"Where Silence Has Lease" is the second episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is episode #28, production #128, written by Jack B. Sowards and directed by Winrich Kolbe.
Overview: The Enterprise becomes enveloped by a void in space where the crew are tested by a powerful alien presence.
On stardate 42193.6, the USS Enterprise is on a charting mission in the Morgana Sector, when Ensign Crusher soon picks up a strange cl...
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"Where Silence Has Lease" is the second episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is episode #28, production #128, written by Jack B. Sowards and directed by Winrich Kolbe.
Overview: The Enterprise becomes enveloped by a void in space where the crew are tested by a powerful alien presence.
On stardate 42193.6, the USS Enterprise is on a charting mission in the Morgana Sector, when Ensign Crusher soon picks up a strange cloud of pure blackness floating in space. He puts the anomaly on the main viewer noting that it visually blocks out the stars behind it. Captain Picard orders a probe to be launched, but as soon as it enters, it disappears. This alarms Worf who describes an old Klingon legend about a space creature that "devours entire vessels". Picard orders a second probe, but it too disappears upon entering.
Suddenly, the blackness expands and surrounds the Enterprise, but causes no harm. In the void, no stars are visible, but Picard decides to hold position...
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