"Samaritan Snare" Star Trek: TNG episode
"The Pakleds threaten Geordi in "Samaritan Snare".
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The USS Enterprise-D encounters a ship of strange aliens. These aliens, called Pakleds, request the Enterprise's help to fix their broken ship. Judging from the way the aliens discuss the problem, the crew thinks they are so unadvanced it's strange how they were able to fly the ship in the first place. The Enterprise agrees to send Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge over to fix the problem. In the Star Trek fictional universe, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is the Galaxy class starship that is the principal setting of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). ... A Pakled is a member of a fictional alien race in the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Geordi La Forge, a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and is the Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise-D and later the USS Enterprise-E, both under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. ...

Meanwhile, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is due for a medical operation: His artificial heart is starting to break down and he needs a replacement. Doctor Katherine Pulaski convinces him to go to a starbase for the operation, so he orders Ensign Wesley Crusher to take him there in a shuttlecraft. Jean-Luc Picard is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the USS Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and resulting films. ... Katherine Pulaski was the replacement Chief Medical Officer for Beverly Crusher during the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Wesley Crusher is a character on the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... A shuttlecraft, in the science fiction television and movie series Star Trek, is a smaller type of ship, usually capable of atmospheric transport, detachable from a larger starships shuttlebay. ...

In the Pakled ship, La Forge finds out that the Pakleds were only pretending that their ship was broken. Communications between the Enterprise and the Pakled ship reveal that the Pakleds are actually somewhat crafty and used a ruse to take La Forge hostage, wanting him to make them more weapons.

Meanwhile, Picard's operation is going wrong and he is about to die. The doctors call in Dr. Pulaski to save the day.

On the Enterprise, Commander William Riker and Lieutenant Worf covertly establish a plot with La Forge to amaze the Pakleds into thinking they are no match for the Enterprise. The plot, featuring a spectacular light show of hydrogen gas passed through a forcefield, works and the Pakleds release La Forge. William Thomas Riker is a fictitious character in the Star Trek universe played by Jonathan Frakes, who appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and all the movies focusing on the TNG characters. ... Worf (worIv in the Klingon language) is a Klingon in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... General Name, Symbol, Number hydrogen, H, 1 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 1, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 1. ...

Notes

• This episode is the first appearance of the Pakleds.
• This episode is the second (and final) appearance of Ensign Sonya Gomez on the TV show.
• This episode is the first to establish Picard's nearly fatal fight with Nausicaans in Starfleet Academy.

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Quotes

• "They used their crimson forcefield!" -Geordi