The Loss

Episode aired Dec 29, 1990
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

3.4K

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Marina Sirtis in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her empathic abilities.As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her empathic abilities.As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her empathic abilities.

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
According to Michael Piller, making Troi's loss of empathic abilities permanent was strongly considered.

Goofs
The ship is caught in a field of two-dimensional objects, which can't be seen edge-on. The crew only figure this out by launching a probe up above the ship. But the ship is 42 decks tall: if the two-dimensional objects are not visible from one deck, they should be visible by looking out the window on any other deck.

Quotes
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data, what velocity would put us back on schedule?
Lt. Commander Data: A resumption of our present course at warp six will place us in the T'lli Beta system in six days, thirteen hours, 47 minutes.
Commander William T. Riker: What, no seconds?
Lt. Commander Data: I have discovered, sir, a certain level of impatience when I calculate a lengthy time interval to the nearest second. However, if you wish...
Commander William T. Riker: No, no. Minutes is fine.

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

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The stages of loss

After the barely watchable "Final Mission", TNG returns to form with "The Loss", the first episode in which Wesley Crusher is neither featured nor credited.

The episodes starts with Troi counseling a widow who never fully accepted her husband's death. Surely, Troi handing her her late husband's music box is iconic. As their counseling session completes, Troi loses her empathic powers, obviously due to some spacial anomaly (natch).

What follows is both Troi and her patient coming to terms with their respective losses—from denial to acceptance. The various members of the crew try to help Troi in their own way, but Guinan as usual is the most helpful.