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episode #07: Lonely Among Us
LONELY AMONG US episode #7 / Air Date: 11/2/87
written by D.C. Fontana, Michael Halperin; Directed by Cliff Bole
The Enterprise hosts 2 sets of some unappealing ambassadors (there's much talk about eating live animals). One group look like evolved cobras while the other are.. biped mongoose? Whatev. The ambassadors despise each other (seems like diplomacy has gone backwards since TOS; they were fighting each other in the 23rd century; here, they even stoop to eating each other - funny, what?). So now TNG is copying Journey to Babel from TOS? - so much for trying to be original during this first season.
Data, meanwhile, starts to imitate Sherlock Holmes as a mystery about another invasive alien force is afoot. This subplot would lead to future episodes on the holodeck, pitting Data against the holo-Moriarty program. In this one, several crew members are briefly taken over by this alien force, until the captain himself is taken over. He begins to behave as an even bigger douchebag than he normally is. Abruptly, he quits Starfleet and beams off the ship. The End.
TNG Trivia: this episode had the first death of a crew member on board the Enterprise-D,
.... a crew member named Singh; and the rest of the crew could care less.
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