Hero Worship (TNG episode)
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| Star Trek: TNG episode | |
| "Hero Worship" | |
 "Hero Worship". |
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| Episode no. | 111 |
|---|---|
| Prod. code | 211 |
| Airdate | February 9, 1992 |
| Writer(s) | Joe Menosky Story by Hilary J. Bader |
| Director | Patrick Stewart |
| Guest star(s) | Joshua Harris (actor) Harly Venton |
| Year | 2368 |
| Stardate | 45397.3 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "New Ground" |
| Next | "Violations" |
Hero Worship is an episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
[edit] Quick summary
The Enterprise encounters an attacked ship and Data, Geordi and Riker beam to it. Everybody they see on the ship is dead apart from a young boy, Timothy, the only survivor.
Timothy tells them that his ship was attacked by some unknown aliens. He is very afraid and only trusts Data. Deanna tells Data to spend time with Timothy in order to get to know more about him.
Timothy is fascinated by the android and starts behaving like him because androids do not have any emotions. Timothy intimates that he has nightmares and is very afraid, but by behaving like an android he can suppress his emotions.
Picard finds out that the ship was not destroyed by aliens, and demands that Timothy tell the truth. Finally, Timothy admits that he has killed the crew of his ship by having pressed a button which caused the destruction of his ship. Data tells him that it is not possible that he is responsible for the death of the people on the ship; no ship is able to destroy itself in such a fashion, as specific voice commands must be used to initiate self-destruct and it is not possible to do so with an errant touch of a control panel.
Then, a shock wave hits the Enterprise and Timothy says that his ship was also hit by a shock wave. Picard tells Worf to raise shields but a new shock wave is even stronger than the first one. More power is diverted to the shields and another wave hits and is even stronger. Picard and Geordi discuss putting the energy of the warp engine to the shields. Timothy states that is what they said on his ship.
Data suddenly asks Picard to lower shields and Worf does so. The next shock wave is harmless and the Enterprise is safe. Data realized that giving energy to the shields caused ever heavier shock waves (the more power the ship generated, the heavier the shock), and these were ultimately responsible for the destruction of Timothy's ship.
[edit] Trivia
This was the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation filmed during Gene Roddenberry's lifetime.
This episode marks the first onscreen mention of the Breen. That race would not actually appear onscreen, however, until Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
[edit] External links
- Hero Worship article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
- Hero Worship (TNG episode) at StarTrek.com
