Emergence

"Emergence" is a seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which featured many surrealist elements. Quick Overview: The Enterprise shows signs it is developing an artificial intelligence. Lieutenant Commander Data is once again working on his acting, portraying Prospero from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" on the holodeck. Without warning a train, the Orient Express from another program, roars through the holodeck. Elsewhere on t... more

"Emergence" is a seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which featured many surrealist elements. Quick Overview: The Enterprise shows signs it is developing an artificial intelligence. Lieutenant Commander Data is once again working on his acting, portraying Prospero from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" on the holodeck. Without warning a train, the Orient Express from another program, roars through the holodeck. Elsewhere on the ship, a planetary survey is in progress, and Captain Picard gives the order to move to the next sector when the Enterprise suddenly goes into warp. Just as suddenly, the engines stop by themselves. Geordi La Forge discovers a theta flux distortion had been building up on the ship, and concludes that had the Enterprise not gone into warp precisely when it did, the ship would have been destroyed. Data theorizes that the Enterprise sensors picked up the distortion and triggered a safety feature, one that is not known to have been part of the... less