The Schizoid Man

The Enterprise answers a distress call from Barbara Alyn Woods who is the late life trophy companion of Dr. Ira Graves played here by William Morgan Sheppard a curmudgeonly iconoclast. Patrick Stewart beams down Worf, Data, and a member of the medical staff Suzie Plakson who is a Vulcan. It is determined that the old iconoclast is suffering from an irreversible and fatal disease.

I did love the way each of the Enterprise away team reacted to the surroundings. When the isolated Ms. Woods calls Worf a Romulan, Michael Dorn holds that Klingon temper and makes allowances. Plakson whose Vulcan logical ways makes her just totally immune to Sheppard's barbs. I would love to have seen more of her.

However when Brent Spiner learns that Sheppard mentored Dr. Sung who built him and his twin he starts referring to him as Grandpa. And Sheppard has a plan to stick around after his physical body dies and it involved Brent Spiner.

Let's say that Sheppard's personality and social skills don't wear well on Data in every sense of the word.

Nicely done TNG story.