2x18 Up the Long Ladder - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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- Episode 02x18

Episode: 02x18
Title: Up the Long Ladder
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 144
First Aired: May. 22, 1989

Season 2 » Episode #18 - Up the Long Ladder

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 02x18 Up the Long Ladder

Summary: Stardate: 42823.2 Enterprise races to evacuate a lost colony who’s planet is about to be destroyed. The rustic colonists, known as the Bringloidis, tell the crew that they had traveled from Earth many generations ago with a second colonist group, which continued on to another planet, after their colony was dropped off.Enterprise decides to search for the second group, to check if the Mariposans, as the other group are known as, also survived. They soon find the Mariposans, and are surprised to find they all are descended from the five survivors of the ship, which crashed, and all are now clones. Dr. Pulaski believes that the Mariposan colony will soon die out due to cloning replicative fading.The Mariposans ask the crew for some of their DNA, but when they refuse, the Mariposans then attempt to steal their DNA. When they are foiled in their attempt, the crew comes up with their own solution, which involves the commingling of the Bringloidis.

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
Danilo O'Dell	played by Barrie Ingham
Prime Minister Granger	played by Jon DeVries
Brenna O'Dell	played by Rosalyn Landor

	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Up the Long Ladder Danilo O'Dell: Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Up the Long Ladder Danilo O'Dell: Send in the clones.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Riker takes Brenna Odell from the cargo bay on a tour of the ship, she is wearing a red blouse/skirt combination. When they arrive at his quarters, she is wearing a blue skirt with a matching crop top.
PLOT: If the Bringloidi have a primitive agrarian culture complete with spinning wheels and domesticated animals, they would not be able to send a distress call to Earth.

TRIVIA

The original title was "Send in the Clones".
"Bringlóid" is the Irish word for "dream".
Writer 'Melinda Snodgrass' received a lot of hate mail from the right-to-life crowd for Riker's line, "I have the right to control my body."