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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Episode Guide - Season 6

In 1992, Star Trek: The Next Generation heading in to season 6 – while another show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about to launch (so to speak) its initial episodes. This expansion of the ST universe resulted in a few changes for the flagship enterprise (sort of) for TNG.

Among these were definitely a more somber tone for the series in general, as well as more personal-type of storytelling, as opposed to the cosmic politics and ruling-class machinations of the Klingon civil war story arc.

Season six also plays as a bit of a “greatest hits” compilation at times. Returning to the Enterprise to take over an episode or two are Lt. Barclay, Q, Alexander Son of Worf, sentient hologram Moriarty and Klingon badass Gowron. Crossing over from Deep Space Nine is Dr. Bashir, and beaming in (literally) from the original Enterprise crew is Montgomery Scott.

1. Time's Arrow, Part II – The time-travel romp concludes in satisfying enough, though not particularly deep, fashion. The crew gets some funny bits as fish out of water in the 1890s and Lt. Commander Data saves the day while literally getting his head blown off. Minus points for Jerry Hardin’s Mark Twain, which descends into cartoonishness with a one-note, nearly shrill interpretation. ***

2. Realm of Fear – Lt. Reginald Barclay, the timidest dude ever to serve on a starship (how did this guy get through Starfleet Academy, anyway…?), is also afraid of transporters. While using one in routine fashion, he sees strange worm-like beings living in the transporter stream – or are they merely hallucinations…? ***

3. Man of the People – As a Lumerian ambassador and his posse are en route to a negotiation, said ambassador’s aged wife dies. He then gets with Troi, who begins acting wantonly and dangerously before beginning to age rapidly. **

4. Relics – Montgomery Scott of the Enterprise (repeat after me: No bloody A, B, C or D) is found within a repeating transporter signal near a crash site on a Dyson sphere. The Enterprise becomes trapped in the sphere, a ridiculous feat of engineering that houses an entire solar system in order to exploit all possible energy. Despite knowledge a century behind the times, Scotty finds his inner miracle worker once again … ***

5. Schisms – Wait a minute … an alien abduction story in a series set aboard a starship? Come on, now. *

6. True Q – Everyone’s favorite otherly-dimensional trickster is back on the Enterprise, this time revealing that a newly boarded intern is in actuality a member of the Q. And she’s hot for Wesley Crusher. This subplots may or may not be related. ***

7. Rascals – Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Ensign Ro Laren, Keiko O’Brien and Guinan are magically turned into children via a transporter accident (no, really) – and then the ship is taken by Ferengi pirates. Episodes of this sort within any TV series depend on the humor value of the cute kiddoes; there just ain’t much here. *

8. A Fistful of Datas – Some neat use of the Holodeck in this episode, plus much chance for Brent Spiner to flex the ol’ thespiary muscles for our amusement. Lt. Commander Worf, his son Alexander and Counselor Troi spend some quality time playing out a Western on the holodeck when LaForge and Data’as experiments go awry, causing the holodeck to – get this – malfunction. ****

9. The Quality of Life – Mining tools called Exocomps have become sentient, thereby inspiring Data to lead a quasi-worker’s revolution against mining interests who would exploit them. **

10. Chain of Command, Part I – This midseason 2-parter starts intriguing enough, with Picard sent on an undercover mission in Cardassian territory, but it’s the completely different concluding episode that everyone remembers. ****

11. Chain of Command, Part II – Regarded as a class, despite the extremely dark storyline and dependence mostly on a conversation between torturer and tortured reminiscent of the final act of George Orwell’s 1984. But maybe that’s what does it: Patrick Stewart and David Warner, old Royal Shakespeare Company comrades, are incredible, and the dialogue they’re given is amazing. Even when Warner’s Cardassian is explaining his culturally-relative normal belief in racism to his daughter, the viewer cannot take his/her eyes off. *****

12. Ship in a Bottle – The sentient Moriarty character again takes over the holodeck and finds a way to manipulate the Enterprise itself. A couple of neat twists, including the capping scenes, keep things interesting. ***

13. Aquiel – One of the primary rules of The Next Generation is this: LaForge Does Not Get Any. Apparently by season six, ol’ Geordi still hasn’t learned this fundamental fact and herein gets interested in the title character, who seemingly offs a traveling companion shortly after getting aboard. She’s exonerated but, when given an offer to join the Enterprise crew by LaForge, she turns him down. **

14. Face of the Enemy – Counselor Troi is given an undercover assignment aboard a Romulan vessel, but stealing the show from the go by Commander Toreth, who gets some fantastic dialogue vis-à-vis Romulan culture and what it’s like to serve the Empire. Probably the best Troi-centric episode. ****

15. Tapestry – Nearly an entire episode primarily devoted to banter between Picard and Q? Yes, please! In this episode, Q offers to help Picard correct foolish mistakes he made in the past, once again finding that any gift from Q is a double-edged sword at very best. *****

16. Birthright, Part I – Crossover episode! Well, sort of. While docked at Deep Space Nine, Dr. Bashir assists LaForge and Data in investigating a mysterious bit of hardware and Data’s “dreams.” In a parallel plot line, one Jaglom Shrek provides Worf with the location of a Romulan base where his father is held captive. ***

17. Birthright, Part II – Definitely one for Klingon fans. In the prison camp, Worf finds two generations’ worth of Klingons, including a younger generation which knows nothing of Klingon culture, traditions, bloodlust, etc. Worf teaches a bit but more importantly leads a peaceful (!) revolt against their Romulan taskmasters. ***

18. Starship Mine – An episode that’s equal parts funny and suspenseful. While attempting to escape a diplomatic meeting, Picard unwittingly stumbles upon a plot to plunder the Enterprise. Whether it’s Data developing a “small talk subroutine” or Picard outwitting the bad guys while racing against time as a deadly baryon sweep sub-atomically cleans the Enterprise, this is good stuff. ****

19. Lessons – Schmaltz reported dead ahead red alert, shields up! Picard falls for an attractive Lt. Commander who almost becomes a Red Shirt, but survives a dangerous away mission long enough to bid Picard adieu and leave the ship. Pretty pointless. *

20. The Chase – In a case of unofficial canon becoming official canon, several prominent Alpha Quadrant races, including the humans lead by an archaeology enthusiast Picard, learn something about their ancestry thanks to a stunning find. ***

21. Frame of Mind – Commander Riker’s dark head trip: Kinda like “Future Imperfect” but more mysterious and creepy. Riker cannot tell whether he’s in a play about a mental patient, *is* a mental patient and/or has awoken some 20 years in the future. ****

22. Suspicions – Dr. Crusher hosts a test demonstration of a new shield technology by a Ferengi scientist. When the first test pilot, Jo'Bril, dies due to a test flight, Dr. Crusher plays detective in hopes of clearing her friend’s name of accusations of murder. A pretty decent detective story with a clever twist or two. ***

23. Rightful Heir – At a Klingon holy site, Worf meets with a warrior resembling and claiming to be the legendary Kahless. ***

24. Second Chances – Season 6 of The Next Generation may definitely be considered the greatest season’s worth of transporter-malfunction episodes – until Voyager, when the damn things never seemed to work. In this one, a malfunction results in a duplicate Riker aboard the Enterprise, which certainly gets Troi thinking along interesting lines … *

25. Timescape – An away mission finds itself in an area of space in which time moves at varied rates in different areas. With time frozen from their perspective as an away team, Picard, Data and LaForge note what appears to be a Romulan ship firing a lethal blow at the Enterprise. A wacky time paradox sorta episode, even by ST:TNG standards. ****

26. Descent, Part I – After Stephen Hawking smokes Data, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein in a hand of holodeck poker, an away team is accosted by a guerilla army of Borg; Data, apparently feeling anger, kills one. Another attack happens in which a Borg individual manipulates Data’s emotions again. Ultimately, an away team of Picard, LaForge and Troi, in a quest for Data on an uninhabited planet, is captured by the Borg and their leader, Lore. ****

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Original air date: November 6, 1989

The Enterprise picks up a distress call from inside the Romulan Neutral Zone and tracks the distressed ship as it crash-lands on the inhospitable planet Galorndon Core, just inside Federation space. Riker, La Forge, and Worf beam down to investigate and determine if there are any survivors.

In the midst of heavy electrical storms, which disrupt the tricorders and communicators and allow only limited periods to safely beam in and out, La Forge is separated from the group and falls down a deep hole. Riker and Worf find the wreckage of a small Romulan ship, and a wounded survivor. They beam back to the ship with the Romulan, but due to the storms they are unable to locate La Forge.

Wesley launches a neutrino beacon to the surface, the idea being that La Forge's VISOR can pick up the signal, and when he reaches the beacon, he can modulate it to let the ship know where he is. Meanwhile, La Forge manages to fashion some crude spikes to help him climb out of the hole. When he sees the beacon signal, however, he's knocked out by another Romulan.

Back on the ship, the Romulan is dying, and the only way to save him is through a donation of healthy genetic material. The only compatible donor is Worf, who refuses to do so in light of the Romulans having killed his parents on Khitomer; the Romulan, in turn, states that he'd rather die than have "Klingon filth" in his blood anyway. Meanwhile, Captain Picard makes contact with a Romulan commander, Tomalak, who insists that the crashed ship was a one-man scout craft. Picard agrees to rendezvous in the Neutral Zone in six hours to return the Romulan officer.

On the surface, La Forge wakes up to find himself held at disruptor-point by Centurion Bochra (who refuses to give his name at first, leaving Geordi to refer to him as "Commodore"). Bochra is reluctant to trust that Geordi has a way off the planet, but as the two are suffering debilitating effects from the planet's electromagnetic radiation, they agree to work together. But just as they set out for the beacon, Geordi's VISOR goes out, leaving him blind. It still works, but due to the storms, his neural pathways are no longer processing the input. Bochra gets the idea of using La Forge's tricorder and VISOR together to make a "neutrino detector," and Geordi directs him on how to link the two.

Back on the ship, tensions increase as Tomalak has realized that the Enterprise is still at Galorndon Core; he crosses the Neutral Zone to intercept them. Picard asks Worf once more to volunteer to help save the Romulan's life, hoping to avoid a major political incident, but when Worf respectfully refuses, Picard drops the matter. As it turns out, though, the Romulan has just died.

Tomalak's Warbird arrives, and he gives Picard one last chance to return his officer. Picard is forced to concede that he has died, and Tomalak orders his ship's weapons powered up. At that moment, the neutrino beacon begins modulating. The Enterprise is able to detect another life form with La Forge at the beacon, and Picard realizes what must have happened. To transport them up, however, they have to lower their shields, leaving them vulnerable to the Warbird.

Tropes featured in "The Enemy":

• AB Negative : Patahk's blood is only compatible with Worf, which causes problems since both despise each other.
• Artistic License – History : It seems rather out-of-character for Frenchman Picard to reference Pearl Harbor , the event that led to the United States entering World War II , as the stage for a "bloody preamble to war" when the fighting had been going on in France for several years by that point.
• Blatant Lies : Tomalak claims that the scout ship crashed on Galorndon Core because of a "slight navigational error." Picard knows that it's bullshit.
• Bury Your Disabled : Discussed . We learn that the Romulans kill all disabled children when Geordi is stuck with a Romulan soldier, who basically asked him why he's still alive. Naturally, Geordi is quite offended.
• Deadpan Snarker : Geordi is so done with Bochra's initial threats and posturing, it's hilarious.
• Death World : Compared with Ceti Alpha V , Galorndon Core is capable of supporting life, barely. Heavy electromagnetic storms disrupt the nervous systems of living beings after a short time, leaving Bochra partially paralyzed and Geordi unable to process input from his VISOR.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance : Bochra is surprised that, being blind since birth, Geordi wasn't killed in infancy as a waste of resources.
• Enemy Mine : Geordi and Bochra have to put aside their differences and work together, making up for the disabilities of each, to get off planet.
• Famous, Famous, Fictional : Picard worries that if they don't tread lightly in their dealings with the Romulans, Galorndon Core might come to be remembered alongside Pearl Harbor and Station Salem One as precursors to a bloody war.
• Fantastic Racism : Worf refuses to donate blood to the Romulan Patahk. Fortunately for him, Patahk refuses to take Klingon blood anyway.
• Fire-Forged Friends : Geordi and Bochra, initially suspicious of each other, are forced to work together to survive on Galorndon Core. By the end, they are as close as you could expect a Human and a Romulan to be.
• Zig-zagged with Worf. Worf refuses to willingly give his blood to Patahk, believing that he'd be helping those that killed his parents, even though the Romulan dying while in Federation custody could spark a war. That said, Worf makes it clear he would do so if ordered, so he's not so unreasonable that he isn't willing to give Picard a loophole, even if Picard can't bring himself to take it.
• Worf makes it clear to Picard that he would give his blood without question if Picard just ordered him to , but Picard can't bring himself to violate Worf's personal beliefs, even if it's Worf himself giving him the option. He's willing to risk another war with the Romulans to honor Worf's refusal.
• Patahk himself is an example, although more minor. He flat-out says that he'd rather die than take Worf's blood.
• Tomalak is willing to start a war over one deceased officer and a second, secret one still in danger, even though Romulan efforts to start such a war usually involve separating the Federation from their Klingon allies first. It demonstrates that, for all their scheming, even Romulans care for those under their command.
• Hourglass Plot : When Geordi gets captured by Bochra, Geordi tries to persuade him to work together so that they get off Galordon Core, but Bochra doesn't believe him, and would sooner stay on the planet than potentially be captured. Later, when Geordi's VISOR shorts out and he's blinded, Geordi's about to give up when Bochra convinces him that they'll make it if they can connect his VISOR with his tricorder to scan for the neutrino pulse.
• Idiot Ball : Tomalak crosses into Federation space and almost starts a war when the Romulan who was injured in the crash dies. A war which the Romulans would almost certainly have lost due to the Federation-Klingon alliance.
• Inspirational Insult : After Geordi's VISOR quits, he gives up hope of locating the beacon, leading Bochra to sneeringly ask him, "Do all humans give up so easily?" (The example is somewhat ambiguous; it's unclear whether Bochra was prodding Geordi to keep trying, or just venting his own frustration.)
• Let's Split Up, Gang! : Commander Riker orders the away team to split up individually. This is despite the fact that the weather is extreme, the team members must shout as loud as possible to be heard even when they are close together, and they have a very specific time constraint to regroup and beam away safely. Reality Ensues as Geordi gets lost and falls into a sinkhole when he is out of sight of the others, and can't be heard shouting for help over the sounds of the weather storm.
• MacGuffin : Patahk and Bochra's mission is one of these, since it serves only to get Romulans and Federation in a tense situation and is never explained beyond "Romulans gonna Romulan". Even though Picard initially refuses to release Patahk until he gets a damn good explanation for what Romulan soldiers were doing in Federation space, he allows Bochra to leave without even bringing up the matter.
• The Needs of the Many : Picard warns Worf that he has to take into account the needs of the many over Worf's personal issues with donating blood to a Romulan, a fact Worf himself accepts and even agrees with. Ultimately, however, Picard is willing to risk plunging the Federation into war to honor Worf's wishes.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished : Said verbatim by Geordi. Despite saving him from a rockfall, Bochra still views Geordi as a prisoner instead of a comrade.
• Perspective Flip : It's subtle, but in keeping with the theme of the episode, Picard's dialogue with Tomalak shows us what a Trek episode looks like from the opposite side of the viewscreen. Tomalak does exactly what Picard or Kirk would do in his place when he crosses the Neutral Zone to rescue a wounded crewman. This forces Picard into the role of the unreasonable alien seemingly more interested in protecting his territory than saving a life. Tomalak even attempts a Kirk Summation , which Picard shuts down with a dire threat: Tomalak : Territories? You would measure territories against a man's life? Picard : Commander, I am singularly impressed by your concern for a life. Do not risk any more lives by leaving the Neutral Zone. Picard out .
• Plot-Driven Breakdown : Geordi and Bochra both deteriorate physically in ways that necessitate the two working together in order to escape their predicament.
• Reasonable Authority Figure : Though stressing the importance of keeping Patahk alive, Picard won't order Worf to give blood against his wishes, even though Worf himself makes it clear that he would obey without question were Picard to do so.
• Wham Shot : As Geordi's walking to the neutrino probe, a second pair of feet emerges from behind a corner and starts walking after Geordi, and he gets knocked out by another Romulan officer, thereby confirming that Patahk was lying about being alone on the planet surface.
• Whole-Plot Reference : According to LeVar Burton , this episode was Star Trek 's homage to The Defiant Ones .
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! : Geordi has this exact reaction when Bochra still treats him like a prisoner after he rescues him.
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As Discovery enters the “Labyrinths” of Captain Burnham’s mind, fans should be reminded of a Star Trek: The Next Generation classic.

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With the release of this week’s “ Labyrinths ,” Star Trek: Discovery only has two more episodes to go before its series finale, which will have to wrap up not only its season-long Progenitor mystery but multiple character arcs at the same time. It’s a lot for one of the most action-adventure-oriented Trek series ever. Still, we didn’t mind that Discovery took a second to pause with an introspective episode before jumping back into the breakneck action of what will become the final two stories. In “Labyrinths,” Captain Burnham enters inside what she thinks is an ancient Betazoid book. Instead, she ends up in a mindscape created by her own subconscious.

This is classic Star Trek stuff, an entire sci-fi adventure that happens almost exclusively in the mind of one character but is full of emotional stakes that directly impact the physical stakes in the outside world. And, for longtime fans, the method by which Burnham ends up in this mindscape should seem very, very familiar, as it’s a callback to one of the most beloved Next Generation episodes of all time.

While onboard the Eternal Gallery and Archive, Book and Burnham finally locate the manuscript called Labyrinths of the Mind , written by Marina Derex, a Betazoid scientist who lived 800 years in the past, way back in the 24th century. Book and Burnham are told that nobody else before has requested this book, and we quickly find out why. When Burnham opens it and presses a specific panel, she’s zapped unconscious. Dr. Culber explains she’s been hit by a “nucleonic emitter,” which should ring some bells in the minds of people who love The Next Generation .

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Just before the end of The Next Generation’s fifth season, on June 1, 1992, the series dropped what is almost certainly its best standalone episode, “The Inner Light.” This story, from writer Morgan Gendel, begins with a different kind of archive in space: a probe sent by an ancient civilization from the planet Kataan. As in the new Discovery episode, Picard is zapped by a nucleonic beam, and ends up on the planet Kataan, which from the point-of-view of the 24th-century timeline, life has been extinct since the 14th century.

Discovery isn’t 10 centuries in the future from The Next Generation , but it is eight centuries ahead. This is one of those strange quirks of Discovery’s time-jump from the end of season 2. By leap-frogging beyond the The Original Series timeframe where the show began, the series is also now 800 years beyond The Next Generation . For people like Burnham, Culber, and Kovich, the fact that Jean-Luc Picard was one of the first humans to discover the Progenitor tech (in “The Chase”) means very little, he’s just some guy lost to history. And yet, it’s interesting that the timespan between Picard and the death of the planet Kataan is now comparable to the timespan between Discovery’s future and the now-classic era of The Next Generation .

But, one has to wonder, did the Betazoid Dr. Derex adapt technology from the Kataan probe to use in this manuscript? We know that the various scientists hid the clues to the Progenitor tech that were created in the 24th century during the Dominion War, which would be after the events of TNG’s “The Inner Light.” So, it’s totally conceivable that the technology of the nucleonic beam was adapted by Federation scientists, and used in this book, specifically.

Burnham’s journey differs from Picard’s in “The Inner Light,” of course. She’s totally aware of what is happening, and the projections from her mind, including a representation of Book, make her aware she’s in a mindscape puzzle, and that her goal is to get out. In “The Inner Light,” the world of Picard’s other life, living as Kamin, wasn’t a puzzle for him to solve, or really a quest of any kind. Instead, Picard was encouraged just to live out his days in that world. However, there was a ticking clock on the other end, and Crusher was concerned he might die if the nucleonic beam isn’t severed. This is paralleled in “ “Labyrinths” when Dr. Culber resists beaming Burnham out until the program has run its course.

What’s really fascinating about all of this is the idea that Burnham has to deal with herself before moving onward into the rest of the mission. It’s a ruminative episode, jammed in the middle of some action episodes, which also repeats Star Trek history. In 1992, “The Inner Light” was the penultimate episode of The Next Generation season 5. The episode that followed “The Inner Light,” was the time travel cliffhanger “Time’s Arrow Part 1,” which brought together the entire TNG crew on an epic quest. 

Discovery seems to be doing something similar; right toward the end of its own season 5, the captain of the ship goes on an inward journey, right before the next two episodes kick things into maximum warp. Captain Burnham is nothing like Captain Picard, but as Discovery proves, sometimes, the farther one travels, the less one knows. And when that happens, it’s time to chill out and get nucleonic.

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TNG’s finale “All Good Things” saw Captain Picard finally join his senior staff for a hand of poker, a gesture that meant more than it might seem.

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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, episode 25, "Tribunal", Chief O'Brien is arrested by the Cardassians and put on trial for supplying weapons to the Maquis. Outraged at the Cardassians arresting a Federation citizen without prior extradition negotiations, Starfleet decided to put pressure on the Cardassian Union. Picard's Enterprise was part of a small group of starships sent to the Federation-Cardassian border to demonstrate force and pressure the government into releasing O'Brien from prison . As O'Brien was Chief Petty Officer aboard the Enterprise, Picard and the crew had a personal stake in their assignment.

Due to Miles O'Brien being a background character in early episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation , he had various ranks, including Ensign and Lieutenant. He was finally confirmed to be a Chief Petty Officer in TNG season 4, episode 2, "Family".

Unfortunately, the presence of the USS Enterprise-D, USS Prokofiev, and the USS Valdemar wasn't enough to dissuade the Cardassian Union from their plan to execute Chief O'Brien and discredit the Federation . It was therefore up to the combined efforts of a mysterious Maquis informer and the crew of Deep Space Nine to expose the Cardassians' elaborate deception. Unmasking O'Brien's former colleague Raymond Boone (John Beck) as a Cardassian impersonator, Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) brought "Boone" to the tribunal, which swiftly brought the sham trial to a close.

What Happened To USS Enterprise-D Between TNG And Star Trek Generations?

The gap between the broadcast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 2, episode 25, "Tribunal" and the theatrical release of Star Trek Generations is reflected in the time that passes in-universe. When audiences next see the crew of the USS Enterprise-D, they're celebrating Worf's promotion to Lieutenant Commander in an elaborate holodeck hazing ritual. Beyond their attempts to pressure the Cardassian government to release Chief O'Brien, not much is known about what the Enterprise-D crew were up to between "All Good Things" and Star Trek Generations .

The Star Trek Generations version of the starship Enterprise has had several upgrades since the events of "All Good Things", suggesting a refit took place some time after the O'Brien situation. A refit would allow time for some much-needed downtime for the crew after the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale. Among the upgrades seen in Generations are additional science stations on the bridge, a chair for Worf at the tactical station, and new lighting was also fitted. It's just a shame that the upgrades to the Enterprise were so short-lived, as the ship crashed on Veridian III a few short months later.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation is the third installment in the sci-fi franchise and follows the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew members of the USS Enterprise. Set around one hundred years after the original series, Picard and his crew travel through the galaxy in largely self-contained episodes exploring the crew dynamics and their own political discourse. The series also had several overarching plots that would develop over the course of the isolated episodes, with four films released in tandem with the series to further some of these story elements.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.

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• Burnham's clever update of the Riker Maneuver in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8, saves the crew from the ruthless Breen attack.
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