"The Game" is the 106th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode has an average rating of 3.4/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of September 12, 2007).
The episode opens with William Riker visiting Risa and being introduced to a video game by Etana Jol, a Ktarian woman with whom he has become romantically involved during his vacation on the pleasure planet. Riker, upon his return to the Enterprise, distributes replicated copie...
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"The Game" is the 106th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode has an average rating of 3.4/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of September 12, 2007).
The episode opens with William Riker visiting Risa and being introduced to a video game by Etana Jol, a Ktarian woman with whom he has become romantically involved during his vacation on the pleasure planet. Riker, upon his return to the Enterprise, distributes replicated copies of the game to the crew of the starship.
Cadet Wesley Crusher, on vacation from Starfleet Academy, is visiting the Enterprise and notices everyone playing the game (and trying to convince him to play as well). Doctor Beverly Crusher, Wesley's mother, secretly switches off Lieutenant Commander Data and sabotages his circuits, because he would be immune to the game's addictive properties—it addicts people who play it by stimulating the pleasure centers of their brains when they successfully complete each level.
Wesley reports to Captain Jean...
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