Starship Enterprise - The Next Century / Season 3

Season 3 of Starship Enterprise - The Next Century
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	23 Sep 1989 - June 16, 1990 on syndication
German-language first broadcast	July 3, 1992 - Aug. 11, 1993 on ZDF
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The third season of the American science fiction - television series Star Trek - The Next Generation was erstausgestrahlt in the US starting on September 23, 1989, in Germany on April 13th 1991st

Emergence

With the beginning of the third season, Michael Piller , himself a screenwriter , was hired as executive producer of the series. Under Piller's direction, the focus was on the development of the main characters in the Enterprise . Gene Roddenberry had withdrawn more and more from the day-to-day business of the series from the second season, also due to illness. Piller also allowed virtually anyone to submit a script for a future episode of the series, some of which were actually implemented. For example, Ronald D. Moore had submitted a script that was implemented with the episode Mother Love . Moore was eventually hired as story editor and rose over the years to co-producer and producer of the series for the final season. He was involved in the script of 27 episodes of the series. The authors Hans Beimler, Richard Manning, Melinda M. Snodgrass and Ira Steven Behr left the team of authors.

Wil Wheaton , who was dissatisfied with the development of his character Wesley Crusher during the third season, announced his withdrawal from the ranks of the leading actors at the end of the season. A decision that the actor later regretted given the immense success of the series. His character appeared until the ninth episode of the fourth season and only had guest appearances, if at all, in the remaining seasons.

Before shooting the third season, the costume designer Robert Blackman was hired in the summer of 1989. He overhauled the design of the Starfleet uniforms used for the first two seasons. The tight-fitting one-piece suits made from elastane and originally designed by William Ware Theiss had repeatedly been criticized by the actors with regard to their portability. Blackman designed the new uniforms in two parts (upper part with higher collar and trousers with belt) from wool - gabardine . They cost about $ 3,000 each and were slightly tweaked several times for the first episodes of season three. The uniforms of the first two seasons, or modified versions of them, continued to appear in the course of the series, for reasons of cost, worn by supporting actors and extras .

The acting from the relationship between the Federation and Romulans episode The Enemy is based on the film Enemy Mine - Beloved enemy . The standout episodes of the season include The Old Enterprise , The Sins of the Father and In the Hands of the Borg / Assault Target Earth .

Plot, first broadcast and creator

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
49	1	The power of the nanites	evolution	23 Sep 1989	3rd July 1992	Winrich Kolbe	Michael Piller ; Idea: Michael Piller , Michael Wagner
The scientist Paul Stubbs is on board to observe the extremely rare explosion that occurs when a neutron star collides with a gas planet . While preparing for this event, Wesley encountered a mishap during one of his experiments, through which several nanites escape and now start to eat the processor of the ship's main computer. As a result, serious malfunctions accumulate on the Enterprise. In response to Stubbs' attempt to kill the nanites, the nanites disable the ship's life support systems . By acting as a communication medium between the crew and the nanites, the nanites can be persuaded to restore the computer and withdraw.
50	2	The power of paragraphs	The Ensigns of Command	Sep 30 1989	July 10, 1992	Cliff Bole	Melinda M. Snodgrass
The Sheliak break a year-long communication silence and demand from the Federation that the contractually guaranteed planet Tau Cygna Vier be freed from the Federation colonists living there within three days. Because of the high radiation in the atmosphere, only Data can enter the planet. He tries unsuccessfully for a long time to convince the leader of the 15,000 colonists that they can be evacuated by the Enterprise, but wins more and more supporters. Since the Sheliak show themselves to be uncooperative in favor of a settlement of the conflict, Picard uses a passage in the extensive agreement that guarantees the federation an extension of the deadline and through which the evacuation is finally made possible.
51	3	The survivors on Rana-Vier	The Survivors	Oct 7, 1989	17th July 1992	Les Landau	Michael Wagner
Responding to a distress call from the planet Rana-Vier, the Enterprise finds the planet devastated. All 11,000 colonists have been wiped out, with the exception of the elderly human Uxbridge couple. The Uxbridges cannot answer why they were spared and what happened to the others. After the husband reacted negatively and the Enterprise is shot at by an overpowering spaceship and put to flight, Picard recognizes a pattern in the behavior of the man and the alien spaceship and develops a theory that could explain the incidents. He brings the couple to the Enterprise, where the man reveals himself as an immortal, overpowering being. He reveals that his aversion to killing could not prevent the other inhabitants of the planet from being killed by the warlike Husnock. Because his wife died in the process, he replaced her with an image of her. Her death made him so angry that, without thinking twice, he used his powers to kill all 50 billion Husnock in an instant. Because there is no court before which the old man can answer, Picard leaves him alone.
52	4th	The god of the Mintakans	Who Watches The Watchers	Oct 14, 1989	July 24, 1992	Robert Wiemer	Richard Manning , Hans Beimler
In a station that is used to observe the inhabitants of the planet Mintaka III, an explosion occurs, making the station temporarily visible to the natives who are in a low evolutionary stage. By acting unauthorized and violating the Supreme Directive, Dr. Crushers, one of the natives arrives briefly on the Enterprise. This experience causes the Mintakans to believe in the god "Picard". To convince her of the non-existence of such a god and to save Deanna Troi, who was captured during an outside mission, Picard temporarily brings a Mintakan aboard the Enterprise. However, Picard fails and is asked by a native to bring his dead wife back to life. A bleeding wound by Picard can convince the residents of his mortality.
53	5	Motherly love	The bonding	Oct 21, 1989	July 31, 1992	Winrich Kolbe	Ronald D. Moore
The archaeologist Marla Aster is killed by an explosion during an outside mission on a planet. After Picard informed Marla's 12-year-old son Jeremy about this, Marla suddenly appears in Jeremy's quarters. Data finds out that the woman is a being made up of energy. This announces that it only wants to care for the boy and that the long extinct race with which it once lived on the planet is responsible for the death of the mother. With the help of Worf, Wesley and Troi, Picard can convince the boy, who would like to keep the woman as his mother, that Jeremy could never have a real life in the artificial environment created by the being. Finally the being withdraws.
54	6th	The energy trap	Booby trap	Oct 28, 1989	Aug 14, 1992	Gabrielle Beaumont	Ron Roman , Michael Piller , Richard Danus ; Idea: Michael Wagner , Ron Roman
The Enterprise encounters an old battleship of the Promellians in an asteroid field, all of whom have been dead since a fight with their enemy, the Menthar. The Enterprise soon falls into the same trap from the Menthar that once did the Promellian ship. It is now increasingly withdrawing energy from the Enterprise, which threatens the crew to die. In order to find a solution to the problem, LaForge can be seen in the holodeck by an image of Dr. Help Leah Brahms, who was once involved in the construction of the Enterprise. Based on the possible solution developed by the two, Picard can finally maneuver the ship out of the asteroid field and thus out of the danger area.
55	7th	Walking a fine line	The enemy	Nov 4, 1989	Aug 21, 1992	David Carson	David Kemper , Michael Piller
Following an emergency call, an outside team found a crashed Romulan spaceship along with a seriously injured crew member on a planet in the neutral zone of Federation territory. Before the team returns to the Enterprise, LaForge loses contact with the crew and is soon captured by another Romulan. Worf refuses to save the injured Romulan's life with a blood donation , which causes the Romulan to die. While La Forge and the other Romulan have to pull themselves together to contact the Enterprise, a war threatens when a Romulan ship approaches the Enterprise and demands the surrender of the Romulan that was initially rescued. The danger is averted when La Forge beams onto the Enterprise with the living Romulan.
56	8th	The Barzan trade	The Price	Nov 11, 1989	Aug 28, 1992	Robert Scheerer	Hannah Louise Shearer
The Enterprise is hosting price negotiations for ownership of what appears to be a stable wormhole . One of the negotiators, Ral, brings the other participants out of the negotiations one after the other, including Riker, who steps in as a replacement, and a delegation from Ferengi . Meanwhile, after the wormhole has passed, LaForge and Data find out that it has changed its endpoint and is therefore not stable. Troi, who has started a love affair with Ral, finally reveals to Picard and the negotiators that Ral's negotiation success is due to his telepathic ability, as he is partly a Betazoide.
57	9	Yuta, the last of her clan	The Vengeance Factor	Nov 18, 1989	4th Sep 1992	Timothy Bond	Sam Rolfe
Investigating a raid on a Federation outpost, Picard discovers that it was caused by the so-called collectors - a group of robbers who once broke away from the acamarian society. Picard manages to convince the Acamarian leader Marouk and the collectors that Marouk is negotiating peace with Chorgan, the leader of the collectors. Meanwhile, Marouk's servant Yuta, unnoticed by the others, murders one of the collectors. During the flight to the meeting with Chorgan, she also takes on a rendezvous with Riker. Riker, Data and Dr. Crushers soon find out that Yuta is responsible for this and an earlier murder, which she committed in revenge on the massacre of her own clan, the Tralesta clan, once committed by the Lornack. During the meeting with Chorgan, who is the last Lornack, Riker is finally able to prevent Yuta from murdering Chorgan too.
58	10	The defector	The Defector	Dec 30, 1989	Sep 11 1992	Robert Scheerer	Ronald D. Moore
The Enterprise takes the renegade Romulan Setal on board when he is on the run from other Romulans. Picard has strong doubts about Setal's intention to defeat and his statement that the Romulans want to take the Neutral Zone from the Federation. Setal soon reveals himself to be Admiral Jarok and says that he was forced to desert because of the blind aggression of the Romulan command and to protect his daughter from a possible war . When the Enterprise is caught by a Romulan warship in the Neutral Zone, it turns out that Jarok was used to lure the Enterprise there for the purpose of destroying it. With the help of three Klingon battleships, the Enterprise is saved from destruction. Jarok eventually commits suicide .
59	11	The ostracized	The Hunted	Jan. 6, 1990	Sep 18 1992	Cliff Bole	Robin Bernheim
When the Enterprise is on the planet Angosia-three for negotiations to join the Federation, it helps the government of the planet to pick up the escaped prisoner Roga Danar and initially imprison it on the Enterprise. It turns out that Danar is an ex- elite soldier who was once turned into a killing machine by the Angosians to fight in a war. The government is convinced that Danar and the other prisoners cannot be reintegrated into society. When Danar is about to be handed over to his government, he escapes and plays a cat-and-mouse game with the Enterprise security team. He then releases the other veterans with whom he demands that the government no longer be ignored. Agreeing with the veterans' intentions, Picard rejects the government's request for assistance and leaves both parties to their own devices.
60	12	Terror auf Rutia-Vier Incorrectly specified title on the German Blu-ray: On a thin line	The high ground	Jan. 27, 1990	Oct 9, 1992	Gabrielle Beaumont	Melinda M. Snodgrass
While staying on the planet Rutia-Vier, Dr. Crusher kidnapped by the leader Finn of the Ansata, who use terrorist acts to fight for the independence of their people from the Rutians. For their attacks, they move by means of dimensional leaps, but their bodies - like Dr. Crusher finds out - makes you sick and slowly lets you die. With Crusher hostage, the Ansata want the Federation to blackmail efforts to resolve the conflict with the Rutians. In addition, they try to destroy the Enterprise with a bomb, which La Forge can defuse in time. Picard is taken as another hostage. After the Enterprise has identified the terrorists' base with the help of Wesley, the hostages are freed and Finn dies.
61	13	Q again	Déjà Q	Feb 3, 1990	Oct 16, 1992	Les Landau	Richard Danus
While the Enterprise is helping the inhabitants of the planet Bre'el-Vier to deflect a moon that is about to fall on the planet, Q suddenly appears on the ship's bridge. Robbed of his omnipotence due to his unsuccessful continuum, Q asks for asylum on the ship. During his stay, a Kalamarain life form appears in space that wants to take revenge on Q. Because this also hampers the Enterprise's efforts to deflect the moon, Q steals a shuttle ship and drives the Kalamarain to flight. In recognition of Q's bold charity, one of his kind gives him back his omnipotence. Overjoyed at this, he causes Data to laugh for a moment .
62	14th	Riker under suspicion	A matter of perspective	Feb 10, 1990	Oct 23, 1992	Cliff Bole	Ed Zuckerman
While Riker beams back from a stay on a research space station, the station explodes together with the scientist Dr. Apgar on board. Because the wave of energy that preceded the explosion originated at Riker's last whereabouts, Riker comes under strong suspicion of murder on the part of Apgar's daughter. To clarify the incident, those involved reconstruct the course of events from their point of view on the holodeck of the Enterprise. The prosecutors try to show that Riker seduced Apgar's daughter. With the help of his crew, Picard can finally prove that the scientist's plan to kill Riker had failed and that he instead accidentally killed himself. The reason for Apgar's intention to murder was his mistaken assumption that Riker had learned of Apgar's latest discovery, a new weapon, and tried to pass the information on to Apgar.
63	15th	The old Enterprise	Yesterday's Enterprise	Feb. 17, 1990	Oct 30, 1992	David Carson	Ira Steven Behr , Richard Manning , Hans Beimler , Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Trent Christopher Ganino , Eric A. Stillwell
The Enterprise-D must - shifted to a different timeline - ensure that the Enterprise-C, which appeared from a spatial anomaly, returns to its place of origin so that the normal timeline is set again ( → main article ).
64	16	Data's descendant	The Offspring	10 Mar 1990	Nov 6, 1992	Jonathan Frakes	René Echevarria
In order to reproduce, Data creates an android and from then on regards him as his child, who is called Lal and takes the form of a woman. Lal learns quickly, but has difficulty being accepted by the other children on the Enterprise. Picard initially struggled to recognize Lal as Data's child. After Starfleet Admiral Haftel learned of Lal's creation, he wanted to take Lal with him, partly because he believed that Lal was endangered and too isolated on a spaceship. Both Data and Lal and finally Picard, however, refuse to have Lal separated from Data. When Lal learns to leave Data, her neural systems begin to collapse. When Lal dies, Data transfers the data collected by Lal to his positronic brain.
65	17th	The sins of the father	Sins of the Father	17th Mar 1990	Nov 13, 1992	Les Landau	Ronald D. Moore , W. Reed Moran ; Idea: Drew Deighan
The Klingon Kurn comes on board, ostensibly as part of an exchange program, and temporarily replaces Riker as first officer. He soon reveals himself to be Worf's brother and tells him that her long-dead father Mogh is said to have committed treason during his lifetime, as a result of which thousands of Klingons died. Then Worf, accompanied by Kurn, who appears under another name, presents himself to the Klingon High Council to defend his family honor. After Kurn is attacked and injured, Picard Worf takes legal counsel. Together they determine by tracking down Worf's former wet nurse that it was not Mogh but Duras who committed the betrayal. To avoid a Klingon civil war , the truth is not made public, but Worf and Kurn accept the dishonor of their family and stay alive thanks to Picard's help.
66	18th	Guinea pigs	Allegiance	24 Mar 1990	Nov 20, 1992	Winrich Kolbe	Richard Manning , Hans Beimler
While sleeping, Picard is kidnapped to an unknown room outside the Enterprise. At the same time, a doppelganger takes Picard's place on the Enterprise, initially unnoticed by the crew. Picard and the three foreign inmates first try to determine the reason for their imprisonment, but fail as well as to escape from the room. Meanwhile, his doppelganger is attracting increasing attention on the ship, among other things he seduces Dr. Crusher and starts a song in the ten-front. The command officers' distrust grows when the doppelganger directs the ship towards a pulsar until Riker finally takes command to prevent the Enterprise from being destroyed. At the same time, Picard finds out through a ruse to one of the other prisoners that she belongs to his kidnappers. The kidnappers then identify themselves as such, explain the kidnappings by saying that they wanted to study the reaction of the kidnapped and the ship's crew to authorities , and teleport Picard back to the Enterprise.
67	19th	Picard is on vacation	Captain's Holiday	31 Mar 1990	Nov 27, 1992	Chip Chalmers	Ira Steven Behr
Encouraged by his crew to take time out because of exhaustion, Picard begins a vacation on the pleasure planet Risa. In doing so, however, he gets involved in the search for the artifact Tox Uthat, in which Mrs. Vash, Ferengi Sovak and two Vorgons who traveled from the 27th century are interested. During the search, Picard and Vash temporarily start a fight before Picard realizes that Vash found the artifact weeks ago and now wanted to shake off the Ferengi. Finally Picard has the artifact destroyed with the help of the Enterprise and returns to the ship.
68	20th	The telepath	Tin Man	Apr 21, 1990	Aug 2, 1993	Robert Scheerer	Dennis Putman Bailey , David Bischoff
With the contact specialist, Tam Elbrun, on board, the Enterprise flies near a star that is about to become a supernova in order to make contact with the alien being Gomtuu. Elbrun is a telepath and because of the numerous voices he perceived on board, he was mentally unstable. In addition, he was responsible for the deaths of dozen of Starfleet officers in one of his last missions. When the Enterprise reaches the star, the creature uses a shock wave to destroy a ship belonging to the Romulans who wanted to destroy it. After Elbrun have been beamed into the interior of the being with Data, Elbrun can immediately communicate with the being. Meanwhile, the attack of another Romulan ship leads to its destruction by Gomtuu and the drift of the Enterprise in space. Finally, Gomtuu sends Data back to the Enterprise, where he explains that Elbrun stayed with the creature because that way they both found their peace.
69	21st	The shy Reginald	Hollow pursuits	Apr 28, 1990	Aug 3, 1993	Cliff Bole	Sally Caves
The downright shy Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, part of the Enterprise's team of technicians, repeatedly shows careless behavior at work. Concerned about this, LaForge, after consulting with Picard, tries to get to know Picard better as Barclay's superior and thus integrate him better into the team. Among other things, he finds out that Barclay surrounds himself in holodeck programs with the images of the ship's officers in charge. For example, Barclay lets Troi and Dr. Caress Crushers who are in the role of love slaves. When strange incidents pile up on the Enterprise, which is carrying some containers of Invidium gas, and the ship threatens to be destroyed, Barclay discovers the cause of the problems. With his help, the danger for the ship and crew can be averted, but he finally announces that he is leaving the ship.
70	22nd	The collector	The Most Toys	May 5th 1990	Aug 4, 1993	Timothy Bond	Shari Goodhartz
Data's shuttle ship explodes as it returns to the Enterprise from the dealer Fajo's ship while transporting goods. However, Data was not on board, but was captured by Fajo and added to his collection of unique artifacts, all of which he stole. Fajo's attempts to persuade Data to believe that he is now also part of the collection fail due to Data's resistance and only succeed when his kidnapper blackmails him into killing Fajo's assistant, Varria. As a result, Varria helps Data escape, but is killed by Fajo in the process. Meanwhile, the Enterprise crew, who initially assumed Datas had died, has located Fajo. While she tries to save Data, the latter beams himself on board. Fajo is arrested on the Enterprise.
71	23	Ambassador Sarek	Sarek	May 12, 1990	Aug 5, 1993	Les Landau	Teleplay , Story by Peter S. Beagle ; Idea: Marc Cushman , Jake Jacobs
The Vulcan ambassador Sarek comes aboard the Enterprise with his wife and servants to direct the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federation and the Legarans. During the flight to the meeting point, Sarek shows symptoms of Bendii syndrome, which increasingly restricts his ability to control himself emotionally . At the same time, several crew members of the Enterprise get into a dispute with one another, including a mass brawl in the ten-front . It turns out that Sarek's illness also affects the crew and thus endangers the negotiations with the Legarans, which is why Picard wants to postpone the negotiations. After Sarek and his followers refused, Picard, at his suggestion, begins a mind-merging with Sarek in order to keep Sarek's emotions under control. Picard also learns about the emotions that Sarek had long suppressed in his life.
72	24	The ladies of Troi	Ménage à Troi	May 26, 1990	Aug 9, 1993	Robert Legato	Fred Bronson , Susan Sackett
When Deanna Troi and Riker are on vacation at Betazed, they unexpectedly get company from Deanna's mother Lwaxana. Shortly afterwards, the three are kidnapped by the Ferengi Tog on his spaceship, because Tog fell in love with Lwaxana on the Enterprise and hopes to use their telepathic abilities commercially. On the Ferengi ship, Riker and Deanna attempt to escape their captivity and notify the Enterprise while Lwaxana is exposed to the desires of the Ferengi. Meanwhile, the Enterprise Rikers receives the distress signal, which the crew recognizes as such thanks to Wesley Crusher, who therefore skips his participation in the entrance exam for the Starfleet Academy. Eventually the Enterprise can track down the Ferengi spaceship and get Picard to surrender the abductees. Shortly thereafter, Wesley is promoted to lieutenant by Picard.
73	25th	Who is john	Transfigurations	June 2, 1990	Aug 10, 1993	Tom Benko	René Echevarria
The Enterprise rescues a seriously injured humanoid from a small spaceship and names him who is unaware of his identity, John Doe . Due to inexplicable changes in its cell structure, it heals very quickly. There are more and more bursts of energy in his body. When he tries to hijack a shuttle ship, he is first stopped by Worf, who breaks his neck when he falls . John can instantly heal Worf with his superhuman powers. Suddenly a Zalkonian spaceship appears and demands the surrender of John. To back up his demand, the ship puts the crew of the Enterprise in a paralysis that threatens to die. At the same time, John regains his memory, frees the crew from the shortness of breath and announces that he is in the transition to a higher plane of existence and is mutating into a being of pure energy. Because his government wants to kill him because of this, he is on the run from it. After all, he transforms himself completely into an energy being and wants to inform his fellow species about it.
74	26th	In the hands of the Borg (1)	The Best of Both Worlds	June 16, 1990	Aug 11, 1993	Cliff Bole	Michael Piller
When the Enterprise confronts a Borg cube, Picard is kidnapped by the Borg in order to serve them as a spokesman for the Federation that the Borg want to assimilate ( → main article ).

Awards

→ Main article : List of Star Trek TV series awards and nominations

• Emmy Awards 1990
  • nominated: Best achievement in make-up for a series - episode guinea pig
  • Nominated: Best Achievement in Visual Special Effects - Episode Once Again Q
  • nominated: Best Editing for a Series ( One-Camera Production) - Episode Once Again Q , for Robert Lederman
  • nominated: Best performance in hairstyle for a series - episode The Shy Reginald
  • nominated: Best Achievement in Visual Special Effects - Episode The Telepath
  • Nominated: Best Performance in Musical Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore ) - Episode The Old Enterprise , for Dennis McCarthy
  • nominated: Best sound mix for a drama series - episode The Old Enterprise
  • Best artistic director for a series - episode The Sins of the Father
  • Best sound editing for a series - episode The Old Enterprise
• 1991 Emmy Awards , Nominated: Best Achievement in Visual Special Effects, episode In the Hands of the Borg
• Young Artist Award 1990
  • nominated: Best family series outside of prime time
  • Nominated: Best Young Actor in a Non-Primetime Family Show, for Wil Wheaton
• Saturn Award 1990 : Best Genre TV Series

literature

• Season 3 in the German StarTrek Index
• Larry Nemecek: The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion . Pocket Books, New York, Revised Edition 1995, ISBN 0-671-88340-2 , p. 96 ff.

Web links

• Season 3 in the Internet Movie Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Rauscher: The STAR TREK phenomenon - virtual spaces and metaphorical worlds , Ventil Verlag , Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-930559-98-6 (dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ), p. 156