| The Next Generation | |
| 112 | |
| Violations | |
| 45429.3 | |
The Enterprise is being used as a telepathic historian taxi. The historians are Ullians, and consider themselves to be memory archaeologists as they discover history from people's memories. That must be somewhat like scraping through a sewage system. After recovering a memory from Keiko they try and convince members of the bridge crew to have a go, but as Riker says, some of the memories are not for public consumption - especially his!
Despite being telepathic, the Ullians have typical family problems - Tarmin enjoys humiliating his son Jev in public. Jev storms off in a huff, rapidly followed by Troi, who says she understands as she also has an overbearing parent. That's a polite word for it. After prying a little, she decides that it is time for bed, and who does she think of? Wil Riker of course! The memory is quite vivid, and as he moves to embrace her, he turns into Jev! This is more than she can cope with and she slumps into a coma.
Dr Bev is no help, as there is nothing she can do to revive Deanna. Laughing boy steps in where medical science fears to tread and thinks that he can snap her out of it by talking to her. I think that this is more likely to push her deeper into coma! In an act of bravado he confronts Jev about Deanna's coma, and is typically blunt about it. Jev agrees that they will cooperate, but when Wil gets back to his quarters, he has an unusually vivid flash-back. It's coma time!
Worf wants the aliens quarantined. It's a bit like the pot calling the kettle black for him to call them aliens... Picard of course says no. Bev goes to ask the Ullians if she can monitor them during a memory probe, and they agree. It will be done the next morning. Unfortunately Bev is going to be busy in Coma City, as her flashback of Picard with hair is too much for her to bear.
After three days, Deanna regains consciousness, but unfortunately doesn't remember anything. Picard is finally worried and confines the Ullians to their quarters. They get extremely upset at this, and ask if they can try to prove their innocence by doing a memory probe on Deanna. This doesn't seem to be a good course of action, but...
Geordi hasn't found anything to blame the comas on, so requests information from other planets that the Ullians have been to. They show a suspicious number of similar cases. Someone is being naughty. Troi's memory probe repeats her memory of Riker, but now instead of Jev assaulting her it is Tarmin! He's trying to blame the whole thing on his father, and the crime of memory invasion carries a heavy penalty.
There is only one problem with the frame-up, Tarmin couldn't have done all the assaults on all the planets, because he wasn't there. Deanna discovers to he chagrin that as an empath she is terrible - Jev enters her quarters and tries to repeat in the flesh what he did in the mind. Only the slamming fist of Worf stops his evil plan.
