Allegiance

Episode aired Mar 24, 1990
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

Patrick Stewart, Joycelyn O'Brien, and Reiner Schöne in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

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.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The Offspring (1990) and "Allegiance," with their minimal sets, were written in part to balance the series' budget after Yesterday's Enterprise (1990).

Goofs
Data 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
Alien #1: [after being trapped in a force field] Captain, our species cannot bear captivity!
Alien #2: We were merely... curious, we meant no harm.
Alien #1: We did not, after all, injure you in any way.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it.

Connections
Features Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Survivors (1989)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

User reviews14

Featured review

7/10

Invasion of the Picard snatchers!

Picard is abducted by mysterious forces from the Enterprise, waking up in a cell with fellow captives unaware of who has taken them or why. Meanwhile, an alien doppelgänger takes Picard's place and quickly arouses suspicions with his unusual behaviour.

A fairly simple story that feels reminiscent of some of TOS's more hypothetical episodes. Stewart works hard in the dual role but the supporting cast isn't that strong and the story doesn't offer as many twists as you'd hope it might. Apparently, this low-budget episode was necessitated after some of the more extravagant episodes earlier in the series but sadly, it shows. Not bad but we know the show can do better.