Stardate 44502.7: Just as the Enterprise is going to investigate an anomalous Class-M planet, the ship falls into a wormhole and the crew except for Data is rendered unconscious. The whole incident lasted only thirty seconds according to Data, but soon there is the suspicion that it must have been more than a day - supported by evidence like plants that have grown more than they should, a recent fracture of Worf's wrist, tampering with the computer and Troi's hallucinations about someone else being in her body. Is Data lying? Picard orders a course back to the planet. As the ship arrives, a Paxan occupies Deanna's body to speak for them. The xenophobic Paxans want to avoid any contact with other civilizations. They usually render every ship crew unconscious and alter their computer records. This didn't work with the Enterprise because Data was immune. They were about to destroy the Enterprise, but Picard ordered Data to be silent about the Paxans at any cost, and they did their best to eliminate all evidence. Picard asks the Paxans to try it again, and they are even more careful this time not to leave anything that needs to be investigated. In the end only Data knows about the Paxans.

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