"Second Chances" is the 150th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 24th episode of the show's sixth season. It was first broadcast on May 24, 1993.
In this episode, Commander Riker comes face to face with an eerie duplicate of himself, created by a transporter phenomenon.
The Enterprise is assigned the mission of visiting planet Nervala IV to retrieve some important scientific data. The informati...
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"Second Chances" is the 150th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 24th episode of the show's sixth season. It was first broadcast on May 24, 1993.
In this episode, Commander Riker comes face to face with an eerie duplicate of himself, created by a transporter phenomenon.
The Enterprise is assigned the mission of visiting planet Nervala IV to retrieve some important scientific data. The information had been lost when a previous research team was forced to abandon the post. A nearly impenetrable distortion field makes use of the transporter impossible most of the time and problematic at best.
Commander Riker heads the away team. When the previous research team was rescued, Riker was serving as a lieutenant on the USS Potemkin, the ship which carried out the rescue; in fact Riker had been the last person to leave the science station.
Deep in the base, Riker and the away team confront Riker's double—a man who believes he had been left...
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