Identity Crisis
- Episode aired Mar 23, 1991
- TV-PG
- 46m
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge and an old friend fight to defeat a parasite that is trying to transform them into another species.Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge and an old friend fight to defeat a parasite that is trying to transform them into another species.Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge and an old friend fight to defeat a parasite that is trying to transform them into another species.
- Counselor Deanna Troi
- (credit only)
- Ensign Gates
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise-D Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Ops Ensign
- (uncredited)
- Science Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt took four make-up artists six hours to apply the full Tarchannen III species make-up to LeVar Burton. According to Michael Westmore, it was the longest make-up ever done on The Next Generation.
- GoofsWhen Riker, Worf, and Worf's security team enter the holodeck to look for Geordi, Worf orders his people to search the structure while he searches the perimeter. There is a much easier way to find someone missing inside a holodeck. Telling the computer to "end program" will cause everything NOT created by the holodeck to vanish, leaving the room empty, except for the person you are looking for.
- Quotes
Doctor Beverly Crusher: You're worried about Geordi, aren't you?
Lt. Commander Data: I am an android. It is not possible for me...
Doctor Beverly Crusher: ...for you to feel anxiety.
Lt. Commander Data: Starfleet personnel have vanished. Others may be at risk. We must do the best we can to find out why.
[Crusher coughs slightly]
Lt. Commander Data: However, I am...
[Crusher gives him a questioning look]
Lt. Commander Data: ...strongly motivated to solve this mystery.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Toys That Made Us: Star Trek (2018)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
This is one of the last times we see the original, I believe it was "type seven" shuttlecraft, which were the larger shuttlecraft that we saw in season 1, which crashed on Viagra 2. They weren't used much after " The best of both worlds" because the set for the inside of the shuttle was scrapped. In fact we don't even see the inside of the shuttle in this episode. The shuttles used after this were basically the ones that were introduced in Star Trek IV. They changed the exterior a little bit, and modern engine nacelles added.
They also have the smaller shuttlecraft like the Pike and the El Baz, which are like the one Data was flying in "The Most Toys" which blew up in the Hi-Tritium Explosion...
Geordi had gone on a mission with Suzanna Leijten years earlier, and they re-create video of that mission for log entries. Including The season 1/2 uniforms and phasers. But it is now years later, and each member of that away team are being mysteriously drawn back to the planet Tarchannan.
Why? And what happened to them after they got there? And what are these weird footprints?
They re-created a very good set of the planet surface, including a multi level structure.
What intrigues me about this episode is the question of what Geordi and Suzanna are turning into?
This is one of the best times Crusher acts and speaks like a real doctor.
Eventually she figures out what is happening, but is it too late for Geordi?
The other part of this episode that is extremely interesting for me is where Geordi reconstructs the video from the Ares Mission log on the Holodeck, and he identifies a shadow that could not possibly be there. So when he tells the computer to reconstruct the shape that is causing that shadow, the computer manufactures something out of the worst possible nightmare of H. P. Lovecraft.
And then when Riker and Worf go into the Holodeck they see this monstrosity, while scratching their heads. Remember this was all done with practical special effects.
In the end it is that friendship between Leijten and Laforge that allows a resolution of this particular conundrum.
- XweAponX
- Jun 14, 2022
Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1