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24 April 1993
(Season 6, Episode 20)
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The crew of the Enterprise must race against various rival powers to uncover a archaeological secret that explains the predominance of humanoid life forms in the galaxy full summary | add synopsis
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It explains the bad makeup :p
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(Episode Credited cast) | Patrick Stewart | ... | Captain Jean-Luc Picard |
 | Jonathan Frakes | ... | Commander William T. Riker |
 | LeVar Burton | ... | Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge |
 | Michael Dorn | ... | Lieutenant Worf |
 | Gates McFadden | ... | Doctor Beverly Crusher |
 | Marina Sirtis | ... | Counselor Deanna Troi |
 | Brent Spiner | ... | Lt. Commander Data |
 | Norman Lloyd | ... | Professor Galen |
 | John Cothran Jr. | ... | Captain Nu'Daq |
| Salome Jens | ... | Humanoid Progenitor |
 | Maurice Roëves | ... | Romulan Captain |
| Linda Thorson | ... | Gul Ocett |
 | Majel Barrett | ... | Enterprise Computer (voice) |
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The third episode in a row to focus exclusively on Picard.
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Plot holes: Why did the Yridian ship blow up when Worf fired phasers at it? He said himself it wasn't high enough to destroy it. This is never specified by the episode.
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Professor Galen:
I know that as a scholar you're nothing but a dilettante.
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Referenced in Strongbad_email.exe: Disc Six (2008) (V)
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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.