Power Play
- Episode aired Feb 22, 1992
- TV-PG
- 45m
A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.
- Crewman Garvey
- (uncredited)
- Hostage
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Kellogg
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Starfleet Ensign
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the scene where the away team is thrown backward, Marina Sirtis broke her coccyx (her tail bone). It was an injury that caused pain for more than a month and made sitting extremely painful. She was the only one in the group who actually performed the stunt herself. She later reflected that anyone could have done it really because her face was barely even visible in the finished shot. "It could have been Worf in Troi's costume and we wouldn't have known the difference."
- GoofsThe three host bodies removed the com devices to stop being tracked easily in the turbo lift. The three were shown without the devices and the devices were shown on the floor of the turbo lift. In 10-forward, all three are wearing com devices again. Correction: The three are seen collecting the com badges of everyone else in 10-forward, and they each put one of these on themselves.
- Quotes
[the spirits of the convicts are caught in a containment field]
Troi/"Shumar": Nooo!
Troi/"Shumar": [threatens Picard with her phaser] Let them go or you will all die!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Your threats are meaningless now.
O'Brien/"Kelly": We are still in control of these three bodies. We will not let them go.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Have you prepared to sacrifice the lives of these others? They'll all die when the cargo bay hatch is blown.
Data/"Mullen": You will die too, Picard!
Keiko O'Brien: I would die to save the life of my child.
Lieutenant Worf: To die defending one's ship is the hope of every Klingon.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: If you each know the officers you inhabit, then you know they're equally ready to give their lives for this ship. Free them now - and I will return you to the moon's surface.
[after a long pause, Troi slowly backs off]
Troi/"Shumar": I advise you, Picard, not to pass our way again.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
But when they beam back up Counselor Troi, Chief O'Brien, and Commander Data have been taken over by aliens who say they are the ghosts from a starship that went missing 200 years ago. They take over the nursery where among hostages are Rosalind Chao and the O'Brien baby girl.
Ghosts taking over live bodies quite hostilely. But Counselor Troi who is not behaving as a Star ship Captain should arouses Patrick Stewart's curiosity.
No more will I reveal other than to say these beings who've taken the bodies of the TNG regulars are not who they claim. And some very ancient civilization has found a punishment that beats the death penalty.
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Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1