ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Sub Rosa</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>'Sub Rosa'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 266)<BR>by Brannon Braga<BR>Television Story by Jeri Taylor</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> is in orbit around Caldos IV, an Earth colony styled after a village in the highlands of Scotland. Here Doctor Crusher is to attend the funeral of her recently deceased grandmother, Felisa Howard; meanwhile Captain Picard and his crew assist Governor Maturin with work on the weather control units, in exchange for a tour of the colony. At the service, Beverly is intrigued when a strange, handsome young man throws a camellia, Felisa's favourite flower, into the grave. Returning to her grandmother's house, Beverly finds an old candle, which represents  the enduring Howard spirit', and her grandmother's old journals; however, she is interrupted from reading them by Ned Quint, a belligerent old man who has taken care of the house for the past five years. Ned insists that she throw out the candle, claiming that it brought the Howard women nothing but bad luck, but Beverly refuses on the grounds that it has been in her family for generations. Later, on the <I>Enterprise</I>, Lieutenant LaForge and Lieutenant Commander Data investigate a power fluctuation in the colony's weather controls; meanwhile, in her quarters, Beverly becomes engrossed in Felisa's journals, and is surprised to learn that she had a young lover named Ronin. That night, while she sleeps, Beverly feels as though caressed by a lover s hands; hearing a man's voice, she awakes, but finds no one else in the room. The following morning, she visits Felisa's grave and again encounters Ned; he warns her that the house is haunted and tells her not to light the candle as it will summon a ghost, which he believes was responsible for Felisa's death. After he leaves, Beverly notices that her grandmother's bare grave is now covered with camellias; a violent storm then breaks out, forcing her to return to the house, but when she arrives, she is astonished to find that it too has been filled with camellias. Searching the house, she hears the man's voice once again; it identifies itself as Ronin, explaining that it is a ghost that has loved the Howard women in for eight hundred years. Ronin then tells Beverly that he loves her - and she succumbs to his passionate caresses& <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>), Michael Keenan (<B>Maturin</B>), Shay Duffin (<B>Ned Quint</B>), Duncan Regehr (<B>Ronin</B>), Ellen Albertini Dow (<B>Felisa</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Jonathan Frakes <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>31st 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>