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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" The Next Phase (1992)
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16 May 1992
(Season 5, Episode 24)
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A transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly. full summary | add synopsis
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Is there life after death?
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This episode was originally intended to be a cost-cutting "bottle show". It wound up being one of the most expensive episodes of the season.
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Continuity: When the phased Romulan officer points his disruptor at Ro, he tells her that it still works because he was wearing it when he became phased, yet both Ro's and Geordi's communicator pins do not work, even though they were both wearing them just before they got phased.
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Lt.Cmdr. Geordi Laforge:
We are not dead!
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ST:TNG:124 - "The Next Phase" (Stardate: 45854.2) - this is the 24th episode of the 5th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
This episode is one of my very favorites of the entire TNG run, and of all Star Trek itself. It deals with the issue of "is there life after death?", "what is death?", "what does death really mean?" - and in my opinion, in a very scientifically plausible way.
After the Enterprise responds to a Romulan distress signal, Geordi and Ro Laren (another appearance by Michelle Forbes) are pronounced dead when they try to transport back to the ship but don't re-materialize (though they actually do).
When Geordi and Ro re-materialize on the Enterprise and realize no one can see/hear them, and they can go even through walls, they assume they are dead. But soon, they get hints - including slight changes to the "real" environment "alerting" others to their presence (as a "ghost" might do). And not only this, they soon realize that there's a "dead" Romulan among them too!
But are they really dead? If not, what happened to them and can they change back in time? Watch this exciting episode to see!
The visual effects in this episode are exemplary, especially during the chase "through" the Enterprise!
Trivia note: the Bajoran Death Chant is over 2 hours long. And we see Riker playing his trombone again.
Also, this episode stars Susanna Thompson as Inmate Jaya (she will later have a claim to fame as one of the Borg Queens in Star Trek: Voyager).