1x14 Angel One - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x14

Episode: 01x14
Title: Angel One
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 115
First Aired: Jan. 25, 1988

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - 01x14 Angel One

Summary: Stardate: 41636.9 The Enterprise is sent to make a belated effort to find the possible survivors from a lost freighter that crashed seven years earlier. There, they find the planet that the freighter crashed on is ruled by women, with men in the subservient position. The crew then learns that there were survivors, but that they became outcasts, who were forced to go into hiding. The outcasts are now considered enemies of the state, and threatened with execution if found.Meanwhile, to make matters worse, a virulent virus outbreak has occurred aboard the Enterprise. Most of the crew has become incapacitated to the point that the away team is not even allowed to return, except for Data.Matters become even more critical when the Enterprise is desperately needed at the neutral zone, to fend off several threatening Romulan Warbirds.

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
Minuet	played by Carolyn McCormick
Cmdr. Orfil Quinteros	played by Gene Dynarski

	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Angel One William T. Riker: What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin-joint like this?
	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Angel One Commander William T. Riker: How far can this relationship go? I mean, how real are you? Minuet: As real as you need me to be.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: When the Enterprise is being evacuated, there is a scene with people waiting in line to use the transporter to get off the ship. The next scene shows a group of people (including Wesley Crusher) being beamed off the ship; however only five people beam off. The Enterprise transporter pad has a total of six circular "small" pads and one larger center pad. In theory, about 7-8 humanoid people could beam off the pad at once, yet during this "emergency" evacuation, the transporters are not being filled to capacity (as they should be in a true emergency situation).
CONT: In the scene where Picard and Riker learn about the red alert, Minuet's hands are shown in a close-up as being separate and curled. In the next shot, a wide shot, her hands are together as if clapping. Subsequent shots from her point of view have her hands separate and curled, while shots of Picard and Riker with Minuet in the background, show her hands together.
PLOT: Minuet says that the Binars trapped Riker in the holo-deck on purpose so that he could re-activate their planet's computer in case they passed out, and that Picard being there was by chance. Considering that it is later determined that two people are required to re-activate the computer, this seems to be incredibly bad planning on the part of the Binars who work in pairs all the time. Additionally, the starbase has transporters that could have been used to transport people.

TRIVIA

Careful examination of the "abandon ship" sequence in the episode "11001001" shows that, even in the 24th century, ships are still evacuated by the rule "women and children first".
The shots of the Enterprise-D approaching Starbase 74 are re-used shots from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but with the Enterprise-D superimposed over where the original Enterprise was in those shots (Another cost-saving method often used with Star Trek).
The title and the plot of the script dealt with a civilization that used the binary numerical system composed only of the digits "0" and "1" that all current computers use. The number in the title in our base ten numerical system equals 201.
The name of this episode - "11001001" - is a concatenation of the Binars' names. The first two are "10" and "01"; the two that join them later are "11" and "00".