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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Cost of Living'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 220)<BR>by Peter Allan Fields</TD>
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The <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> destroys an asteroid threatening the Pelloris Field; the ship then continues towards the Moselina system, unaware that a cloud of dust has settled on the ship’s hull. Meanwhile, Counselor Troi helps Lieutenant Worf and his son Alexander settle their dispute over rules by suggesting that they draw up a contract that both would then follow; but as Troi reassures Alexander that one day he will come to respect his father, she learns that her overbearing mother, Lwaxana, has beamed aboard. Troi is shocked to hear that her mother is now planning to get married while on the <I>Enterprise</I>, to a man that she has never met. Dismissing her daughter’s protests, Lwaxana takes an instant liking to Alexander, and persuades him to forego his appointment with Troi in favour of a trip to the holodeck; here they enjoy talking to artists, poets and free thinkers, and then a relaxing dip in a mud-bath. But while Lwuxana’s frivolity threatens to push her new friend further away from his father, elsewhere aboard the ship, minor malfunctions begin to occur. Lieutenant LaForge and Lieutenant Commander Data discover that parts of the ship are being transformed into a gelatinous substance; they attribute the phenomenon to a parasite which is consuming the nitrium in the ship - and nitrium is also found in the dilithium chamber that powers the vessel…

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Majel Barrett (<B>Lwaxana Troi</B>), Brian Bonsall (<B>Alexander</B>), Tony Jay (<B>Campio</B>), Carel Struycken (<B>Mr. Homn</B>), David Oliver (<B>Young Man</B>), Albie Selznick (<B>Juggler</B>), Patrick Cronn (<B>Erko</B>), Tracy D'Arcy (<B>Young Woman</B>), George Ede (<B>Poet</B>), Christopher Halsted (<B>First Learner</B>), Majel Barrett (<B>Computer Voice</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Winrich Kolbe 
<BR>Co-Produced by Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore and Peter Lauritson
<BR>Produced by David Livingston
<BR>Executive Producer Michael Piller, Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry 
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<BR>20th April, 1992

<BR><BR><B>Notes:</B>
<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data

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