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- Episode 07x08

Episode: 07x08
Title: Attached
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 260
First Aired: Nov. 08, 1993

Season 7 » Episode #08 - Attached

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 07x08 Attached

Summary: Stardate: 47304.2 Capt. Picard and Dr. Crusher attempt to beam down to a planet where half the planet wants to join the Federation, and the other half, being xenophobes, don’t. Picard and Crusher then find themselves involved in the planet’s internal squabbles, as they are beamed instead to the xenophobes location, and then they find their lives in jeopardy, as they try to escape the xenophobes’ clutches.

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
Mauric	played by Robin Gammell
Lorin	played by Lenore Kasdorf
Kes Aide	played by James Castle Stevens
Ensign Jae	played by Tracee Cocco

Episode Quotes

Season 7 / Episode 8: - Attached

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I am not being unreasonable!
Doctor Beverly Crusher: I didn't say that you were. I may have thought it, but there's a difference.

Season 7 / Episode 8: - Attached

Commander William T. Riker: Now - the matter of our missing officers...
Lorin: They're still charged with spying, Commander. I have heard nothing here which would alter that.
Commander William T. Riker: Then maybe you should consider this: if anything happens to them, Starfleet is going to want a full investigation. Which means more starships will be coming to Kes-Prytt, and those ships are going to want answers, which puts your country under a very large and very uncomfortable microscope. Remember how unhappy you were when we contacted just one of your people without authorization? Well, just think what it'd be like: ten starships asking questions, contacting hundreds of your people, massive sensor sweeps. They may even start sending down away teams, all because *you* wouldn't help me find my missing officers.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: Some obvious matte work when Picard and Beverly run from the fire in the caves.
FACT: Beverly says the telepathic implants are connected directly to the brainstem, but Lorin says they're connected to the cerebral cortex. Given the localization of function in the human brain, an implant in the cerebral cortex would be more intuitive. The superficial location of the implants would suggest connection to the brainstem, which is a prime spot for inducing nausea. This ambiguity in neuroanatomy technobabble continues a Star Trek tradition of referring to the brain as the cerebral cortex even though it's just one (albeit large) area of the brain.

TRIVIA

Beverly recalls Picard not wanting her on the ship seven years ago. This is accurate (see {Encounter at Farpoint (#1.1)}). We learn it was because he never wanted Beverly to find out he was in love with her. That it would insult the memory of Beverly's late husband, who was Picard's best friend.
The prospects for love between Beverly and Picard is explored further in the series finale, where in one possible future, they get involved, marry and divorce.
LeVar Burton doesn't appear in this episode.
The penultimate episode directed by Jonathan Frakes.
The first of two episodes this season written by Nick Sagan, son of the famous sci-fi author Carl Sagan, and future writer for "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995).

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