The Chase

Episode aired Apr 24, 1993
TV-PG
45m

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8.0/10

3.1K

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Patrick Stewart and Norman Lloyd in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

The crew of the Enterprise must race against various rival powers to uncover an archaeological secret that explains the predominance of humanoid life forms in the galaxy.The crew of the Enterprise must race against various rival powers to uncover an archaeological secret that explains the predominance of humanoid life forms in the galaxy.The crew of the Enterprise must race against various rival powers to uncover an archaeological secret that explains the predominance of humanoid life forms in the galaxy.

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Shannon Ratigan, Maurice Roëves, and Lena Banks in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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Gates McFadden in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Episode The Chase - Lena Banks far right front

Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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Trivia
Norman Lloyd, who plays Professor Galen, was 78 years old at the time of production, making this performance the oldest age by any actor in the series. He has the greatest longevity of any performer on the series. In November 2020, he turned 106 years old. He is famous for being married to the same woman for 75 years, the longest continuous marriage in Hollywood history.

Goofs
When the Enterprise is supposed to be at warp, we can see on the viewscreen on the Bridge that it clearly isn't.

Quotes
[last lines]
Romulan Captain: It would seem that we are not completely dissimilar after all - in our hopes, or in our fears.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes.
Romulan Captain: Well, then. Perhaps... one day.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: One day.

Connections
Edited from Star Trek: The Next Generation: True Q (1992)

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

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9/10

It explains the bad makeup :p

I'm going to make a simple comment on this great episode. But this is in my personal opinion the *most* important Star Trek episode of all the series combined as it explains the origin of the humans, klingons, cardasians, romulans and many others.

All along many people complained as to why ALL the ST races looked alike (basically humans with long ears, humans with tattoos on their neck, humans with blue skin, humans with ridged forehead, etc) and of course the painfully boring explanation was due to the lack of budget for makeup.

But this actually gives a real "star trekish" explanation for it all and it's rather convincing. I'm not spoiling anything, but if you ever were curious as to why not all species look like a rag-tag team of freaks like in star wars but rather a bunch of human-look-alikes... this episode will explain to you why is that.

Bottom line, crucial episode if you want to understand Star Trek.

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