"Preemptive Strike" is the 176th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 24th and penultimate episode of the series' seventh and final season.
Prior to the episode's first airing on May 16, 1994, TV Guide presented a special retrospective issue devoted to the long-running series. In this issue the episode was listed with a different title (perhaps a working title), "The Good Fight".
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"Preemptive Strike" is the 176th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 24th and penultimate episode of the series' seventh and final season.
Prior to the episode's first airing on May 16, 1994, TV Guide presented a special retrospective issue devoted to the long-running series. In this issue the episode was listed with a different title (perhaps a working title), "The Good Fight".
"Preemptive Strike" concluded the plotline involving the character Ro Laren. In this episode, the recurring character Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes), a court-martialed Starfleet officer who first appeared in the episode “Ensign Ro”, finds her loyalties divided between Starfleet and a group of resistance fighters who oppose the Cardassian Union, as she and her fellow Bajorans once did.
The episode opens with Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard dictating into his Captain’s log that his ship is en route to a meeting where he will receive a briefing concerning the...
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