The Big Goodbye

This Story: Season 1 Episode 12 (production code 113)
TNG Overall: Episode 12
Trek Overall: Story 112, Episode 114
Airdate: 11 Jan, 1988
Written by Tracy Tormé
Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan

Notes

• This entire episode is an homage to “The Maltese Falcon“.
• The only episode of Star Trek: TNG won an Emmy award.  It was for “Outstanding Costumes for a Series”, and it was the only Star Trek episode ever to win a Peabody award.
• There was a break between the last episode in late November and this one on 11 Jan, presumably for the Christmas season.
• The only episode that shows Tasha Yar in command on the bridge.
• In the original production order, this episode was to come after “11001001“. If that had happened, the events of that episode would have explained the holodeck malfunctions in this episode.

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