Episode #66: Allegiance
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Episode #66: Allegiance
ALLEGIANCE - episode #18 of 3rd season / Air Date: 3/26/90
written by Richard Manning, Hans Beimler; Directed by Winrich Kolbe
The standard plot of a small group of people trapped in a room or maze is utilized here (see the old Twilight Zone episode Five Characters in Search of an Exit and the later film Cube). In this TNG episode, it's 4 characters: Picard, an alien female ensign from some other ship, an alien intellectual and an alien primitive. They were all transported to this 'container' by unknown alien forces. Besides the basic need to find a way out, the 4 prisoners need to find out why they are there and to avoid killing each other.
Ultimately, this story falls back on alien experimenters again, recalling to a degree the old TOS episode The Empath (the aliens here even resemble the ones in The Empath). The denouement comes across as even silly, with Picard taking a minute to teach his former captors a lesson. Any excitement is generated by one of the imprisoned aliens, a lion-like wild anarchist who is also a... carnivore. I was also intrigued by this fake Picard, who was created with superior transporter-like technology, but we don't learn anymore about him other than that, so he becomes a throwaway. BoG's Score: 6 out of 10
TNG Trivia: there were also two Picards in the previous episode Time Squared (2nd season).
---Also, didja know? Picard's cabin # is 3601, on deck 9.
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