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Violations (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"Violations"
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
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Enterprise crew members discuss the telepathic abilities of the Ullians.
Episode no. Season 5
Episode 12
Directed by Robert Wiemer
Teleplay by Pamela Gray
Jeri Taylor
Story by Shari Goodhartz
T Michael
Pamela Gray
Featured music Dennis McCarthy
Production code 212
Original air date February 3, 1992 (1992-02-03)
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"Violations" is the 112th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 12th episode of the fifth season.

In this episode, a member of an alien delegation traveling on the USS Enterprise molests members of the crew using telepathy.

The Federation starship Enterprise conveys a delegation of Ullians to Calder IV. Tarmin, their leader, explains that Ullians are telepathic historians who conduct their research by retrieving long forgotten memories, and demonstrating this on volunteers by helping Keiko O'Brien recall a lost childhood memory, and revealing Dr. Crusher is thinking about her first kiss. Tarmin continues to explain their abilities that require years of training, and his son Jev, also part of the delegation, has not yet reached his potential. Jev is upset at this implication and leaves. Counselor Deanna Troi follows and talks to him, pointing out that her own mother, Lwaxana Troi, is also quite overbearing. After finding a common bond, Troi leaves for her quarters. While there, she recalls a romantic interlude with Commander William Riker, but as the memory gets more intense, Riker becomes more forceful, and suddenly he is replaced by Jev. Troi screams out in pain and collapses, later to be found in a coma.

Riker speaks to Jev as the last person seen talking to Troi, and asks if he would submit to medical tests to make sure the Ullians do not carry any harmful toxins or pathogens. Jev agrees, but later Riker suffers from a similar flashback and also collapses. Dr. Crusher's tests reveal nothing, but her scans of Troi and Riker show an electropathic activity typical of a rare neurological disorder, Iresine Syndrome. Captain Picard asks the Ullians if they would allow for further scanning, which Tarmin agrees to. None of the Ullians, nor any of their volunteers during the demonstration, show this disorder. Later, Dr. Crusher succumbs to a similar flashback, and Picard puts Commander Data and Geordi La Forge in charge of the investigation. Following Dr. Crusher's research, Geordi looks to other cases of Iresine Syndrome in Federation records, eventually discovering two that occurred on Hurada III while a Ullian delegation was present. Picard requests the Ullians to confine themselves to quarters until they resolve the issue.


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