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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Peak Performance'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 147)<BR>by David Kemper</TD>
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Captain Picard and Commander Riker are instructed to take part in the first Starfleet Battle Simulation program; while Picard commands the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I>, Riker is assigned captaincy of the <I>Hathaway</I>, an unequipped, eighty-year-old vessel that he must make battle-ready in just forty-eight hours. The observer of this exercise is a Zakdorn named Kolrami, an arrogant master strategist and one of the greatest strategic minds in the galaxy. Kolrami soon faces a worthy opponent of his own after Doctor Pulaski challenges him to play against Lieutenant Commander Data in an extremely complex and challenging game called ‘Strategema’; however, to everyone’s surprise the android is no match for the Zakdorn, and he is quickly beaten. The war-game begins, and Riker manages to secure the first victory by using a holographic projection of a Romulan warship to distract the <I>Enterprise</I> crew long enough to enable the <I>Hathaway</I> to score several electronic ‘hits’. But then a real Ferengi warship arrives - and launches an attack on the now-crippled <I>Enterprise</I>…

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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 Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Ensign Wesley Crusher</B>), Diana Muldaur (<B>Doctor [Commander] Katherine ‘Kate’ Pulaski</B>), Roy Brocksmith (<B>Sirna Kolrami</B>), Armin Shimerman (<B>Bractor</B>), David L. Lander (<B>Tactician</B>), Leslie Neale (<B>Ensign Nagel</B>), Glenn Morshower (<B>Ensign Burke</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Robert Scheerer 
<BR>Produced by Robert L. McCullough
<BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry 
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<BR>10th July, 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, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data, Doctor [Commander] Katherine ‘Kate’ Pulaski and Ensign Wesley Crusher

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