TZ Release Date
22/05/2013
US Release Date
22/02/1988
Stardate
41463.9
Screen Caps
Synopsis
When the Enterprise visits an outpost whose scientists are in the process of terraforming, they find the team threatened by a mysterious new form of life.
The Trekzone Review
Watching these early episodes once again, for only the second or third time now, means that I’m enjoying them – and even more so when they look so “fresh.” The cold open in this episode had me hooked… what is it that this terraformer is hiding? Why do we never hear from “terraform command” again? This episode takes us into the question of what constitutes life?
Mullet’s make an appearance in this episode, but it doesn’t feel out of place in what is now not so much an 80’s series. This is the first episode with Majel Barrett as the computer voice, and I’ll ask again – who exactly is in charge of Engineering!?
So this life form is a colony of single celled organisms… which is now exactly what scientists are looking for on Jupiter’s moon Io.
Cast and Crew
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 Cast
Walter Gotell
Elizabeth Lindsey
Gerard Prendergast
Teleplay By
Robert Sabaroff
Directed By
Corey Allen
