Who Watches the Watchers

This Story: Season 3 Episode 4 (production code 152)
TNG Overall: Episode 52
Trek Overall: Story 152, Episode 154
Airdate: 16 Oct 1989
Written by Richard Manning & Hans Beimler
Directed by Robert Wiemer

Notes

• Another of the 6,524 episodes of Star Trek filmed at Vazquez Rocks.
• Wesley Crusher does not appear in this episode.
• The episode title is a translation of the Latin phrase “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
• Dr. Pulaski is mentioned in this episode in passing in reference to a medical procedure she performed in the episode “Pen Pals“.  This is the last time the character is ever referenced on screen – by name.
• James Greene who plays a Federation officer here later appeared in a few other Trek episodes.  Specifically “The Reckoning” (Deep Space Nine) and “11:59” (Voyager).
• At the end off this episode, the Mintakans give Picard a tapestry that can be seen in Picard’s quarters multiple times between now and the end of the series.
• The events of this episode are later referenced in the episode  “Allegiance“.

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