"The Big Goodbye" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, first broadcast January 11, 1988. It is episode #12, production #113, teleplay written by Tracy Torme, and directed by Joseph L. Scanlan. The episode won a Peabody Award for 1987.
Overview: A computer malfunction traps Picard, Data, and Beverly in a 1940s gangster holodeck program.
The USS Enterprise heads to Torona IV to open negotiations with the insectoid Jaradan ra...
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"The Big Goodbye" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, first broadcast January 11, 1988. It is episode #12, production #113, teleplay written by Tracy Torme, and directed by Joseph L. Scanlan. The episode won a Peabody Award for 1987.
Overview: A computer malfunction traps Picard, Data, and Beverly in a 1940s gangster holodeck program.
The USS Enterprise heads to Torona IV to open negotiations with the insectoid Jaradan race on behalf of the Federation. The Jaradan are meticulous on procedure, and when the Federation last attempted to negotiate twenty years ago, a simple mispronunciation in the Federation's greeting led to the Jaradan refusal to talk until the present. Captain Picard has been given the honor to give the greeting, but rehearsing the statement has become tiring and opts to spend some time in the holodeck in a Dixon Hill story. On the holodeck, as Detective Hill, Picard takes up the case of Jessica Bradley, who believe Cyrus Redblock is trying to...
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