"Descent" is a two-part episode from the sixth/seventh season of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
On the holodeck, Lt. Commander Data plays a game of poker with holographic representations of Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking (being played by himself). Answering a question from Sir Isaac, Data explains that the game is an experiment for understanding "how three of history's greatest minds would interact" ...
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"Descent" is a two-part episode from the sixth/seventh season of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
On the holodeck, Lt. Commander Data plays a game of poker with holographic representations of Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking (being played by himself). Answering a question from Sir Isaac, Data explains that the game is an experiment for understanding "how three of history's greatest minds would interact" in such a setting. Just as Hawking has won another hand, a red alert is issued and Data suspends the program.
The Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Starfleet outpost. On arrival, they send down an away team consisting of Riker, Worf, Data and another security guard. They find the entire crew of the outpost dead. Suddenly they are attacked by a group of Borg. During the course of the fire fight, Riker observes that the Borg are not acting like the Borg they have encountered previously. For starters, each of them is armed with energy...
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