TNG Episode - Second Chances

Series :

The Next Generation

Rating :

Disc No :

6.6

Episode :

149

First Aired :

24 May 1993

Stardate :

46915.2

Director :

LeVar Burton

Year :

2369

Writers :

Michael A. Medlock

Season :

Guest Cast :

Dr. Mae Jemison as Lieutenant Palmer	Jonathan Frakes as Lieutenant William Thomas Riker
Tracee Lee Cocco as Lieutenant Jae

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.

Guest Reviews :

Rating :

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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!

Datapoints :

Food :	Valerian Root Tea
People :	Deanna Troi, William T. Riker
Planets :	Nervala IV
Scitech :	Distortion field
Ship Classes :	Intrepid Class
Ship Names :	Ambassador Class : NCC 26632 USS Gandhi
Timeline :	2359, 2361

Images :

People
William Thomas Riker

People
Lieutenant Palmer

Planets
Nervala IV

General Images
DITL General Image #59

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Last updated : 24 Jan 2004