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When the crew of the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> answers an emergency transmission from a science station on the planet Ventax, Captain Picard and his crew learn that the population is in a state of terror. Picard learns from the Ventaxian leader, Jared, that he and his people are expecting a visit from a powerful and mythical figure named Ardra; it seems that a thousand years ago, Ardra came to their warn-torn world and promised the citizens a thousand years of peace and prosperity, in exchange for their enslavement once ten centuries had elapsed. Picard take an away team down to the planet surface to meet Jared, but then Ardra suddenly appears out of nowhere and announces that she has come to collect what she is due. Ardra is immediately attracted to Picard, but the captain refuses her advances, remarking that her ability to vanish and then reappear, cause earth tremors, and even transform into the Klingon devil to scare Lieutenant Worf are merely tricks that the <I>Enterprise</I> crew are also capable of achieving. However, when Picard instructs Lieutenant Commander Data to review the ancient scrolls that detail Ardra’s contract with the Ventaxians, the android informs him that the contract is valid, and gives Ardra title to anything orbiting the planet - including the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> and its crew… 

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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>), Marta Dubois (<B>Ardra</B>), Paul Lambert (<B>Doctor Clarke</B>), Marcello Tubert (<B>Jared</B>), Thad Lamey (<B>Devil Monster</B>), Tom Magee (<B>Klingon Monster</B>), William Glover (<B>Marley</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Tom Benko
<BR>Produced by David Livingston
<BR>Co-Produced by Peter Lauritson
<BR>Executive Producers Michael Piller, Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry
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<BR>4th February, 1991

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<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 
<BR><BR>*The script for this episode was originally planned for inclusion in the aborted series 'Star Trek The Second Phase'

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