Interface
- Episode aired Oct 2, 1993
- TV-PG
- 45m
Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.
- Ensign Gates
- (uncredited)
- Starfleet Ensign
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Russell
- (uncredited)
- Sciences Officer
- (uncredited)
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMadge Sinclair was suffering from leukemia at the time of production. She was first diagnosed about 10 years earlier and, at the time of production, had already far surpassed doctor's expectations for survival. She would live another 26 months after this show aired and die at the age of 57.
- Goofs(at around 13 mins) Geordi walks into a room of dead people. As the camera is walked backwards, you can see a 'dead' person pulling a barrel over to support herself. It must have slipped and the film crew thought it was off-camera.
- Quotes
Commander William T. Riker: My mother died when I was a baby. All I had was pictures and the stories that my father used to tell me about her. I begged him to tell those stories over and over. When I was five and I went to school, I started to tell my new friends those same stories, pretending that she was alive. Then I started believing that she was alive, that she had just gone away, but that she was coming back. The teacher got wind of this. She and my father had this talk with me. They told me it was important to accept the fact that my mother was dead and that she wasn't coming back and all the hoping in the world wouldn't make it so. In my mind, that was the day that my mother actually died. I cried all that night, but after that, it started feeling better.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Top 10 Star Trek Technobabbles (2008)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
After Geordi is told that his mother, a Captain on another star ship, is missing, he hooks up to the interface and now can communicate with his MIA mother. And so we have the plot of the story as Geordi will try to communicate with his mother to find out the location of her missing ship.
The story was even made more confusing as when Geordi is hooked up to the interface machine, you have Dr Cusher advising about every four minutes that Gerodi needs to be removed from the interface due to some medical complication. Add the big words and the confusing dialog between Crusher, Data and even Picard all while trying their best to make this dismal story interesting.
This episode became weak very early in production. Only in the first few minutes of the show did it stir any excitement. But after those minutes went past, it became obvious that this was going to be a long confusing story. The episode was more baffling than entertaining.
- kfo9494
- Dec 15, 2014
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1