Allegiance
- Episode aired Mar 24, 1990
- TV-PG
- 45m
Picard is kidnapped and held with three different aliens and meanwhile replaced with a replica as impostor captain.Picard is kidnapped and held with three different aliens and meanwhile replaced with a replica as impostor captain.Picard is kidnapped and held with three different aliens and meanwhile replaced with a replica as impostor captain.
- Crewman Garvey
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Russell
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Ensign
- (uncredited)
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEsoqq's outfit was modified and later became Morn's costume on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
- GoofsData describes the nearest pulsar as "a rotating neutron star of approximately 4.656 solar masses". This might anticipate a future breakthrough. Current physics has been putting the maximum possible mass of neutron stars at 3 solar masses (the Richard Tolman-J. Robert Oppenheimer-George Volkoff limit, calculated in 1939).
- Quotes
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well. I think this charade has gone far enough.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to Haro] Don't you?
Mitena Haro: I don't understand.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh yes, you do. This isn't a holding cell. It's a laboratory maze, a carefully structured test. It's an experiment to see how well we react under pressure.
Esoqq: How do you know?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's the only explanation. Look at the four of us. We do have something in common: we all react differently to authority.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to Tholl] You, the collaborator, defer to whoever has control.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to Esoqq] You, the anarchist, reject authority in any form. I, a Starfleet captain, trained to command.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to Haro] And you, a Starfleet cadet, sworn to obey a superior officer's authority. - Our captors have placed us here, and have devised obstacles for us to overcome. They give us food, which Esoqq can't eat, to make him a threat. They give us a door we can't open - until the four of us cooperate. And each time we succeed, they deal us reverses, to set us against each other again,
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to Haro] while *you*... observe our reactions.
Mitena Haro: Sir, I've been trying to help...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I found it unlikely that a first-year cadet would know of the Enterprise's visit to Mintaka III, so I tested you. Starfleet has classified the Cor Caroli V plague a secret. No cadet would have knowledge of that incident.
Mitena Haro: [whispering] Captain...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: So, you may as well drop this pretense. I'm not playing any further. I'm quitting this game! As far as I am concerned, this experiment is over!
Mitena Haro: You are correct, Captain Picard.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Lower Decks: An Embarrassment of Dooplers (2021)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
- nicofreezer
- Oct 23, 2021
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1