The Battle
- Episode aired Nov 14, 1987
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
3.8K
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Beware Ferengi bearing gifts. Capt. Picard receives the Stargazer, a ship considered lost that he once commanded.Beware Ferengi bearing gifts. Capt. Picard receives the Stargazer, a ship considered lost that he once commanded.Beware Ferengi bearing gifts. Capt. Picard receives the Stargazer, a ship considered lost that he once commanded.
Douglas Warhit
- Kazago
- (as Doug Warhit)
Michael Bailous
- Enterprise-D Officer
- (uncredited)
James G. Becker
- Youngblood
- (uncredited)
Dexter Clay
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Jay Crimp
- Stargazer Officer
- (uncredited)
James Davison
- Stargazer Officer
- (uncredited)
Jeffrey Deacon
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gene Roddenberry(showrunner)
- Herbert Wright
- Larry Forrester
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe term "Picard Maneuver" is used to describe a tactic of making a micro warp jump before firing weapons. Later, as a private joke among the cast, this term was used to refer informally to the way that Patrick Stewart's uniform shirt would constantly ride up and he would tug it back down.
- GoofsDeanna Troi is able to sense deception and evil intent on the part of DaiMon Bok. Earlier in The Last Outpost (1987) Troi states that she is unable to sense the Ferengi's emotions, she says that they may be able to shield their minds from telepaths. It is later established in Trek lore that Ferengi are immune to Betazoid mind-reading and empathy. In Ménage à Troi (1990) Lwaxana Troi, Deanna's mother, says it is thought that Betazoids can't read Ferengi's thoughts and emotions because of their four-lobed brain, she also states in The Forsaken (1993) that Betazoid telepathy doesn't work on any species with a four-lobed brain.
- Quotes
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Where is Bok?
Commander William T. Riker: Removed from command, sir, and placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: In revenge there never is.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Peak Performance (1989)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Featured review
A Senior trekker writes.....................
Writing in 2021, it is great to see that I am not the only person taking a retrospective look at Star Trek, the Next Generation. When this series was first released in 1987, a little less than twenty years after the end of the Original Series, many people thought that, without Captain Kirk and his crew, it couldn't really be Star Trek. However, original creator Gene Roddenberry, was fully invested in the casting, writing and overall look of the new series, so let's see how it shaped up:
This is the episode where Captain Picard is targeted with a mind control device by a renegade Ferengi out for revenge for the death of his son many years earlier. Its not bad.
This series first arrived in the UK via Blockbusters, the VCR hire company. This was BEFORE it was shown on television in 1990 and I can remember the sense of anticipation, the heavy plastic boxes and the aficionados leaving their telephone numbers so they could be notified when the latest instalment was in.
A Star Trek film, The Voyage Home, had been released the year before to great acclaim, reawakening an interest in all things "Trek" in a way that the previous films had not.
Many of us cherished these early Next Generation episodes; all the more so because we had almost forgotten about the original Kirk-era Star Trek. If indeed we were old enough to remember it at all.
In fact, Next Gen and the VCR watch-as-you-please phenomenon was probably responsible for making the original series cool again.
Thank you, Sir Patrick and the rest of the cast.
(Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5)
This is the episode where Captain Picard is targeted with a mind control device by a renegade Ferengi out for revenge for the death of his son many years earlier. Its not bad.
This series first arrived in the UK via Blockbusters, the VCR hire company. This was BEFORE it was shown on television in 1990 and I can remember the sense of anticipation, the heavy plastic boxes and the aficionados leaving their telephone numbers so they could be notified when the latest instalment was in.
A Star Trek film, The Voyage Home, had been released the year before to great acclaim, reawakening an interest in all things "Trek" in a way that the previous films had not.
Many of us cherished these early Next Generation episodes; all the more so because we had almost forgotten about the original Kirk-era Star Trek. If indeed we were old enough to remember it at all.
In fact, Next Gen and the VCR watch-as-you-please phenomenon was probably responsible for making the original series cool again.
Thank you, Sir Patrick and the rest of the cast.
(Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5)
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- celineduchain
- Dec 20, 2021
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