Star Trek: The Original Series Obsession ©1989 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
Episode: 47 Airdate: December 15, 1967 |
Star Trek: The Next Generation Family ©1990 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
Episode: 78 Airdate: October 1, 1990 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Adversary ©1995 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
Episode: 72 Airdate: June 19, 1995 |
Star Trek: Voyager Caretaker ©1995 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
Episode: 1 & 2 Airdate: January 16, 1995 |
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Star Trek: The Original Series Obsession | |
Directed by | Ralph Senensky |
Written by | Art Wallace |
Produced by | Gene L. Coon |
Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
Starring | William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley |
Guest Star | Stephen Brooks |
Stardate 3619.2 While assigned to a routine planetary exploration, Captain Kirk and his party encounter a vampire cloud creature that thrives on red blood corpuscles - with deadly results. It turns out that Kirk, eleven years earlier, while on the U.S.S. Farragut assignment, had hesitated when confronted by the same creature and failed to fire his phaser in time to save the ship's captain. Haunted by his guilt, Kirk seizes the opportunity to set things right by destroying the creature. When Kirk's attempts to destroy the cloud result in the deaths of several crew members and delay the Enterprise's mission to deliver an urgently needed vaccine, McCoy and Spock suspect him of pursuing an out-of-control obsession. But to Kirk, it's not an obsession. He has an intuition - a "captain's intuition" - that while the costs may be great, he must pursue the creature wherever it takes him, and destroy it.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Family |
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Directed by | Les Landau |
Written by | Ronald D. Moore |
Premise by | Susanne Lambdin and Bryan Stewart |
Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
Also Starring | LeVar Burton Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
Guest Star | Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan |
Stardate 44012.3 Captain Jean-Luc Picard has always taken great pride in his distinguished career as a Starfleet officer. But after being captured by the Borg and used to help destroy 39 Federation starships and their crews, Picard now considers himself a failure. During his physical and psychological rehabilitation, Picard returns to his home in LaBarre, France, where his older brother, Robert, still tends the family vineyard. Always resentful of Picard's stellar achievements and unmitigated pride, Robert enjoys seeing Picard brought down to Earth. Picard's loss of confidence becomes all too clear when he is offered a position to head a scientific project and seriously considers leaving Starfleet to take the job. Seeing Picard fail to own up to his feelings, Robert seizes the opportunity to attack Picard's façade of perfection - and forces him to confront the truth about himself. |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Adversary | |
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Directed by | Alexander Singer |
Written by | Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
Executive Producer | Rick Berman |
Starring | Avery Brooks |
Also Starring | René Auberjonois Siddig El Fadil Terry Farrell Cirroc Lofton Colm Meaney Armin Shimerman Nana Visitor |
Stardate 48959.1 When Benjamin Sisko receives his promotion to the rank of captain, little does he know that he's about to receive the full test of that rank. Captain Sisko's first assignment is to take his ship, the Defiant, near the Tzenkethi border to make certain a recent coup doesn't spread into aggressive acts against the Federation colonies. En route, Sisko learns that somebody has sabotaged virtually all of the ship's systems. It turns out that a Changeling is on board, using its power to assume any form while it controls the ship. Cloaked, armed and headed for an innocent Tzenkethi settlement, the Changeling has programmed the Defiant to provoke a war. While Sisko leads a systematic search for the Changeling, the Defiant nears its target. Faced with the toughest decision of his life, Sisko elects to arm the ship's self-destruct mechanism rather than start a war. When the crew supports his decision - in spite of the fact that they may die - Sisko's stature as captain is proven. |
Star Trek: Voyager Caretaker | |
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Directed by | Winrich Kolbe |
Teleplay by | Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor |
Story by | Rick Berman, Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor |
Executive Producers | Rick Berman & Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor |
Starring | Kate Mulgrew |
Also Starring | Robert Beltran Roxann Biggs-Dawson Jennifer Lein Robert Duncan McNeill Ethan Phillips Robert Picardo Tim Russ Garrett Wang |
Stardate 48315.6 Captain Kathryn Janeway is assigned to go after a rebel Maquis ship that disappeared into "The Badlands." But the Voyager is struck by the same violent force that hit the Maquis, sending it all the way across the Galaxy. There they are confronted by a huge, mysterious craft - the Array - operated by a single, very powerful alien, "The Caretaker." Janeway, together with the Maquis rebels, tries to convince the Caretaker to return them to Federation territory. But he is preoccupied with his responsibility to protect the people of a nearby planet, the Ocampa. It turns out the Caretaker is dying and doesn't have time for Janeway's request. Instead, he asks her to destroy the Array after his death - otherwise the ruthless Kazon will use it against the helpless Ocampa. Captain Janeway is confronted with a serious dilemma: if she uses the Array to go home, it will mean certain death for the Ocampa. But if she destroys the Array, her ship and crew will be stranded - and it'll take more than 70 years to get home! |