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3x10 The Defector
First Aired: Jan. 01, 1990 on Syndicated
Summary: Stardate 43462.5 |
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Episode Quotes
Commander William T. Riker: [handing a data PADD to Picard] A letter to his wife and daughter.
Lt. Commander Data: Sir, he must have known it would be impossible for us to deliver it.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Today, perhaps. But if there are others with the courage of Admiral Jarok, we may hope to see a day of peace when... we can take his letter home.
Lt. Commander Data: Sir, he must have known it would be impossible for us to deliver it.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Today, perhaps. But if there are others with the courage of Admiral Jarok, we may hope to see a day of peace when... we can take his letter home.
Admiral Jarok: One world's butcher is another world's hero. Perhaps I am neither one.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: On what basis, Admiral, am I to decide? Hmm? Your good word? Are you willing to help us overpower the Romulan B-type warbirds we may encounter? Are you prepared to help us detect them through their cloaking shields?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well, you see my problem, Admiral. You ask us for faith, in circumstances which are hardly possible to believe, compounded by lies and your refusal to tell us what you know.
Admiral Jarok: I cannot betray my people!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You already betrayed your people, Admiral! You've made your choices, sir! You're a traitor! Now, if the bitter taste of that is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry. But I will not risk my crew because you think you can dance on the edge of the Neutral Zone. You've crossed over, Admiral. You make yourself comfortable with that.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well, you see my problem, Admiral. You ask us for faith, in circumstances which are hardly possible to believe, compounded by lies and your refusal to tell us what you know.
Admiral Jarok: I cannot betray my people!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You already betrayed your people, Admiral! You've made your choices, sir! You're a traitor! Now, if the bitter taste of that is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry. But I will not risk my crew because you think you can dance on the edge of the Neutral Zone. You've crossed over, Admiral. You make yourself comfortable with that.
Mistakes/Goofs
- Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Setol asks Data if the replicator can create a Romulan Ale. It is a running gag in Star Trek canon that Romulan Ale is prohibited in the Federation. It is odd that the overly precise Data would fail to mention this.
- Goof (revealing mistake): In the "Battle of Agincourt" Holodeck, when Data tells the computer to "freeze program", the campfire keeps burning, and the guard's spear trembles.
- Goof (plot holes): Early in the episode the Enterprise encounters a Romulan warbird chasing a scout ship. The Romulan warbird cloaks and departs the scene. Worf announces the warbird has crossed the Neutral Zone, thus implying the Enterprise can track cloaked ships. However, later in the episode Picard comments how a fleet of cloaked Romulan warbirds could be in the Neutral Zone and they would not be able to detect them.
- Goof (plot holes): In "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {The Enemy (#3.7)}, the Enterprise had a visual conversation with a Romulan ship that was over "6 hours away" from the Enterprise. But in the beginning of this episode Lt. Worf states that the scout ship is too far out of range for a visual conversation, even though within a few moments the ship is within visual range and even able to put their shields around it.
Trivia
- Episode begins with Data rehearsing a scene from William Shakespeare's Henry V, while being watched by Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Hewes Stewart. In the play scene the part of Williams (being acted by a holodeck construct) is also played by Patrick Stewart under heavy makeup. It is notable that only Bates, the one other character in the scene, is credited at the end of the episode.
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