Home Soil ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
When the Bough Breaks ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. | ||
Episode | 17 | Episode | 18 |
Airdate | February 22, 1988 | Airdate | February 15, 1988 |
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Home Soil | |
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Directed by | Corey Allen |
Teleplay by | Robert Sabaroff |
Story by | Karl Geurs & Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff |
Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
Also Starring | LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
Guest Stars | Walter Gotell Elizabeth Lindsey Gerard Prendergast |
Stardate 41463.9 At the Federation's request, an Enterprise away team beams down to Velara III to observe a group of terraformers, scientists who are working to generate life-forms on the barren planet. But when a terraformer engineer is killed in a bizarre accident, the starship team begins to suspect a destructive presence at work. Data (Brent Spiner) and Geordi (LeVar Burton) discover a microscopic inorganic life-form, the Microbrain, that seems to be trying to communicate. Once on board the Enterprise, the Microbrain reveals that the terraformers' work has been killing the Microbrain's species. Now the Microbrain has declared war on the terraformers and the Enterprise. |
When the Bough Breaks | |
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Directed by | Kim Manners |
Written by | Hannah Louise Shearer |
Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
Also Starring | LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
Guest Stars | Jerry Hardin Brenda Strong Jandi Swanson Paul Lambert Ivy Bethune |
Stardate 41509.1 The Enterprise accidentally discovers Aldea, a utopian world hidden behind a sophisticated shielding device. After initial contact is made, tragedy strikes when several children disappear from the Enterprise, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) among them. The crew is shocked when the Aldeans reveal that they are responsible for this heinous crime. Having lost their ability to reproduce, the Aldeans need the children to perpetuate their dying race. As Picard struggles to find a method of penetrating the planet's shield, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) discovers the Aldeans suffer from radiation poisoning which is slowly destroying the planet's atmosphere. Can the starship crew rescue its children from a dying planet? |