Article 2098 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 1 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 11 May 1994 06:46:22 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 83 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qpuvu$enf@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 1 1987 - 88 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * Q (John de Lancie) tries the Enterprise crew for all the crimes of mankind while an appearance from Admiral McCoy (DeForest Kelley) brings surprises. * Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett) pays an unexpected visit to the Enterprise to arrange a marriage for Troi, despite Riker's feelings. * Picard promotes Wesley to acting ensign. * The Ferengi, supercapitalists of the galaxy, pose an alien threat to the Enterprise. * Picard takes a turn on the holodeck as 1940s hard- boiled detective Dixon Hill. * Data meets -- and is nearly overtaken -- by his "twin" android, Lore. * When the Bynars hijack the Enterprise, Riker falls in love with a most-realistic holodeck character, Minuet. * Wesley fails the psych test in the entrance exam to the Starfleet Academy. * Worf turns down the opportunity to serve in the Klingon Defense Force, remaining aboard the Enterprise. * Tasha is killed by Armus, a sadistic being created from the cast-off sins of his race. * Picard is briefly reunited with Jenice (Michelle Phillips), a woman he stood up 22 years ago when he shipped out with Starfleet. * The UFP tangles with the Romulans for the first time in 53 years. GUEST STARS: Majel Barrett, John de Lancie, Michelle Phillips, Carel Struycken, Kavi Raz, Frank Corssentino, John Putch, Peter Mark Richman, DeForest Kelley, Colm Meaney NEW PLANETS, Deneb IV, Styris IV, Ligon II, Rubicun III, Mordan IV, Angel I, RACES AND Velara III, Aldea, Relva VII, Minos, Vagra II, Sarona VII, STARSHIPS THEY Vando VI; the Bandi, Tarellians, Ferengi, Tkon, Edo, Jarada, ENCOUNTERED: Bynars, Aldeans, Romulans; and Tsiolkovsky, Stargazer, Drake RATINGS REPORT: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION finished the season as the number one first-run hour-long series in syndication and the number three syndicated show over all, behind venerable game shows "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy." ALSO DEBUTING "The New Monkees," "Friday the 13th," "T and T," "The Dom IN SYNDICATION DeLuise Show," "Out of this World," "She's the Sheriff"; AND ON "thirtysomething," "Wiseguy," "A Year in the Life," "Full NETWORK TV: House," "Dolly," "Hooperman, "A Different World," "Beauty and the Beast" MAJOR AWARDS: The series was nominated for seven Emmys, capturing three AND MILESTONES: for Outstanding Sound Editing, Outstanding Makeup and Outstanding Costume Design. Additionally, the show won a Peabody Award for "Best of the Best," describing the series as "excellent, thought-provoking entertainment programming which signals a new commitment to quality in first-run syndication." Achieved highest-ever rating -- 17.7 -- for a syndicated show in its premiere, beating such network fare as "Murder, She Wrote," "Family Ties," "The Golden Girls" and "Hunter." Denise Crosby departs the show. DID YOU KNOW?: The character of Wesley Crusher was initially envisioned as a teenage girl named Leslie, and the role of Tasha Yar originated as Marcha Hernandez. That name was changed when Denise Crosby was cast. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu Article 2101 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!sdd.hp.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 2 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 13 May 1994 03:47:49 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 79 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qut95$6v9@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 2 1988 - 89 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * Troi announces she is pregnant, only to find out her "baby" is really an alien lifeform trying to learn more about human life. The new entity disrupts life on the Enterprise and terminates its own existence when it realizes that it has placed the crew of the Enterprise in jeopardy. * Dr. Beverly Crusher leaves the Enterprise to head Starfleet Medical; Dr. Kate Pulaski (Diana Muldaur) takes over as the Enterprises' chief medical officer. * Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) serves the Enterprise as the new Ten-Forward hostess. * La Forge is promoted to chief engineer. * Worf's promotion to security chief becomes permanent. * Data struggles to acquire a sense of humor with a renegade Captain Okona (William Campbell) and a comic (Joe Piscopo). * Dr. Pulaski contracts a disease that generates "hyperaging." * Riker becomes the first Starfleet officer to serve aboard a Klingon vessel. * Wesley's first romance is with Salia, an allasomorph or shape changer. * Picard faces his own double from six hours into the future. * Riker refuses a command post on the Iries. * When Data refuses to be disassembled for research purposes, Picard makes an impassioned plea for him, defending the android's rights in court. * As the Enterprise comes under attack by their newest threat, the Borg race, Guinan reveals that they virtually killed all her people. * Amidst the Betazoid "Phase" -- a midlife female cycle that quadruples a woman's sex drive -- Lwaxana chases Picard, and several others, for their affection on a mission with the evil Antedians (which include Mick Fleetwood). GUEST STARS: William Campbell, Joe Piscopo, Suzie Plakson. Amanda McBroom, John Tesh, John Putch, John de Lancie. Mick Fleetwood, Carel Struycken, Colm Meaney PLANETS, RACES Klardia III, Daled IV, Omega, Sagitta XII, Ramatis, Solais V, AND STARSHIPS Antede III; Madena; the Bringloidi, Mariposans, Antedians, ENCOUNTERED: Benzites; and Yamato, Lantree, Victory RATINGS REPORT: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION continues its reign as the number one first-run syndicated series among all young adults 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54. DEBUTING "USA Today: The Television Show," "The Twilight Zone," IN SYNDICATION "Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Nightmares," "The AND ON Munsters Today," "Regis and Kathie Lee," "War of the NETWORK TV: Worlds"; "Roseanne," "Midnight Caller," "Murphy Brown," "Paradise," "Dear John," "Empty Nest," "Tattinger's," "Almost Grown" MAJOR AWARDS With eight Emmy nominations, the series wins two -- AND MILESTONES: Outstanding Sound Editing and Outstanding Sound Mixing. Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg joined the show as a recurring special guest star. DID YOU KNOW?: Whoopi Goldberg approached the producers about joining the cast. She credits Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura on the original "Star Trek" as a childhood inspiration for her. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu Article 2102 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 3 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 13 May 1994 03:48:58 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 85 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qutba$6vg@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 3 1989 - 1990 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * Dr. Beverly Crusher returns to the Enterprise. * Wesley is promoted to full ensign. * Riker and Troi find a little romance. * To save the Klingons from a civil war. Worf must stifle his attempts to clear his dead father's name. * Data builds a "child" (Hallie Todd). * La Forge changes his luck with women when he becomes enamored with Leah Brahms, an interactive holodeck character, who helps him find a way to escape the Menthars. * Troi falls for Devinoni Ral [Matt McCoy) a part-Betazoid negotiator who comes aboard to bid on a wormhole. * Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by a terrorist, Kyril Finn (Richard Cox). * Violent mood swings plague the crew when Sarek (Mark Lenard), the renowned Vulcan ambassador, visits. * Data defends Q against the Calamarain, and the Enterprise is subsequently visited by another Q (Corbin Bernsen). * Riker is accused of murder. * When the Enterprise-C emerges from a temporal rift, the crew finds Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) alive and well in an alternate time line. * Picard is kidnapped and replaced by an evil imposter. * Data is presumed lost when his shuttlepod explodes. * The crew helps a painfully shy Lt. Barclay (Dwight Schultz) whose obsession with the holodeck endangers the Enterprise. * Lwaxana tries again to marry off Deanna, but this time is pursued by an obsessed Tog (Frank Corsentino). * The Borg kidnap Picard and assimilate him. GUEST STARS: John Anderson, Corbin Bernsen, Gina Hecht, Denise Crosby, Dwight Schultz, Jennifer Hetrick, Saul Rubinek, Colm Meaney, Frank Corsentino, Carel Struycken, Harry Groener, Mark Lenard, Julie Warner PLANETS, RACES Tau Cygna V, Delta Rana IV, Galorndon Core, Nelvana III, AND STARSHIPS Lunar V, Mintaka III, Barzan II, Acamar III, Angosia III, ENCOUNTERED: Bre'el IV; the Mintakans, Menthars, Dowd, Husnocks, Promellians, Barzans, Chalnoth, Gatherers, Vorgons; and Enterprise C RATINGS REPORT: Throughout the season, the series built on its premiere episode's I0.8 rating. When compared with network dramas, it ranked among the top 10 in every key adult demographic, as well as among teens, and became the number two hour- long series among men 18-34, men 18-49 and men 25-54, second only to "L.A. Law," and outdelivering the much- heralded "Twin Peaks." For women, its similar demographic rankings surpassed such network powerhouses as "Dallas," "Murder, She Wrote" and "China Beach." DEBUTING "American Gladiators," "Hard Copy," "Rollergames," "Third IN SYNDICATION: Degree," "College Mad House"; "The Famous Teddy Z," "Life AND ON Goes On," "Booker," "Doogie Howser, M.D.," "Major Dad," NETWORK TV: "Mancuso FBI," "The Young Riders," "Family Matters," "Hardball," "Rescue: 911" MAJOR AWARDS: Out of 10 nominations, the Emmy Awards bestowed two honors on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION for Outstanding Art Direction and Outstanding Sound Editing. Additionally, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films named the series Best Television Program. DID YOU KNOW?: At the beginning of the third season, a new main title welcomed viewers each week, featuring an incoming route from outside the Milky Way rather than a departure angle from the solar system. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu Article 2103 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 4 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 13 May 1994 03:54:27 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 96 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qutlj$71d@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 4 1990 - 91 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * Riker rescues Picard from the Borg. * Picard returns to his home in France, and through a reconciliation with his brother, heals the wounds of his Borg attack. * The crew encounters Tasha Yar's previously unknown sister, Ishara (Beth Toussaint). * Worf meets a son he never knew he had with his former lover K'Ehleyr (Suzie Plakson), who is murdered by his nemesis Duras (Patrick Massett). Worf, in turn, kills Duras. * Wesley is accepted into the Starfleet Academy. * Troi temporarily loses her empathic powers. * Lt. Miles O'Brien marries Keiko Ishikawa (Rosalind Chao). * La forge meets Dr. Leah Brahms (Susan Gibney), the "real" version of his holodeck fantasy. * Picard and Vash (Jennifer Hetrick) role play as Robin Hood and Maid Marian for Q (John de Lancie) in a Sherwood Forest setting. * Admiral Norah Satie (Jean Simmons) leads a witch hunt to determine the culprit responsible for an explosion in the Enterprise's dilithium chamber. * During a first contact mission, Riker is critically injured and mistaken for a hostile alien on Malcoria III, where an amorous nurse (Bebe Neuwirth) offers to help him escape. * Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett) falls in love with a pioneering research scientist Dr. Timicin (David Odgen Stiers) who, according to his societal customs, is approaching 60 and must commit suicide. * Dr. Crusher fails in love with a Trill host Odan (Franc Luz), who is really a parasite, moving from body to body to live. * Data follows his own guide-to-love program to court a shipmate, Jenna (Michelle Scarabelli). * Worf leaves the Starfleet to fight with his brother and Gowron in a Klingon civil war. * Commander Sela (Denise Crosby), a Romulan, strikingly resembles Tasha Yar. GUEST STARS: Bebe Neuwirth, Samantha Eggar. Theodore Bikel, Jeremy Kemp, Georgia Brown, Jean Simmons, Majel Barrett, David Odgen Stiers, Carel Struycken, Denise Crosby, Los Angeles disc jockeys Mark & Brian, Dwight Schultz, Colm Meaney. Jennifer Hetrick, Franc Luz, Michelle Scarabelli, Chad Allen, Beth Toussaint PLANETS, RACES Turkana IV, Apha Onias III, Ventax II, Tarchannen III, AND STARSHIPS Pentarus V, Kaelon II; the Talarians, Paxans, Malcorians, ENCOUNTERED: Cytherians; and Phoenix, Brattain RATINGS REPORT: During February sweeps, "Devil's Due" drew the series' highest Nielsen rating ever with a 14.4, and the series continued its championship hold on hour-long syndicated programs. DEBUTING "New Adam 12," "New Dragnet," "What A Dummy," "Harry IN SYNDICATION & the Hendersons," "Reunion," "Dracula," "Fresh Prince of Bel AND ON Air," "WIOU," "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Gabriel's Fire," "The NETWORK TV: Flash," "Law & Order," "Cop RocK," "Evening Shade" MAJOR AWARDS: With 10 Emmy nominations, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION AND MILESTONES: captures two -- Outstanding Sound Editing and Outstanding Sound Mixing. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION surpasses the original "Star Trek" series in number of episodes -- the original concluded its run after 79. Wil Wheaton leaves the series. His character, Wesley Crusher. is accepted to the Starfleet Academy and continues to make appearances in coming seasons. And, for the first time, Viewers for Quality Television endorse a non-network series when they fully endorse STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. DID YOU KNOW?: Season four was known as a year of sequels with returning characters including the Traveler, K'Ehleyr, Duras, Leah Brahms, Lore, Vash, Lt. Barclay, Jack Crusher, Noonien Soong, Q and Lwaxana Troi. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu Article 2105 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 5 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 13 May 1994 03:57:44 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 97 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qutro$74g@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 5 1990 - 1991 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * After fighting in the Klingon civil war, Worf decides to come back aboard the Enterprise. * Sela reveals she is Tasha Yar's half-human, half- Romulan daughter. * After a woeful introduction, Ensign Ro (Michelle Forbes) proves her worth to Picard. * When disaster strikes the Enterprise, Picard is trapped with three young children, Troi must make the command decisions, and Worf helps Keiko deliver her baby. * In a visit back aboard the Enterprise, Wesley falls for Robin (Ashley Judd), amidst a crew seduced by a pleasure inducing game. * Picard consults his old Academy mentor [Ray Walston) for advice when a member of Wesley's five-person flight squadron is killed. * Spock (Leonard Nimoy) pursues the reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan peoples. * An ostensible time traveler, Berlingoff Rasmussen (Matt Frewer), imposes upon and agitates the Enterprise crew. * Worf's son Alexander (Brian Bonsall) visits -- and stays on -- the Enterprise. * The Ullians. a telepathic historian race, mentally violate the crew by probing their painful memories, including Picard's role in the death of Dr. Crusher's husband. * Picard teams with an alien captain Dathom (Paul Winfield) to fight an electromagnetic creature. * When Worf is paralyzed from an accident, his son Alexander helps him choose life over suicide. * Riker falls in love with Soren (Melinda Culea) a member of the androgynous J'Naii race. * The Enterprise collides with the Bozeman, led by Captain Morgan Bateman (Kelsey Grammer) as the last occurrence in a continuous time loop that goes on for 17 days. * Lwaxana Troi announces her marriage to a man she has never met, Campio (Tony Jay). * After rescuing him as the lone survivor of a space catastrophe, the crew cares for a young Borg (Jonathan Del arco), fearing that he may become an unrelenting foe. * Picard lives 30 years in the span of a 30-minute dream, in which he has a son, Batal (played by his real-life son, Daniel Stewart). * After Data learns of his own death in 1890s San Francisco, a freak accident transports him back to that period. GUEST STARS: Leonard Nimoy, Denise Crosby, Ashley Judd, Kelsey Grammer, Matt Frewer, Majel Barrett, Paul Winfield, Erika Flores, Brian Bonsall, Georgia Brown, Rosalind Chao, Melinda Culea, Tony Jay, Colm Meaney, Carel Struycken, Daniel Stewart, Wil Wheaton PLANETS, RACES Penthara IV, Moab IV, Mab-Bu VI, Solarian IV, Omicron Theta, AND STARSHIPS Bilana III, Kataan; the Bajorans, Ullians, Sartaaran, Lysians; ENCOUNTERED: and Vico, Bozeman, Essex RATINGS REPORT: Buoyed by the two-part Spock episode "Unification," and the "Star Trek" 25th anniversary celebration, ratings hit an all- time high. In the key demographic group, men 18-49, the show posted a rating of 14.6 against prime-time competition. That rating beat "60 Minutes," "Coach," "Roseanne," "Cheers" and "ABC Monday Night Football." DEBUTING "Baywatch," "Street Justice," "Tarzan," "Now It Can Be Told," IN SYNDICATION "Dangerous Women," "Lightning Force"; "I'll Fly Away," "Home AND ON Improvement," "Reasonable Doubts," "Homefront," "The NETWORK TV: Royal Family," "Step by Step," "Brooklyn Bridge," "P.S.I. Luv U" MAJOR AWARDS: With seven Emmy nominations, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION takes five awards -- Outstanding Costume Design, Outstanding Makeup, Outstanding Music Composition, and two separate awards for Outstanding Special Visual Effects DID YOU KNOW?: The fifth season marked the only year that did not include an appearance by Picard's nemesis Q (John de Lancie) in any episode. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu Article 2106 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 6 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 13 May 1994 03:58:55 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 102 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2quttv$74l@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 6 1992 - 1993 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * The Enterprise crew travels between the 19th and 24th centuries in an attempt to prevent Data's death in 1890's San Francisco. * The crew rescues Captain Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan) suspended for 75 years in a transporter beam on board a doomed Federation transport ship. * A gifted young intern, Amanda (Olivia d'Abo) discovers she is actually a Q. * Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro and Keiko are transformed into children after a molecular mishap. * A holodeck fantasy goes awry, sending Worf and Alexander (Brian Bonsall) into a Wild West showdown with a villain who looks exactly like Data. * Captured during a secret mission, Picard is tortured by the Cardassians, while the hyperkinetic Captain Jellico (Ronny Cox) takes over his duties. With O'Brien's help (Colm Meaney), Barclay confronts his fear of being transported. * A CalCulating Sherlock Holmesian character traps Picard and others in a holodeck simulation with Countess Regina Bartholamew (Stephanie Beacham). * La Forge falls in love with an alien lieutenant, who is a murder suspect. * Troi is forced to impersonate a Romulan intelligence officer. * When Picard loses his life in a surprise attack, q gives him the chance to change his destiny. * Both Worf and Data set out on journeys to find their fathers. * Picard must send the woman he loves, Lt. Commander Nella Daren (Wendy Hughes) on a potentially fatal mission. * Riker, with little memory of the past, is trapped in an alien mental hospital. * Beverly risks her career to solve the murder of a pioneering Ferengi scientist. * When Riker, assisted by a transporter operator (Dr. Mae Jemison) returns to the site of an eight-year-old mission. he encounters an identical double of himself, who tries to rekindle a relationship with Troi. * When the Borg return to do battle with the Federation, they boast a new individuality -- and tempt Data when they help him feel his first emotion. Data spends time in the holodeck with three of history's greatest minds including guest star Professor Stephen Hawking. GUEST STARS: Dwight Schultz, Majel Barrett, James Doohan, Colm Meaney, John de Lancie, Olivia d'Abo, Brian Bonsall, Morgan Nagler, Rosalind Chao, Ellen Bry, Ronny Cox, Dwight Schultz, Stephanie Beacham, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Conway, U.S. astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, Professor Stephen Hawking PLANETS, RACES Devida II, Tagra, Celtris III, Minos Korva, Draken IV, AND STARSHIPS Bersallis III, Indri VIII, Tilonus IV, Nervala IV; the Lumerians, ENCOUNTERED: Nausicaans; Yosemite, Dorian, Jenolan RATINGS REPORT: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION continues to rank as the number one hour-long series in syndicated television. Among all series, network and otherwise, it consistently places in the top 10. DEBUTING "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "The Untouchables," "Kung Fu: IN SYNDICATING the Legend Continues," "Time Trax," "Renegade," "Prime AND ON Suspect"; "Love and War," "Mad About You," "Delta," NETWORK TU: "Covington Cross," "Camp Wilder," "The Round Table," "Picket Fences" MAJOR AWARDS Five Emmy nominations lead to two awards for Outstanding AND MILESTONES: Hairstyling and Outstanding Sound Mixing. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION nabs a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Science Fiction Presentation." STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION inspires a new hit series, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Patrick Stewart appears for the first time ever as Captain Picard in another series (the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" premiere). DID YOU KNOW?: A tale of two security chiefs: Marina Sirtis initially read for the part of chief security officer Marcha Hernandez (which later changed to Tasha Yar), but Gene Roddenberry decided her appearance was more suited to the empathic alien counselor. For the character who would be chief security officer in later seasons -- Lt. Worf -- Michael Dorn was initially only signed on for seven of the first 13 episodes. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu Article 2104 of rec.arts.startrek.info: Path: lynx.unm.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!xcf.Berkeley.EDU!griffith From: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu (Michael L. Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.info Subject: Paramount Press Kit - Season 7 Trivia Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.misc Date: 13 May 1994 03:56:39 GMT Organization: Vulcan Science Academy, Tau Ceti Sector Lines: 73 Approved: griffith@scam.berkeley.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <2qutpn$743@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: brown%vidiot.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: xcf.berkeley.edu Originator: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU Season 7 1993 - 1994 PLOT HIGHLIGHTS: * The crew struggles to rescue a seemingly brainwashed Data from the Borg. * While the crew plays host to ambassadors from an alien race, Picard is stranded on a barren planet with a woman who falls desperately in love with him. * After communicating with his estranged father (Ben Vereen), La Forge defies Picard's commands and risks his life in what appears to be a futile attempt to rescue his missing mother (Madge Sinclair). * Worf meets his foster brother (Paul Sorvino) and poses as a Boraalan. * Riker is shocked to find Picard, who has been missing and presumed dead, posing as a mercenary on an alien ship. * Troi must probe her mother's psyche when a traumatic secret causes a psychic breakdown that threatens Lwaxana's life. * When Picard and Riker masquerade as mercenaries to retrieve a potentially lethal Vulcan artifact, LA Laker James Worthy dons a Klingon persona. * Imprisoned and telepathically joined by an alien race, Picard and Dr. Crusher are forced to face the deep feelings they have always had for each other. * Having completely lost his memory, Data is stranded on a primitive planet where the inhabitants fear he is carrying a deadly plague. * Juliana Tramer (Fionnula Flanagan) announces she is Data's mother. * While experiencing empathic visions after an officer's mysterious suicide, Troi becomes romantically involved with Worf. GUEST STARS: Ben Vereen, Madge Sinclair, Majel Barrett, Terry O'Quinn, Fionnula Flanagan, Paul Sorvino, LA Laker star James Worthy, Sabrina LeBeauf PLANETS, RACES Caldos IV, Barkon IV, Barradas III, Calder II, Kesprytt; the AND STARSHIPS Iyaaran, Kes, Yridian, Cairn, Prytt; and Hera ENCOUNTERED: RATINGS REPORT: As of Spring, 1994, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION finishes its run in the place it started -- at number one. DEBUTING IN "Acapulco H.E.A.T.," "Cobra," "Babylon 5," "Robocop," SYNDICATION "Thunder in Paradise"; "Frasier," "Lois & Clark: The New AND ON Adventures of Superman," "Living Single," "The Mommies," NETWORK TV: "The Nanny," "seaQuest DSV," "The X-Files," "Grace Under Fire," "NYPD Blue," "Against the Grain" MILESTONES: Gates McFadden is the first female cast member to ever direct an episode. By the end of the seventh season Patrick Stewart has directed five episodes, Jonathan Frakes, seven, and LeVar Burton, two. DID YOU KNOW? When STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION ceases production at the end of this season, 178 episodes will still take viewers along for voyages that boldly go where no one has gone before. -- harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu brown@wi.extrel.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith. Email submissions to trek-info@scam.berkeley.edu, questions to trek-info-request@scam.berkeley.edu