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Episode: 07x19
Title: Genesis
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 271
First Aired: Mar. 21, 1994

Season 7 » Episode #19 - Genesis

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 07x19 Genesis

Summary: Stardate: 47653.2 After Data and Picard leave the ship on a long journey to retrieve an errant upgraded photon torpedo, they return to find the members of the crew are de-evolving into their prehistoric ancestors.

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
Barclay	played by Dwight Schultz
Ensign Dern	played by Carlos Ferro
Enterprise Computer	voiced by Majel Barrett
Ensign Jae	played by Tracee Cocco

	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Genesis Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [on the transformed Worf, who is trying to break into sickbay] He sounds very angry...
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Genesis Barclay: Doctor! My capillaries are shrinking!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: After Data and Picard return to the Enterprise, the exterior shots of the ship differ greatly. One time it looks powerless and dark. In a later shot, the ship appears fully functional.
CONT: SPOILER: When capt. Picard and Data returns to the Enterprise they find Deanna Troi in her cabin and leave her unconscious reptile body there in her bathtub when they continue to the bridge. But later she is lying still unconscious on a table in sickbay when predator Worf tries to break in to mate with her. On both occasions Picard and Data identifies the Klingon bite marks on her neck, but there is no mention of how she got there.
CONT: SPOILER: When Picard & Data are in Sickbay, the "de-evolved" Worf creature attempts to get in, pounding on the main entrance doors and severely denting and damaging them. Moments later, Picard exits Sickbay through another exit and comes up behind Worf, who is still pounding on the same main entrance doors; however, the doors as seen from this side are smooth and undamaged.
CONT: Worf's venom can melt through deck plating, but when he sprays Beverly with it, it doesn't do anything like dissolve her eyes or most of her face. Its doubtful medical stasis would help her make a complete recovery from that.
CONT: Worf's venom sac appears rather quickly. When he attacks Deanna, its not there. In the following scene in Sickbay, its there on his neck.

TRIVIA

Several scenes in the episode are in direct reference to Alien (1979) and its sequels. Like the look and atmosphere of the ship after Data and Picard return. Deck plates corroded by acid. Finding skin shedding. Worf trying to break down a door and denting it inward. The most obvious one is when Worf is pursuing Picard through the Jeffries tubes. Like when the Alien was hunting Captain Dallas through the air ducts of the Nostromo.
Production on the episode was hindered by the California earthquake of 1994. Gates McFadden didn't get the time she needed to produce her own cut of the episode as a result.
Barclay's final appearance on TNG. He would reappear in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and six episodes of VGR.
Spot mutates into an iguana.
The title refers to the first chapter of the Christian Holy Bible.