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Tin Man

Episode aired Apr 21, 1990
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

3.1K

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Action Adventure Sci-Fi

The Enterprise reaches out to an alien being, while dancing around with the Romulans, who want to attack it in an act of vengeance.The Enterprise reaches out to an alien being, while dancing around with the Romulans, who want to attack it in an act of vengeance.The Enterprise reaches out to an alien being, while dancing around with the Romulans, who want to attack it in an act of vengeance.

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Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart, and Harry Groener in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

LeVar Burton in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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

Peter Vogt in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Patrick Stewart, and Harry Groener in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Harry Groener in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and LeVar Burton in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

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Trivia
The sound effects for the alien ship were produced by having a stage crew member eat half a large pizza and then sit quietly with dermal microphones taped to his stomach to record the sounds of his digestive process.

Goofs
Before the star goes supernova, Tin Man hurls the Enterprise 3.8 billion kilometers away. Once they stop, approximately 30 seconds later, they see the star explode on the main viewing screen. From that distance it would take 3½ hours for the light of the explosion to reach them.

Quotes
Lt. Commander Data: You said in the transporter room that you could not read my mind.
Tam Elbrun: True enough. But I think I understand you pretty well. It worries you that I can't read your mind?
Lt. Commander Data: Perhaps there is nothing to read - nothing more than mechanisms and algorithmic responses.
Tam Elbrun: Perhaps you're just different. It's not a sin, you know. Though you may have heard otherwise.

Connections
Edited from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

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

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Featured review

8/10

The rush of emotions

Harry Groener's remarkable performance as Betazoid telepath is the highlight of this TNG story. The two on the crew Groener bonds with are his fellow telepath Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner who being an android he can't read the mind at all.

I really felt this character and the torment he was going through. As Deanna Troi explains it her people for the most part develop their abilities as adolescents. But some like Groener develop it almost from birth. The rush of hearing emotions and not developing proper filters is too much and many become unstable.

In a sense Groener is on a mission of life because the Enterprise is sent to contact a space creature who is orbiting around a star about to go supernova. The Romulans are interested as well and their intentions are less benign.

I won't go any further, but this gifted and troubled telepath at last finds peace and content in a curious symbiotic relationship with the orbiting creature.

This is one TNG story that will stay with you.

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