"Genesis" is the nineteenth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation's seventh season, which first aired on March 19, 1994. Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Data return to the USS Enterprise to discover the rest of the crew de-evolved into more primitive forms of life, including spiders, amphibians and cave men. The episode is the first and only to be directed by Gates McFadden, who portrayed Dr. Beverly Crusher, and was written by Star Trek creator ...
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"Genesis" is the nineteenth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation's seventh season, which first aired on March 19, 1994. Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Data return to the USS Enterprise to discover the rest of the crew de-evolved into more primitive forms of life, including spiders, amphibians and cave men. The episode is the first and only to be directed by Gates McFadden, who portrayed Dr. Beverly Crusher, and was written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and writer Brannon Braga. Its title refers to Genesis, the first book of the Christian Old Testament and Hebrew Bible.
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The given stardate is 47653.2, the year 2370. Worf fires a torpedo that veers off course during weapons exercises, and Picard and Data leave in a shuttlecraft in order to retrieve it from space. Data leaves his pregnant cat, Spot, with Barclay. Barclay, a hypochondriac, visits Crusher, who gives him a synthetic T-cell to activate one of his dormant genes. However it has the undesired...
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