The U.S.S. Enterprise is
called to aid the Dorian, a Federation ship that has
come under fire while transporting a Lumerian ambassador
to mediate a dispute in the Rekag-Seronia system. Picard
agrees to transport Ambassador Ves Alkar aboard the
Enterprise to insure Alkar safe passage. Alkar
transports aboard along with his aged mother, Sev Maylor,
who takes an instant dislike to Troi. After Alkar asks
Troi to use her empathetic powers to help him in the
negotiations between the Seronians and the Rekags,
Maylor insults Troi, sure that she is attracted to her
son. Upset, Troi shares her negative feelings about the
old woman with Riker. Both are surprised a few minutes
later when they are summoned to Alkar's quarters to find
that Maylor is dead. Since she is an empath, Alkar
requests she perform the customary Lumerian funeral
meditation with him, a process that leaves her feeling a
bit strange.
The Enterprise welcomes Alkar's two delegates, Jarth and
Liva, who are disturbed by the worsening fighting
between the warring factions. Alkar, however, remains
calm, and even insists on going to the negotiation site
without the protection of an Away Team. Later Troi joins
the group, Data and Riker in Ten-Forward and shocks her
crew members with her appearance and behavior. She
appears to be aging rapidly and dressing more
provocatively. In addition, she viciously attacks both
Jarth and Liva, prompting a stunned Riker to escort her
to her quarters. Once there, he is even more stunned
when Troi throws herself at him.
The next day, Alkar
arrives at Troi's quarters and upsets her by announcing
that he is transporting to the negotiation site without
her. She follows him to the transporter platform,
begging him to take her with him. Picard is shocked by
the change in her appearance — she is now a
white-haired, disheveled old woman. Unwilling to let
Alkar leave, she rushes toward him with a knife,
stabbing Picard in the arm when he steps in to stop her.
Security rushes both Picard and Troi to Sickbay, where
Nurse Ogawa notices a correlation between Troi's
condition and that of Maylor right before she died.
Unable to reach Alkar, Picard instructs Beverly to
perform an autopsy on the dead woman without her son's
approval. Beverly soon finds that Maylor was not really
Alkar's mother, but an unnaturally aged 30-year-old
woman. Alarmed, Picard transports to the negotiation
site and confronts Alkar, who reveals that he caused
both Maylor and Troi to age so rapidly. He used these
women — channeling his dark thoughts into them in order
to keep his own mind unhindered by unwanted emotions and
remain the perfect negotiator. Picard insists that Alkar
free Troi, but he refuses, and instead returns to the
negotiating table.
To save Troi and
outsmart Alkar, Beverly and Picard suspend Troi in a
deathlike state to sever Alkar's tie with her and force
him to turn to someone else. Alkar immediately beams
back aboard the Enterprise with Liva. After viewing
Troi's "dead" body, he prepares to perform the funeral
ritual with Liva, hoping to turn her into his new
psychic dumping ground. But at the minute the
transformation is about to take place, Picard transports
Liva, leaving Alkar alone with his terrible thoughts.
The psychic burden kills him just as Beverly revives a
shaken Troi. |
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Production: 229
Season: 6 Episode: 3
Air Date: 10.05.1992
Stardate: 46071.6 |
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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 |
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Charles O. Lucia as Alkar
Susan French as Maylor
Stephanie Erb as Liva
Rick Scarry as Jarth
J.P. Hubbell as Ensign
Lucy Boryer as Ensign Janeway
George D. Wallace as Admiral |
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| Boom mike visible: When Picard
talks to Alkar on the planet, the boom can be seen at
the top shortly before Alkar tells Picard about his
ability to channel his unwanted emotions to others. |
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Man of the People"
#40276-229
Written by
Frank Abatemarco
Directed by
Rick Kolbe
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Copyright 1992 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights
Reserved. This script is not for publication or
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lost or destroyed, please notify the Script Department.
FINAL DRAFT
JULY 24, 1992
STAR TREK: "Man Of the People" - 07/24/92 - CAST
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Man of the People"
CAST
PICARD ALKAR
RIKER MAYLOR
DATA TALMADGE (COM VOICE)
BEVERLY ADMIRAL SIMONS
TROI YOUNG ENSIGN
GEORDI LIVA
WORF JARTH
ENSIGN JANEWAY
NURSE OGAWA
COMPUTER VOICE
Non-Speaking Non-Speaking
SUPERNUMERARIES TWO SENTRIES
TECHNICIAN
TWO MED TECHS
TWO SECURITY GUARDS
A TECHNICIAN, CHIEF DANIELS
A DOCTOR
STAR TREK: - "Man Of the People" - 07/24/92 - SETS
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Man of the People"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
USS ENTERPRISE USS ENTERPRISE
MAIN BRIDGE
TRANSPORTER ROOM
READY ROOM
GYM
CORRIDOR
TROI'S OFFICE
TURBOLIFT
OBS. LOUNGE
TROI'S QUARTERS
ENGINEERING
TEN-FORWARD
BEVERLY'S OFFICE
SICKBAY
ALKAR'S QUARTERS
MORGUE
CONFERENCE CHAMBERS ANTEROOM
(ON SERONIA)
STAR TREK: "Man Of the People" - 07/27/92 - PRONUNCIATION
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Man of the People"
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
REKAG REH-kahg
FRATIS FRAY-tiss
ROHM GAH Rome-GAH
SEVI ROHM Sevvy-ROME
LIVA LEE-vuh
ALKAR ALL-kar
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