Brothers (TNG episode)
| "Brothers" | |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Rob Bowman |
| Written by | Rick Berman |
| Featured music | Ron Jones |
| Cinematography by | Marvin Rush |
| Production code | 177 |
| Original air date | October 8, 1990 |
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"Brothers" is the 77th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the third episode of the fourth season.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise-D. In this episode, Commander Data (Brent Spiner) aborts an emergency mission and hijacks the Enterprise in response to a homing command from his "father".
A misguided prank between two young brothers exposes one of them to a toxic parasite that cannot be treated aboard the USS Enterprise, but Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) is able to stabilize his condition in a controlled environment in Sickbay while the ship sets out for a facility that can cure the boy. As Commander Data (Brent Spiner) escorts the older brother to visit his sibling, he suddenly stops and returns to the bridge where, unseen by the crew, he triggers a life support alarm causing the evacuation of the bridge to be ordered. Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) orders Data to transfer the controls to Engineering, but Data instead mimics Picard's voice and locks down the commands of the ship to the bridge, directing the starship to an unknown planet. The crew discover Data's lock-down and disable the transporter's site-to-site function to prevent Data from easily moving about the ship. Once the Enterprise is in orbit of the planet Terlina III, he creates a programmed sequence of force fields to allow him to move from the bridge to the nearest transporter room without being stopped by security, and then beams down to the planet, leaving the Enterprise still under his lock-down. Picard orders his crew to attempt to override Data's lock-down of the ship, while Dr. Crusher attempts to keep the infected boy stabilized.
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