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- Episode aired Oct 2, 1993
- TV-PG
- 45m
Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.
- Ensign Gates
- (uncredited)
- Starfleet Ensign
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Russell
- (uncredited)
- Sciences Officer
- (uncredited)
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMadge Sinclair was suffering from leukemia at the time of production. She was first diagnosed about 10 years earlier and, at the time of production, had already far surpassed doctor's expectations for survival. She would live another 26 months after this show aired and die at the age of 57.
- Goofs(at around 13 mins) Geordi walks into a room of dead people. As the camera is walked backwards, you can see a 'dead' person pulling a barrel over to support herself. It must have slipped and the film crew thought it was off-camera.
- Quotes
Commander William T. Riker: My mother died when I was a baby. All I had was pictures and the stories that my father used to tell me about her. I begged him to tell those stories over and over. When I was five and I went to school, I started to tell my new friends those same stories, pretending that she was alive. Then I started believing that she was alive, that she had just gone away, but that she was coming back. The teacher got wind of this. She and my father had this talk with me. They told me it was important to accept the fact that my mother was dead and that she wasn't coming back and all the hoping in the world wouldn't make it so. In my mind, that was the day that my mother actually died. I cried all that night, but after that, it started feeling better.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Top 10 Star Trek Technobabbles (2008)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Well, poor Geordi!
LeVar Burton has to wear an uncomfortable looking Borg-style outfit and heavy, all-white contact lenses throughout much of this episode but, apparently, not to much avail. Despite the unfailing professionalism of all concerned and what should have been a landmark appearance by guest actor Madge Sinclair, it fairly reeked of franchise fatigue.
The seventh season of the Next Generation is well known for bringing aboard never-seen-before family members (and in this case, killing them off just as quickly) but some of the storylines are better than others and unfortunately, this is one of the least interesting. For an actor who had given us such an unfailing commitment over the years with all those background shots and all that technobabble, this must have been quite a disappointment. Fortunately Mr Burton's second career as a director had just begun to take off and he remains a loyal Trekker to this day.
It was also particularly galling for him to see respected older actress and friend, Madge Sinclair, who had shared the screen with him in the seminal television series Roots, given such a lack-lustre part. A dignified trailblazer in the representation of black women on the screen, she deserved so much better from Star Trek.
There is no need to be concerned about "spoilers" in this review; my concentration wandered long before anything much actually happened.
Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5.
- celineduchain
- Mar 6, 2022
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1