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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" The Outrageous Okona (1988)
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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)Original Air Date:
10 December 1988 (Season 2, Episode 4)Plot:
The Enterprise rescues the captain of a broken-down freighter, only to become involved in a dispute between feuding worlds--each demanding custody of their guest. Data seeks help from Guinan in understanding humor. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Comedy episode moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | Patrick Stewart | ... | Captain Jean-Luc Picard |
 | Jonathan Frakes | ... | Commander William T. Riker |
 | LeVar Burton | ... | Lieutenant Geordi La Forge |
 | Michael Dorn | ... | Lieutenant Worf |
 | Marina Sirtis | ... | Counselor Deanna Troi |
 | Brent Spiner | ... | Lt. Commander Data |
 | Wil Wheaton | ... | Wesley Crusher |
 | Bill Campbell | ... | Capt. Thadiun Okona (as William O. Campbell) |
 | Douglas Rowe | ... | Debin |
| Albert Stratton | ... | Kushell |
 | Rosalind Allen | ... | Yanar (as Rosalind Ingledew) |
| Kieran Mulroney | ... | Benzan |
 | Joe Piscopo | ... | The Comic |
 | Whoopi Goldberg | ... | Guinan |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Diana Muldaur | ... | Dr. Kate Pulaski |
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According to some sources, Jerry Lewis was invited to play the holodeck comic. The role eventually went to Joe Piscopo who included a Lewis impersonation. moreQuotes:
Guinan: [explaining to Data why his joke was not funny] You spoiled the joke. You know, it could have been your timing.Lt. Cmdr. Data: My timing is digital.
Guinan: [laughs softly] That's funny.
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This is a humorous episode of Star Trek NextGen. Although it has been bashed heavily, it is really a lighthearted story. It does get sappy at certain moments, but it's good for a few laughs. Okona is a good character for a single episode, as rakish rogues go.
This episode contains one of the rare moments in which we get to see Guinan in a place other than Ten-Forward.
All in all, it is a good step away from the usual Trek story lines and the creators had the good form to not make another one exactly like it. It stands as a fairly unique episode, quite funny, but if the creators had modeled another story after it, that would have been walking into a big bear trap.