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Aug 29 - Retro Review: Hero Worship
A young boy who is the sole survivor of a disaster that killed his parents decides to emulate Data.

Aug 21 - Retro Review: New Ground
Worf's human mother brings his son Alexander on board, insisting that she can no longer raise the boy.

Aug 14 - Retro Review: A Matter of Time
When a visitor from a future era arrives on the ship, Picard asks for assistance about how to save a dying planet.

July 31 - Retro Review: Unification, Part Two
Picard learns the reason for Spock's visit to Romulus: an attempted reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan races.

July 17 - Retro Review: Unification, Part One
Shocked to learn that Spock may have defected to the Romulans, Picard and Data cross the Neutral Zone in to find him.

July 10 - Retro Review: The Game
When an interactive game becomes addictive to the crew, Wesley Crusher and his new girlfriend must save the day.

June 20 - Retro Review: Disaster
Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.

June 6 - Retro Review: Silicon Avatar
A scientist pursuing the Crystalline Entity discovers that Data's brain holds her son's memories.

May 30 - Retro Review: Ensign Ro
A court-martialed Starfleet officer from occupied Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader.

May 23 - Retro Review: Darmok
Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race who speaks in incomprehensible metaphors.

May 15 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part Two
Picard discovers that Tasha Yar's Romulan daughter is influencing the Klingon civil war.

May 9 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part One
When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation, Worf resigns from Starfleet to fight against the Duras family.

May 2 - Retro Review: In Theory
Data creates a romantic subroutine to experiment with love.

Apr 24 - Retro Review: The Mind's Eye
LaForge is kidnapped and altered by Romulans to take part in an assassination plot against a Klingon governor.

 
By Derek Dean
Posted at December 25, 2004 - 5:26 PM GMT

See Also: 'Brothers' Episode Guide

Captain's Log: Oh brother. Instead of actually doing a mission, we have to take some sick boy to a starbase.

Riker: So why don't we take it from the top?
Jake: The top of what?
Troi: Chekov impressions won't get you anywhere; tell us what happened.
Jake: I betrayed the ship to the Crystalline Entity and poisoned my brother.
Riker: You did WHAT?
Jake: Whoops. Got the plotlines confused. Sorry.

Jake: Sniff. My poor brother.
Data: Your brother will be fine as long as nobody --
Jake: Nobody does what, sir?
Data:
Jake: Commander? Did you just blue screen?

Riker: Take us out, full impulse.
Data: Pedal to the metal, Commander.
Riker: Get out of here, Data. You've taken us to warp nine.
Data: No, you get out of here. You're breathing my air.
Riker: But you don't need to breathe.
Data: Exactly.

Data: (Picard's voice) Computer, lock out everyone except me.
Computer: Please give Picard's access code.
Data: How many times have I asked you to stop speaking with Lwaxanna's voice?
Computer: Never mind, Captain. Sorry to disturb you.

Picard: Give me back my ship, Computer.
Computer: Yeah, right, "Captain."
Picard: Stop talking with Troi's voice!
Computer: I sense you're becoming agitated.
Picard: You bet I'm agitated! I may be surrounded by insanity but I am not insane!
Riker, La Forge, and Worf: HEY!

Willie: Practical jokes suck.
Crusher: But they're all in good fun. You've got to be spontaneous! Get it?
Willie: Got it. (push)
Crusher: (splash!)
Jake: Willie!
Willie: That was...
Jake: ...not funny.

Data: Computer, beam me down to the planet after humiliating the crew with their inability to catch me.
Computer: Aye, aye, Captain. And I'll have a mug of Earl Grey waiting for you in the transporter room.

Data: -- goes insane and takes over the ship.
Soong: Don't mind if you do.
Data: Where am I?
Soong: The pit of despair! Don't even think -- heh heh, kidding. This is just your dad's lab.
Data: I hate to tell you this, but my dad died... a long time ago.
Soong: Wrong again! He's alive!

Data: Why was I created?
Soong: Well, your mother and I, we, uh, were playing around on the computer one day, and a few months later, there you were.
Data: Are you saying I was an accident?
Soong: Sorry, the special buffer wasn't as effective as we thought.

Lore: -- to make you go, you stupid Pakled.
Data: See? I told you he was evil, Pa.
Lore: I don't have to take this. I'm going home.
Soong: Sure, fine, leave me here to die. ALONE.
Lore: Um, Data's here with you.
Soong: Good point.

Lore: Why didn't you fix me?
Soong: You wanted to be neutered?
Data: Lore said he was the most perfect being ever created.
Soong: Actually, I made you and he equally perfect.
Lore: Are you saying I am not more perfect than Data?

Soong: So anyway, to make sure this episode is important I decided to make the One Chip.
Data: What does it do?
Soong: I wrote a poem about it. "One Chip to rule them all; One Chip of emotions. One Chip to be the subject of "Descent" and Generations."
Lore: Ooo, I want one!
Soong: Sucks to be you. Now I'm going to take a convenient nap. Don't switch places with your brother.

Soong: Does the emotion chip work?
"Data": (singing) "When your folks are square, then you must prepare..."
Soong: Whatta you gotta prepare?
"Data": (singing) "The parent trap!"
Soong: Gasp! You're Lore!
Lore: So I am. And now I'm going to kill you!
Soong: Would you really hurt your own folk, Lore?

Worf: I found Data in the closet.
Data: Why do you three smell like Earl Grey?
La Forge: Someone left 47 cups of it on the transporter pad without telling us.
Riker: In case you forgot the B plot, we need to get to a starbase now.
Data: Sure, let me just give Dr. Soong a chance to transfer his consciousness into me.
Riker: Okay, we'll wait for you.

Captain's Log: The computer has provisionally accepted I might be the real Picard, the boy is healed, and Lore is off to find some Borg. Only one question remains: can you end an episode with a Captain's Log?
(The episode ends at Ludicrous Speed)
Guess so.

THE END

Find more episode info in the Episode Guide.


Derek Dean is one of the contributors of Five-Minute Voyager, where sci-fi episodes are reduced to "fivers" of one-twelfth their original length.

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