ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Survivors</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>'The Survivors'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 151)<BR>by Michael Wagner</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="200" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/STTNG S3 Cast.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="140" 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 Rana IV, a remote Federation planet whose population is under attack. When an away team beams down to the surface they are shocked to discover that the planet has been obliterated and every one of the eleven-thousand inhabitants have been killed - except for a solitary, undamaged house containing two elderly survivors, Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge. However, the elderly couple cannot explain why they alone survived the destruction of their world, and refuse to leave their home. Meanwhile, Counselor Troi inexplicably begins to experience incessant music inside her mind, beating away at her senses and preventing her from reading the emotions of the Uxbridges. When the alien spaceship that previously attacked Rana IV returns to the planet and opens fire on the <I>Enterprise</I>, disabling its weapons systems, Captain Picard suspects that the warship somehow responded to the Uxbridges' wishes - but what is the connection, and are the elderly couple exactly all that they appear& ? <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>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Ensign Wesley Crusher</B>), John Anderson (<B>Kevin Uxbridge</B>), Anne Haney (<B>Rishon Uxbridge</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Les Landau <BR>Co-Produced by Hans Beimler and Richard Manning <BR>Executive Producers Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry </B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>9th October, 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, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data and Ensign Wesley Crusher <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>