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Lonely Among Us
Enterprise
picks up alien delegates from 2 species - Antarians and Celay,
whose planets are at war, so they can all, go to 'parliament'
a neutral zone as both of the species wish to join the Federation.
Data picks up an
anomalous space cloud on sensors. Geordi
and Worf are scanning
the energy cloud in main sensors when Worf touches one of
the screens and a bolt of blue energy travels down his arm
and knocks him to the ground.
Worf is revived and at first goes crazy but is calmed. They
help him to his feet. Later Geordi talks to Captain
Picard about what happened. Geordi says his visor detected
a glow just before although he did not see what happened.
Meanwhile Beverly
examines Worf in sickbay and the energy passes from Worf to
her. Worf's vitals return to normal and he begins to wake
up. Enterprise jumps to warp 9 heading for 'parliament' while
Beverly goes to her quarters and finds Wesley
there who notices she is asking strange questions. She then
goes off to the bridge and Picard also notices she is acting
strangely.
The energy leaves Beverly and goes into the ships computer.
She is not clear where she is at first but returns to her
office. Data notices that there are malfunctions all over
the ship. Picard suspects something is very wrong with the
ship being new and therefore unlikely to break down.
Riker and Yar
confiscate the Antarian's weapons while Enterprise drops out
of warp with more malfunctions. Data suggests the ship was
sabotaged. Their main suspects are the alien delegates. Picard
makes reference to Sherlock Holmes and Data begins to think.
Wesley helps Mr. Sing to get round the warp engines problem.
Mr. Sing tells Wesley he has to go to class and continues
the work Wesley had begun. The blue energy passes to him.
His body is soon discovered by Worf who says he is dead.
Later when they investigate in engineering, Geordi notices
that warp drive is back online but Wesley points out that
Mr. Sing could not have fixed it before he was killed. Picard
gives the order to go to warp 6 while Jar questions the alien
delegates but gets no useful information.
Yar, Data and Riker discuss the problem. Data has a pipe
and hat and is using Sherlock Holmes terminology. Riker later
reveals Data has been studying him. Data says the delegates
were too busy bickering with each other to be sabotaging the
ship and killing Starfleet officers.
Troi puts Beverly
under hypnosis to ask her about her memory loss. She says
she felt 'not alone' as had Worf when he was under hypnosis
(this was not seen, just made reference to). Troi tells Picard
and the other officers about her findings. Picard says "lets
proceed without the pipe Data."
Data says he has eliminated the ships crew and the delegates
from the investigation. Enterprise loses helm control. Picard
touches a control panel and the blue energy passes to Picard.
The Enterprise drops to impulse power.
Picard gives the order to change course and head in the opposite
direction. Geordi questions him but sets the course. The crew
also question his decision. Picard is defensive. Meanwhile
the delegates continue to bicker.
Troi, Riker and Beverly discuss the captain's orders with
Geordi and consider options to relieve him of command. Troi
thinks Picard may become dangerous and has closed off part
of his mind to her.
Beverly and Riker ask Picard to go to sickbay for tests.
Picard orders them to take the examinations. They leave and
head off. Then Riker is accidentally grabbed by one of the
alien delegates as these play cat and mouse with each other.
Beverly goes to see Picard who tells her there is more than
him here.
Picard goes onto the bridge and explains how the energy being
came onto Enterprise. Picard tells them him and the life form
are going to beam into the energy cloud. The crew try to stop
him but Picard sends energy through all the consoles. He heads
down to the transporters room and beams out, energy only.
They cannot locate Picard and Riker prepares to leave but
Troi sense something. Picard is alone - the combination did
not work. Riker moves to the edge of the energy cloud and
Picard's energy jumps to the ship.
Data, Riker and Troi go to the transporter room and Data
tries to use his pattern, still saved in the transporters
buffer, to put the energy back into Picard. It takes a while
but he beams back. He does not remember the last hour or so.
Picard goes to sickbay and leaves Riker in charge - "take
charge number 1."
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