the Enter- prise by his adoptive parents - the Roszhenkos. And Wesley must decide whether to view a hologram tape made by his late father.

Goofs

  • Jack Crusher is shown (not wearing a communicator pin), then they show him again and a comm badge has magically appeared.
  • At the end of the episode, there is a scene of Picard's young nephew, Rene, sitting under a tree and gazing up at the stars (presumably imagining following in his uncle's footsteps). Appearing clearly in the middle of the sky is the constellation Orion. But while the episode appears to be set in the summer months, Orion is only visible in the early evenings in the dead of winter. Either the 24th century terraforming teams have conveniently rearranged Earth's seasons (after all, they _did_ make France look a lot like the Sonoma Valley), or the post-production people goofed up.

Quotes

Picard: "They took everything I was! They used me to kill...and to destroy... and I COULDN'T STOP THEM! I TRIED SO HARD!"

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