6x05 Schisms - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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- Episode 06x05

Episode: 06x05
Title: Schisms
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 231
First Aired: Oct. 19, 1992

Season 6 » Episode #05 - Schisms

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 06x05 Schisms

Summary: Stardate: 46154.2 The crew of the Enterprise become lab rats for a race of beings that exist in a different universe.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

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
Ensign Sariel Rager	played by Lanei Chapman
Mr. Mott	played by Ken Thorley
Kaminer	played by Angelina Fiordellisi
Lt. Shipley	played by Scott Trost

Season 6 / Episode 5: - Schisms

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Have we any idea what came through the rupture before we were able to shut it down?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: No, sir. We were unable to track it once it left the cargo bay.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Maybe it was a probe of some kind.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Possibly they were simply curious, explorers, like ourselves.
Commander William T. Riker: Ensign Rager and I were lucky to have escaped. Lieutenant Hagler is dead. Whoever it was that sent that thing was more than simply curious.

Season 6 / Episode 5: - Schisms

Counselor Deanna Troi: All right. You were lying on the table. You had a bright light shining in your eyes. Were there any smells in the room? Were there any sounds?
Commander William T. Riker: Yes. Yes, there was a sound. Computer, there were noises, coming from the darkness. Strange. Like whispering.

Kaminer: More like clicks. Clicking sounds.

Commander William T. Riker: Louder.

Commander William T. Riker: Faster... More.

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I've been in this room before.
Commander William T. Riker: We've all been here before.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: There was a containment field surrounding the rupture on cargo bay 4. However, when Riker takes Rager through it just before it's closing, they fall away to some distance of it, as if there isn't any field in place.
CONT: Mr. Worf says that Lt. Hagler is in his quarters on deck 9 section 17, moments later, Dr. Crusher, treating Lt. Hagler, asks for a plasma infusion unit to be brought to deck 9, section 19.

TRIVIA

Beverly diagnoses Riker as edgy because of lack of REM sleep. Something that afflicted the entire crew in the Season 4 episode Night Terrors.
A schism is a split or division. The title must refer to the splits in subspace that allowed the aliens to abduct members of the crew.
The final appearances of Bolian barber Mr Mot (who Picard would masquerade as later in the season in Starship Mine) and conn officer Ensign Rager.
The holodeck seen in this episode was actually a physical set constructed on the studio lot. Rather than model work which is normally used to show a holodeck.
This episode is famous among fans for Data's complex, over-written poem, Ode to Spot.