Star Trek: The Next Generation: Skin of Evil (1988)

Date of Original Broadcast: 25 April 1988
Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Co-Executive Producers: Rick Berman, Maurice Hurley
Line Producers: David Livingston
Consulting Producers: Robert H. Justman
Associate Producers: Peter Lauritson

SCRIPT
Script: Joseph Stefano, Hannah Louise Shearer
Story: Joseph Stefano
Executive Story Editors: Hannah Louise Shearer, Tracy Torme
Story Editors: Hans Beimler, Richard Manning

DIRECTION
Director: Joseph Scanlon

CAST
Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard)
Jonathan Frakes (Commander William T. Riker)
LeVar Burton (Lt Geordie LaForge)
Denise Crosby (Lt Tasha Yar)
Brent Spiner (Lt Commander Data)
Gates McFadden (Dr Beverly Crusher)
Marina Sirtis (Counsellor Deanna Troi)
Michael Dorn (Lt Worf)
Wil Wheaten (Wesley Crusher)
Mart McCesney (Armus)
Walker Boone (Assistant Chief Engineer Lynch)
Brad Zerbst (nurse)
Raymond Forchion (Lt Ben Prieto)
Majel Barrett (computer voice)

SUMMARY

A shuttle carrying Deanna Troi has crashed on a remote planet and an away team finds their rescue attempts blocked by the oil-like alien Armus. As the away team struggle to find a way to get to Troi and her pilot before it's too late, Tasha Yar has a fateful encounter with Armus...

TIMELINE

1988
February
1: USA - final working draft script completed

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Shroud - working title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Dreamwatch no.50 p.74
credits, review

KEYWORDS

aliens, the future, space travel, spaceships

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008