7x01 Descent, Part II - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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Episode: 07x01
Title: Descent, Part II
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 253
First Aired: Sep. 20, 1993

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - 07x01 Descent, Part II

Summary: Stardate: 47025.4 Several of the senior Enterprise crew is captured by Lore and the Borg that now follow him. Data has now also been “influenced” to join Lore’s plan. However, the Borg named Hugh, and the Borg that follow him, are trying to fight Lore too. Can the remaining Enterprise crew and Hugh and his team, who now hate the Enterprise crew, work together to stop Lore?

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
Hugh	played by Jonathan Del Arco
Ensign Zandra Taitt	played by Alex Datcher
Lieutenant Barnaby	played by James Horan
Crosis	played by Brian Cousins

	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Descent, Part II Lore: The reign of biological life forms is coming to an end. You Picard, and those like you, [whispering] are obsolete.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Descent, Part II Lore: Aren't you going to thank me? Lt. Commander Data: Thank you. Lore: Don't mention it.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: SPOILER: During the scene where Geordi is strapped down to the lab table and Data is imitating Picard's voice, watch Geordi's left hand closely. Although he is supposed to be tightly restrained by a seat-belt type strap running across his arms and chest, he briefly slips his left hand easily out from under the restraint when struggling, although actor 'Levar Burton' quickly realizes the mistake and slips his hand back underneath the belt.
PLOT: SPOILER: Immediately after Picard, Geordi, and Troi are captured, Data is seen removing their Starfleet Com Badges, presumingly to prevent them from being located and contacted by other crew members (it has long been established that the badges can serve as a tracking device). However, Data does not remove his own Starfleet badge; isn't he running the risk of being tracked & located by the search teams by not doing this?
CHAR: Data uses a contraction ("I'll"). Something he's incapable of doing.
CONT: SPOILER: In "Brothers", Data's emotion chip was seen as a small round sphere; at the end of this show, however, it is now shown as a round flat disc with a triangular section missing from it (and still later, in the movie "Generations", it is seen as being much larger and an entirely different shape yet again).

TRIVIA

In an early draft, Barclay took the place of Ensign Taitt. The change was made due to availability and cost issues.
The compound interiors were a narrow three-wall set multiplied optically, along with the Borg extras. They were left standing in the hiatus between seasons, but the caverns were built for Pt 2.
'James Horan' (vq) played an alien scientist last season trying to disprove the metaphasic shield used by the Enterprise to escape from the Borg here. Its ironic that he plays a Starfleet officer willing to use it, and that's he's taking orders from Beverly, who had to kill him in that episode.
Data would later implant the emotion chip in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He could later deactivate it at will, and remove it completely if necessary.
The first draft of the script had Data kill Lore in self-defense with a phaser, but the producers insisted on a less overt method.