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The Next Phase (TNG episode)
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Star Trek: TNG episode
"The Next Phase"
Episode no. 124
Prod. code 224
Airdate May 18, 1992
Writer(s) Ronald D. Moore
Director David Carson
Guest star(s) Michelle Forbes
Thomas Kopache
Susanna Thompson
Kenneth Meseroll
Shelby Leverington
Brian Cousins
Year 2368
Stardate 45092.4
Episode chronology
Previous episode "I, Borg"
Next episode "The Inner Light"
The Next Phase is a fifth-season episode of Star Trek: The
Next Generation. Responding to a distress call from a Romulan
science ship, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge and Ensign
Ro Laren are lost in a transporter accident when returning
to the Enterprise with a faulty generator from the Romulan
ship.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The Enterprise receives a hail that the Romulans need help
with their ship, as it is suffering from systems failure.
Worf, Riker, Ro, and La Forge beam over, without weapons,
to assist. Ro and La Forge beam back to the Enterprise with
the Romulan warp engine so that it can be repaired, but the
transporter can not sustain their matter stream on the Enterprise.
Since the two do not return to the Romulan ship, and their
signal cannot be located, it is assumed that they are lost
completely.
The transporter is put offline until further notice, with
the crew using shuttles to travel back and forth to the Romulan
ship. Meanwhile, the away team continues to help the Romulans
with their repairs.
Ro wakes up in a hallway; she tries to contact the Bridge,
but her communicator does not work. She heads to Sick Bay,
where she finds that the automatic doors do not open for her
and people behave as though she were not there. She continues
to Dr. Crusher's office, where she finds Picard and Dr. Crusher
talking about her and La Forge's death. Ro attempts communication
with the Captain, but he doesn't see or hear her. Then, as
he exits, he walks right through her.
Ro then attempts to talk to Dr. Crusher, but again she is
not heard. Ro attempts to slam her fist on the desk in frustration,
but it goes right through. She continues to watch Dr. Crusher
fill out her death certificate as Riker and the away team
transfer power to the Romulan ship. Data, meanwhile, is investigating
the transporter accident that has occurred. He also asks if
he would be allowed to conduct the services for Geordi's (and
Ro's) death remembrance.
In Engineering, La Forge finds that he is faced with the
same oddity as Ro. Ro shows up in Engineering, and the two
find that they are able to see and hear each other. The two
of them talk about their problem and find that they are solid
only to each other. Ro tells La Forge that they are dead,
which Geordi refuses to believe. Ro confirms that Dr. Crusher
has made out their death certificates, saying that they died
in a transporter accident. Ro says that the two of them need
to make peace with their former lives, but an upset La Forge
tells her that she can do whatever she wants, but he is going
to Transporter Room 3 to solve their apparent problem.
Data links the cause of the accident with the explosion on
the Romulan ship. He detects a chronoton field, which could
be the cause of La Forge's and Ro's death. Geordi follows
Data to investigate. Meanwhile, Ro is on the bridge - to say
goodbye. She touches the chair and the comm panel, without
going through them. Riker and Picard appear on the bridge
and Ro follows them into the Captain's Ready Room, where they
talk about the memorial service. Riker says that he wants
to say something about Ensign Ro at the service, which surprises
her.
Ro then attempts to make peace with the Captain, by whom
she is still intimidated. She says "thank you" to
the Captain (who is still unaware of her) for trusting her
when no one else would. La Forge finds Ro to convince her
to help with the investigation on their supposed deaths. She
agrees to go with him to the Romulan ship.
On the shuttle en route, Worf helps Data decide on an appropriate
service for their dead comrades. Data had initially assumed
that a solemn, dignified service — reflecting human
and Bajoran cultures — would be in order (leading Ro
to groan at the prospect of having to sit through a two-hour-long
Bajoran "death chant"). Worf, however, says he is
happy for the lost officers, because they died as valiant
warriors and (in Klingon belief) have earned a joyous place
among the honored dead.
On the Romulan ship, Data continues his investigation of
the chronoton emissions. La Forge finds a molecular phase
inverter prototype that also has a cloaking device, based
on technology that the Klingons were previously developing.
Ro and Geordi deduce that they're cloaked and out of phase
with normal matter, and that they could be dephased somehow.
A seated Romulan glances at them as they discuss the device.
They also overhear the Romulans planning to make the Enterprise
explode when they engage the warp drive. As they leave the
ship, the Romulan follows them, walking through a table on
the way.
La Forge and Ro return to the Enterprise, and the out-of-phase
Romulan follows them. La Forge attempts to attract Data's
attention as he and a junior officer attempt to track down
unusual chronoton emissions in Main Engineering. The locations
of the emissions coincide with areas of the ship with solid
structures through which Ro and Geordi have passed while in
their phased state. Geordi creates more emissions by sticking
his hand repeatedly into different parts of the engineering
console — all the while talking to Data, urging him
to stop thinking so logically and to try using his imagination.
At one point, Data's "anyon beam" scanner shines
on La Forge's hand and partially (but only briefly) rephases
it. Data doesn't notice or hear Geordi, however, and doesn't
see any pattern in the chronoton emissions, and eventually
he abandons his investigation (to Geordi's great frustration).
The Romulan confronts Ro on the bridge. Armed with a disruptor
(which works in their out-of-phase condition because he had
been carrying it when he was phased), he says he overheard
the "science officer" (La Forge) talk about a way
to return them to normal, and he demands to know where Geordi
is. Ro takes him to another part of the ship, then attacks
him by surprise and flees. The Romulan chases Ro through much
of the Enterprise — both of them running through numerous
bulkheads along the way (it is never explained how they can
penetrate walls and objects but not floors). The Romulan also
fires his disruptor at Ro several times, hitting her in the
leg at one point. Their activity causes more chronoton emissions,
which attract Data's attention. As Data arrives at the crew
quarters where Ro and the Romulan are, Geordi slams into the
Romulan from behind, sending him sailing through the exterior
wall of the room and off into space.
By this time, repairs on the Romulan ship are complete. The
Romulan captain thanks an unsuspecting Picard for his assistance,
but Picard's order to engage the Enterprise's warp engines
is delayed at the last moment because Data's chronoton field
sweep is not yet complete. Ro and La Forge hope that the decontamination
process might make them visible long enough to attract someone's
attention and warn the Enterprise of the danger to the ship
from the Romulans' treachery, but their only hope is to go
somewhere with a lot of people — namely, their memorial
service in the Ten-Forward lounge.
In Ten-Forward, the memorial Data has arranged is much more
like a party than a funeral. Data asks Dr. Crusher what she
thinks, and she is pleased that everyone is happily sharing
their memories of the lost officers. Ro, armed with the disruptor
left behind by their out-of-phase Romulan attacker, starts
firing at random throughout Ten-Forward; the weapon causes
no harm to anyone or anything in the room, but it does register
a large increase in chronoton activity. In a final, desperate
effort to attract attention, Ro sets the disruptor to overload,
and when Data calls for another decontamination sweep with
anyon beams, the two missing officers become briefly visible
to Picard and Data. Data, finally figuring out that La Forge
and Ro are still alive and standing right in front of them
(but cloaked), orders a high-intensity anyon flood of Ten-Forward,
which finally returns the two officers to the normal phase
state. La Forge quickly orders the warp engines to be taken
offline — thus averting disaster — and he tells
Data he's "never been to a better funeral."
After the "funeral" is over, Geordi and Ro (who
hadn't been able to eat anything for two days, though curiously
were able to breathe) are filling up on leftovers. A brooding
Ro explains that the experience has left her unsettled and
confused regarding life after death and the other traditions
of her culture; she then tells Geordi, "I don't know
what to believe." La Forge suggests it would be a good
idea for the Federation to build its own interphase device:
"if it can teach Ro Laren humility, it can do anything."
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