Star Trek The Next Generation Logo 'Future Imperfect'

(Story Code 182)
by J. Larry Carroll
and David Bennett Carren
Star Trek The Next Generation Cast

When the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise detects strange energy readings on Alfa Onias III, an uninhabited planet near the Neutral Zone, Captain Picard suspects that the Romulans may be involved. Commander Riker takes an away team down to the surface to investigate, but communications break down and the mission is aborted. However, Riker then comes to and finds himself in sickbay - sixteen years later. A grey-haired Doctor Crusher tells him that he has just recovered from a retroactive virus that he contracted on Alfa Onias III, which has only recently become active and which destroyed all his memories from the moment he was infected. Riker’s is amazed to learn that he has been captain of the Enterprise for nine years, has a son by a wife who has been dead for two years - and is now due to conduct important peace negotiations between the Federation and the Romulans. But Riker’s suspicions are raised when he realises that Tomalak, the Romulan ambassador that they are escorting to Outpost 23, is an enemy Romulan captain that he once encountered, and his doubts increase when he discovers that his late wife was Minuet, a woman he once created while on the Holodeck…

Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Thomas Riker), LeVar Burton (Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Security Chief Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Doctor Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Councelor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lieutenant Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Ensign Wesley Crusher), Andreas Katsulas (‘Ambassador’ Tomalak), Chris Demetral (Jean-Luc / Ethan), Carolyn McCormick (Minuet), Patti Yasutake (Nurse), Todd Merrill (Ensign Gleason), April Grace (Transporter Chief Hubbell), George O'Hanlon, Jr. (Transporter Chief), Dana Tjowander (Barash)

Directed by Les Landau
Produced by David Livingston and Lee Sheldon
Executive Producers Michael Piller, Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry


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12th November, 1990

Notes:
*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 and Ensign Wesley Crusher