Fifth Season - Episode 104

SILICON AVATAR

Stardate: 45122.3 - 45129.2
Rating: 7 Humour: - Action: + Tension: + Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "DAS RECHT AUF LEBEN"

Teleplay By: Taylor, Jeri
Story By: Conley, Lawrence V.
Director: Bole, Cliff
Executive: Berman, Rick
Piller, Michael
Roddenberry, Gene
Supervisor: Taylor, Jeri
Producer: Livingston, David
Co-Producer: Lauritson, Peter
Menosky, Joe
Moore, Ronald D.

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
Dr. Marr: Ellen Geer
Carmen: Susan Diol

Plot

The crystalline entity which destroyed the colonists at Omicron Theta III attacks the new colony at Milona IV. Riker and Data help the colonists survive the attack by leading them into caves with a chemistry that the entity apparently can't penetrate. This is the first time that there have been survivors of an attack and Dr. Marr is dispatched to the area to study the planet and interview the survivors. Dr. Marr has made it her life's work to study the entity ever since her son was killed by the entity on Omicron Theta III. The Enterprise, with Dr. Marr on board pursues the crytalline entity in the hopes of being able to communicate with it and find a way to prevent further destruction. Dr. Marr seems obsessed with not only destroying the entity but also with Data, who apparently has the memories and journal entries of her son in his memory banks.

Goofs

  • In the second act, look closely at the tricorder that Dr. Marr holds during the conversation between Dr. Marr and Data. During the conversation, she has her tricorder open. She then closes it, then reopens it, but holds the tricorder UPSIDE DOWN!!!!

Quotes

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