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Dr. Crusher violates Starfleet regulations and medical ethics when she investigates the death of a Ferengi scientist.
 
Dr. Crusher violates Starfleet regulations and medical ethics when she investigates the death of a Ferengi scientist.
   
==Summary==
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== Summary ==
 
[[File:T'Pan and Christopher.jpg|thumb|Dr. T'Pan and Dr. Christopher]]
 
[[Guinan]] visits [[Doctor|Dr.]] [[Beverly Crusher|Crusher]] in her [[quarters]], complaining of [[tennis elbow]]. Crusher breaks the news that she is no longer a [[doctor]] on the ship and will be facing a [[court martial]].
 
[[Guinan]] visits [[Doctor|Dr.]] [[Beverly Crusher|Crusher]] in her [[quarters]], complaining of [[tennis elbow]]. Crusher breaks the news that she is no longer a [[doctor]] on the ship and will be facing a [[court martial]].
   
 
A [[Ferengi]] [[scientist]], Dr. [[Reyga]], has created a [[metaphasic shield]]ing technique, but his unorthodox methods have left most scientists in the field ignoring his work. Dr. Crusher decided to play "scientific diplomat" and invite other scientists in the field to come to the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} and view a demonstration of the doctor's prototype. A shuttle is to be fitted with Dr. Reyga's shield and flown into a nearby star. As they are all skeptical, they decide that someone other than the Ferengi should pilot the shuttle. [[Jo'Bril]] volunteers.
 
A [[Ferengi]] [[scientist]], Dr. [[Reyga]], has created a [[metaphasic shield]]ing technique, but his unorthodox methods have left most scientists in the field ignoring his work. Dr. Crusher decided to play "scientific diplomat" and invite other scientists in the field to come to the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} and view a demonstration of the doctor's prototype. A shuttle is to be fitted with Dr. Reyga's shield and flown into a nearby star. As they are all skeptical, they decide that someone other than the Ferengi should pilot the shuttle. [[Jo'Bril]] volunteers.
   
[[File:Tpan christopher.jpg|thumb|Drs. T'Pan and Christopher]]
 
 
At the test flight, they all watch from the bridge as Jo'Bril enters the star. Everything seems to be going as planned until suddenly Jo'Bril becomes short of breath, and barely pilots the shuttle out of the star before dying. Everyone considers Reyga a failure, but he cannot accept that something went wrong. No one can find any trouble with the shuttlecraft. Also, Dr. Crusher cannot determine the cause of Jo'Bril's death. In fact, she cannot understand his physiology at all, especially why his cells seem to be decaying at such a slow rate. However, he is judged dead. Reyga pleads with the other scientists to allow him a second test. Dr. Crusher refuses, but he seems determined to prove himself. A few hours later, he is found dead from a plasma discharge. It is judged a [[suicide]] by [[Worf]], but Beverly is incredulous.
 
At the test flight, they all watch from the bridge as Jo'Bril enters the star. Everything seems to be going as planned until suddenly Jo'Bril becomes short of breath, and barely pilots the shuttle out of the star before dying. Everyone considers Reyga a failure, but he cannot accept that something went wrong. No one can find any trouble with the shuttlecraft. Also, Dr. Crusher cannot determine the cause of Jo'Bril's death. In fact, she cannot understand his physiology at all, especially why his cells seem to be decaying at such a slow rate. However, he is judged dead. Reyga pleads with the other scientists to allow him a second test. Dr. Crusher refuses, but he seems determined to prove himself. A few hours later, he is found dead from a plasma discharge. It is judged a [[suicide]] by [[Worf]], but Beverly is incredulous.
 
[[File:Jo'Bril shot.jpg|thumb|Dr. Jo'Bril is shot and killed by Dr. Crusher]]
 
 
Dr. Crusher discusses how unusual this seems with [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]. She is determined to perform an autopsy, but the captain informs her that it is out of the question, as the family insists the body not be desecrated before they can perform the [[Ferengi death ritual]]. Frustrated, Dr. Crusher decides to perform an investigation. She confronts [[Christopher]] and [[T'Pan]], and Christopher becomes incensed. Eventually, he mentions that Kurak and Reyga had a fiery argument. Dr. Crusher then confronts the [[Klingon]] scientist, much to her own peril. As she determines Kurak also did not murder Reyga, she finds herself stumped. Knowing she will be disobeying a direct order, she performs an autopsy on Reyga... and finds nothing. She informs Picard, who is extremely disappointed. Picard has no choice but to relieve her from duty.
 
Dr. Crusher discusses how unusual this seems with [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]. She is determined to perform an autopsy, but the captain informs her that it is out of the question, as the family insists the body not be desecrated before they can perform the [[Ferengi death ritual]]. Frustrated, Dr. Crusher decides to perform an investigation. She confronts [[Christopher]] and [[T'Pan]], and Christopher becomes incensed. Eventually, he mentions that Kurak and Reyga had a fiery argument. Dr. Crusher then confronts the [[Klingon]] scientist, much to her own peril. As she determines Kurak also did not murder Reyga, she finds herself stumped. Knowing she will be disobeying a direct order, she performs an autopsy on Reyga... and finds nothing. She informs Picard, who is extremely disappointed. Picard has no choice but to relieve her from duty.
   
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Guinan encourages Dr. Crusher to continue her investigation, as she has nothing left to lose. After a brief interlude with [[William T. Riker]], urging Beverly to not do anything stupid, she returns to Sick Bay and does an additional examination of Jo'Bril's body, discovering tetrion particles. it's not conclusive evidence, but it does indicate there may have been sabotage of the multiphasic shield.
[[File:Jo'Bril_shot.jpg|thumb|Dr. Jo'Bril is shot and killed by Dr. Crusher]]
 
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Guinan encourages Dr. Crusher to continue her investigation, as she has nothing left to lose. After a brief interlude with [[William T. Riker]], urging Beverly to not do anything stupid, she takes Dr. Reyga's shuttle into the star herself. Picard urges her to come back, but to no avail even as the temperature rises. In the shuttle, Jo'Bril emerges from his hiding place, and tells Dr. Crusher that his species is able to control their metabolic function to the point where they can simulate death. He admits that the metaphasic shield is a reality, and that he plans to simulate a warp core breach in the shuttle, wait until the ''Enterprise'' leaves (as its sensors cannot penetrate the star's coronasphere), and then take her and the shuttle back to his homeworld, where he will perfect the technique and sell it as his own. Dr. Crusher fights back and blows a hole in Jo'Bril's torso with her phaser, and to her shock this doesn't slow him down at all, only serving to annoy him. She finally has to completely vaporize Jo'Bril in order to defeat him.
 
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She decides to take Dr. Reyga's shuttle into the star herself. Picard urges her to come back, but to no avail even as the temperature rises. The shield works. Crusher tells Picard that one of the three remaining scientists must be the murderer.
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Communications drop. In the shuttle, Jo'Bril emerges from his hiding place, and tells Dr. Crusher that his species is able to control their metabolic function to the point where they can simulate death. Crusher realizes he heard all her plans when he was in Sick Bay. He admits that the metaphasic shield is a reality, and that he plans to simulate a warp core breach in the shuttle, wait until the ''Enterprise'' leaves (as its sensors cannot penetrate the star's coronasphere), and then take her and the shuttle back to his homeworld, where he will perfect the technique and sell it as his own for a weapon.
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Crusher then engages him in hand-to-hand combat over a phaser. Dr. Crusher's defense skills prove superior to Jo'Bril's, as she delivers a painful kick, causing him to fall down. After Jo'Bril is down, Beverly grabs the phaser. She then blows a hole in Jo'Bril's torso with the phaser, and to her shock this doesn't slow him down at all, only serving to annoy him. She finally has to completely vaporize Jo'Bril in order to defeat him.
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On board the Enterprise they are beginning a search for shuttle debris when the shuttle emerges from the star's corona and Dr. Crusher tells them she finally has the answers.
   
She returns the ship, happy to have vindicated Reyga, and unafraid of the court martial. She replicates a tennis [[racket]] for Guinan to never get tennis elbow again – but Guinan admits she has never played [[tennis]].
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She returns to the ship, where she is reinstated to active duty (so presumably the court martial has been cancelled). She replicates the latest design in tennis [[racket]] and gives it to Guinan so she will never get tennis elbow again – but Guinan admits she has never played [[tennis]].
   
 
==Memorable Quotes==
 
==Memorable Quotes==
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"''Well, you better go to sickbay. I think Dr. Selar's on duty.''"<br />
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"''I don't want to see Dr. Selar, I always see you. I'm very particular about my doctors.''"<br />
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"''Well, you better get a new one because I'm not a doctor on this ship anymore.''"
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: - '''Crusher''' to '''Guinan''' after she comes to her quarters complaining of tennis elbow
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"''I can hear Admiral Brooks now telling me how I've disgraced Starfleet Medical. Then, a leisurely day and a half before the formal inquiry begins and my career ends.''"<br />
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"''Beverly... my elbow.''"
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: - '''Crusher''' on how her career is finished while '''Guinan''' asks to be looked at
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"''You know, I've never been to a formal inquiry.''"<br />
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"''Well, I'll see if I can arrange one for you. All you have to do is disobey orders, violate medical ethics and cause an interstellar incident.''"<br />
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"''Well, I guess that would do it.''"
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: - '''Guinan''' and '''Crusher'''
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"''I saw... the sun!''"
 
"''I saw... the sun!''"
 
:- '''Dr. Jo'Bril''', saying his "last" words
 
:- '''Dr. Jo'Bril''', saying his "last" words
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:- '''Beverly Crusher''' and '''Alyssa Ogawa'''
 
:- '''Beverly Crusher''' and '''Alyssa Ogawa'''
   
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==Background Information==
 
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"''Thank you, doctor. This looks like a great racket but, uh... I don't play tennis. Never have.''"
* This episode marks the final appearance of [[Guinan]] on the series, though she remains on the ''Enterprise''-D. She plays an integral role in {{film|7}}, and has an appearance in {{film|10}}.
 
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: - '''Guinan''', when Crusher gives her a racket guaranteed not to cause tennis elbow (last lines; also Guinan's last lines in the series)
* The [[metaphasic shield]] technology was later be used by the ''Enterprise'' under the command of Dr. Crusher in {{e|Descent, Part II}} to combat the Borg. [[James Horan]] also guest starred in that episode, but as an ''Enterprise'' crew member.
 
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*In this episode it is stated that Ferengi are buried after death. On ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space 9]]'' a [[Ferengi death ritual|death ritual]] for Ferengi is shown.
 
 
== Background Information ==
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=== Production ===
 
* First UK airdate: 6 December 1995
 
* First UK airdate: 6 December 1995
   
===Video and DVD releases===
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=== Continuity ===
 
* This episode marks the final appearance of [[Guinan]] on the series, though she remains on the ''Enterprise''-D. She plays an integral role in {{film|7}}, and has a brief appearance in {{film|10}}.
*UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, [[CIC Video]]): Volume 74, <!--catalogue number x, -->{{d|22|November|1993}}.
 
 
* The [[metaphasic shield]] technology would later be used by the ''Enterprise''-D under the command of Dr. Crusher in {{e|Descent, Part II}} to combat the Borg. [[James Horan]] also guest starred in that episode, but as [[Lieutenant]] [[Barnaby]], an ''Enterprise''-D crewmember.
*As part of the [[TNG Season 6 DVD]] collection.
 
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* In this episode it is stated that the Ferengi is to be buried after death. On ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' a different [[Ferengi death ritual|death ritual]] for the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi is shown. Since the Deep Space 9 episode refers specifically to Ferengi "of his stature," it may be that burial applied to the Ferengi scientist in this episode because as a disgraced failure, there would be no interest in his remains.
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* Stock footage from the [[TNG Season 4|fourth season]] episode {{e|Final Mission}} is used including [[Mary Kohnert]] as [[Ensign]] [[Tess Allenby]].
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=== Video and DVD releases ===
 
* UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, [[CIC Video]]): Volume 74, <!--catalogue number x, -->{{d|22|November|1993}}.
 
* As part of the [[TNG Season 6 DVD]] collection.
   
 
== Links and references ==
 
== Links and references ==
 
=== Starring ===
 
=== Starring ===
* [[Patrick Stewart]] as [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]]
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* [[Patrick Stewart]] as [[Captain|Capt.]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]]
* [[Jonathan Frakes]] as [[Commander]] [[William T. Riker]]
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* [[Jonathan Frakes]] as [[Commander|Cmdr.]] [[William T. Riker|William Riker]]
   
=== Also Starring ===
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=== Also starring ===
* [[LeVar Burton]] as [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Geordi La Forge]]
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* [[LeVar Burton]] as [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Cmdr.]] [[Geordi La Forge]]
 
* [[Michael Dorn]] as [[Lieutenant]] [[Worf]]
 
* [[Michael Dorn]] as [[Lieutenant]] [[Worf]]
* [[Gates McFadden]] as [[Doctor]] [[Beverly Crusher]]
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* [[Gates McFadden]] as [[Doctor|Dr.]] [[Beverly Crusher]]
 
* [[Marina Sirtis]] as [[Counselor]] [[Deanna Troi]]
 
* [[Marina Sirtis]] as [[Counselor]] [[Deanna Troi]]
* [[Brent Spiner]] as Lieutenant Commander [[Data]]
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* [[Brent Spiner]] as [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Commander]] [[Data]]
   
===Guest Stars===
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=== Guest stars ===
*[[Patti Yasutake]] as [[Alyssa Ogawa]]
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* [[Patti Yasutake]] as [[Alyssa Ogawa]]
*[[Tricia O'Neil]] as [[Kurak]]
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* [[Tricia O'Neil]] as [[Kurak]]
*[[Peter Slutsker]] as [[Reyga]]
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* [[Peter Slutsker]] as [[Reyga]]
*[[James Horan]] as [[Jo'Bril]]
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* [[James Horan]] as [[Jo'Bril]]
*[[John S. Ragin]] as [[Christopher]]
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* [[John S. Ragin]] as [[Christopher]]
*[[Joan Stuart Morris]] as [[T'Pan]]
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* [[Joan Stuart Morris]] as [[T'Pan]]
   
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===Special Guest Star===
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=== Special guest star ===
*[[Whoopi Goldberg]] as [[Guinan]]
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* [[Whoopi Goldberg]] as [[Guinan]]
   
===Co-Star===
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=== Co-star ===
*[[Majel Barrett]] as the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} and ''[[Justman]]'' [[computer voice]]
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* [[Majel Barrett]] as [[Computer Voice]]
   
===Uncredited Co-Stars===
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=== Uncredited co-stars ===
*[[David Keith Anderson]] as [[Armstrong]]
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* [[David Keith Anderson]] as [[Armstrong]]
*[[Tracee Lee Cocco]] as [[Jae]]
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* [[Arratia]] as [[Alfonse Pacelli]]
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* [[Carl David Burks]] as [[Russell]]
*[[Michael Moorhead]] as a [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Bridge science ensign|science division ensign]]
 
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* [[Tracee Lee Cocco]] as [[Jae]]
*[[Richard Sarstedt]] as a [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel#Helmsman|command division ensign]]
 
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* [[R. Cox]] as [[Marquez]]
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* [[Hal Donahue]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Elderly command division lieutenant|command division lieutenant]]
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* [[Goldie Ann Gareza]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Frame of Mind attendant|command division officer]]
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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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* [[Arvo Katajisto]] as [[Torigan]]
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* [[Mary Kohnert]] as [[Tess Allenby]]
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* [[Ron Large]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Command division officer in Ten Forward (2368)|command division officer]]
 
* [[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]]
 
* [[Richard Sarstedt]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) command division personnel#Helmsman|command division ensign]]
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* [[Unknown actor]] as [[Unnamed USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) operations division personnel#Security officer (2369)|operations division officer]]
   
===Uncredited Stunt doubles===
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=== Stunt doubles ===
*[[Tom Morga]] as stunt double for James Horan
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* [[Tom Morga]] as [[stunt double]] for [[James Horan]]
*[[Patricia Tallman]] as stunt double for Gates McFadden
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* [[Patricia Tallman]] as stunt double for [[Gates McFadden]]
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=== Stand-ins ===
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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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* [[Michael Echols]] - stand-in for [[Michael Dorn]]
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* [[Nora Leonhardt]] - stand-in for [[Marina Sirtis]]
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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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* [[Dennis Tracy]] - stand-in for [[Patrick Stewart]]
   
 
===References===
 
===References===
[[Altine Conference]]; [[autonomic functions scan]]; [[baryon]]; [[Board of inquiry]]; [[Brooks (Admiral)]]; [[Celsius]]; [[Ferengi death ritual]]; [[formal inquiry]]; {{ShipClass|Galaxy}}; ''[[Justman]]''; [[Kelvin]]; [[medical tricorder]]; [[metaphasic shield]]; [[morgue]]; [[phased ionic pulse]]; [[plasma infuser]]; [[rad]]; [[science lab]]; [[science station]]; [[Selar]]; [[sickbay]]; [[Starbase 23]]; [[Starfleet Medical]]; [[subspace morphology]]; [[Takara]]; [[Takaran]]; [[tennis elbow]]; [[tennis racket]]; [[tetryon]]; [[tetryon radiation]]; [[type 6 shuttlecraft]]; [[Veytan]]; [[Vulcan Science Academy]]
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[[Altine Conference]]; [[autonomic functions scan]]; [[baryon]]; [[Board of inquiry]]; [[Brooks (Admiral)|Brooks]]; [[Celsius]]; [[Earth]]; [[Ferengi]]; [[Ferengi death ritual]]; [[formal inquiry]]; {{class|Galaxy}}; ''[[Justman]]''; [[kelvin]]; [[medical tricorder]]; [[metaphasic shield]]; ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''; [[Mintakan tapestry]]; [[morgue]]; [[painting]]; [[phased ionic pulse]]; [[plasma infuser]]; [[rad]]; [[science lab]]; [[science station]]; [[Selar]]; [[sextant]]; [[sickbay]]; [[Starbase 23]]; [[Starfleet Medical]]; [[subspace morphology]]; [[Takara]]; [[Takaran]]; [[tennis]]; [[tennis elbow]]; [[tennis racket]]; [[tetryon]]; [[tetryon radiation]]; [[type 6 shuttlecraft]]; [[Vaytan]]; [[Vulcan Science Academy]]
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Dr. Crusher violates Starfleet regulations and medical ethics when she investigates the death of a Ferengi scientist.

Summary

T'Pan and Christopher

Dr. T'Pan and Dr. Christopher

Guinan visits Dr. Crusher in her quarters, complaining of tennis elbow. Crusher breaks the news that she is no longer a doctor on the ship and will be facing a court martial.

A Ferengi scientist, Dr. Reyga, has created a metaphasic shielding technique, but his unorthodox methods have left most scientists in the field ignoring his work. Dr. Crusher decided to play "scientific diplomat" and invite other scientists in the field to come to the USS Enterprise-D and view a demonstration of the doctor's prototype. A shuttle is to be fitted with Dr. Reyga's shield and flown into a nearby star. As they are all skeptical, they decide that someone other than the Ferengi should pilot the shuttle. Jo'Bril volunteers.

At the test flight, they all watch from the bridge as Jo'Bril enters the star. Everything seems to be going as planned until suddenly Jo'Bril becomes short of breath, and barely pilots the shuttle out of the star before dying. Everyone considers Reyga a failure, but he cannot accept that something went wrong. No one can find any trouble with the shuttlecraft. Also, Dr. Crusher cannot determine the cause of Jo'Bril's death. In fact, she cannot understand his physiology at all, especially why his cells seem to be decaying at such a slow rate. However, he is judged dead. Reyga pleads with the other scientists to allow him a second test. Dr. Crusher refuses, but he seems determined to prove himself. A few hours later, he is found dead from a plasma discharge. It is judged a suicide by Worf, but Beverly is incredulous.

Jo'Bril shot

Dr. Jo'Bril is shot and killed by Dr. Crusher

Dr. Crusher discusses how unusual this seems with Captain Picard. She is determined to perform an autopsy, but the captain informs her that it is out of the question, as the family insists the body not be desecrated before they can perform the Ferengi death ritual. Frustrated, Dr. Crusher decides to perform an investigation. She confronts Christopher and T'Pan, and Christopher becomes incensed. Eventually, he mentions that Kurak and Reyga had a fiery argument. Dr. Crusher then confronts the Klingon scientist, much to her own peril. As she determines Kurak also did not murder Reyga, she finds herself stumped. Knowing she will be disobeying a direct order, she performs an autopsy on Reyga... and finds nothing. She informs Picard, who is extremely disappointed. Picard has no choice but to relieve her from duty.

Guinan encourages Dr. Crusher to continue her investigation, as she has nothing left to lose. After a brief interlude with William T. Riker, urging Beverly to not do anything stupid, she returns to Sick Bay and does an additional examination of Jo'Bril's body, discovering tetrion particles. it's not conclusive evidence, but it does indicate there may have been sabotage of the multiphasic shield.

She decides to take Dr. Reyga's shuttle into the star herself. Picard urges her to come back, but to no avail even as the temperature rises. The shield works. Crusher tells Picard that one of the three remaining scientists must be the murderer.

Communications drop. In the shuttle, Jo'Bril emerges from his hiding place, and tells Dr. Crusher that his species is able to control their metabolic function to the point where they can simulate death. Crusher realizes he heard all her plans when he was in Sick Bay. He admits that the metaphasic shield is a reality, and that he plans to simulate a warp core breach in the shuttle, wait until the Enterprise leaves (as its sensors cannot penetrate the star's coronasphere), and then take her and the shuttle back to his homeworld, where he will perfect the technique and sell it as his own for a weapon.

Crusher then engages him in hand-to-hand combat over a phaser. Dr. Crusher's defense skills prove superior to Jo'Bril's, as she delivers a painful kick, causing him to fall down. After Jo'Bril is down, Beverly grabs the phaser. She then blows a hole in Jo'Bril's torso with the phaser, and to her shock this doesn't slow him down at all, only serving to annoy him. She finally has to completely vaporize Jo'Bril in order to defeat him.

On board the Enterprise they are beginning a search for shuttle debris when the shuttle emerges from the star's corona and Dr. Crusher tells them she finally has the answers.

She returns to the ship, where she is reinstated to active duty (so presumably the court martial has been cancelled). She replicates the latest design in tennis racket and gives it to Guinan so she will never get tennis elbow again – but Guinan admits she has never played tennis.

Memorable Quotes

"Well, you better go to sickbay. I think Dr. Selar's on duty."
"I don't want to see Dr. Selar, I always see you. I'm very particular about my doctors."
"Well, you better get a new one because I'm not a doctor on this ship anymore."

- Crusher to Guinan after she comes to her quarters complaining of tennis elbow


"I can hear Admiral Brooks now telling me how I've disgraced Starfleet Medical. Then, a leisurely day and a half before the formal inquiry begins and my career ends."
"Beverly... my elbow."

- Crusher on how her career is finished while Guinan asks to be looked at


"You know, I've never been to a formal inquiry."
"Well, I'll see if I can arrange one for you. All you have to do is disobey orders, violate medical ethics and cause an interstellar incident."
"Well, I guess that would do it."

- Guinan and Crusher


"I saw... the sun!"

- Dr. Jo'Bril, saying his "last" words


"I don't want you to get involved in this."
"Is that an order, doctor?"
"Yes!"
"Too bad you're not my boss anymore."

- Beverly Crusher and Alyssa Ogawa


"Thank you, doctor. This looks like a great racket but, uh... I don't play tennis. Never have."

- Guinan, when Crusher gives her a racket guaranteed not to cause tennis elbow (last lines; also Guinan's last lines in the series)

Background Information

Production

  • First UK airdate: 6 December 1995

Continuity

Video and DVD releases

Links and references

Starring

Also starring

Guest stars

And

Special guest star

Co-star

Uncredited co-stars

Stunt doubles

Stand-ins

References

Altine Conference; autonomic functions scan; baryon; Board of inquiry; Brooks; Celsius; Earth; Ferengi; Ferengi death ritual; formal inquiry; Galaxy-class; Justman; kelvin; medical tricorder; metaphasic shield; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Mintakan tapestry; morgue; painting; phased ionic pulse; plasma infuser; rad; science lab; science station; Selar; sextant; sickbay; Starbase 23; Starfleet Medical; subspace morphology; Takara; Takaran; tennis; tennis elbow; tennis racket; tetryon; tetryon radiation; type 6 shuttlecraft; Vaytan; Vulcan Science Academy

External link

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