Translated: Rodná hruda
Label: S01E18
Category: TNG - The Next Generation
Premiere: 22.02.1988
Dubbing: Yes
Year: 2364
Stardate: 41463.9
in TNG 17 of 176
in Star Trek 123 of 918
Description:
Stardate 41463.9: An away team from the Enterprise visits a terraforming station on Velara III, when an engineer is mysteriously killed by a laser drill. Data investigates the drill and is attacked himself, obviously with an adaptive control algorithm. Picard suspects that one of the three other engineers has tampered with the drill's controls. Data and Geordi, however, discover an inorganic structure emitting light in one of the drill tunnels. It is beamed up to the Enterprise, where Dr. Crusher confirms that it is alive. The lifeform begins reproduction, grows to a microbrain and takes over the science lab. It turns out that this lifeform actually killed the engineer in self-defense. Only by turning off the light in the science lab off that the lifeform needs as its energy source, Picard can convince it to leave the ship, and in turn he quarantines the planet so the lifeform would remain unharmed in the future.