1x05 The Last Outpost - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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Episode: 01x05
Title: The Last Outpost
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 107
First Aired: Oct. 19, 1987

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - 01x05 The Last Outpost

Summary: Stardate 41386.4 The Enterprise and the Federation’s first meeting with the relatively unknown Ferengi race occurs near a strange, but unknown planet. Both the Enterprise and the Ferengi ship become trapped by the planet’s forces, and both the ships slowly lose power. Although Enterprise and the Ferengi ship agree to send away teams to the planet together in hopes of finding away to destroy the source of the power that has left their ships trapped in orbit, can Enterprise really trust the unknown Ferengi not to do harm to their own away team?

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
Lieutenant Tasha Yar	played by Denise Crosby
Doctor Beverly Crusher	played by Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi	played by Marina Sirtis
Lt. Commander Data	played by Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher	played by Wil Wheaton
Kosinski	played by Stanley Kamel
The Traveler	played by Eric Menyuk

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Captain's log, stardate 41263.2 - This will be a rather unusual log entry, assuming Starfleet ever receives it. As I already informed my crew, a phenomenal surge of power during a warp speed experiment has sent our starship hurtling out of our own galaxy and past another, taking us over 2,700,000 light years - in a few minutes.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: Message on this has already been transmitted to Starfleet, sir.
Lt. Commander Data: Which, traveling subspace, they should receive in 51 years, ten months, nine weeks, 16 days...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data.

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Who are you? Or what?
The Traveler: I am... a Traveler.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

PLOT: At times, the illusions of a person's thoughts can easily be seen by others nearby (example: when Worf sees his pet Targ on the bridge, Tasha sees it as well), but at other times, it appears that the illusions can only be seen by the thinkers themselves, and others cannot see what they see (example: when Picard sees his mother in the middle of the corridor, Riker does not see her).
CHAR: Kosinski never wears a communicator throughout the entire episode, even though he is in Starfleet uniform. This is highly unusual, since the communicator pin is an integral part of the uniform.
CHAR: According to Data, the subspace message sent to Starfleet from the M-33 Galaxy would take 51 years, 10 months, 9 weeks and 16 days to reach Earth. Unless the lengths of months, weeks or days has changed considerably by the 24th century or the relation of each unit to one other is different in subspace, this very impressive sounding time frame can just as easily be expressed with 52 years, two weeks and 3 or 4 days.
CONT: During the first high-warp flight, Data states that their velocity is "off the scale". Kosinski then says that for the next attempt he would just do what he did before. However, during each of the following two flights, their speed never exceeds warp 1.5, according to Data's "instruments".

TRIVIA

Episode with the first P.O.V. (Picard's point-of-view) shot of traveling at warp speed.
The title is derived from the introduction spoken by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart (I), originally spoken in the first Star Trek series by Captain James T. Kirk: "Space... The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."