Night Terrors

Episode aired Mar 16, 1991
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

Space Sci-Fi Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

The Enterprise gets trapped in a Tyken's Rift, an energy-absorbing rupture in space, where all but Data, Troi and Guinan experience rising hallucinations and paranoia.The Enterprise gets trapped in a Tyken's Rift, an energy-absorbing rupture in space, where all but Data, Troi and Guinan experience rising hallucinations and paranoia.The Enterprise gets trapped in a Tyken's Rift, an energy-absorbing rupture in space, where all but Data, Troi and Guinan experience rising hallucinations and paranoia.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The USS Brattain was named after Walter Houser Brattain, an American physicist, who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor.

Goofs
The Federation science vessel found by the Enterprise carries the name USS Brittain on the hull (which is backed by all spoken pronunciations), but its name on all internal bridge displays and the Captain's log when it is replayed has its name spelled correctly as 'Brattain'.

Quotes
[when a riot breaks out in Ten Forward, Guinan produces a huge energy rifle from behind the bar, and fires a blast into the ceiling. Everyone stops and stares]
Ensign Gillespie: What is that?
Guinan: This is a little souvenir I picked up from Magus III. That was setting number one. Anyone wanna see setting number two?

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Scariest Scenes from Non-Horror TV Shows (2019)

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

User reviews22

Review

Featured review

7/10

A real nightmare

This episode of TNG speaks of the possibility of lack of sleep causing all kinds of ill effects. I can tell you that a lack of REM sleep where you cannot dream can lead to all kinds of hallucinations. I remember getting on a Greyhound bus one time and I hadn't really been able to fall asleep. I remember going New York State's southern tier and passing one of the Finger Lakes I had a hallucination of black helicopters coming down on the lake. I can identify with what the Enterprise crew was going through.

The Enterprise is heeding a distress call from the USS Brattain sent about 3 weeks ago and finds the ship with only one survivor a Betazoid like Counselor Troi. Everyone else is dead and it looks like the crew was the victim of a mass hysteria.

Soon the Enterprise might go the same way as the ship is trapped in a space rift and the fatigue is telling on all the crew.

The two key people in this crisis are Deanna Troi and Data the Android who takes over the command. Data is not affected at all and Troi is affected differently. Together they bring about the solution to their troubles.

This episode really hit home.