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Disaster: Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. Collision with a quantum filament leaves Troi in charge of a damaged and endangered Enterprise with emergency bulkheads cutting off sections of the ship.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Gabrielle Beaumont
- 1991-10-19
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Teaser
1. "Captain's Log, Stardate 45156.1. Our mission to Mudor V has been completed, and since our next assignment will not begin for several days, we are taking a welcome respite from our duties." In Ten Forward, Riker, Worf, Data, Chief O'Brien, and a very pregnant Keiko O'Brien are sitting at the bar discussing names for the O'Brien's baby. Miles and Keiko are arguing good-naturedly, each believing the other had agreed to name it after their respective fathers (Michael and Hiro), if it is a boy...
Act One
On the bridge, O'Brien and Troi see that Monroe is dead, most of the ship's systems, including the computer, are down and they can't contact anyone. Mandel reports to O'Brien that the turbolifts are inoperative – they are trapped on the bridge. In the turbolift, Picard is trapped with the three crying children. He also cannot raise anyone on his combadge, and the children assume everyone else on the ship has been killed. When Jay Gordon Graassays they are going to die too, Picard angrily tell...
Act Two
In the turbolift, Picard has no success with the lift controls. His ankle was broken in the initial fall, so his mobility is limited. To help the children overcome their fear, and pitch in to help him, he gives each of them a rank in his makeshift "crew", and pins one of his collar pips onto each of them accordingly: Marissa, the eldest, is appointed first officer (receiving two pips instead of one), and henceforth addressed as "Number One"; Jay Gordon Graas, the second oldest, is appointed s...
"What did you do for your science projects?" "I planted radishes in this special dirt and they came up all weird!" "I see. That's very… very commendable." 1. - Jean-Luc Picard and Paterson "I'm not sure who I feel sorry for, the captain or the kids." 1. - Miles O'Brien, watching Picard and the children board the turbo lift "We're falling!" 1. - Pic...
Production history
1. Final draft script: 12 August 1991 2. Filmed: 16 August 1991 – 27 August1991 3. Second unit filming of insert footage: 28 August1991 4. Additional second unit inserts filming of more insert footage: 3 October 1991 5. Premiere airdate: 21 October1991 6. First UK airdate: 18 January 1995
Story and script
1. Jeri Taylor commented that this episode "was pitched by a couple of outside writers and it's something we had never done before. I believe in variety. I think that it freshens a series. If you see the same story week after week it becomes deadly dull…I'm very much for breaking formula, changing something and doing a different kind of story. It was let's do something different – stop them dead in space and give them lots of problems." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages,...
Production
1. "Disaster" was filmed between Friday 16 August 1991 and Tuesday 27 August 1991 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16. Additional second unit inserts were filmed on Wednesday 28 August 1991 on Paramount Stage 9 and on Thursday 3 October 1991on Paramount Stage 9 and 16. 2. On Monday 19 August 1991, the Make-a-Wish Foundation visited the set of this episode at 11:00 am. 3. This was the last episode aired before Gene Roddenberry's death on 24 October 1991. 4. For the scene in which La Forge and Crus...
Starring
1. Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard 2. Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
Also starring
1. LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge 2. Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf 3. Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher 4. Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi 5. Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
Guest stars
1. Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien 2. Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien 3. Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren 4. Erika Flores as Marissa Flores 5. John Christian Graas as Jay Gordon Graas 6. Max Supera as Paterson Supra
"Disaster" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 105th episode overall. It was originally released on October 21, 1991, in broadcast syndication.
Oct 21, 1991 · The title says it all: It's a disaster movie on the Enterprise. Here's an episode that plays like a collection of half-baked C-stories rolled into a single show whose tepid premise was used to justify the summation of its parts. The result is the ultimate procedural hodgepodge.
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" Disaster (TV Episode 1991) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Oct 21, 1991 · Soon after Picard and the kids have entered the turbolift, the Enterprise starts to shake violently, all power on the ship is lost, and the lift falls down. It turns out a quantum filament has hit the Enterprise, resulting in a total power failure. Even the communicators are down.
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ST:TNG:105 - "Disaster" (Stardate: 45156.1) - this is the 5th episode of the 5th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. During a break period onboard the Enterprise, the ship is seriously damaged when it collides with a quantum filament.
