The U.S.S. Enterprise
travels to the planet Atrea IV in order to avert an
impending natural disaster. Husband-and-wife scientists
Pran and Juliana Tainer explain that Atrea's molten core
is solidifying, a condition that will eventually render
their planet uninhabitable. Data suggests re-liquefying
the core by injecting plasma directly into the planet's
center, and Pran and Juliana agree to try. After the
meeting, Juliana approaches Data with some surprising
news — she was once married to Dr. Soong and is, in
effect, his mother. She explains that Data doesn't
remember her because his memory was erased shortly
before the Crystalline entity's attack on Omicron Theta.
Soong intended to reactivate Data, but he and Juliana
were forced to flee without him. Data breaks the news
that Dr. Soong is dead, and Juliana is clearly shaken.
She tells Data she hopes to spend time with him, but he
is disturbed by the fact that he has no memory of her.
Later, Data confides to Troi that he is confused as to
how his own mother could never attempt to contact him,
and Troi encourages him to confront Juliana. The next
day, Juliana fills Data in on his childhood while they
prepare to fire the first phaser blast to enter the
magma pockets. The process goes smoothly, and Data takes
Juliana back to his quarters, where he plays the violin
for her. She is impressed with his talent, and is also
interested in his paintings, particularly one of his
late daughter, Lal. When he tells Juliana that he hopes
to have another child, she admits that she was against
her husband creating Data because of the way Lore turned
out. She also reveals the painful truth that she and
Soong left him on Omicron Theta not because they had to,
but because she feared that If he were reactivated, he
would become evil, like Lore.
Data, Pran, and
Juliana travel to Atrea to set up the plasma infusion
units in the magma pockets. Pran notices the tension
between Data and his wife, and Data asks Juliana if she
would have left him behind if he were her biological
child. Juliana explains that while she loved him as if
she gave birth to him, she could not bear the thought of
being forced to dismantle him like she was with Lore.
Data accepts this and relaxes, but almost immediately
afterward, begins to sense something "strange" about his
mother. He begins to check her medical records but is
summoned to Transporter Room Two — one of the magma
pockets on Atrea has caved-in.
Since Pran Is injured
in the cave-in, Juliana returns with Data to finish the
work before the pocket collapses. They are able to
complete the job, but a series of severe tremors changes
the landscape and renders their beam-out point
unreachable. They must jump off a 30-foot cliff to reach
safety, and Data insists that Juliana make the jump. She
lands hard and is knocked unconscious, and her arm is
ripped off, revealing that she is an android.
Geordi La Forge
discovers an information chip inside Juliana's "brain,"
and Data inserts it into the Holodeck. Dr. Soong appears
and talks with Data, telling him that Juliana the
android was created after his wife, the human Juliana,
was mortally wounded in the Crystalline Entity attack.
Soong transferred her memories, and when she was
activated, she had no idea that she was an android.
Later, Troi encourages Data to let her live out her life
believing she is human. Her advice touches Data and he
keeps the secret, instead talking with his mother about
Soong's great love for her. Juliana leaves the
Enterprise happy, looking forward to her next visit with
her son. |
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Production: 262
Season: 7 Episode: 10
Air Date: 11.22.1993
Stardate: 47410.2 |
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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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Fionnula Flanagan as
Juliana
William Lithgow as Pran |
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| Continuity: When Data's
mother, Dr. Julianna Tanger, steps onto the transporter
pad, she is wearing heels. When the transport is
complete on the surface of Altria 4, she is wearing
low-heeled boots. |
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Inheritance"
#40277-262
Written by
Dan Koeppel
Directed by
Robert Scheerer
THE WRITING CREDITS MAY NOT BE FINAL AND SHOULD NOT BE USED
FOR PUBLICITY OR ADVERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT FIRST CHECKING
WITH THE TELEVISION LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
Copyright 1993 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights
Reserved. This script is not for publication or
reproduction. No one is authorized to dispose of same. If
lost or destroyed, please notify the Script Department.
FINAL DRAFT
SEPTEMBER 27, 1993
STAR TREK: "Inheritance" - 09/27/93 - CAST
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Inheritance"
CAST
PICARD JULIANA
RIKER PRAN
DATA SOONG
BEVERLY
TROI
WORF
GEORDI
Non-Speaking Non-Speaking
N.D. SUPERNUMERARIES N.D. ATREAN
STAR TREK: "Inheritance" - 09/27/93 - SETS
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Inheritance"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
USS ENTERPRISE USS ENTERPRISE
BRIDGE
ENGINEERING
TEN FORWARD
HOLODECK
DATA'S QUARTERS
SICKBAY
TRANSPORTER ROOM
OBSERVATION LOUNGE
FIRST MAGMA POCKET
SECOND MAGMA POCKET
SHAFT
NARROW PASSAGEWAY
STAR TREK: "Inheritance" - 09/28/93 - PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"Inheritance"
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
ATREA A-tree-uh
PRAN PRAN
MAVALA mah-VAH-lah
TERLINA tur-LEE-nah
FOURIER four-ee-YAY
CORVALLEN kor-VAL-len
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