Star Trek: TNG - The Ensigns of Command / Evolution

The Ensigns of Command ©1989 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.		Evolution ©1989 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode	49	Episode	50
Airdate	October 2, 1989	Airdate	September 25, 1989

Catalog Number	LV40270-149
Format	Extended Play CLV

Table of Contents
Running Time	92 minutes

Side	Running Time
1	46min 15sec
2	46min 15sec
	92min 30sec

Pressing Location	Pioneer Video Manufacturing
Retail Price	$34.98
Issued	March 21, 1995

The Ensigns of Command
Directed by Cliff Bole

Written by Melinda M. Snodgrass

Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry

Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes

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

Stardate Unknown
Picard (Patrick Stewart) is surprised when he receives a message from the Sheliak, aliens who haven't communicated with the Federation for over a century. Under a Federation treaty, the planet Tau Cygna Five - presently inhabited by human colonists - is Sheliak property. Now the Sheliak are demanding that Picard remove the colonists in four days, after which time any humans on the planet will be killed.
Data (Brent Spiner) takes a shuttle to the planet to lead evacuation procedures and discovers that the human population totals 15,000! Realizing that the evacuation will take weeks, Picard asks the Sheliak for more time, and is refused. Now Data is the only thing standing between the colonists and their certain extinction.

Evolution
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Teleplay by Michael Piller

Story by Michael Piller & Michael Wagner

Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry

Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes

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

Guest Stars Ken Jenkins
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan

Stardate 43125.8
Dr. Paul Stubbs (Ken Jenkins), an eminent scientist, has beamed aboard the Enterprise to study the rare explosion of a star in the Kavis Alpha Sector. As the crew readies Stubbs' equipment, the Enterprise is suddenly drawn into the path of the stellar matter. The ship is restored to normal, but the computer system, which reports no malfunction, fails to stabilize.
As Picard (Patrick Stewart) warns Stubbs that his study may have to be aborted, Wesley (Wil Wheaton) concludes that a genetics experiment he was conducting engendered the computer breakdown. Wesley's experiment allowed several nanites - tiny robots small enough to enter living cells - to interact and escape to the main computer. Unless the nanites are stopped, they will shut down the Enterprise and destroy the crew's life support system.

The Ensigns of Command
Directed by	Cliff Bole
Written by	Melinda M. Snodgrass
Executive Producer	Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring	LeVar Burton Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Stardate Unknown Picard (Patrick Stewart) is surprised when he receives a message from the Sheliak, aliens who haven't communicated with the Federation for over a century. Under a Federation treaty, the planet Tau Cygna Five - presently inhabited by human colonists - is Sheliak property. Now the Sheliak are demanding that Picard remove the colonists in four days, after which time any humans on the planet will be killed. Data (Brent Spiner) takes a shuttle to the planet to lead evacuation procedures and discovers that the human population totals 15,000! Realizing that the evacuation will take weeks, Picard asks the Sheliak for more time, and is refused. Now Data is the only thing standing between the colonists and their certain extinction.

Evolution
Directed by	Winrich Kolbe
Teleplay by	Michael Piller
Story by	Michael Piller & Michael Wagner
Executive Producer	Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring	LeVar Burton Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Guest Stars	Ken Jenkins Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
Stardate 43125.8 Dr. Paul Stubbs (Ken Jenkins), an eminent scientist, has beamed aboard the Enterprise to study the rare explosion of a star in the Kavis Alpha Sector. As the crew readies Stubbs' equipment, the Enterprise is suddenly drawn into the path of the stellar matter. The ship is restored to normal, but the computer system, which reports no malfunction, fails to stabilize. As Picard (Patrick Stewart) warns Stubbs that his study may have to be aborted, Wesley (Wil Wheaton) concludes that a genetics experiment he was conducting engendered the computer breakdown. Wesley's experiment allowed several nanites - tiny robots small enough to enter living cells - to interact and escape to the main computer. Unless the nanites are stopped, they will shut down the Enterprise and destroy the crew's life support system.