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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Too Short a Season'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 112)<BR>by Michael Michaelian and D. C. Fontana<BR>Story by Michael Michaelian</TD>
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After several Federation officials are taken hostage by Karnas, the governor of Mordan IV, the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> is assigned to transport the legendary negotiator Admiral Mark Jameson to the planet to undertake talks for their release. Jameson is a man in his eighties suffering from a terminal disease; however, as the journey progresses, Doctor Beverly Crusher is astonished to see the Admiral inexplicably become steadily healthier and younger. When Captain Picard questions Jameson over his rapid de-aging, the Admiral confesses that he took an enormous dose of an experimental alien drug to treat his illness; he also reveals that Karnas' insistence that he act as a mediator is not coincidental: forty-five years ago he was to have negotiated a similar hostage deal with Karnas, but instead chose to supply arms to both Karnas and his enemies, resulting in a civil war that lasted forty years. It seems that Karnas wants Jameson to return to Mordan so that he can finally gain his revenge - by publicly executing the Admiral…

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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>), Clayton Rohner (<B>Admiral Mark Jameson</B>), Marsha Hunt (<B>Anne Jameson</B>), Michael Pataki (<B>Karnas</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Rob Bowman
<BR>Produced by Maurice Hurley
<BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry 
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<BR>8th 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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