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Episode: 02x02
Title: Where Silence Has Lease
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 128
First Aired: Nov. 28, 1988

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - 02x02 Where Silence Has Lease

Summary: Stardate 42193.6 While en route to a star system not yet visited by the Federation, the Enterprise encounters a seemingly empty body of space, where no starlight can be seen. Moving in for a closer look, Picard prepares to investigate the dark mass by launching research probes into the object.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
Counselor Deanna Troi	played by Marina Sirtis
Lt. Commander Data	played by Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher	played by Wil Wheaton
Doctor Pulaski	played by Diana Muldaur
Nagilum	voiced by Earl Boen
Haskell	played by Charles Douglass (II)
Enterprise Computer	voiced by Majel Barrett

Episode Quotes

Season 2 / Episode 2: - Where Silence Has Lease

Nagilum: As species we have no common ground. You're too aggressive, too hostile, too militant.
Capt. Picard: During this period you too have been evaluated. It would seem that we have at least one thing in common.
Nagilum: Oh?
Capt. Picard: Curiosity.
Nagilum: Your point is well taken, Captain. Perhaps that *is* a trait we share.
Capt. Picard: Then perhaps we shall meet again; but next time it will be out here, among the stars.

Season 2 / Episode 2: - Where Silence Has Lease

Lt.Cmdr. Geordi Laforge: Like the rat said: keep the cheese; I just want out of the trap!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: Wesley Crusher is always on the bridge as navigator, but he is conveniently absent when Nagilum kills the navigation crewmember.
CONT: Commander Riker reads the phantom U.S.S. Yamato's registry as "NCC-1305-E" but both the production model in this episode and the real Yamato's appearance later this season in "Contagion" shows the ship's actual registry to be "NCC-71807"
CONT: When Picard and Riker set the autodestruct the computer asks for a time interval, and after a spirited discussion they set the time for 20 minutes. But in 11001001 they state that the time interval is fixed at five minutes.
CONT: When Data first tries to hail the Yamato, Riker is standing close to the screen while Picard is further back. When the camera shows their faces Picard and Riker are side by side. When the shot reverts they are once again standing apart.
CONT: Dr. Pulaski comments that she isn't a bridge officer. But in Hide and Q, Riker called a meeting of the bridge staff and Dr. Crusher showed up. If Dr. Pulaski is Dr. Crusher's replacement she should have the same status.

TRIVIA

The title of the episode is from the Robert Service poem "The Spell of the Yukon."
Nagilum was originally supposed to have been played by Richard Mulligan. That's how the character's name was developed.
The music that plays in the background while Picard is in his quarters near the end of the episode is Eric Satie's "Gymnopedie #1".

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