2x07 Unnatural Selection - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Next Generation

- Episode 02x07

Episode: 02x07
Title: Unnatural Selection
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 133
First Aired: Jan. 30, 1989

Season 2 » Episode #07 - Unnatural Selection

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 02x07 Unnatural Selection

Summary: Stardate: 42494.8 After finding the crew of the U.S.S. Lantree all dead of old age, the Enterprise heads to the ship's last location, the Darwin Genetic Research Station. They find the researchers there are suffering from the same aging diseases as on the Lantree. They tell the crew that they can’t find the cause or a cure, and asks the Enterprise to evacuate two genetically engineered children from the station. The scientist state that the children have been in quarantine the whole time and could not have been infected.Picard reluctantly agrees, but adds addition precautions by having them beamed up in stasis to a shuttle craft piloted by Dr. Pulaski. Nevertheless, shortly thereafter, Dr. Pulaski begins to show signs of having the aging disease too.Now the crew must frantically fight to save Dr. Pulaski, before times runs out.

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
Dr. Sara Kingsley	played by Patricia Smith
Capt. Taggert	played by J. Patrick McNamara
Ensign	played by Scott Trost

	Season 2 / Episode 7: - Unnatural Selection Doctor Pulaski: Medical research is sometimes a risky business. It's all part of being human.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - Unnatural Selection Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Good luck, Doctor.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FACT: Data uses Dr. Pulaski's hair to get a sample of her DNA, but hair doesn't contain DNA. Only hair roots have DNA.
FAKE: When Enterprise intercepts the USS Lantree, they remote access the ship's functions. But they do not remote pilot the shuttlecraft.
DATE: The research facility uses cathode-ray tubes.

TRIVIA

The title is a parody of the term "natural selection" which is the process by which favorable inheritable traits become more common in successive generations and was first defined by Charles Darwin in his book "On the Origin of Species" (1859).