Transfigurations

"Transfigurations" is the title of an episode from the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Enterprise discovers a crashed escape pod in an unexplored star system. Investigating, they find there is one critically injured passenger in the pod, and the crew brings him aboard the ship. Dr. Crusher determines the survivor will live, due to the stranger's own amazing recuperative powers. Crusher also notes that the survivor's cells are ... more

"Transfigurations" is the title of an episode from the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Enterprise discovers a crashed escape pod in an unexplored star system. Investigating, they find there is one critically injured passenger in the pod, and the crew brings him aboard the ship. Dr. Crusher determines the survivor will live, due to the stranger's own amazing recuperative powers. Crusher also notes that the survivor's cells are mutating in some way. A couple of days later, the stranger finally awakens, but has no memory of his life or identity. The crew decides to call him "John Doe". Some time passes and John has recovered physically, but still has amnesia. In addition, from time to time he suffers from severe pain which is somehow tied to his ongoing mutation. He also begins emitting strange, bright energy bursts. John soon learns that he is able to use this energy to heal injuries. In the meantime, Geordi La Forge has determined the pod the Enterprise discovered... less