Where Silence Has Lease
- Episode aired Nov 28, 1988
- TV-PG
- 45m
The Enterprise encounters a mysterious void in space and when they move in closer to investigate further, it envelops them and they can't get out.The Enterprise encounters a mysterious void in space and when they move in closer to investigate further, it envelops them and they can't get out.The Enterprise encounters a mysterious void in space and when they move in closer to investigate further, it envelops them and they can't get out.
- Enterprise Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Youngblood
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Insectoid Opponent
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Bennett
- (uncredited)
- Skull-faced Opponent
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe music that plays in the background while Picard is in his quarters near the end is Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie #1".
- GoofsWhen Worf and Riker are on the bridge of the Yamato, the dedication plaque is still that of the Enterprise. In the remastered HD version, the name on the plaque has been digitally removed.
- Quotes
Lt. Cmdr. Data: [of the "hole" in space] Sir, our sensors are showing this to be the absence of everything. It is a void without matter or energy of any kind.
Commander William T. Riker: Yet this hole has a form, Data; it has height, width...
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Perhaps. Perhaps not, sir.
Capt. Picard: That's hardly a scientific observation, Commander.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is, "I do not know". I do not know what that is, sir.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: First Contact Review (2009)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
This episode was pretty weak and would have been very unlikely to have attracted many new viewers with its wordy script and total lack of atmosphere. In fact, I think I read somewhere that the catlike Nagilum creature was created by projecting an upside down face onto green-painted glass. Sounds like they were as short of cash as they were of ideas.
Diana Muldaur replaced Gates McFadden as the Doctor in this series but her role was posted as Special Guest Star throughout the season, suggesting that no one was quite sure whether she would stay. This fine actress had worked with Gene Roddenberry several times before and held him in great regard but it would not be an exaggeration to say that her time on TNG was a very unhappy one.
Primarily a theatrical actor, her style did not fit in so well with the rest of the cast who were still smarting from the involuntary and precipitous removal of the "Dancing Doctor". We will never know what went on behind the scenes before Dr Crusher returned for the 3rd season but it is most unfortunate that it left Dr Pulaski with so much hostility towards the series that she would never return in any further guest roles.
After twice appearing in the original series, this was the THIRD Doctor she had portrayed for Star Trek and she did make a very convincing medic.
(Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5)
- celineduchain
- Dec 28, 2021
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- Runtime45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1