ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Homeward</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="595" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="150" VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/Next-Gen-Logo.gif" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="117" BORDER="0" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Homeward'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 265)<BR>by Naren Shankar<BR>Television Story by Spike Steingasser</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="200" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/STTNG S7 Cast.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="143" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Cast"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> The <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> receives a distress call from Lieutenant Worf's foster brother, Nikolai Rozhenko, currently a cultural observer stationed on Boraal II; the planet's atmosphere is being wiped out by plasmonic reactions, and will be destroyed in less than thirty-eight hours. The Boraalans have a low-technological society, and so Worf beams down to the surface disguised as a native; he quickly finds his brother, also disguised as a Boraalan, waiting in a cave together with several villagers. When the two brothers return to the <I>Enterprise</I>, Nikolai asks Captain Picard to help save some of the villagers from the impending disaster; however, the captain refuses, stating that it would violate the Prime Directive, and he then orders Nikolai to remain on board the ship. However, after the planet has been destroyed, Worf detects a power drain; an investigation traces the fault to the Holodeck - where the Klingon is shocked to find that Nikolai has created a replica of the village, and is now hiding the Boraalan villagers inside it... <BR><BR> Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Penny Johnson (<B>Dobara</B>), Brian Markinson (<B>Vorin</B>), Edward Penn (<B>Kateras</B>), Paul Sorvino (<B>Nikolai</B>), Susan Christy (<B>Tarrana</B>), Majel Barrett (<B>Computer Voice</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Alexander Singer <BR>Produced by Ronald D. Moore and Peter Lauritson <BR>Co-Produced by Brannon Braga <BR>Executive Producers Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller and Rick Berman </B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>17th January, 1994 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>