3x10 The Defector - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Next Generation

- Episode 03x10

Episode: 03x10
Title: The Defector
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 158
First Aired: Jan. 01, 1990

Season 3 » Episode #10 - The Defector

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 03x10 The Defector

Summary: Stardate 43462.5 Picking up a distress signal from a Romulan Scout Ship, the Enterprise moves in to help the vessel...as it is being chased by a Romulan Warbird. The lone Romulan aboard the Scout Ship is saved and brought aboard the Enterprise where he tells of a secret Romulan base in the Neutral Zone that is nearing completion. In 48 hours the base will go online and the Romulans will be that much closer to attacking the Federation. However, Picard and his senior staff are skeptical of the defector's story.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Michael Williams	played by Patrick Stewart
Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
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
Admiral Jarok	played by James Sloyan
Setol	played by James Sloyan

Season 3 / Episode 10: - The Defector

Lt. Commander Data: Then why not rely strictly on the facts?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Because you just can't rely on the plain and simple facts. Sometimes they lie.

Season 3 / Episode 10: - The Defector

Commander William T. Riker: [as the Enterprise approaches a suspected Romulan base] I don't like it. I would have expected a greeting party.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You echo another noteworthy commander in similar circumstances, Number One. A countryman of yours - George Armstrong Custer when his Seventh Cavalry arrived at the Little Big Horn.
Commander William T. Riker: May we have better luck.

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TRIVIA

Episode "The Defector" (3.10) begins with Data rehearsing a scene from Shakespeare's Henry V, while being watched by Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart (I). 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.