Stardate 41209.2: An away team examining an apparent mass suicide on the science ship Tsiolkovsky brings a virus aboard the Enterprise that makes the crew forget their duty and behave irrationally. Riker and data find out that something similar happened a century earlier on the USS Enterprise under Captain Kirk, but the cure developed on that occasion doesn't help this time. Dr. Crusher keeps working on the problem. The situation becomes critical when Wesley locks himself up in the engine room and disables the propulsion systems, while a stellar fragment is approaching the ship. Data begins to re-install all the isolinear chips that Wesley removed, but the engines would come online a few seconds too late. Eventually it is Wesley who saves the ship when he suggests to use a tractor beam to push away the Tsiolkovsky, thereby gaining the missing time.

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