Stardate 44631.2: The Enterprise finds the starship USS Brattain adrift in space, with all the crew except for the ship's Betazoid counselor dead. They appear to have killed each other. Neither the Brattain's not the Enterprise's engines are operational because they are trapped in a Tyken's Rift. While Troi is plagued by nightmares, especially one of a moon spinning around a planet, the rest of the Enterprise crew suffer from dream deprivation, which leads to hallucinations and increasing aggressiveness, just like it happened to the crew of the Brattain. Together with Data, Deanna finds out that her nightmare is actually a telepathic message from a third ship, asking to release hydrogen (=one electron spinning around a nucleus), which is also the reason why everyone else is not able to enter their REM sleep. Data vents the stored hydrogen from the Bussard collectors, thereby enabling an explosion that frees both ships.

• E16 Previous
• E18 Next