Eye of the Beholder

"Eye of the Beholder" is an episode from the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. An Enterprise crew member named Lieutenant Daniel Kwan commits suicide seemingly at random while performing routine maintenance on the Enterprise's warp nacelle tube. He cryptically tells Riker "they were laughing at me" and "I know what I have to do", before jumping into the plasma discharge in the nacelle tube, vaporizing him. Captain Picard assigns W... more

"Eye of the Beholder" is an episode from the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. An Enterprise crew member named Lieutenant Daniel Kwan commits suicide seemingly at random while performing routine maintenance on the Enterprise's warp nacelle tube. He cryptically tells Riker "they were laughing at me" and "I know what I have to do", before jumping into the plasma discharge in the nacelle tube, vaporizing him. Captain Picard assigns Worf and Deanna Troi to investigate the circumstances surrounding Kwan's death. Troi and Worf search Kwan's quarters and look at his personal logs, but it does not appear that he was in any way unhappy. On the contrary, he appears to be excited about his next several days and the prospect of spending time with his girlfriend, Ensign Calloway. When interviewed, Calloway suggests that the only thing Kwan seemed to be at all unhappy about was that he felt that his superior officer, Lieutenant Nara, felt threatened by him. Troi then returns to the... less