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* LastSecondJokeProblem: A weird example in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E6LonelyAmongUs Lonely Among Us]]", where -- after the crew have been distracted from the two enemy alien races they're transporting by the EnergyBeing of the week -- the "joke" problem is that one alien faction has possibly ''killed'' a member of the other group ''and wants the crew to cook it for them''. And this is completely PlayedForLaughs, with Picard dumping the situation on Riker, and everyone acting like this is a complicated situation, but not a serious one.
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* LastSecondJokeProblem: A weird example in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E6LonelyAmongUs Lonely Among Us]]", where -- after the crew have been distracted from the two enemy alien races they're transporting by the EnergyBeing of the week -- the "joke" problem is that one alien faction has possibly ''killed'' a member of the other group ''and wants the crew to cook it for them''. And this is completely PlayedForLaughs, with Picard dumping the situation on Riker, and everyone acting like this is a complicated situation, but not a serious one.
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* LastSecondJokeProblem: A weird example in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E6LonelyAmongUs Lonely Among Us]]", where -- after the crew have been distracted from the two enemy alien races they're transporting by the EnergyBeing of the week -- the "joke" problem is that one alien faction has possibly ''killed'' a member of the other group ''and wants the crew to cook it for them''. And this is completely PlayedForLaughs, with Picard dumping the situation on Riker, and everyone acting like this is a complicated situation, but not a serious one.
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An alien entity possesses, in turn, Worf, Dr. Crusher, and Picard while the ''Enterprise'' is transporting delegates from two feuding planets.
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Dr. Crusher and a medic arrive to examine Worf, but he wakes up and attacks the medic. Geordi holds Worf down, then Dr. Crusher sedates him and takes him to sickbay. Geordi tells Picard about the situation, while Tasha and Riker try to arrange live meat to be brought to the Anticans to eat.
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She goes to the bridge and walks over to the helm control, where Picard demands to know how Worf is doing. Crusher doesn't answer at first, but then she claims she will have to run some medical cross references... but she uses the science station to allegedly do so. The energy goes out of her body and into the computer, and she walks off in a daze. Suddenly, systems all over the ''Enterprise'' start glitching out, despite Data saying that the chances of so many malfunctions are nearly nil.
Picard, Riker, Data, and several others, including the chief engineer Lt. Singh, discuss what could be causing the malfunctions. Singh wonders if it's an "electronic short", but usually they only affect connected systems. While Riker and Tasha confiscate the Anticans' weapons and tell them violence isn't allowed, the warp drive drops out, and when they try to contact Starfleet, but the communications systems are down too.
Riker and Data wonder if there is a saboteur onboard, and Picard likens Data to a private eye, citing Sherlock Holmes as an example of one. After working to find the cause of the malfunctions with Singh, Wesley goes home to find his mother reading off a padd. He tells her about the theory he mentioned to her earlier, but she can't remember it.
In engineering, Singh is zapped by the energy, killing him, but on the bright side, the warp core is somehow fixed. As they resume course, Tasha questions the Anticans, and Troi considers using hypnosis to determine what caused the gaps in Worf and Crusher's memories. Data, now emulating Sherlock Holmes, explains that he doesn't think that the Anticans ''or'' the Selay could have killed Singh or sabotaged the ''Enterprise'', since he believes they're too distracted by their hatred of the other species.
Troi uses her hypnosis, and Worf and Crusher report seeing a "presence", causing Troi to conclude that something invaded their bodies. The warp core wonks out again, and Picard enters the bridge, where the energy enters ''his'' body. The possessed Picard orders the ''Enterprise'' back to the "cloud", claiming he wants another look at it. While O'Brien gets caught in the middle of a fight between a Selay and Antican delegate, Troi senses that Picard is hiding something. She and Dr. Crusher find him and Crusher tries to examine him to see if he's medically unfit for duty, but he refuses the scan and accuses the women of being overworked and hallucinating. Later, Crusher shows test results to Picard, who admits that there is "more" within him, and states that soon, both of them will be "home".
When they arrive at the cloud, the entity, still in possession of Picard, explains that it didn't mean to kill Singh, and that it was just curious. It then expresses a desire to beam itself and Picard into the cloud, and, after incapacitating the transporter chief, it does. They scan for Picard but can't find him, yet when they're ready to give up, Troi senses him.
They go into the cloud, where some circuits on a console form a "P". Using his physical profile they have on file in the transporter, they beam Picard back, and life returns to normal.
* BigEater: The Anticans spend hours eating a large animal.
* BittersweetEnding: Picard is tired, one of the Selay delegates is missing, and the situation with them and the Anticans is unsolved... but at least the problem with the noncorporeal entity has been solved.
* BittersweetEnding: Picard is tired, one of the Selay delegates is missing, and the situation with them and the Anticans is unsolved... but at least the problem with the noncorporeal entity has been solved.
* CouldntFindAPen: When Picard is in his noncorporeal form, he writes a "P" in circuits on a console.
* FantasticRacism: The Anticans and Selay hate each other.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The entity mentions that it tried to communicate the moment it was accidentaly caught by the Enterprise, but found it impossible. That still doesn't explain why it didn't try whenever it possessed members of the crew.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A sign that Dr. Crusher isn't herself is when she expresses interest in Wesley's project, even though it has to do with warp theory, which she is usually apathetic about.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The entity mentions that it tried to communicate the moment it wasaccidentaly accidentally caught by the Enterprise, but found it impossible. That still doesn't explain why it didn't try whenever it possessed members of the crew.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The entity mentions that it tried to communicate the moment it was
* StinkSnub: The Selay claim the Anticans stink and want quarters upwind from them.
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* WakeUpFighting: Worf after getting zapped, forcing Crusher to give him some InstantSedation.
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* WakeUpFighting: Worf wrestles the air and attacks a medic after getting zapped, forcing Crusher to give him some InstantSedation.
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* WakeUpFighting: Worf after getting zapped, forcing Crusher to give him the [[InstantSedation off-button hypospray]].
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* WakeUpFighting: Worf after getting zapped, forcing Crusher to give him the [[InstantSedation off-button hypospray]].some InstantSedation.
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'''Original air date:''' November 2, 1987
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* ImAHumanitarian: The Anticans go hunting for "food", and capture Riker instead. Later Yar reports that the ship's cook has been asked to broil "reptile" for the Anticans, while at the same time one of the Selay delegates has gone missing.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The Anticans Selay delegates go hunting for "food", and capture Riker instead. Later Yar reports that the ship's cook has been asked to broil "reptile" for the Anticans, while at the same time one of the Selay delegates has gone missing.
