Star Trek: The Next Generation: Too Short a Season (1988)

Date of Original Broadcast: 8 February 1988
Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Supervising Producers: Rick Berman, Robert H. Justman
Producers: Maurice Hurley
Co-Producers: Robert Lewin, Herbert Wright
Associate Producers: Peter Lauritson

SCRIPT
Script: Michael Michaelian, D.C. Fontana
Story: Michael Michaelian
Story Editor: Johnny Dawkins

DIRECTION
Director: Rob Bowman

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)
Clayton Rohner (Admiral Mark Jameson)
Marsha Hunt (Anne Jameson)
Michael Pataki (Karnas)
Majel Barret (computer voice)

SUMMARY

Admiral Mark Jameson is being taken to the planet Mordan IV where forty years before he started a war that is still raging. But Jameson has become addicted to an alien drug which gives him eternal youth but brings with it troubling side effects.

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Dreamwatch no.50 p.74
credits, review

BOOKS

Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (revised) p.43
article

KEYWORDS

aliens, the future, space travel, spaceships

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008