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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Malencon is burned to death by a laser...and we ''hear it happening''.
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* SayMyName: When Data is trapped in the lab with the active laser, Geordi starts screaming his name.
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* {{Whodunnit}}: Picard mentions that they are becoming detectives due to the sheer amount of mysteries they seem to be given.
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* NoOSHACompliance: The laser drill is operated from a console inside an enclosed room that contains the laser itself. The operator must face away from the laser in order to use the console. The laser is clearly meant to fire into two boreholes in order to drill deeper into the planet's surface, but instead of being limited to this function, the laser is mounted on an arm capable of rotating to fire in any direction.
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* DodgeTheBullet: When Data is trapped in the room with the laser drill firing at him, his android reflexes allow him to repeatedly dodge the attacks until he disables the drill.
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'''Original air date:''' February 22, 1988
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* ItsALongStory: When Bensen asks Data where he was manufactured and if there are others like him, Data replies that [[ExpospeakGag both matters are subjects of protracted discussion]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When it becomes clear that, in attempting to create a life-bearing world, the terraformers nearly ''wiped out an intelligent civilization'', they're all clearly horrified. Luisa Kim, who was established early on as the most idealistic of them, takes it especially hard.
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* SkewedPriorities: After Data is forced to destroy the laser drill in order to avoid Malencon's fate, Bensen's only reaction is to gripe about the drill being broken, even though said drill subjected his colleague to a gruesome death and nearly also destroyed the (almost) one-of-a-kind android he seemed so fascinated by.
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* SkewedPriorities: After Data is forced to destroy the laser drill in order to avoid Malencon's fate, Bensen's only reaction is to gripe about the drill being broken, even though said drill it subjected his colleague to a gruesome death and nearly also destroyed the (almost) one-of-a-kind android he seemed so fascinated by.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: No, Data. Humans are composed of 60% water not 90%. For reference, that's as much water as there is in a watermelon. This is a carryover from the Original Series episode “The Omega Glory,” in which [=McCoy=] says the human body is 96% water.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: When Picard mutes his end of the conversation with Mandl, the computer says "channel closed," something it has never said before or since.
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** Data speaks and poses in a way that suggests visible urgency when he's informing Picard of his discovery about how the microbrain works. While one could maybe justify this as him trying to imitate human behavior, it still comes across as kinda jarring.
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** Data speaks and poses in a way that suggests visible urgency when he's informing Picard of his discovery about how the microbrain works. While one could maybe justify this as him trying to imitate human behavior, it still comes across as kinda jarring.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/microbrain_under_glass.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:No, no, this lifeform has no relation whatsoever with that other crystalline entity.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:No, no, this lifeform has no relation whatsoever with that other crystalline entity.]]
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* EndOfAnEra: The last episode of the series -- and by extension, ''Franchise/StarTrek'' in general -- where Creator/GeneRoddenberry was the showrunner. After this episode he stepped back into more of a supervisory role and let Maurice Hurley take over the writing staff, which is noticeable in that this is one of the last episodes of the show to essentially just be a repackaged TOS episode.
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* CaptainObvious: Troi is a particularly bad example of this, even by her standards, in this episode. Notably, she insists on pointing out that Director Mandl and the lab techs are being secretive and suspicious early in the episode, even though one would need to be CaptainOblivious ''not'' to notice that.
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* RedShirt: Malencon's sole purpose in the story is to get sliced-and-diced by the microbrain-controlled laser drill.
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The crew of the Enterprise discovers a crystalline lifeform with murderous intelligence that has been killing the scientists on a terraforming project.
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mostly water." Data points out that it's a fairly accurate description, from a crystal's perspective.
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*[[HumansAreUgly HumansAreUgly: Humans Are Ugly Bags of Mostly Water]]Water. Troi assures the crystalline "microbrain" that they find it beautiful.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: The way the crew treat an inorganic life form as so unexpected and astonishing is odd considering they (and the original series) have previously encountered living beings made of PureEnergy or even more unorthodox things.
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