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  1. 1. What rating would you give Home Soil?

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    • 4. It?s good.
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    • 3. It?s average.
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    • 2. It?s not that good.
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    • 1. I hated it.
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Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season: 1

Episode #: 17

Production #: 117

Episode Name: Home Soil

Original Air Date: 02.22.88

 

The Enterprise is sent to Velara III seeking an update on a terraforming project underway on the planet. When a terraformer is killed in an attack, the crew investigates. Onboard the Enterprise it is discovered that the planet is inhabited by a silicon-based lifeform that had gone undetected when the planet had been chosen for terraforming. The lifeform, nicknamed "Microbrain", was defending itself against the perceived attack of the terraformers when it killed the terraformer. Picard and crew must find a way to end the "war" and return the lifeform to its planet.

 

Cast:

 

Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes as William Thomas 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

Denise Crosby as Natasha (Tasha) Yar

Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher

 

Guest Cast:

 

Walter Cotell as Kurt Mandl

Elizabeth Lindsey as Louisa Kim

Gerard Prendergast as Bjorn Benson

 

Director: Corey Allen

Teleplay By: Robert Sabaroff

Story By: Karl Geurs, Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff

 

Related Items:

Velara III

Velarans

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A very "technology" heavy episode this one.

 

Interesting in the sense that terraforming can uncover many problems with planets that "seem" to be uninhabited.

 

I must say though, that I HATE it when they use numbers for planets, like Velera III and Rigel IX and so forth. I'm not sure why, but it seriously annoys me.

 

This is the "ugly bags of mostly water" episode, although "Microbrain" wasn't a very nice name for these aliens.

 

I liked the scene where the laser gun tries to kill or destroy Data. That was pretty cool.

 

This episode gets a rating of 1.

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one of the worst TNG episode I have seen. An entire episode based around small crystals as a villian is about as exciting as it sounds, it's not. I constantly watch the clock and half way fall asleep when I watch it. It barely has any replay value but isn't unwatchable

 

** out of *****

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