"Journey's End" | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation episode | |
Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 20 |
Directed by | Corey Allen |
Story by |
Ronald D. Moore Shawn Piller (idea) Antonia Napoli (idea) |
Teleplay by | Ronald D. Moore |
Featured music | Jay Chattaway |
Production code | 272 |
Original air date | March 28, 1994 |
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"Journey's End" is the 172nd episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and is the 20th episode of the seventh season.
Wesley Crusher questions his future as the Enterprise is under orders to forcibly remove the descendants of native North Americans (here called 'Indians') from a planet being yielded to the Cardassians.
The Federation has agreed to turn several colonized planets over to the Cardassians as part of a long-disputed treaty. The Enterprise, among other Starfleet ships, are assigned the task of relocating these Federation colonists. Admiral Alynna Nechayev warns Captain Picard that the colonists of Dorvan V are Native American settlers that wanted to create a new home for their culture, and Picard is to remove them by any means necessary. Before the Enterprise sets off for Dorvan V, Wesley comes aboard as a vacation from Starfleet Academy. However, his mother Dr. Crusher and his former crewmates find him snappish and depressed.
At Dorvan V, Picard negotiates with the tribal council, led by Anthwara. Picard suggests that they found three other nearby homeworlds with similar conditions, but Anthwara insists that they must stay at Dorvan V, as their ancestors had spent 200 years to find a world with the right spiritual properties, and believes it would take just as long to find another. Anthwara reveals that Picard's ancestors had been involved with the Pueblo Revolt in the 17th century and that he carries some of that guilt to try to sway the Captain, a thought that troubles Picard. Wesley, meanwhile, meets Lakanta, one of the colony's holy men, who instructs him to go on a vision quest. During this, Wesley talks to his long-dead father, Jack Crusher, who suggests that Wesley is bound for a different destiny than his own.