Cause and Effect

Series :	The Next Generation	Rating :
Disc No :	5.4	Episode :	117
First Aired :	23 Mar 1992	Stardate :	45652.1
Director :	Jonathan Frakes	Year :	2368
Writers :	Brannon Braga	Season :	5
Guest Cast :	Kelsey Grammer as Captain Morgan Bateson Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren Patti Yasutake as Nurse Alyssa Ogawa Tracee Lee Cocco as Ensign Jae
Moral :	Persistence :  If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
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YATI :	This whole episode hinges on whether to use the tractor beam or the explosive decompression of the shuttlebay to avoid the collision with the Bozeman. Why not do both together?
Great Moment :	The destruction of the Enterprise.
Body Count :	The entire crew of the Enterprise is killed many times over, but they're all alive again by the end of the episode.
Factoid :	Kelsey Grammer, who plays Captain Morgan Bateson in this episode, in most famous for his role as Dr. Frasier Crane.
Quote :	"Captain, perhaps you should come aboard my ship. There's something we need to discuss." - Picard to Bateson, trying to find a way to break the news gently.

Plotline

Strange things happen to the Enterprise-D... strange things happen to the Enterprise-D... strange things happen to the Enterprise-D... it turns out that Frasier is to blame.