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Home Soil: Directed by Corey Allen. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby. On Velara III, Geordi and Data discover a microscopic life form responsible for the death of an engineer stationed on the base.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Corey Allen
- 1988-02-20
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Teaser
The USS Enterprise-D is on a mission to catalog young planets in the Pleiades Cluster. Along the way, they have been instructed by the Federation to check on the terraforming colony on Velara III, as they were behind schedule. Captain Picard calls down to the station, and after a minute or two of no answers from the planet, Director Kurt Mandl finally responds. On the viewscreen, the director insists there is no need for them to pay a visit as they are back on schedule. Counselor Troi senses...
Act One
They are greeted by hydraulics specialist Arthur Malencon, biosphere designer Luisa Kim, and Chief Engineer Bjorn Bensen. Outside the complex is Velara III's dark, windswept desert, a hostile place, which Kim tells them to remember; in a couple of decades, she plans for it to look like a Garden of Eden. Kim apologizes for their director's rudeness. She points out that they don't get many visitors and mentions that Dr. Mandl has been under a great deal of stress lately. Kim offers a look aroun...
Act Two
Riker has Malencon transported to the Enterprise-D sickbay, but indeed Crusher cannot save him. In the meantime, they have the power to the hydraulics room shut down. Kim, Mandl, Troi, and Riker head to the ship as well; the rest stay to survey the damage. Data finds it interesting that the laser drill seemed to stop at the moment Malencon stopped screaming. He reactivates power to the room and reruns the drilling program. Data watches the drill run its cycle as it blasts down into each of th...
"Someone that tense could be very unpredictable. Stay on your toes, Number One." 1. - Picard, to Riker about Mandl "Ugly giant bags of mostly water." 1. - The crystal lifeform, describing Humans "I sense deliberate concealment, sir." "Of what?" "I don't know, but it's intense." 1. - Deanna Troi expresses concern to Jean-Luc Picardabout Kurt Mandl "...
Production history
1. Second draft story outline (titled "The Sandy Soils of Home"): 27 October 1987 2. Two-page memo of story notes from Gene Roddenberry: 4 November 1987 3. Preliminary script draft: 23 November1987 4. Four-page memo of script notes from Gene Roddenberry: 25 November1987 5. Third revised final draft script: 2 December 1987 6. Filmed: 3 December 1987 – 14 December1987 7. Premiere airdate: 22 February 1988 8. UK premiere airdate: 30 January 1991
Story and production
1. This was the final episode of the series on which Gene Roddenberry acted as head writer. Maurice Hurley took over control of the writing staff starting with the following episode, "Coming of Age". (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) 2. According to Hurley, the production was troubled. "An interesting idea, but the execution fell apart. I thought it was a wonderful idea. If you could think of all the problems you could possibly put together in one episode, we had it in that one....
Cast and characters
1. This episode was the second time on Star Trek for Carolyne Barry. Twenty-one years earlier she appeared as a Metron in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena" under the name Carole Shelyne.
Starring
1. Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard 2. Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
Also starring
1. LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge 2. Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar 3. Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf 4. Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher 5. Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi 6. Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data 7. Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher
Guest stars
1. Walter Gotell as Kurt Mandl 2. Elizabeth Lindsey as Luisa Kim 3. Gerard Prendergast as Bjorn Bensen
Home Soil. " Home Soil " is the eighteenth episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It first aired in broadcast syndication on February 22, 1988. Robert Sabaroff, Karl Geurs and Ralph Sanchez developed the story, with Sabaroff producing the teleplay. "Home Soil" is one of five episodes of the ...
- February 22, 1988
- Corey Allen
- 117
- Dennis McCarthy
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"Home Soil" is the eighteenth episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It first aired in broadcast syndication on February 22, 1988. Robert Sabaroff, Karl Geurs and Ralph Sanchez developed the story, with Sabaroff producing the teleplay. "Home Soil" is one of five episodes of the series directed by Corey Allen.
Data destroys the laser drill. Arthur dies in orbit on board the Enterprise. Picard reckons one of the 3 survivors programmed the laser drill to kill Arthur. But they don't know why. On the planet, Geordi and Data come across a non-carbon-based object that glows and gives the appearance of life.
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