Star Trek: TNG - The Child / Where Silence Has Lease

The Child ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.		Where Silence Has Lease ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode	27	Episode	28
Airdate	November 21, 1988	Airdate	November 28, 1988

Catalog Number	LV40270-127
Format	Extended Play CLV

Table of Contents
Running Time	92 minutes

Side	Running Time
1	46min 45sec
2	46min 15sec
	93min 00sec

Pressing Location	Pioneer Video Manufacturing
Retail Price	$34.98
Issued	August 25, 1993

The Child
Directed by Rob Bowman

Written by Jaron Summers & Jon Povill and Maurice Hurley

Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry

Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes

Also Starring LeVar Burton
Michael Dorn
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton

Special Appearance by Diana Muldaur

Guest Stars Seymour Cassel and
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan

Stardate 42073.1
While preparing to transport samples of a lethal plasma plague, the crew receives some startling news: Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) is pregnant. According to Troi, she was impregnated by a glowing white light. The ship's new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kate Pulaski (Diana Muldaur), watches in amazement as Troi gives birth to Ian, a half-human, half-Betazoid boy who ages eight years in one day.
Meanwhile, another child of the Enterprise, Wesley (Wil Wheaton) wrestles with his prospects. He must choose between joining his mother at Starfleet medical or staying onboard the ship. With some advice from Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), the bartender in the Ten Forward lounge, Wesley decides to remain on the ship. But everyone's future is threatened when the force-field surrounding the plague specimens is compromised by an unexpected source: Ian.

Where Silence Has Lease
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Written by Jack B. Sowards

Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry

Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes

Also Starring LeVar Burton
Michael Dorn
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton

Special Appearance by Diana Muldaur

Guest Star Earl Boen

Stardate 42193.6
Traveling to the Morgana Quadrant, the Enterprise is trapped in a dimensionless void. Giant human eyes soon appear on the main view screen, and the being identifies itself as Nagilum (Earl Boen). Nagilum tells Picard (Patrick Stewart) that he has decided to use the ship's crew to study the ways in which humans meet death. After killing one crew member, Nagilum tells the captain that his "experiment" will result in the extinction of at least one-third of the Enterprise's population.
Unwilling to stand by and watch a systematic slaughter, Picard makes one of the most difficult decisions of his career. With Riker's support, Picard programs the auto-destruct system of the ship. Unless Nagilum can be stopped within twenty minutes, the Enterprise and its crew will be destroyed.

The Child
Directed by	Rob Bowman
Written by	Jaron Summers & Jon Povill and Maurice Hurley
Executive Producer	Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring	LeVar Burton Michael Dorn Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Special Appearance by	Diana Muldaur
Guest Stars	Seymour Cassel and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
Stardate 42073.1 While preparing to transport samples of a lethal plasma plague, the crew receives some startling news: Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) is pregnant. According to Troi, she was impregnated by a glowing white light. The ship's new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kate Pulaski (Diana Muldaur), watches in amazement as Troi gives birth to Ian, a half-human, half-Betazoid boy who ages eight years in one day. Meanwhile, another child of the Enterprise, Wesley (Wil Wheaton) wrestles with his prospects. He must choose between joining his mother at Starfleet medical or staying onboard the ship. With some advice from Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg), the bartender in the Ten Forward lounge, Wesley decides to remain on the ship. But everyone's future is threatened when the force-field surrounding the plague specimens is compromised by an unexpected source: Ian.

Where Silence Has Lease
Directed by	Winrich Kolbe
Written by	Jack B. Sowards
Executive Producer	Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring	LeVar Burton Michael Dorn Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Special Appearance by	Diana Muldaur
Guest Star	Earl Boen
Stardate 42193.6 Traveling to the Morgana Quadrant, the Enterprise is trapped in a dimensionless void. Giant human eyes soon appear on the main view screen, and the being identifies itself as Nagilum (Earl Boen). Nagilum tells Picard (Patrick Stewart) that he has decided to use the ship's crew to study the ways in which humans meet death. After killing one crew member, Nagilum tells the captain that his "experiment" will result in the extinction of at least one-third of the Enterprise's population. Unwilling to stand by and watch a systematic slaughter, Picard makes one of the most difficult decisions of his career. With Riker's support, Picard programs the auto-destruct system of the ship. Unless Nagilum can be stopped within twenty minutes, the Enterprise and its crew will be destroyed.