Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!trek-info-request@scam.Berkeley.EDU From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Program guide update: sttng308d (part 1 of 4) Keywords: program guide update Message-ID: <505@vidiot.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 90 03:18:08 GMT Sender: brown@vidiot.UUCP Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek Organization: Starfleet Command Information Center Lines: 1071 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: ---- Cut Here and unpack ---- #!/bin/sh # shar: Shell Archiver (v1.22) # # This is part 1 of a multipart archive # do not concatenate these parts, unpack them in order with /bin/sh # # Run the following text with /bin/sh to create: # sttng308d # if test -r s2_seq_.tmp then echo "Must unpack archives in sequence!" next=`cat s2_seq_.tmp`; echo "Please unpack part $next next" exit 1; fi echo "x - extracting sttng308d (Text)" sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > sttng308d && XSystem: Star Trek: The Next Generation Program Guide XPatch #: 8 XPriority: ENHANCEMENT X XFix: From rn, say "| patch -p -N -d DIR", where DIR is your Star Trek X directory. Outside of rn, say "cd DIR; patch -p -N X X Or the patches are available from the ftp network. See the README file, X or previously posted article, for details. X XIndex: stlevel XPrereq: 3.7 X1c1 X< Patch #: 3.7 X--- X> Patch #: 3.8 X X*** /tmp/,RCSt1a05956 Mon Jun 4 02:23:55 1990 X--- README Mon Jun 4 02:18:55 1990 X*************** X*** 1,4 **** X! $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/README,v 3.7 90/05/10 00:16:30 brown Exp $ X X! STTNG307 May 7, 1990 X X--- 1,4 ---- X! $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/README,v 3.8 90/06/04 02:18:50 brown Exp Locker: brown $ X X! STTNG308 June 4, 1990 X X*************** X*** 68,73 **** X X! CHANGES TO 3.07 VERSION X X! The changes include the normal new story updates. Also included is support for X! the HP LaserJet printer. X X--- 68,77 ---- X X! CHANGES TO 3.08 VERSION X X! The changes include the normal new story updates. The guide is undergoing X! changes, in that the Paramount synopses are being replaced with those written X! by Tim Lynch, the new co-author of the guide. Hell, he's the only co-author X! that this guide has had. After all of the Paramount synopses have been X! replaced with newly written ones, the guide will be available in hard copy X! form. More details on that later. X X*************** X*** 74,75 **** X--- 78,80 ---- X X+ X AVAILABILITY X*************** X*** 454,455 **** X--- 459,461 ---- X ------ ------------ --------------- ----------------------------------------- X+ 3040 May 8 14:50 README information about the files here X 47101 Apr 1 22:47 comprs16.arc unix-compatible compress/uncom.for MS-DOS X*************** X*** 458,462 **** X 78286 Apr 1 21:56 pax2exe.arc unix-compatible tar for MS-DOS X! 212083 Apr 8 19:50 sttng.d.tar.Z troff data files needed to format the guide X! 561809 Apr 11 23:13 sttng.nc.tar.Z complete Postscript files for NewCenturyfont X! 557369 Apr 11 23:13 sttng.tr.tar.Z complete Postscript files for TimesRomanfont X 41658 Mar 6 14:10 sttng305d.Z patches to update the data files(tar format) X--- 464,468 ---- X 78286 Apr 1 21:56 pax2exe.arc unix-compatible tar for MS-DOS X! 219449 May 22 11:53 sttng.d.tar.Z troff data files needed to format the guide X! 595207 May 21 13:57 sttng.nc.tar.Z complete Postscript files for NewCenturyfont X! 591993 May 21 13:58 sttng.tr.tar.Z complete Postscript files for TimesRomanfont X 41658 Mar 6 14:10 sttng305d.Z patches to update the data files(tar format) X*************** X*** 465,467 **** X 172823 Mar 6 14:10 sttng305tr.t.Z postscript files with changed TimesRoman X! 22506 Apr 7 00:22 sttng306d.Z patches to update data files k X 136575 Apr 9 17:57 sttng306nc.t.Z postscript files with changed NewCentury X--- 471,473 ---- X 172823 Mar 6 14:10 sttng305tr.t.Z postscript files with changed TimesRoman X! 22506 Apr 7 00:22 sttng306d.Z patches to update data files X 136575 Apr 9 17:57 sttng306nc.t.Z postscript files with changed NewCentury X*************** X*** 468,469 **** X--- 474,478 ---- X 133943 Apr 11 23:13 sttng306tr.t.Z postscript files with changed TimesRoman X+ 25535 May 22 11:44 sttng307d.Z patches to update data files X+ 138759 May 22 11:44 sttng307nc.t.Z postscript files with changed NewCentury X+ 137389 May 22 11:43 sttng307tr.t.Z postscript files with changed TimesRoman X 33722 Apr 11 14:25 warbird.ps.Z postscript drawing of Romulan Warbird. X*************** X*** 572,575 **** X X! If you have any questions about this procedure, please send some e-mail to X! David B. Mears (hplabs!hpda!mears or mears@hpda.HP.COM). X X--- 581,584 ---- X X! If you have any questions about this procedure, please send them via e-mail X! to David B. Mears (hplabs!hpda!mears or mears@hpda.HP.COM). X X*************** X*** 582,584 **** X X! harvard\ att!nicmad\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown X Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown X--- 591,593 ---- X X! harvard\ att!nicmad\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown X Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown X*************** X*** 775,775 **** X--- 784,788 ---- X 5/07/90 keyword added for HPLJ support: RASTER. X+ X+ Version 3.08 Corrections, updates and newly written synopses for stories X+ 6/04/90 721 (101, 102) through 126. New information added to Appendix X+ G: Baycon 90. X*** /tmp/,RCSt1a05920 Mon Jun 4 02:23:29 1990 X--- sttng.cov Mon Jun 4 02:19:37 1990 X*************** X*** 1,2 **** X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.cov,v 3.7 90/05/10 00:17:48 brown Exp $ X .HD '''' X--- 1,2 ---- X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.cov,v 3.8 90/06/04 02:19:28 brown Exp Locker: brown $ X .HD '''' X*************** X*** 86,87 **** X--- 86,96 ---- X GUIDE X+ .sp |648p X+ .ps 14 X+ .ss 17 X+ .vs 17 X+ .ft 3 X+ By X+ Michael L. Brown X+ Tim Lynch X+ .ft P X .ce 0 X*************** X*** 203,209 **** X sttng307 May 7, 1990 X! .sp |592p X Created by Michael L. Brown {{att | decvax}!nicmad | uwvax}!astroatc!vidiot!brown X! X! .ta \w'Copyright \(co 1987-1990 'u X! 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Paramount synopses Copyright \(co 1987-1990 Paramount Pictures Corporation All Rights Reserved X 5555 Melrose Ave. X*************** X*** 210,211 **** X--- 229,235 ---- X Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197 X+ X+ .ta \w'Copyright \(co 1990 'u X+ Copyright \(co 1990 Mr. Video Productions X+ 6013 Mayhill Drive X+ Madison, WI 53711-4123 X X*** /tmp/,RCSt1a05923 Mon Jun 4 02:23:29 1990 X--- sttng.cont Mon Jun 4 02:19:28 1990 X*************** X*** 1,2 **** X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.cont,v 3.7 90/05/10 00:17:43 brown Exp $ X .af % i X--- 1,2 ---- X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.cont,v 3.8 90/06/04 02:19:25 brown Exp Locker: brown $ X .af % i X*************** X*** 103,110 **** X \h'12p'Sarek 140 X! \h'12p'Menage a Troi 142 X \h'12p'Transfigurations 144 X! \h'12p'The Best of Both Worlds* 146 X! .fn X! * \- These pages are not available at this time X! .ef X .bp X--- 103,110 ---- X \h'12p'Sarek 140 X! \h'12p'Me\*'nage a\*` Troi 142 X \h'12p'Transfigurations 144 X! \h'12p'The Best of Both Worlds 146 X! .\".fn X! .\"* \- These pages are not available at this time X! .\".ef X .bp X*************** X*** 141,151 **** X \h'12p'Stuff from Baycon 89 G-2 X! \h'12p'Palo Alto Creation Convention G-4 X! \h'12p'History Behind Animation References G-7 X! \h'12p'Telecaptioning on ``Q Who'' G-8 X! \h'12p'Shuttlecraft Names G-8 X! \h'12p'Episodes Contained in ``Shades of Gray'' G-9 X! \h'12p'TV Guide Notes G-10 X! \h'12p'Enterprise Starship History G-11 X! \h'12p'Tidbits from the BIX Network G-13 X! \h'12p'Starlog Magazine ST:TNG cross reference G-16 X .ft 3 X--- 141,152 ---- X \h'12p'Stuff from Baycon 89 G-2 X! \h'12p'Stuff from Baycon 90 G-4 X! \h'12p'Palo Alto Creation Convention G-9 X! \h'12p'History Behind Animation References G-12 X! \h'12p'Telecaptioning on ``Q Who'' G-13 X! \h'12p'Shuttlecraft Names G-13 X! \h'12p'Episodes Contained in ``Shades of Gray'' G-14 X! \h'12p'TV Guide Notes G-15 X! \h'12p'Enterprise Starship History G-16 X! \h'12p'Tidbits from the BIX Network G-18 X! \h'12p'Starlog Magazine ST:TNG cross reference G-21 X .ft 3 X*** /tmp/,RCSt1a05926 Mon Jun 4 02:23:30 1990 X--- sttng.int Mon Jun 4 02:20:57 1990 X*************** X*** 1,2 **** X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.int,v 3.5 90/03/05 18:40:48 brown Exp $ X .rm iX X--- 1,2 ---- X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.int,v 3.8 90/06/04 02:20:53 brown Exp Locker: brown $ X .rm iX X*************** X*** 22,24 **** X this guide will be undergoing updates as new information arrives. X! It is designed to be used on UNIX\*(rg operating systems that have X the (di)troff text processing software. X--- 22,24 ---- X this guide will be undergoing updates as new information arrives. X! It is designed to be used on UNIX\v'3p'\*(rg\v'-3p' operating systems that have X the (di)troff text processing software. X*************** X*** 73,76 **** X X! Starting with episode 157, the synopsis is being provided piecemeal. X! This will continue until further notice. X X--- 73,77 ---- X X! In order to prepare the guide so that it may be sold, X! the Paramount synopses are being replaced with ones written by Tim Lynch, X! the new co-author of this guide. X X*** /tmp/,RCSt1a05929 Mon Jun 4 02:23:33 1990 X--- sttng.txt1 Mon Jun 4 02:20:22 1990 X*************** X*** 1,2 **** X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.txt1,v 3.6 90/04/06 01:30:56 brown Exp $ X .rm iX X--- 1,2 ---- X! .\" $Header: /usr/brown/startrek/RCS/sttng.txt1,v 3.8 90/06/04 02:19:56 brown Exp Locker: brown $ X .rm iX X*************** X*** 66,121 **** X .IX "21st century" X! The new Starship Enterprise and its crew set out ``to boldly go where X! no one has gone before.'' Their first mission is to explore the X! mystery surrounding the creation of the Farpoint station located on X! planet Deneb IV. While trying to negotiate a friendly agreement for X! Starfleet to use this energy-powered base, Captain Picard and his X! crew also attempt to discover why and how the Bandi inhabitants of X! Deneb built the station. X! .sp .5v X! Enroute to Farpoint, Captain Picard and his crew first meet ``Q''. X! The mysterious and powerful being denounces the human race as X! barbarians and challenges the crew of the Enterprise to disprove his X! belief. If Picard and his crew are not persuasive in their arguments, X! they will be sentenced to death. X! .sp .5v X! Picard defends himself and mankind by explaining that unlike ``Q'', X! humans have learned not to prosecute and judge things they don't X! understand. Hearing the words ``prosecute'' and ``judge,'' ``Q'' X! announces that he knows humans all too well. He leaves the Enterprise X! in a blinding flash, stating that ``preparations'' must be made. X! .sp .5v X! While traveling in the battle bridge, the Enterprise begins shaking X! as it did when ``Q'' first appeared. After a bright flash of light, X! Picard, Data, Troi and Tasha find themselves in a 21st century X! courtroom. When the bailiff announces the judge, the crew is X! shocked to find ``Q'' sitting on the bench! X! .sp .5v X! At the trial, ``Q'' continues to denounce humans, while Picard defends X! his race and convinces ``Q'' that the upcoming mission at Farpoint X! will be the perfect opportunity to prove his point. ``Q'' accepts X! the Captain's proposal but gives him only 24 hours and a reminder X! that failing the test will mean death for the Enterprise crew. X! .sp .5v X! While docked at Farpoint, Picard is introduced to his new first X! officer, Commander Riker, and the rest of the crew. As they begin X! to investigate the station, they are startled by the seemingly magical X! qualities of the planet where one's wish becomes reality. X! .sp .5v X! While the away team searches through tunnels beneath the Farpoint X! station, an unidentified ship begins firing on the Bandi city, X! causing damage and casualties. However, the ship turns out to be an X! alien being that is alive and attacking the city because the people X! of Deneb IV have captured its mate. X! .sp .5v X! Not only have the Bandi been holding the being against its will, X! but they used its energy source, which converts energy into matter, X! to create the Farpoint station and its magical qualities. X! .sp .5v X! After assisting the reunion of the estranged aliens, the crew X! learns that it has passed ``Q's'' test and they head off for their X! next mission. X! .ps 10 X! .ss 12 X! .vs 12 X .HL X STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION \- ``Encounter at Farpoint'' \- X--- 66,151 ---- X .IX "21st century" X! While en route to investigate Farpoint station, a remote starbase on planet X! Deneb IV, whose origins are somewhat mysterious, X! the Enterprise is trapped by an entity which calls itself ``Q'', X! and warns them to go back to where they came from. X! Q condemns humanity as ``a dangerous savage child-race.'' X! When Picard says that Q, like so many others, X! is too eager to prosecute and judge, Q reacts with glee and vanishes. X! .sp .5v X! Picard orders the Enterprise to try to outrun the force-field in front of them. X! When that fails, he separates the saucer, putting Worf in command of it, and X! surrenders. X! Q then puts Picard, Troi, Yar, and Data in a 21st-century court, X! with himself as judge. X! .sp .5v X! Picard is forced to admit that ``there is evidence to support the court's X! contention that humans \f3have been\f1 savage!'', but suggests that Q use X! the Enterprise to test whether this is presently true of humans. X! Q agrees, and says that Farpoint will prove an excellent test. X! .sp .5v X! Meanwhile, Commander Riker is on Farpoint. X! He meets with the Bandi leader, Groppler Zorn, X! and notices some odd wish-fulfillment effects, both in Zorn's office, X! and later, with Dr. Crusher and Wesley. X! After we find out that Picard X! brought home Wesley's father's body to him years ago, Geordi La Forge arrives X! and tells Riker that the Enterprise is in orbit, without the saucer, and that X! he should beam up immediately. X! .sp .5v X! Riker does so, is brought up to date on what's happened with Q. X! As the saucer arrives, X! Picard orders Riker to conduct a manual docking with uncharacteristic gruffness. X! After Riker does this successfully, Picard and Riker talk, and we X! learn that Riker has in the past refused to let his captain beam down. X! He refuses to back down from this position, and Picard formally welcomes him. X! .sp .5v X! After being accosted by Q again, who gives them 24 hours more to solve the X! mystery, Riker, Picard, and Troi meet with Zorn, who refuses to answer their X! questions. X! Even when Troi senses unbelievable pain and loneliness nearby, Zorn X! refuses to say what's going on, and threatens a Ferengi alliance. X! .sp .5v X! Riker later meets Data on the holodeck before taking him on an away team, and X! though puzzled by him, quickly befriends the android. X! They meet Wesley, who chooses just the wrong moment to fall into the lake, X! as he meets Picard shortly afterward. X! Riker takes down his away team, which splits into two groups: X! Riker and Data investigate the surface of the station, and Geordi, Yar, and Troi X! investigate the tunnels below it. X! Troi again senses pain, even stronger this time, and the teams reunite. X! .sp .5v X! While Beverly reports to Picard, Picard invites Wes to sit in his chair for a X! few moments. X! Wes shows an uncanny knowledge of starship operations, but succeeds only in X! angering Picard and being ordered off the bridge, X! just as an unidentified vessel approaches. X! It scans the Enterprise, and then fires on the old X! Bandi city that's next to Farpoint. X! Yar, Troi and Geordi beam up, as Riker and X! Data go exploring on the outskirts of that same city. X! .sp .5v X! Picard, left with what he sees as no other choice, orders that phasers be locked X! on the other ship. X! As he does so, Q appears and gloats. X! Picard, refusing to fire, then tries to move the Enterprise between X! the city and the ship, but finds that Q has locked the controls. X! He orders Riker and Data to kidnap Zorn and X! bring him aboard for some answers, but a different transporter beam takes Zorn X! away just as they arrive at his office. X! .sp .5v X! Riker, at Q's urging, takes an away party over to the other ship, where they X! find Zorn and free him. X! Troi then realizes that she's only sensing one alien presence\-the X! ship itself is alive! X! Picard finishes piecing together the puzzle, X! reasoning that both the ship and Farpoint station are alive, and that X! the Bandi captured Farpoint station, feeding it only enough to keep it alive. X! They rig an energy beam and deliver Farpoint enough energy to free itself, and X! it rejoins its mate. X! Passing Q's test, Picard orders Q off the ship. X! Q leaves, but not without hinting that he will return again. X! The Enterprise heads out into the unknown. X! .sp -1v X .HL X+ .sp -.5v X STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION \- ``Encounter at Farpoint'' \- X*************** X*** 125,128 **** X .AH X A DEADLY ENCOUNTER X! X An alien force tries the crew for the crimes of mankind. X--- 155,159 ---- X .AH X+ .sp -.5v X A DEADLY ENCOUNTER X! .sp .5v X An alien force tries the crew for the crimes of mankind. X*************** X*** 130,131 **** X--- 161,163 ---- X .TV X+ .sp -.5v X A mysterious force condemns the crew to death for the crimes of X*************** X*** 132,137 **** X mankind in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. X! .sp -1v X! .ED X! The original TV soundtrack for this story is available on GNP Crescendo X! records: LP - GNPS 8012; Cassette - GNPS 5-8012; CD - GNPD 8012. X .bp X--- 164,168 ---- X mankind in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. X! .ps 10 X! .ss 12 X! .vs 12 X .bp X*************** X*** 176,201 **** X .IX intoxication X! The Enterprise and crew are summoned to investigate strange occurrences X! aboard the starship U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky, which has been monitoring the X! collapse of a red-range star. Once aboard the troubled research vessel, X! the away team finds a ship littered with food, wine, discarded clothes, X! several frozen cadavers and \f2no survivors\f1. X! X! Unknowingly, Geordi energizes back aboard the Enterprise carrying a X! contagious, deadly contaminant that begins to infect the entire Starfleet X! crew, making them feel and act as if they were intoxicated and mentally X! unstable. X! X! While Dr. Crusher searches for an antidote, chaos erupts when Wesley and X! Assistant Chief Engineer Shimoda take control of the ship. X! X! Finally, Lieutenant Commander Data and Chief Engineer MacDougal, fighting X! the effects of the ailment, manage to get control of the ship. While X! Dr. Crusher administers the remedy to the mysterious ailment, the crew, X! with Wesley's assistance, diverts the ship from further danger when a X! piece of the star's surface breaks off and heads toward the Enterprise. X! Captain Picard commends his crew for a job well done. X .HL X! STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION \- ``The Naked Now'' \- X! Romance, danger and chaos result when a mysterious contaminant X! renders the crew of the Enterprise intoxicated. X .AH X--- 207,246 ---- X .IX intoxication X! The Enterprise is making a rendezvous with the science vessel X! U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky, which has been monitoring a collapsing star. X! As they arrive, however, they hear an emergency hatch being blown after what X! sounds like a ``wild party.'' X! Riker, Geordi, Tasha, and Data beam over and find all of the crew dead. X! X! They beam back, but Geordi has unknowingly brought back the same contaminant X! that infected the Tsiolkovsky (it's transmitted through water). X! As Riker sets Data to searching for occasions similar to what happened on the X! Tsiolkovsky, Geordi escapes from sickbay and starts spreading the infection. X! X! It has some rather odd effects, acting very much like intoxication. X! Yar becomes...amorous, and ends up seducing Data. X! Geordi bursts into tears, lamenting his lack of normal sight. X! Beverly starts to find Picard ``extremely, \f2extremely\f1.. X! but of course we haven't time for that sort of thing!'' X! Worst of all, however, X! Wesley uses a Picard-Voice-Simulator he's cooked up and seizes control of X! Engineering, appointing himself Acting Captain. X! X! Meanwhile, Data has found the records of the original Enterprise, and has sent X! the cure down to Bev. X! Unfortunately, the virus has mutated, and the old cure doesn't work. X! Bev, already infected, starts working on a new formula. X! Then, as if things couldn't get any worse, the star collapses, then explodes, X! sending a huge chunk of star straight at the Enterprise. X! Even when Chief Engineer MacDougal gets into main Engineering X! (shorting out Wes's jury-rigged repulsor beam), X! she finds her assistant has pulled out all the control chips. X! X! Data is brought down to Engineering and manages to reinsert all the chips just X! in time, after Wes gives the ship an extra push-off by changing the Enterprise's X! tractor beam into a repulsor beam and pushing off the Tsiolkovsky. X! Bev finds a cure, the Enterprise escapes, and all is well. X .HL X! STAR TERK: THE NEXT GENERATION \- ``The Naked Now'' \- Romance, danger X! and chaos result when a mysterious contaminant renders the crew of the X! Enterprise intoxicated. X .AH X*************** X*** 243,255 **** X .IX kidnapping X! The Enterprise and the crew travel to the planet Ligon II to negotiate X! a treaty for the use of a rare vaccine needed on Stryris IV. X! X! The Ligonians board the Enterprise appearing friendly, but startle the X! crew by kidnapping Tasha. To get Tasha back, Captain Picard must X! adhere to a strict Ligonian code of honor, which results in Tasha X! fighting for her life at the hands of her jealous kidnapper's wife. X! X! When diplomacy fails, the Enterprise crew combine wits to peacefully X! turn the tables on the Ligonians, winning back Tasha and obtaining the X! rare vaccine needed to help the federation planet of Stryris IV. X .HL X--- 288,316 ---- X .IX kidnapping X! The Enterprise visits Ligon II to obtain a rare vaccine needed to avert a X! plague on Stryis IV. X! As the Ligonian leader, Lutan, comes on board, he seems very arrogant, X! and more than slightly attracted to Tasha, but not dangerous. X! Unfortunately, in departing, X! he kidnaps Tasha from right under the Enterprise's noses. X! X! Data and Riker theorize that Lutan kidnapped Tasha as a display of ``counting X! coup''\-by stealing the riskiest prize of all, X! he proved himself very brave for his followers. X! By Ligonian custom, Picard must \f2ask\f1 to get Tasha back, in public, at a banquet. X! He does this, but Lutan says that he cannot part with her, X! thus breaking even his own customs. X! His wife, Yareena, challenges Tasha to a death-duel, X! which she must accept if the Enterprise is to obtain the vaccine X! (and it's needed quickly, as the plague is growing ever worse...). X! Lutan now cannot lose; if Yareena dies, he inherits all her land X! (on Ligon, the women own the land), and if she lives, he loses nothing. X! X! The crew tries to talk everyone out of this, to no avail. X! Then, they turn from diplomacy to deception. X! Yar wins the duel, killing Yareena with the instantly-lethal poison used on X! the weapons. X! They then \f2both\f1 immediately beam up, where Beverly saves Yareena. X! Having come back from the dead, Yareena's marriage to Lutan is dissolved. X! She chooses his second, Hagon, as husband, and the ship leaves, X! with both Tasha and the vaccine. X .HL X*************** X*** 305,323 **** X .IX "Tarellian vessel" X! Counselor Troi's mother pays an unexpected visit to the Enterprise informing X! her daughter of the marriage plans her late father had arranged on X! Deanna's behalf. Honoring Betazoid customs, Troi dutifully, and half-heartedly, X! prepares to marry Wyatt, the son of her father's best friend. X! X! Wedding preparations between the two families create humorous bickering X! and banter\-not to mention confusion and mixed feelings for Troi's former X! lover, Commander William Riker. X! X! The wedding plans are thwarted, however, when Wyatt realizes his long-time X! fantasy lover is \f2real\f1 and aboard a Tarellian vessel containing the last X! survivors of a biological warfare blast. Heading toward the peaceful, X! healing planet of Haven, the Tarellians are informed that they cannot continue X! their course, in the event they would infect Haven. To the amazement of his X! parents and the crew of the Enterprise, Wyatt, a doctor by profession, beams X! over to the alien vessel with medical supplies on the hopes of finding a X! cure for his love and the remainder of the Tarellian survivors. X .HL X--- 366,404 ---- X .IX "Tarellian vessel" X! The Enterprise arrives at Haven, X! a paradise planet renowned throughout the galaxy. X! Suddenly, Troi is sent a package from the planet. X! It's a talking chest, X! informing her that her mother and her fiancee\*' are below. X! Her long-arranged marriage is suddenly imminent, X! and she must leave the Enterprise after marrying. X! X! The Millers (her fiancee\*' and his parents) beam aboard first. X! Deanna meets Wyatt for the first time. X! He seems strangely surprised by her appearance. X! After they leave, Deanna's mother Lwaxana beams aboard with her valet, Mr. Homm. X! Lwaxana is a tad eccentric; she takes great delight in informing X! everyone of their thoughts, and is rather vocally convinced that every male X! she's ever met has lustful thoughts about her. X! Picard leaves gracefully as quickly as he can. X! X! Deanna and Wyatt are attracted to each other, but she's not what he expected. X! Ever since he was a child, there's been a face deep in his mind, which he's X! drawn several times, and he expected that that face belonged to Deanna. X! Meanwhile, an unidentified ship appears at the limit of sensor range, and the X! Enterprise, by Federation agreement with Haven, must defend them. X! As they near it, they find it's a Tarellian vessel. X! The Tarellians are victims of an old biological war\-the disease they carry X! is contagious and incurable. X! They keep watch on it. X! X! Meanwhile, Deanna starts to have second thoughts about the vows she took as a X! child, and arguments over the ceremony reach a feverish level. X! The Tarellians hail the Enterprise, and to everyone's surprise, X! Wyatt's dream-girl is on board, as one of the plague victims. X! Wyatt, a doctor, decides to beam over and try to cure their disease. X! This solves both problems at once: the ship decides not to X! stop at Haven as originally planned, and with Wyatt gone, Deanna's marriage is X! aborted before it begins. X! The Millers depart, as does Lwaxana, with one parting jab at Picard, X! pretending to be shocked at his lustful thoughts. X .HL X*************** X*** 367,387 **** X .IX "warp drive failure" X! The Enterprise and crew travel to uncharted territory when a test X! on the ship's propulsion system backfires and blasts the Enterprise X! more than a billion light years from their own galaxy. X! X! The blame for the mishap is originally placed on an arrogant Starfleet X! propulsion expert. However, it is discovered that the mental powers X! of a meek, humanoid alien (acting as the propulsion expert's assistant), X! was the catalyst for the potential catastrophe. X! X! Complicating the dilemma of being lost in space, the physical and X! mental world are integrated in this galaxy\-what the crew thinks X! becomes real. After seeing his crew as well as himself experience X! alternate realities, the Captain orders the passengers of the Enterprise X! to control their thoughts. X! X! To make matters worse, their only hope for returning to their own X! galaxy is the mental abilities of the alien, who is exhausted and dying. X! The Captain and crew discover they must focus their thoughts on the X! assistant's recovery in order to discover a way back to their galaxy. X .HL X--- 448,492 ---- X .IX "warp drive failure" X! The Enterprise takes on Lt. Kosinski, a Starfleet propulsion expert, and his X! assistant, to increase warp engine output. X! Both Riker and Chief Engineer Argyle, however, X! think Kosinski's ideas are worthless after seeing them. X! Kosinski arrogantly brushes their objections aside, but Wesley befriends the X! assistant and accidentally distracts him. X! X! This distraction causes the experiment to go wild, and when the ship stops, X! they discover they've gone 2.7 million light-years in a few seconds. X! Wes, during the trip, sees the assistant ``fade'' in and out of normal reality. X! He tries to tell Riker about this, but Riker shushes him away. X! They decide to try to get back, and end up traveling to a place unlike any X! they have ever seen X! (as the assistant again ``fades'', being seen by Riker this time). X! X! They are more than a billion light-years from home. X! Furthermore, in this place, the crew's thoughts seem to become reality. X! Worf sees a Klingon ``targ'', a pet from home; X! Tasha finds herself back on her home planet avoiding a rape-gang; X! Picard first almost falls out of the turbolift into warp-space, and then sees X! his long-dead mother, and so forth. X! X! Eventually, they find out the truth. X! Kosinski had nothing to do with any of this: it was his assistant, X! the ``Traveler'', who accidentally brought them here. X! He claims to act like a lens, focusing the power of thought, which brought them X! to this place. X! Unfortunately, he is now dying. X! However, there is no choice; he must try to get them back. X! X! Before the attempt, he talks to Picard alone, about Wesley. X! It seems that Wes has the potential to become a Mozart of engineering, X! if properly encouraged. X! The Traveler tells him to encourage Wes, but tell him none of this. X! X! The attempt is made, and is successful, but the Traveler fades completely from X! normal space and does not return. X! Picard, acting on the Traveler's last wishes, appoints Wes an Acting Ensign, X! subject to Wes applying to the Academy as soon as he can. X! Until then, his assignment is to ``learn this ship.'' X! Brought back to where they started, X! the Enterprise departs for their next assignment. X! .sp -1v X .HL X*************** X*** 390,391 **** X--- 495,497 ---- X for escape from a bizarre galaxy where thoughts become real. X+ .sp -1v X .AH X*************** X*** 394,395 **** X--- 500,502 ---- X The crew encounters a galaxy where thoughts become reality. X+ .sp -1v X .TV X*************** X*** 397,398 **** X--- 504,506 ---- X on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. X+ .sp -1v X .ED X*************** X*** 437,457 **** X .IX "intellectual tests" X! The U.S.S. Enterprise is rendered powerless above an unknown and X! mysterious planet during a mission to repossess a stolen T-9 energy X! converter from Ferengi culprits. X! X! Captain Picard, believing the Ferengis initiated this withdrawal of X! energy[,] announces the Enterprise's willingness to resolve the situation. X! However, the Ferengi vessel reports that it faces the same predicament. X! X! In an effort to discover \f2who\f1 or \f2what\f1 has tampered with their energy X! supplies, away teams, from both the Ferengi and Enterprise starships, X! beam down crews to investigate the desolate planet. X! X! After a confrontation with the Ferengi enemy, a mysterious being known X! as Portal, guardian of the Tkon Empire, materializes before both away X! teams inquiring, ``Who will meet the challenge?'' Portal, disenchanted X! with the Ferengi's barbaric and warlike responses to his inquisition, X! is intrigued by Commander Riker's wisdom. Once Riker \f2passes\f1 several of X! Portal's intellectual ``tests'' power is again restored to the respective X! Starships. X .HL X--- 545,585 ---- X .IX "intellectual tests" X! The Enterprise is in hot pursuit of a Ferengi vessel, X! which has stolen a T-9 energy unit from an unmanned base. X! Both ships are passing through an unknown solar system, X! when suddenly both are rendered immobile and powerless. X! The Enterprise tries to exploit the .300 millisecond delay between force and X! counterforce, to no avail. X! The crew assumes the Ferengi have them right where they want them, X! but when they contact the Ferengi ship to discuss surrender, X! the Ferengi grudgingly surrender to them, X! believing that the Enterprise is responsible for their immobility. X! X! Eventually, a probe finds that it's a force-field from the planet below that is X! responsible. X! The planet was once the outermost remnant of the long-dead Tkon empire, X! which was destroyed 600,000 years ago. X! Picard tells this to the Ferengi, X! and offers a joint expedition to discover what's going on. X! After much discussion, they agree. X! X! However, the away team faces many problems. X! First, the force-field interfered with transport, separating them. X! Then, they discover the Ferengi beamed down first, X! and are ambushed by the Ferengi party. X! Yar rescues them and is about to stun the Ferengi, X! when the crystalline shapes all around them come alive and X! absorb the phaser fire (and the energy of the Ferengi whips as well). X! The ``Portal'' to the Tkon empire appears and demands to know why X! they have come. X! He has been sleeping for many hundreds of millenia and does not know of his X! Empire's collapse. X! He challenges Riker to take a test. X! X! Riker passes said test (a test of wisdom), and Portal frees the Enterprise, X! just as reserve power is running out. X! Shortly after, he frees the Ferengi vessel, X! after Riker suggests mercy, saying that the Federation's moral code forces them X! to face even the possibility that they will one day be destroyed by a X! civilization such as this. X! The Ferengi return the converter, and both ships leave. X .HL X*************** X*** 498,499 **** X--- 626,629 ---- X .SY X+ .IX Antican X+ .IX Celle X .IX Parliament X*************** X*** 503,534 **** X .IX "energy being" X! While transporting two adversary civilizations to the conference planet X! of Parliament, the crew of the Starship Enterprise pass through a X! mysterious ``cloud'' containing combinations of complex energy patterns. X! Immediately, strange things begin to happen. Lieutenant Worf and Dr. X! Crusher are afflicted with confusing behavior, while the ship malfunctions X! and repairs itself with no available explanation. X! X! Soon after entering the strange ``cloud,'' Assistant Chief Engineer Singh X! is murdered while investigating the ship's mechanical malfunctions. At X! once the starfleet[Starfleet] crew begin investigating the circumstances X! surrounding Singh's death. Tasha questions all guest civilizations aboard the X! Enterprise and Troi puts Lt. Worf and Dr. Crusher under hypnosis to X! determine their thoughts during their spells of strange behavior. X! Both Dr. Crusher and Lt. Worf reveal that, ``it felt as if someone or X! something had invaded their minds and bodies.'' X! X! After coming into contact with this strange being, the Captain shocks X! the crew with his bizarre actions. He commands the Enterprise back to the X! ``cloud,'' thwarting the original mission to deliver the aliens to X! Parliament. The Captain, still under the being's influence, announces that in X! its struggle to return home, the entity accidentally disabled the ship, X! killing Singh and invading Lt. Worf, Dr. Crusher and himself. The being, X! now in full control of Captain Picard's behavior, announces Picard's X! resignation. Despite the crew's objections and their determination to fight X! the force that seems to be taking over Picard's mind, their efforts are in X! vain. The Captain is gone. X! X! Riker takes command of the Enterprise and orders the ship to proceed towards X! Parliament. By this time, the real Captain (in the form of energy) manages to X! move into the transporter relays and materializes back aboard the Enterprise. X .HL X--- 633,682 ---- X .IX "energy being" X! The Enterprise is on a mission to transport emissaries of two warring races, the X! Anticans and the Celle, to Parliament for negotiations. X! En route, they pass through a strange cloud traveling at warp-speed, X! consisting entirely of energy. X! As they pass close to make a sensor pass, a freak bolt of energy strikes Worf in X! sensor maintenance, knocking him out. X! .sp .5v X! The energy continues on, X! traveling from Worf to Beverly while she's examining him. X! After the transfer, Worf doesn't remember anything since the bolt hit, X! and Bev is in something of a daze. X! She asks Wesley some questions about navigation, then heads to the bridge. X! While there, the bolt travels into the ship's computer, X! leaving Bev just as confused as Worf was. X! Then, warp power suddenly goes down, along with several other systems. X! .sp .5v X! The engineers manage to fix the problem for a short time, but then warp goes X! down a second time, taking the subspace radio with it, so that the crew can't X! even tell Parliament that there will be a delay. X! The bridge crew concludes that some form of sabotage is involved, X! and immediately suspect that one of the delegates is responsible. X! .sp .5v X! Wesley helps Assistant Chief Engineer Singh for a short time. X! After he leaves, however, the bolt strikes Singh, killing him. X! Data (currently in the guise of Sherlock Holmes) deduces that both sets of X! delegates were too concerned with trying to kill each other to be responsible. X! Troi, meanwhile, has hypnotized both Beverly and Worf, X! and has found evidence that some other intelligence had X! temporarily invaded their minds. X! The bolt finally departs the computer, only to take over Picard's mind. X! .sp .5v X! ``Picard'' orders the ship around, back to the cloud, and does not accept anyone X! questioning his orders. X! When questioned by Riker (who is anxious to avoid X! any attempt to relieve Picard of command), he shrugs off any suggestion of an X! alien influence and orders Riker, Troi, and Bev to sickbay. X! When Beverly later confronts him alone, X! Picard makes it clear that both intelligences are at work in his mind. X! .sp .5v X! As they reach the cloud, Picard subdues the crew and beams out, energy only, X! under the assumption that he will meld with the entity in his mind and they can X! explore the galaxy unfettered by a body, together. X! The melding proves impossible, and Picard is left alone. X! Just as Riker is about to order the ship to Parliament, X! Picard manages to enter the Enterprise's systems. X! He sends all his energy into the transporter circuits, X! and Data reproduces the pattern Picard left with, bringing him home safely. X! .sp -1v X .HL X*************** X*** 539,540 **** X--- 687,689 ---- X the altered personalities of Lt. Worf, Dr. Crusher and the Captain. X+ .sp -1v X .AH X*************** X*** 543,544 **** X--- 692,694 ---- X A deadly energy force invades the Enterprise\-and Captain Picard's mind! X+ .sp -1v X .TV X*************** X*** 546,547 **** X--- 696,698 ---- X in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. X+ .sp -1v X .ED X*************** X*** 588,607 **** X .IX mysterious vessel X! After delivering a party of Earth colonists to the Strnad Solar System, X! the crew of the Enterprise anxiously awaits a pending shore leave on X! the pastoral planet of Rubicam Three. The civilization, whose X! inhabitants are known as the Edo, is less advanced than Earth but X! brimming with love, health and sensual pleasure. X! X! Vacation plans are soon thwarted when Wesley, playing with the Edo X! children, innocently violates a planet law and is sentenced to death. X! At the same time, the Enterprise is confronted by a mysterious vessel X! that appears to be existing on two dimensions simultaneously. The X! vessel, protesting the installation of Earth colonists on the Strnad X! Solar System, startles the crew by sending a powerful light object X! that enters Data's mind and renders him unconscious. X! X! In order to determine the origins of the vessel, the Captain beams down X! to Edo and negotiates to save Wesley's life for a few more hours and X! asks for Edo assistance in determining the origins of the mysterious X! vessel. X .HL X--- 739,771 ---- X .IX mysterious vessel X! The Enterprise, after dropping off a colony in the Strnad Solar System, X! visits the idyllic world Rubicam Three, home to the Edo. X! It's a simple world, and an away X! team beams down to examine its suitabililty for shore leave. X! X! Meanwhile, Data examines an odd sensor ``glitch'', which seems to indicate a X! presence off the starboard bow. X! Upon further analysis, they find it's not a glitch. X! As the being materializes, they find it is both there and not there; X! it's only partly in this dimension. X! It sends over a probe, which stuns Data and analyzes his knowledge. X! X! The away team discovers the one flaw in this paradise of a world: X! its justice system. X! While its rules are simple, and only one punishment zone exists at any X! given time, anyone who breaks the law in such a zone is immediately executed, no X! matter what the crime. X! The team searches for Wesley, who ran off with some of the younger Edo, X! and they find him just seconds too late, as he falls into a X! greenhouse and kills some new plants. X! Picard is put in the difficult position X! of either breaking the Prime Directive or allowing Wesley to die. X! X! To make matters worse, the entity in space with the Enterprise is revealed to X! be a collective intelligence that may have planted the Edo there in the first X! place, and is worshiped by them as a God. X! It has nearly unlimited power, and does not want the Edo's laws interfered with. X! X! Eventually, Picard manages to convince the Edo god that ``there can be no X! justice so long as laws are absolute,'' and is allowed to take Wesley back. X! They consent to remove the nearby colony, and depart. X .HL X*************** X*** 652,687 **** X .IX "Maxia, battle of" X! .IX "mind altering device" X .IX "Picard Maneuver" X! The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise discovers an old style starship heading X! towards them shortly after a conference with a Ferengi vessel. However, X! much to Captain Picard's amazement, he discovers that the old ship, the X! Stargazer, is the vessel he abandoned seven years earlier in the famous X! battle of Maxia. X! X! The Ferengi Captain, Bok, having since taken control of the Stargazer, X! informs Captain Picard that he is returning the vessel to Starfleet. X! Unknown to the Captain, a mind altering device is also aboard the ship X! in his old belongings. X! X! The device, operated by Bok who is seeking revenge for the death of his X! son during the battle of Maxia, inflicts great pain on Picard and forces X! him to think about the battle horrors. In an attempt to tarnish Picard's X! reputation, Bok also tampers with the Stargazer records to make it appear X! as if the Captain fired on an innocent Ferengi vessel in the Maxia skirmish. X! X! While Data, Riker and La Forge try to absolve the Captain, Wesley discovers X! patterns in Captain Picard's brain scan that match the low intensity X! transmissions being picked up by the Ferengi ship. X! X! Commander Riker soon discovers the illegal, mind-altering device but not before X! the Captain has beamed over to the Stargazer to relive the battle. This time, X! however, Picard thinks the enemy is the Enterprise and he tries to perform his X! famous ``Picard Maneuver'' with which Starfleet won the battle of Maxia. X! X! Before tragedy strikes, Data devises a strategy to seize the Stargazer with X! the Enterprise's tractor beam and thereby thwart the supposedly unbeatable X! maneuver. In the meantime, the Captain, fighting the effects of the device, X! is convinced by Riker to use his phaser to destroy the mind altering mechanism. X! By this time Bok has been taken into custody by his first officer since the X! use of a mind altering device violates Ferengi law. X .HL X--- 816,873 ---- X .IX "Maxia, battle of" X! .IX "thought altering device" X .IX "Picard Maneuver" X! As the Enterprise prepares to rendezvous with a Ferengi vessel which has been X! keeping silent for days, Picard finds himself with a mysterious headache, for X! which no cause can be found. X! He allows the Ferengi leader, DaiMon Bok (who seems to know Picard from X! somewhere) to beam over with his staff. X! X! Suddenly, the sensors detect a Constellation-class vessel approaching, X! with no call letters. X! Bok explains that it was a derelict, which he is returning to Picard at no cost. X! As it nears, they find it's Picard's old ship, the Stargazer. X! Bok presents it as a gift ``to the hero of Maxia.'' X! The battle of Maxia, apparently, X! is the Ferengi name for Picard's fighting off an attack from X! a then-unidentified ship as his last act before abandoning the Stargazer. X! Bok's mysterious generosity puzzles even his aides. X! X! Picard explains a bit more about the incident to the bridge crew, X! including his now legendary ``Picard Maneuver,'' X! and gets quite caught up in his memories doing so. X! After the Stargazer is declared safe, Picard beams over. X! As he goes to his cabin to pick up some things, X! we see in his chest a pulsing silver sphere. X! As it glows more strongly, Picard's headache increases in strength. X! X! Later, Data presents some worrying evidence to Riker. X! Picard's personal log from the Stargazer seems to indicate that he fired on X! the Ferengi vessel without provocation, X! and Riker must immediately mention it to Starfleet Command, X! though he believes (correctly, as Data finds later) it's a forgery. X! Picard, meanwhile, has a vision of the battle of Maxia. X! X! After analyzing his brainscan, Bev (with a little help from Wesley) determines X! that the anomalies exactly match low-power transmissions they've been picking X! up from the Ferengi ship. X! They report it to Riker, just as Picard, entranced, X! beams over to the Stargazer, where Bok is waiting for him with a second sphere. X! X! Bok explains that his son led the assault at Maxia, and he blames Picard for X! his son's death. X! He hypnotizes Picard into believing he's back aboard the Stargazer, SHAR_EOF echo "End of part 1" echo "File sttng308d is continued in part 2" echo "2" > s2_seq_.tmp exit 0