Darmok

PROD # TNG202
EP # 02
TZ Release: 20/02/2014
US Airdate: 30/09/1991
Stardate 45047.2

Responding to a general hail from the ‘Children of Tamar’ Captain Picard is beamed to a planet with the alien ship’s Captain. They must learn to communicate with each other before an aggressive alien of the planet overwhelms them…

The Trekzone Review

This was a great hour of television. Paraphrasing Deanna – ‘we have all this technology and we can’t communicate with them.’ Darmok grabbed the Star Trek episode ‘how-to’ guide and threw it out the window and in fact, no meaningful resolution came of this episode, except the Tamarians stopped firing on the Enterprise and left.

Are we friends with these people now? Did anything that happen, including their Captain dying in the vein hope of communication, have a purpose? Make up your own mind I guess.

Starring:
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Will Riker
Gates McFadden as Beverley Crusher
Brent Spiner as Data
Levar Burton as Geordi LaForge
Michael Dorn as Worf
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi

Guest Starring:
Richard Allen
Colm Meaney
Paul Winfield
Ashley Judd

Teleplay By:
Joe Menosky

Written By:

Directed By:
Winrich Kolbe
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