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The <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> visits the desolate world of Velara III, where a group of terraformers are attempting to transform the planet into one capable of supporting life. But after one of the terraformers is killed in a bizarre hydraulic room accident, Data is attacked by the laser drilling system; the android is able to escape unharmed, and, together with Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, begins an investigation into the strange events. The two officers discover a microscopic inorganic life-form which seems to be attempting to communicate with them; they take the "microbrain" back to the ship for studying, but the creature produces an energy field and then starts reproducing inside the medical laboratory. Data and Geordi find a way to talk to the microbrain and learn that the terraformers' drilling killed some of its fellow creatures; when all attempts at communicating with the engineers were ignored, the life-forms retaliated by killing the engineer in the hydraulic room - and they have now declared war on the human race…

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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>), Denise Crosby (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Natasha ‘Tasha’ Yar</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>), Walter Gotell (<B>Kurt Mandl</B>), Elizabeth Lindsey (<B>Louisa Kim</B>), Gerard Prendergast (<B>Bjorn Benson</B>), Mario Roccuzzo (<B>Arthur Malencon</B>), Carolyne Barry (<B>Female Engineer</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Corey Allen 
<BR>Produced by Maurice Hurley
<BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry 
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<BR>22nd February, 1988

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<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Natasha ‘Tasha’ Yar, Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data and Wesley Crusher

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