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An alien race called the Sheliak contacts the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> crew and demands that they remove a human colony from the planet Tau Cygna V; according to a Federation treaty, this world belongs to the Sheliak, and if the human “vermin” living on their property are not evacuated in four days then the Sheliak will kill them all. Captain Picard and his officers learn that the colonists have adapted to the high radiation levels on Tau Cygna V over several generations, meaning that only Lieutenant Commander Data will be able to beam down to talk to them. Expecting only a dozen colonists, the captain is startled when his android officer reports that there are actually fifteen-thousand people living on Tau Cygna V - transporting them off the planet will take several weeks, much longer than the Sheliak ultimatum allows... 

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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>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Ensign Wesley Crusher</B>), Eileen Seeley (<B>Ard'rian</B>), Mark L. Taylor (<B>Haritath</B>), Richard Allen (<B>Kentor</B>), Colm Meaney (<B>Transporter Chief O'Brien</B>), Grainger Hines (<B>Gosheven</B>), Mart McChesney (<B>Sheliak</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Cliff Bole
<BR>Co-Produced by Hans Beimler and Richard Manning
<BR>Executive Producers Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry
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<BR>2nd October, 1989

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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, Lieutenant Commander Data, Transporter Chief  Miles O’Brien and Ensign Wesley Crusher 

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