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The Game: Directed by Corey Allen. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. Wesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise on vacation from the Academy only to discover a mysterious alien game infiltrating and controlling the crew.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Corey Allen
- 1991-10-26
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Teaser
In his quarters, Worf rehearses, a little nervously, how he will explain to his son Alexander what it means to be a true Klingon warrior. Alexander dashes in, pursued by his friend Eric with a fullerenewater balloon. He misses Alexander and instead hits Worf, who is not amused. However, he continues with his explanation. He tells Alexander that there are actually two Rite of Ascension ceremonies; Alexander won't be required to pass through the second rite (the one with painstiks) until he is...
Act One
The USS Enterprise-D is supposed to rendezvous with another ship, the Kearsarge, but it won't arrive for another four days, so the senior staff plan extra activities. Captain Picard wants to visit the Hatarian system where there's an archaeological dig, and Data suggests stellar dynamics can have more access to the lateral sensor grid to examine the Vodrey Nebula. Picard notices that Worf looks distracted during the briefing, and Worf explains afterwards about the problems he is having with A...
Act Two
Before the fight starts, an older Klingon man comes out of the shadows of an alley and fires a disruptor at one of the assailants. Worf takes on the other two, shouting to Alexander to run. The older Klingon helps to defeat them, and they run away. Worf recognizes the man as K'mtar, gin'tak or adviser to the House of Mogh. They beam aboard the Enterprise where Commander Riker wants to question them, unhappy with K'mtar's reluctance to answer. K'mtar shows the dagger dropped by one of the assa...
"Sorry. I didn't mean to hit you!" 1. - Eric Burton, after throwing a fullerene full of water at Worf "As time passes, a boy inevitably becomes a man but what is not inevitable is that a man becomes a sword." "What?" "No, I meant… warrior." 1. - Worf, misplacing his words while preparing Alexanderfor the First Rite of Ascension "The path of a warri...
Production history
1. Final draft script: 28 January 1994 2. Premiere airdate: 25 April 1994 3. First UK airdate: 29 May 1996
Story and script
1. Mark Kalbfeld's original premise did not involve Alexander at all. Rather, it dealt with a Romulan ship with Federation markings from a future where the Federation and Romulan Star Empire were supposedly at peace. However, both the ship and the future version of Riker on board it would turn out to be hoaxes, part of a plot by the Romulans. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion(2nd ed., p. 292)) 2. Jeri Taylor recalled, "We had bought that story and he wrote it, but it just seemed a lit...
Cast and characters
1. Armin Shimerman makes his first appearance as Quark on a Star Trek series other than Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He later appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager pilot "Caretaker", in a scene cut from Star Trek: Insurrection, LD: "Hear All, Trust Nothing" and VST: "Holograms All the Way Down". This episode airs between DS9: "The Maquis, Part I" where Quark became involved in an arms deal with Sakonna, a Maquis operative, and DS9: "The Maquis, Part II" with Quark and Sakonna's business continuin...
Starring
1. Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard 2. Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William T. Riker
Also starring
1. LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge 2. Michael Dorn as Lieutenant 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. James Sloyan as K'mtar 2. Brian Bonsall as Alexander Rozhenko 3. Gwynyth Walsh as B'Etor 4. Barbara March as Lursa 5. Joel Swetow as Yog 6. Colin Mitchell as Gorta And 1. Armin Shimerman as Quark
Firstborn: Directed by Jonathan West. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. In an effort to help him accept his Klingon heritage, Worf and his son, Alexander, attend an ancient Klingon ceremony.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Jonathan West
- 1994-04-23
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List of episodes. " Firstborn " is the 173rd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 21st episode of the seventh season. It was broadcast on television in April 1994. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D.
- Jonathan West
- 273
- April 25, 1994
- Dennis McCarthy
(Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (2nd ed., p. 181)) Wil Wheaton fondly remembered working with Judd, noting that he was Judd's first on-screen kiss. (Intergalactic Guest Stars, TNG Season 5 DVD special features) Brannon Braga admitted that he hit on Judd during filming, and was "dutifully ignored". (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 ...
"The Game" is the 106th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the sixth episode of the fifth season. Plot [ edit ] William Riker visits Risa and is introduced to a video game by Etana Jol, a Ktarian woman with whom he has become romantically involved during his vacation on the pleasure planet.
