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La Forge falls in love with a woman accused of murder.
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[[Geordi La Forge]] falls in love with a woman named [[Aquiel Uhnari]], accused of murder in an isolated [[communication relay station]]. The Enterprise crew investigates the crime, the only other suspect is a Klingon officer who frequently visited the station.
   
 
== Summary ==
  
== Summary ==
 
=== Teaser ===
  
=== Teaser ===
 
[[File:Relay Station 47.jpg|thumb|left|Relay station 47]]
  
[[File:Relay Station 47.jpg|thumb|left|Relay station 47]]
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The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} is sent to deliver supplies to Communications [[Relay Station 47]] near the [[Klingon]] border. Upon arriving, they find the station abandoned and the audio monitoring system in disarray. They also find a large, fluffy white [[dog]] hiding inside a service duct. The station's [[shuttlecraft]] is missing. along with both [[Starfleet]] [[officer]]s, [[Aquiel Uhnari]] and [[Keith Rocha]]. [[Doctor]] [[Beverly Crusher]] discovers [[cell (biology)|cellular]] residue which must be the remains of one of the personnel.
 
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:"''[[Captain's log]], [[stardate]] 46461.3. We have arrived at a [[communication relay station]] near the [[Klingon Empire|Klingon border]], where we are scheduled to deliver supplies. However, the station has not responded to repeated [[hail]]s.''"
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The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} has sent an [[away team]] composed of [[CMO]] [[Beverly Crusher|Dr. Crusher]], [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Cmdr]] [[Geordi La Forge|La Forge]], [[Commander|Cmdr]] [[William T. Riker|Riker]] and [[Lieutenant|Lt.]] [[Worf]] to the Communications [[Relay Station 47]]. Upon arriving, they find the station abandoned and the audio monitoring system in disarray. They also find a large, fluffy white [[dog]] hiding inside a service duct. The station's [[shuttlecraft]] is missing, along with both [[Starfleet]] [[officer]]s, [[Aquiel Uhnari]] and [[Keith Rocha]]. [[Doctor]] Beverly Crusher discovers [[cell (biology)|cellular]] residue which must be the remains of one of the personnel.
   
 
=== Act One ===
  
=== Act One ===
 
The [[blood]] traces match those of Uhnari, so Crusher assumes the cellular residue is Uhnari's also, but must study it further in her lab to make sure. [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Geordi La Forge]] explains that encrypted [[subspace]] messages are all sent through a particular channel, and that someone has tried to bypass the access protocols, perhaps taking or rewriting some of the messages. La Forge accesses the station's [[log]]s, but at first can see only a handful of Uhnari's official and personal entries. Returning to her [[quarters]], he peruses the logs accompanied by the dog, which he discovers was Uhnari's pet. Uhnari's personal letters reveal her to be a spirited, romantic [[Halii]] woman who was abused by her father, is intensely homesick for the rest of her family and traditions, and has difficulty getting along with "egomaniac" Rocha. At one point she confesses countermanding his orders.
  
The [[blood]] traces match those of Uhnari, so Crusher assumes the cellular residue is Uhnari's also, but must study it further in her lab to make sure. [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Geordi La Forge]] explains that encrypted [[subspace]] messages are all sent through a particular channel, and that someone has tried to bypass the access protocols, perhaps taking or rewriting some of the messages. La Forge accesses the station's [[log]]s, but at first can see only a handful of Uhnari's official and personal entries. Returning to her [[quarters]], he peruses the logs accompanied by the dog, which he discovers was Uhnari's pet. Uhnari's personal letters reveal her to be a spirited, romantic [[Halii]] woman who was abused by her father, is intensely homesick for the rest of her family and traditions, and has difficulty getting along with "egomaniac" Rocha. At one point she confesses countermanding his orders.
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In [[sickbay]] Dr. Crusher tries to get a clear [[DNA]] sample from the metallic plate, she guesses a high-level [[phaser]] blast caused the death. It also could have been a Klingon [[disruptor]].
   
 
=== Act Two ===
  
=== Act Two ===
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Uhnari also mentions that [[Commander]] [[Morag]], an aggressive Klingon, has been harassing and threatening the station. Klingon [[DNA]] traces are found aboard the station, and when [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]] asks the Klingon governor [[Torak (Governor)|Torak]] to investigate. At first, the governor is hesitant to help but Picard uses his influence as [[Gowron]]'s [[Arbiter of Succession]] to convince him to help. Eventually, the governor turns up on the ''Enterprise'' along with Uhnari, very much alive.
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Uhnari also mentions that [[Commander]] [[Morag]], an aggressive Klingon, has been harassing and threatening the station. Klingon [[DNA]] traces are found aboard the station, and [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]] asks the Klingon [[governor]] [[Torak (Governor)|Torak]] to investigate. At first, the governor is hesitant to help but Picard uses his influence as [[Gowron]]'s [[Arbiter of Succession]] to convince him to help. Eventually, the governor turns up on the ''Enterprise'' along with Uhnari, very much alive.
   
 
=== Act Three ===
  
=== Act Three ===
 
Uhnari claims that Rocha suddenly and irrationally attacked her; she first tried to access the [[weapons locker]], but next remembers escaping in the shuttle; she was picked up by the Klingons. Possibly owing to a head injury, Uhnari's memory for exactly what happened is spotty, and while she tries to remember and the captain waits for Cmdr. Morag to arrive, she and La Forge become friends. La Forge confesses he has read her logs. Dr. Crusher now assumes that the cellular residue is Rocha, but continues to analyze it.
  
Uhnari claims that Rocha suddenly and irrationally attacked her; she first tried to access the [[weapons locker]], but next remembers escaping in the shuttle; she was picked up by the Klingons. Possibly owing to a head injury, Uhnari's memory for exactly what happened is spotty, and while she tries to remember and the captain waits for Cmdr. Morag to arrive, she and La Forge become friends. La Forge confesses he has read her logs. Dr. Crusher now assumes that the cellular residue is Rocha, but continues to analyze it.
   
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Rocha's log files turn up, showing that he was not as nasty as Uhnari experience him; in fact, he seems to have been a bright and promising officer. Uhnari's [[duty record]]s, on the other hand, show her to be difficult and argumentative. Circumstantial evidence points to her as possibly having killed Rocha, but she hotly denies this, even after she is found to have established a subspace link with a console on the relay station and deleted a number of Rocha's [[personal log]]s, including a letter he was planning to send to Starfleet. Citing her as "belligerent and insubordinate", Rocha had planned to ask for a formal hearing. Knowing her pattern of running away in panic when she is afraid, La Forge advises her to stay and face what has happened, and she agrees.
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Rocha's log files turn up, showing that he was not as nasty as Uhnari's experience of him; in fact, he seems to have been a bright and promising officer. Uhnari's [[duty record]]s, on the other hand, show her to be difficult and argumentative. Circumstantial evidence points to her as possibly having killed Rocha, but she hotly denies this, even after she is found to have established a subspace link with a console on the relay station and deleted a number of Rocha's [[personal log]]s, including a letter he was planning to send to Starfleet. Citing her as "belligerent and insubordinate", Rocha had planned to ask for a formal hearing. Knowing her pattern of running away in panic when she is afraid, La Forge advises her to stay and face what has happened, and she agrees.
   
 
=== Act Four ===
  
=== Act Four ===
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:"''Captain's log, supplemental. The [[IKS Qu'Vat|Qu'Vat]] has arrived with Commander Morag. We are preparing to question him regarding his involvement in the murder of Lieutenant Rocha.''"
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Cmdr. Morag arrives shortly thereafter. He describes how he investigated the station when they did not answer his hails. He confesses that he was the one who tried to bypass the access protocols and filched a number of priority Starfleet messages, but that while he saw blood and signs of a struggle, he did not kill anyone. Dr. Crusher continues to examine the cellular residue, which suddenly, upon contact with her skin, takes the form of her hand.
  
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Cmdr. Morag arrives shortly thereafter. He describes how he investigated the station when they did not answer his hails. He confesses that he was the one who tried to bypass the access protocols and filched a number of priority Starfleet messages, but that while he saw blood and signs of a struggle, he did not kill anyone. Lt. Worf finds a missing phaser from the station in Uhnari's shuttlecraft: it is set on ten instead of one. It becomes more likely Uhnari was the murderer. Dr. Crusher continues to examine the cellular residue, which suddenly, upon contact with her skin, takes the form of her hand.
   
 
=== Act Five ===
  
=== Act Five ===
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[[File:Coalescent organism.jpg|thumb|A coalescant organism]]
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[[File:Coalescent organism.jpg|thumb|A coalescent organism]]
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Crusher explains to Picard that these are not Rocha's remains, but a [[coalescent organism]] that feeds off other [[lifeform]]s, then assumes their shape. Rocha never worked at the station; it was the [[shapeshifter]] who killed him at his last post of duty in the remote [[Triona system]] and took his place. Crusher warns that what appears to be Uhnari may actually be the creature. Meanwhile, Uhnari introduces La Forge to a [[Haliian]] custom in which their minds can telepathically connect, amplified by a large crystal ornament called a [[Canar]]. Riker breaks in and disrupts their session.
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Crusher explains to Picard that these are not Rocha's remains, but a [[coalescent organism]] that feeds off other [[lifeform]]s, then assumes their shape. Rocha never worked at the station; it was the [[shapeshifter]] who killed him at his last post of duty in the remote [[Triona system]] and took his place. Crusher warns that what appears to be Uhnari may actually be the creature, the same applies for Morag. Meanwhile, Uhnari introduces La Forge to a [[Haliian]] custom in which their minds can telepathically connect, amplified by a large crystal ornament called a [[Canar]]. Riker breaks in and disrupts their session.
   
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While Uhnari is examined, La Forge returns to his quarters, where he's been keeping Uhnari's dog Maura. The dog attacks him; the creature had been the canine, not Uhnari. When it starts morphing again, Geordi kills it with his phaser.
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While Uhnari is examined, La Forge returns to his quarters, where he's been keeping Uhnari's dog Maura. The dog attacks him; the creature had been the canine, not Uhnari. When it starts morphing again, Geordi shoots at him with his phaser, this has virtually no effect until he ups his phaser and so kills the creature.
   
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In Ten Forward, La Forge tells his theory, that Uhnari's [[memory loss]] after the Rocha-like creature attacked her was caused by the beginning coalescing process; which explains her feeling of having her memory drained out. Unhari realizes she may indeed have taken the phaser and shot.
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Uhnari is grateful to La Forge for his advice and friendship. She knows she is not an ideal Starfleet officer, but tells him she is considering staying in Starfleet and perhaps one day serving aboard the ''Enterprise''.
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She is grateful to La Forge for his advice and friendship but refuses his offer to recommend her for a post. She knows she is not an ideal Starfleet officer, but tells him she is considering staying in Starfleet and perhaps one day serving aboard the ''Enterprise''.
 
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"''At least I do not wear the uniform of the ''[[petaQ]]''!''"
  
"''At least I do not wear the uniform of the ''[[petaQ]]''!''"
 
: - '''Worf''' and '''Governor Torak ''' butting heads
  
: - '''Worf''' and '''Governor Torak ''' butting heads
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"''The Klingon Empire will not stand for these kinds of lies!''"<br />
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"''Governor Torak... I apologize. I can see that you honestly didn't know what happened aboard the station. I will just have to take this matter up with Gowron. I'm ''really'' sorry that we bothered you.''"
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: - '''Torak''' speaks with '''Picard''' after Aquiel Uhnari stated in a log she was harassed by Morag, a Klingon
   
   
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"''He was doing his job.''"<br />
  
"''He was doing his job.''"<br />
 
: - '''Captain Picard''' and '''Governor Torak'''
  
: - '''Captain Picard''' and '''Governor Torak'''
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"''You know me better than anyone here. Do I seem like the kind of person who would murder someone?''"<br />
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"''No, you don't.''"
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: - '''Aquiel Uhnari''' and '''La Forge'''
   
   
 
"''I think you've let your personal feelings cloud your judgment.''"<br />
  
"''I think you've let your personal feelings cloud your judgment.''"<br />
 
"''I'm not the one making judgments.''"<br />
  
"''I'm not the one making judgments.''"<br />
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: - '''Riker''' and '''LaForge'''
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: - '''Riker''' and '''La Forge'''
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"''Geordi?''"<br />
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"''I can ''see'' you. Oh, and I can feel you.''"
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: - '''Aquiel Uhnari''' and '''La Forge''' while they both use the ''canar'' to create a bond between them
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"''What are you doing, commander?''"<br />
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"''That may not be Lieutenant Uhnari.''"
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: - '''La Forge''' to '''Riker''' while he has a phaser pointed at Aquiel
   
   
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== Background Information ==
  
== Background Information ==
 
=== Story and production ===
  
=== Story and production ===
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[[File:Filming Aquiel.jpg|thumb|Filming the episode]]
 
* This story began as another attempt at providing Geordi with a recurring romance. At [[Michael Piller]]'s suggestion, this was tied into a mystery in the manner of the 1944 film {{wt|Laura (1944 film)|Laura}}, starring Gene Tierney, in which a detective investigating the murder of a woman named Laura falls in love with her, only to discover that she is alive and may herself be a killer. (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion]]'')
  
* This story began as another attempt at providing Geordi with a recurring romance. At [[Michael Piller]]'s suggestion, this was tied into a mystery in the manner of the 1944 film {{wt|Laura (1944 film)|Laura}}, starring Gene Tierney, in which a detective investigating the murder of a woman named Laura falls in love with her, only to discover that she is alive and may herself be a killer. (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion]]'')
 
* With [[Colm Meaney]] ([[Miles O'Brien]]) and [[Rosalind Chao]]'s ([[Keiko O'Brien]]) departure from the series to ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', TNG had lost its only married couple. It was hoped that this episode would show that marriage and serious relationships still existed in the [[24th century]]. As [[Jeri Taylor]] observed, ''"We now portray the twenty-fourth century as being full of single people...It seems to me that's not the comment we should be making - that marriage and serious relationships ''do'' survive into the twenty-fourth century."'' (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion]]'') One season later, however, recurring [[Nurse]] [[Alyssa Ogawa]] and her husband [[Andrew Powell]] started a family, so eventually the idea was pursued.
  
* With [[Colm Meaney]] ([[Miles O'Brien]]) and [[Rosalind Chao]]'s ([[Keiko O'Brien]]) departure from the series to ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', TNG had lost its only married couple. It was hoped that this episode would show that marriage and serious relationships still existed in the [[24th century]]. As [[Jeri Taylor]] observed, ''"We now portray the twenty-fourth century as being full of single people...It seems to me that's not the comment we should be making - that marriage and serious relationships ''do'' survive into the twenty-fourth century."'' (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion]]'') One season later, however, recurring [[Nurse]] [[Alyssa Ogawa]] and her husband [[Andrew Powell]] started a family, so eventually the idea was pursued.
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* There are several references barely legible in [[Keith Rocha]]'s log on the screen, including his linking of an [[Andorian]] comm channel, having a competition with a {{dis|Ryan|Saratoga officer}} aboard the {{USS|Saratoga|2374}}, [[Starbase 237]] in the [[Delta Vega]] [[sector]], and that [[Starfleet]] had diverted several starships to "the [[Epsilon IX station]]", implying they rebuilt it after {{film|1}}.
 
* There are several references barely legible in [[Keith Rocha]]'s log on the screen, including his linking of an [[Andorian]] comm channel, having a competition with a {{dis|Ryan|Saratoga officer}} aboard the {{USS|Saratoga|2374}}, [[Starbase 237]] in the [[Delta Vega]] [[sector]], and that [[Starfleet]] had diverted several starships to "the [[Epsilon IX station]]", implying they rebuilt it after {{film|1}}.
 
* Also, in the logs, the [[stardate]]s are sequential by dates: "46455, 46456, 46457, 46458..."
  
* Also, in the logs, the [[stardate]]s are sequential by dates: "46455, 46456, 46457, 46458..."
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* The golden tape in Aquiel Uhnari's quarters aboard the station was previously worn by [[Nehemiah Persoff]] as [[Palor Toff]] in the [[TNG Season 3|third season]] episode {{e|The Most Toys}}.
   
 
=== Reception ===
  
=== Reception ===
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*As part of the [[TNG Season 6 DVD]] collection.
  
*As part of the [[TNG Season 6 DVD]] collection.
   
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== Links and References ==
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== Links and references ==
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===Main Cast===
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=== Starring ===
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*[[Patrick Stewart]] as [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]]
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* [[Patrick Stewart]] as [[Captain|Capt.]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]]
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*[[Jonathan Frakes]] as [[Commander]] [[William T. Riker]]
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* [[Jonathan Frakes]] as [[Commander|Cmdr.]] [[William T. Riker|William Riker]]
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*[[LeVar Burton]] as [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Geordi La Forge]]
  
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=== Also starring ===
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*[[Michael Dorn]] as [[Lieutenant]] [[Worf]]
  
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*[[Gates McFadden]] as [[Doctor]] [[Beverly Crusher]]
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* [[LeVar Burton]] as [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Cmdr.]] [[Geordi La Forge]]
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*[[Marina Sirtis]] as [[Counselor]] [[Deanna Troi]]
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* [[Michael Dorn]] as [[Lieutenant]] [[Worf]]
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*[[Brent Spiner]] as [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Data]]
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* [[Gates McFadden]] as [[Doctor|Dr.]] [[Beverly Crusher]]
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* [[Marina Sirtis]] as [[Counselor]] [[Deanna Troi]]
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* [[Brent Spiner]] as [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Commander]] [[Data]]
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=== Guest stars ===
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* [[Renée Jones]] as [[Aquiel Uhnari]]
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* [[Wayne Grace]] as [[Torak (Governor)|Torak]]
   
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=== Guest Stars ===
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*[[Renée Jones]] as [[Aquiel Uhnari]]
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* [[Reg E. Cathey]] as [[Morag]]
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*[[Wayne Grace]] as [[Torak (Governor)|Torak]]
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* [[Majel Barrett]] as [[Computer Voice]]
   
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=== Uncredited co-stars ===
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*[[Reg E. Cathey]] as [[Morag]]
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* [[Arratia]] as [[Alfonse Pacelli]]
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*[[Majel Barrett]] as [[Computer Voice]]
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* [[Michael Braveheart]] as [[Martinez]]
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* [[Cameron]] as [[Kellogg]]
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* [[Tracee Lee Cocco]] as [[Jae]]
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* [[John Copage]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Elderly science / command division officer|science division officer]]
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* [[Friday (dog)|Friday]] as [[Maura]]
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* [[Christie Haydon]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Flight controller (2369)|command division ensign]]
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* [[Kerry Hoyt]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) operations division personnel#Relief tactical ensign (2369-2371)|operations division ensign]]
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* [[Arvo Katajisto]] as [[Torigan]]
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* [[Rad Milo]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Command / Operations division ensign (2367-2370)|operations division ensign]]
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* [[Michael Moorehead]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) sciences division personnel#Bridge science ensign|science division ensign]]
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* [[Joyce Robinson]] as [[Gates]]
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* [[Noriko Suzuki]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) operations division personnel#Female engineer|operations division ensign]]
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* [[Natalie Wood]] as [[Bailey]]
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* [[Unknown performers]] as
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** [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Command division lieutenant (2369)|Command division lieutenant]]
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** [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Female command division officer (2369-2370)|Female command division officer]]
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** [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) sciences division personnel#Female science officer at memorial service|Female science division officer]]
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** [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) sciences division personnel#Nurse in sickbay (2369)|Female science division officer]]
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** [[Keith Rocha]]
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** [[Unnamed Klingon military personnel (24th century)#Torak's guard|Klingon officer]]
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** [[Ten Forward personnel#Ten Forward staff (2369)|Ten Forward waitress]]
   
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=== Stand-ins ===
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*[[Michael Braveheart]] as [[Ensign]] [[Martinez]]
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* [[David Keith Anderson]] - [[stand-in]] for [[LeVar Burton]]
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* [[Carl David Burks]] - stand-in for [[Brent Spiner]]
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*[[Cameron]] as [[Ensign]] [[Kellogg]]
  
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*[[Tracee Lee Cocco]] as [[Lieutenant j.g.]] [[Jae]]
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* [[Michael Echols]] - stand-in for [[Michael Dorn]]
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* [[Nora Leonhardt]] - stand-in for [[Marina Sirtis]]
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* [[John Copage]] as a [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Elderly science division officer|science division officer]]
  
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*[[Friday (dog)|Friday]] as [[Maura]]
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* [[Lorine Mendell]] - stand-in for [[Gates McFadden]]
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* [[Richard Sarstedt]] - stand-in for [[Jonathan Frakes]]
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*[[Christie Haydon]] as a [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Flight controller (2369)|command division ensign]]
  
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* [[Dennis Tracy]] - stand-in for [[Patrick Stewart]]
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*[[Kerry Hoyt]] as a [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Relief tactical ensign (2369-2371)|security ensign]]
  
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*[[Michael Moorhead]] as a [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Bridge science ensign|science division ensign]]
  
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*[[Joyce Robinson]] as [[Ensign]] [[Gates]]
  
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*[[Unknown performers]] as
  
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**[[Keith Rocha]] (picture)
  
   
 
=== References ===
  
=== References ===
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[[47]]; ''[[Batarael]]''; ''[[Canar]]''; [[coalescent organism]]; ''[[Cold Moon Over Blackwater]]''; [[Delta Vega sector]]; [[Deriben V]]; [[disruptor]]s; [[Epsilon IX station]]; [[Federation]]; ''[[The Fatal Revenge|Fatal Revenge, The]]''; [[Halii]]; [[Haliian]]; [[Haliian language]]; ''[[Horath (song)|Horath]]''; [[iced coffee]]; [[Klingon]]s; [Klingon Empire]]; [[memory module]]; [[message delay buffer]]; [[micro-vaporize]]; [[Muskan seed punch]]; [[Pendleton]]; [[Personal log, Aquiel Uhnari]]; [[Personal log, Keith Rocha]]; [[phase inducer]]; [[type 2 phaser|phaser, type 2]]; [[IKS Qu'Vat|''Qu'Vat'', IKS]]; [[Relay Station 47]]; [[Relay Station 194]]; {{dis|Ryan|Saratoga officer}}; [[USS Saratoga (NCC-31911)|''Saratoga'', USS]]; [[Sector 2520]]; [[Shianna]]; [[shuttlecraft]]; [[Starbase 12]]; [[Starbase 212]]; [[Starbase 237]]; [[Starfleet Command]]; [[subspace relay station]]; [[Triona system]]; [[type 2 phaser]]; ''[[Verne]]''
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[[47]]; ''[[Batarael]]''; ''[[Canar]]''; [[coalescent organism]]; ''[[Cold Moon Over Blackwater]]''; [[Delta Vega sector]]; [[Deriben V]]; [[disruptor]]s; [[Epsilon IX station]]; [[Federation]]; ''[[The Fatal Revenge|Fatal Revenge, The]]''; [[governor]]; [[Halii]]; [[Haliian]]; [[Haliian language]]; [[hearing]]; ''[[Horath (song)|Horath]]''; [[iced coffee]]; [[Klingon]]s; [[Klingon Empire]]; [[level 2 diagnostic]]; [[level 3 diagnostic]]; [[memory module]]; [[message delay buffer]]; [[micro-vaporize]]; [[Muskan seed punch]]; [[Pendleton]]; [[Personal log, Aquiel Uhnari]]; [[Personal log, Keith Rocha]]; ''[[petaQ]]''; [[phase inducer]]; [[type 2 phaser|phaser, type 2]]; [[IKS Qu'Vat|''Qu'Vat'', IKS]]; [[Relay Station 47]]; [[Relay Station 194]]; {{dis|Ryan|Saratoga officer}}; [[USS Saratoga (NCC-31911)|''Saratoga'', USS]]; [[Sector 2520]]; [[Shianna]]; [[shuttlecraft]]; [[Starbase 12]]; [[Starbase 212]]; [[Starbase 237]]; [[Starfleet Command]]; [[subspace relay station]]; [[Triona system]]; [[type 2 phaser]]; ''[[Verne]]''; [[wig]]
   
 
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Geordi La Forge falls in love with a woman named Aquiel Uhnari, accused of murder in an isolated communication relay station. The Enterprise crew investigates the crime, the only other suspect is a Klingon officer who frequently visited the station.

Summary

Teaser

Relay Station 47

Relay station 47

"Captain's log, stardate 46461.3. We have arrived at a communication relay station near the Klingon border, where we are scheduled to deliver supplies. However, the station has not responded to repeated hails."


The USS Enterprise-D has sent an away team composed of CMO Dr. Crusher, Lt. Cmdr La Forge, Cmdr Riker and Lt. Worf to the Communications Relay Station 47. Upon arriving, they find the station abandoned and the audio monitoring system in disarray. They also find a large, fluffy white dog hiding inside a service duct. The station's shuttlecraft is missing, along with both Starfleet officers, Aquiel Uhnari and Keith Rocha. Doctor Beverly Crusher discovers cellular residue which must be the remains of one of the personnel.

Act One

The blood traces match those of Uhnari, so Crusher assumes the cellular residue is Uhnari's also, but must study it further in her lab to make sure. Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge explains that encrypted subspace messages are all sent through a particular channel, and that someone has tried to bypass the access protocols, perhaps taking or rewriting some of the messages. La Forge accesses the station's logs, but at first can see only a handful of Uhnari's official and personal entries. Returning to her quarters, he peruses the logs accompanied by the dog, which he discovers was Uhnari's pet. Uhnari's personal letters reveal her to be a spirited, romantic Halii woman who was abused by her father, is intensely homesick for the rest of her family and traditions, and has difficulty getting along with "egomaniac" Rocha. At one point she confesses countermanding his orders. In sickbay Dr. Crusher tries to get a clear DNA sample from the metallic plate, she guesses a high-level phaser blast caused the death. It also could have been a Klingon disruptor.

Act Two

Uhnari also mentions that Commander Morag, an aggressive Klingon, has been harassing and threatening the station. Klingon DNA traces are found aboard the station, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard asks the Klingon governor Torak to investigate. At first, the governor is hesitant to help but Picard uses his influence as Gowron's Arbiter of Succession to convince him to help. Eventually, the governor turns up on the Enterprise along with Uhnari, very much alive.

Act Three

Uhnari claims that Rocha suddenly and irrationally attacked her; she first tried to access the weapons locker, but next remembers escaping in the shuttle; she was picked up by the Klingons. Possibly owing to a head injury, Uhnari's memory for exactly what happened is spotty, and while she tries to remember and the captain waits for Cmdr. Morag to arrive, she and La Forge become friends. La Forge confesses he has read her logs. Dr. Crusher now assumes that the cellular residue is Rocha, but continues to analyze it.

Rocha's log files turn up, showing that he was not as nasty as Uhnari's experience of him; in fact, he seems to have been a bright and promising officer. Uhnari's duty records, on the other hand, show her to be difficult and argumentative. Circumstantial evidence points to her as possibly having killed Rocha, but she hotly denies this, even after she is found to have established a subspace link with a console on the relay station and deleted a number of Rocha's personal logs, including a letter he was planning to send to Starfleet. Citing her as "belligerent and insubordinate", Rocha had planned to ask for a formal hearing. Knowing her pattern of running away in panic when she is afraid, La Forge advises her to stay and face what has happened, and she agrees.

Act Four

"Captain's log, supplemental. The Qu'Vat has arrived with Commander Morag. We are preparing to question him regarding his involvement in the murder of Lieutenant Rocha."

Cmdr. Morag arrives shortly thereafter. He describes how he investigated the station when they did not answer his hails. He confesses that he was the one who tried to bypass the access protocols and filched a number of priority Starfleet messages, but that while he saw blood and signs of a struggle, he did not kill anyone. Lt. Worf finds a missing phaser from the station in Uhnari's shuttlecraft: it is set on ten instead of one. It becomes more likely Uhnari was the murderer. Dr. Crusher continues to examine the cellular residue, which suddenly, upon contact with her skin, takes the form of her hand.

Act Five

Coalescent organism

A coalescent organism

Crusher explains to Picard that these are not Rocha's remains, but a coalescent organism that feeds off other lifeforms, then assumes their shape. Rocha never worked at the station; it was the shapeshifter who killed him at his last post of duty in the remote Triona system and took his place. Crusher warns that what appears to be Uhnari may actually be the creature, the same applies for Morag. Meanwhile, Uhnari introduces La Forge to a Haliian custom in which their minds can telepathically connect, amplified by a large crystal ornament called a Canar. Riker breaks in and disrupts their session.

While Uhnari is examined, La Forge returns to his quarters, where he's been keeping Uhnari's dog Maura. The dog attacks him; the creature had been the canine, not Uhnari. When it starts morphing again, Geordi shoots at him with his phaser, this has virtually no effect until he ups his phaser and so kills the creature.

In Ten Forward, La Forge tells his theory, that Uhnari's memory loss after the Rocha-like creature attacked her was caused by the beginning coalescing process; which explains her feeling of having her memory drained out. Unhari realizes she may indeed have taken the phaser and shot. She is grateful to La Forge for his advice and friendship but refuses his offer to recommend her for a post. She knows she is not an ideal Starfleet officer, but tells him she is considering staying in Starfleet and perhaps one day serving aboard the Enterprise.

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Memorable Quotes

"We found traces of Klingon DNA on the station."
"You still try to blame us!"
"Have the courage to admit your mistakes. Or are you a lo'Be Vos?"
"At least I do not wear the uniform of the petaQ!"

- Worf and Governor Torak butting heads


"The Klingon Empire will not stand for these kinds of lies!"
"Governor Torak... I apologize. I can see that you honestly didn't know what happened aboard the station. I will just have to take this matter up with Gowron. I'm really sorry that we bothered you."

- Torak speaks with Picard after Aquiel Uhnari stated in a log she was harassed by Morag, a Klingon


"Lieutenant Uhnari's logs reported that Commander Morag had been harassing the station."
"He was doing his job."

- Captain Picard and Governor Torak


"You know me better than anyone here. Do I seem like the kind of person who would murder someone?"
"No, you don't."

- Aquiel Uhnari and La Forge


"I think you've let your personal feelings cloud your judgment."
"I'm not the one making judgments."

- Riker and La Forge


"Geordi?"
"I can see you. Oh, and I can feel you."

- Aquiel Uhnari and La Forge while they both use the canar to create a bond between them


"What are you doing, commander?"
"That may not be Lieutenant Uhnari."

- La Forge to Riker while he has a phaser pointed at Aquiel


"Concerned?"

- Counselor Troi - her only line of dialogue

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