ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Q Who</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>'Q Who'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 142)<BR>by Maurice Hurley</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="200" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/STTNG S2 Cast.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="142" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Cast"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> The omnipotent, extra dimensional being known as Q appears on the bridge of the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> and asks Captain Picard to become a member of the crew. But when Picard refuses, the enraged Q sends the ship hurtling off into a distant, unexplored part of the galaxy; here the <I>Enterprise</I> crew encounters a mysterious, cuboid spacecraft, and then two cybernetic beings appear in Main Engineering and begin draining information from the ship's computers. These part-organic, part-machine aliens are members of the Borg, a collective race that captures members of other species and then assimilates them into their number. Having determined the <I>Enterprise</I> defensive capabilities, the Borg vessel then demands the immediate surrender of the crew, so that they too can be added to the Borg Collective... <BR><BR> Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Wesley Crusher</B>), Whoopi Goldberg (<B>Guinan</B>), Diana Muldaur (<B>Doctor [Commander] Katherine  Kate Pulaski</B>), John de Lancie (<B>Q</B>), Lycia Naff (<B>Ensign Sonya Gomez</B>), Colm Meaney (<B>Transporter Chief Miles O Brien</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Rob Bowman <BR>Produced by Robert L. McCullough <BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry </B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>8th May, 1989 <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, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data, Doctor [Commander] Katherine  Kate Pulaski, Transporter Chief Miles O Brien, Wesley Crusher and Guinan <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>