"The Bonding" is the 53rd episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the fifth episode of the show's third season. It was first broadcast on October 23, 1989. The episode was the first to be written by popular Star Trek: The Next Generation series writer Ronald D. Moore, who wrote it as a spec script.
In this episode, a crewmember of the Federation Starfleet starship USS Enterprise is killed in a tragic ac...
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"The Bonding" is the 53rd episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the fifth episode of the show's third season. It was first broadcast on October 23, 1989. The episode was the first to be written by popular Star Trek: The Next Generation series writer Ronald D. Moore, who wrote it as a spec script.
In this episode, a crewmember of the Federation Starfleet starship USS Enterprise is killed in a tragic accident, leaving behind a young son who must deal with her death.
An away team performing a scientific investigation of a deserted planet once inhabited by a race called the Koinonians accidentally triggers an ancient mine, and ship's archaeologist Lt. Marla Aster is killed. In Sick bay, Lt. Worf, the leader of the away team, reports to Captain Jean-Luc Picard that Aster was only 3 meters away from him when the explosive went off, adding that nothing showed on their tricorders and that there was no warning.
Sadly, Aster has a 12 year old son,...
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