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Star Trek: The Next Generation :: Skin of Evil (01x23)
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| Title: | Skin of Evil |
| Episode #: | 01x23 |
| Production Number: | 122 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday April 25th, 1988 |
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 CA (Télé-Québec) |
Apr 25, 1988 |
 UK (BBC TWO) |
Mar 06, 1991 |
 FR (BBC TWO) |
Mar 06, 1991 |
 IE (BBC TWO) |
Mar 06, 1991 |
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Episode Summary |
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Stardate: 41601.3 Troi, and her shuttle pilot, develop system problems on their shuttle on their return to Enterprise. They then crash on a planet where a malevolent creature lives. The creature, which seems to feed on the suffering of others, is able to prevent their rescue due to its strange powers.
The Enterprise crew’s attempt to rescue Troi leads to the death of a valued crew member. The crew must then find a way around the creature’s powers and rescue Troi, the sole survivor of the shuttle crash, without losing any more of the crews’ lives.
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Log Entries:
*Captain's Log, Stardate 41601.3. We are crossing through the Zed Lapis sector where we will rendezvous with Shuttlecraft 13 carrying Deanna Troi who is returning from a conference. Because engineering is involved in preventive maintenance on our dilithium crystals, we are presently traveling on impulse power.
*Captain's Log, supplemental. We've lost all contact with shuttlecraft 13 and can only assume they've crash-landed on Vagra II. Meanwhile, main engineering is trying to return us to warp power.
*Captain's Log, supplemental. While on a mission to rescue survivors from an unexplained shuttle crash, the away team has encountered a strange creature which seems able to assume different forms including one which resembles humanoid.
*Captain's Log, supplemental. There is grave danger to the crew on Vagra II. My first officer is missing - attacked by this entity known as Armus.
*Captain's Log, Stardate 41602.1: The shuttlecraft has been destroyed to prevent any possibility of Armus leaving the planet. Vagra II will be declared off-limits but the damage has been done. One of the saddest duties I've ever had to perform is now ahead of me.
| Tasha Yar dies a “senseless death” in this episode, but would make a reappearance in the time change episode Yesterday’s Enterprise, and the series finale All Good Things… (1) and All Good Things… (2).
| Lt. Commander Leland T. Lynch seemed a little pompous in this episode, and would not be seen again.
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Captain Picard: We are here to honour our friend and comrade, Lieutenant Natasha Yar. Coming to terms with the loss of a colleague is perhaps the most difficult task we must face in the work we have chosen to pursue. We will all find time to grieve for her in the days that are ahead.
| Tasha: (recorded message) My friend Data, you see things with the wonder of a child. And that makes you more human than any of us.
| Tasha: (recorded holographic message) Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I wish I could say you’ve been like a father to me but I’ve never had one so I don’t know what it feels like. But if there was someone in this universe I could choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it’s you. You who have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet. So, you’ll understand when I say: death is that state in which one only exists in the memory of others; which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes, just good memories. Hailing frequencies closed, sir.
Captain Picard: (quietly) Au revoir, Natasha...
| Data: Sir, the purpose of this gathering confuses me.
Picard: Oh, how so?
Data: I find my thoughts are not for Tasha but for myself. I keep thinking, how empty it will be without her presence. Did I miss the point?
Captain Picard: No...no, you didn't Data. You got it.
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It is possible that Joseph Stefano was inspired, at least in part, by the Lost in Space episode entitled "The Space Creature" which featured a similar concept - the base impulses of living beings given form and power. This version is the superior tale.
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