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<TD WIDTH="230" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Conspiracy'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 125)<BR>by Tracy Tormé<BR>Story by Robert Sabaroff</TD>
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The <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> is travelling to Pacifica when Captain Picard receives an emergency message from Starfleet Captain Walker Keel, who requests that they urgently meet in secret. Arriving at the rendezvous on an uninhabited planet, Picard is met by Keel and two other Starfleet officers, who inform him of a suspected conspiracy at work in the upper echelons of Starfleet itself. Picard’s concern turns to alarm when Keel's ship mysteriously explodes, killing all aboard; meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Data research into all Starfleet directives during the past six months uncovers abnormalities in the highest levels of the Starfleet command. Convinced that Federation security has been compromised, the captain sets course for Earth; after requesting a meeting with the admirals in charge of Starfleet, he and Commander Riker receive an invite to dinner to discuss the situation. Before the appointment, Admiral Quinn comes aboard the ship; Picard is suspicious, as the Admiral had warned him of subversive elements inside Starfleet some months ago, but now seems unconcerned. After the captain beams down to headquarters to attend the dinner, Quinn overpowers Riker, and only the combined forces of Lieutenant Worf and Doctor Crusher are able to subdue him. The doctor soon discovers that an insect-like alien parasite has taken over the admiral’s body, and now controls his brain functions. Meanwhile, inside Starfleet, Captain Picard now faces the remaining admirals - each of whom is also controlled of the alien invaders…

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Lieutenant Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Wesley Crusher</B>), Henry Darrow (<B>Admiral Savar</B>), Ward Costello (<B>Admiral Quinn</B>), Robert Schenkkan (<B>Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick</B>), Ray Reinhardt (<B>Admiral Aaron</B>), Jonathan Farwell (<B>Captain Walker Keel</B>), Michael Berryman (<B>Captain Rixx</B>), Ursaline Bryant (<B>Captain Tryla Scott</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Cliff Bole
<BR>Produced by Maurice Hurley
<BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry 
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<BR>9th May, 1988

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<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data and Wesley Crusher

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