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| Series : | The Next Generation | Rating : |  |
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| Disc No : | 6.6 | Episode : | 149 | |||||
| First Aired : | 24 May 1993 | Stardate : | 46915.2 | |||||
| Director : | LeVar Burton | Year : | 2369 | |||||
| Writers : | Michael A. Medlock | Season : | 6 | |||||
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| Plotline : | Riker must confront a duplicate of himself accidentally created and stranded on a barren planet eight years ago. | |||||||
| Analysis : | Another good performance by Frakes makes this one an interesting episode. | |||||||
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| YATI : | Surely Lieutenant Riker should get the same promotion as Commander Riker did for his actions on Nervala IV. They were both the same person then, after all. | |||||||
| Great Moment : | The special effects shots showing the two Rikers together are superb - especially the scene in which one Riker puts a trombone down and then the other picks it up in the same shot. | |||||||
| Body Count : | Zero. | |||||||
| Factoid : | The original intent of the writing staff was, amazingly, to kill Commander Riker and move Data up to first officer, permanently keeping the duplicate Riker as a much more career-hungry younger self still in love with Troi! When Berman and Piller refused to allow this it was decided to kill off the younger Riker, but Piller suggested a more surprising ending would be to allow both to live. | |||||||
| Quote : | "It pulses unendingly all through the night..." - Riker's poem. I fall about laughing whenever I hear this line! | |||||||
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| Images : | 
People William Thomas Riker
People Lieutenant Palmer 
Planets Nervala IV 
General Images DITL General Image #59 |
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