Genesis (TNG episode)

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Star Trek: TNG episode
"Genesis"
Episode no.	171
Prod. code	271
Airdate	March 21, 1994
Writer(s)	Brannon Braga
Director	Gates McFadden
Guest star(s)	Patti Yasutake Dwight Schultz Carlos Ferro Rusty McLennon
Year	2370
Stardate	47653.2
Episode chronology
Previous	"Eye of the Beholder"
Next	"Journey's End"

"Genesis" is a seventh-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.

Worf fires a torpedo that veers off course, and Captain Picard and Data go off to retrieve it from space. Data leaves his pregnant cat, Spot with Barclay. Meanwhile, Barclay begins to feel sick, so Dr. Crusher gives him a synthetic T-cell to activate one of his dormant genes. Unfortunately, it activates all of them.

People on the ship begin to feel fatigued and either hot or cold. Worf begins to act especially strange. While Deanna Troi feels cold, Worf feels hot.

When they have retrieved the torpedo from space, Captain Picard and Data return to find the ship adrift, with the main power offline. They find some members of the crew who have de-evolved. Deanna Troi de-evolved into an amphibian who had been extinct for millions of years. They also find Spot's newborn kittens, who look really hungry. Spot had turned into an iguana.

In the end, Data releases a substance into the air which returns everyone to their original state. The virus is named after Barclay (Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome, see Spot).

Preceded by: "Eye of the Beholder"

Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes

Followed by: "Journey's End"

[edit] Trivia

• This was the only Next Generation episode directed by Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher).

• In Sickbay, Worf sprays Dr. Crusher with venom in his newly de-evolved state. In the next scene, Dr. Ogawa states that she was able to put Dr. Crusher into stasis to prevent further degradation in her condition. One of the main reasons for this plot development was so that Gates McFadden would have less screen time and more time directing the episode.