Samaritan Snare
- Episode aired May 13, 1989
- TV-PG
- 45m
With Picard away for routine surgery, the Enterprise responds to an apparent distress call from a Pakled vessel.With Picard away for routine surgery, the Enterprise responds to an apparent distress call from a Pakled vessel.With Picard away for routine surgery, the Enterprise responds to an apparent distress call from a Pakled vessel.
- Pakled Crew Member
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Pakled Crew Member
- (uncredited)
- Pakled Crew Member
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Bennett
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWil Wheaton and Patrick Stewart came up with the gag where Wesley Crusher encounters a non-automatic door for the first time. They approach the door, which Wesley stares at. Picard looks at Wesley, as if thinking "Aw kids!" and opens it for him.
- GoofsIf a shuttle is incapable of warp speed and it is going to take six hours to get to Starbase 515, it makes no sense to send that slow vehicle on a trip that long when the Enterprise could whisk Picard and Crusher there in no time.
- Quotes
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: There's no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
Wesley Crusher: But William James won't be on my Starfleet exams.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
Wesley Crusher: And Starfleet Academy...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Takes more. Open your mind to the past - art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.
- ConnectionsEdited from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Angel One (1988)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
But while Patrick Stewart and Wil Wheaton are on board a shuttlecraft going to the star base, the Enterprise answers a distress call from a Pakled space ship.
The Pakleds are a roving band of nomads who act real dumb, but aren't as dumb as they look. They steal and scavenge and when their cobbled together ship breaks down they decide to keep Geordi LaForge who has come over to effect repairs. He's probably a handy fellow to have around they reason.
Leaving quite a dilemma for Jonathan Frakes as he tries to get LeVar Burton back from these bottom feeders.
Captain Picard and Wesley Crusher get to really know each other finally on that voyage. We learn for the first time that Picard has an artificial heart that needs repair and maybe replacement. Something he did not want the crew to know. And Picard is full of sound advice for Wesley for the academy and for life.
I really did enjoy the Pakleds, they make this story.
- bkoganbing
- Dec 11, 2018
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1