Sixth Season - Episode 140

FACE OF THE ENEMY

Stardate: 46519.1
Rating: 17 Humour: - Action: + Tension: ++ Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "DAS GESICHT DES FEINDES"

Teleplay By: Shankar, Naren
Story By: Echevarria, René
Director: Beaumont, Gabrielle
Music: Jones, Ron
Executive: Berman, Rick
Piller, Michael
Co-Executive: Taylor, Jeri
Supervisor: Livingston, David
Line-Producer: Howard, Merri D.
Co-Producer: Moore, Ronald D.
Neuss, Wendy

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
N'Vek: Scott MacDonald
Cmd. Toreth: Carolyn Seymour
DeSeve: Barry Lynch
Romulan Pilot: Robertson Dean
Freighter Captain: Dennis Cockrum
Ensign McKnight: Pamela Winsolow

Plot

Deanna Troi wakes to find herself on board a Romulan ship and surgically altered to look like a Romulan. She has been kidnapped by N'Vek, a Romulan dissident, in order to help several high Romulan officials defect to the Federation while posing as a member of the Tal Shiyar (a Romulan organization which promotes "loyalty" within the Empire). Meanwhile, a former Federation member named DeSeve, who had previously defected to the Romulan Empire returns to the Federation and is taken on board by the Enterprise. He brings with him information from Ambassador Spock about the scheme to bring the Romulan officials to the Federation aboard a freighter. The Enterprise heads to the location where they are to meet the freighter only to find it destroyed by Romulans. Troi tries to expose the Romulan ship and the Enterprise folows, when cmd. Toreth wants to engage in war, Troi takes command of the warbird and hails Picard. She uses a deflector burst to cover a transporterbeam to transfer the 3 romulan defectors to the Enterprise but it is discovered before she can get herself away.

Goofs

  • When the defector ensign boards the Enterprise, he asks Riker to meet with *CAPTAIN* Picard. When Picard walks to that ensigns quarters, the defector addresses him as *COMMANDER* as if Picard were a Romulan CO.
  • Also, Troi is surgically altered to look like a Romulan, including the short hair style. When Crusher alters her back, she has long hair again. So Crusher can accelerate hair growth, the Romulan captor hid her hair, Troi wears a wig, or they messed up *another* scene!

Quotes

Revised: 29041997