Answering a request for
asylum from a Romulan scout ship, the crew beams aboard.
Although he claims to be a low-ranking logistics
officer, the vessel's pilot, Setal, shares a startling
revelation: the Romulans have established a base on
Nelvana III, from which they plan to launch a major
offensive to reclaim the Neutral Zone. Informing Picard
that the assault against the Federation will begin in 48
hours, the Romulan defector begs the captain to destroy
the base to prevent a catastrophic war.
Without firm evidence supporting Setal's claims, Picard
fears that Setal's story may be a Romulan ploy to trick
the U.S.S. Enterprise into initiating war. His
suspicions are heightened when Setal informs Picard that
he is really a Romulan Admiral named Jarok, who once led
a massacre of Federation outposts. Although Jarok now
claims that he only wants to keep the peace, Worf alerts
Picard that Klingon ships in the area have warned him
not to trust the Romulan, since his race had once
tricked a great Klingon commander into appearing the
aggressor in a war.
With time running out
on a volatile situation, Picard meets with his security
officer, Worf, and then leads the U.S.S. Enterprise
through the Neutral Zone to Nelvana III. When a closer
probe of the planet reveals no Romulan power base, Jarok
is dumbfounded.
Suddenly, the U.S.S.
Enterprise is surrounded by three Romulan warships and
ordered to surrender by Tomalak, a commander who once
confronted Picard over a skirmish in the Galorndon Core.
Picard realizes that Jarok, who had recently been
reassigned to a position of lower rank, was used by the
Romulans to lure the U.S.S. Enterprise into a trap. The
information about the base was all just a ruse to test
Jarok's loyalty to his leaders.
Picard refuses
Tomalak's demands that the crew surrender and, at a
prearranged moment, three Klingon warships uncloak,
surrounding the Romulan ships. The odds stacked against
him, Tomalak backs down and retreats, promising Picard
that they will meet again. Knowing that his defection
has cost him his family and his homeland, a despondent
Jarok commits suicide. |
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Production: 158
Season: 3 Episode: 10
Air Date: 01.01.1990
Stardate: 43462.5 |
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Patrick Stewart as
Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as William Riker
Brent Spiner as Data
LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Worf
Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher |
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Andreas Katsulas as
Tomalak
James Sloyan as Setal/Jarok
S.A. Templeman as John Bates
Stack Pierce as Admiral Haden |
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| Episode "The Defector" (3.10)
begins with Data rehearsing a scene from Shakespeare's
Henry V, while being watched by Jean-Luc Picard, played
by Patrick Stewart. In the play scene the part of
Williams (being acted by a holodeck construct) is also
played by Patrick Stewart under heavy makeup. It is
notable that only Bates, the one other character in the
scene, is credited at the end of the episode. |
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"The Defector"
(f.k.a. "A Question of Trust")
#40273-158
Written by
Ronald D. Moore
Directed by
Robert Scheerer
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Copyright 1989 Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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Reserved. This script is not for publication or
reproduction. No one is authorized to dispose of same. If
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REVISED FINAL DRAFT
OCTOBER 16, 1989
STAR TREK: "The Defector" - 10/16/89 - CAST
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"The Defector"
CAST
PICARD
Romulans
RIKER
SETAL/ADMIRAL JAROK
DATA
TOMALAK
BEVERLY
TROI
GEORDI
WORF
COMPUTER VOICE
JOHN BATES
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
ADMIRAL HADEN (STARFLEET)
Non-Speaking
TWO SECURITY OFFICERS
SUPERNUMERARIES
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