The Host
Joe Siegler
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The Host
This Story: Season 4 Episode 23 (production code 197)
TNG Overall: Episode 97
Trek Overall: Story 196, Episode 199
Airdate: 13 May 1991
Written by Michael Horvat and Jeri Taylor (Taylor is uncredited)
Directed by Marvin V. Rush
Notes
- The Trill are introduced here, along with their concept of symbiont and host. Their outward visual appearance is completely overhauled when we see them again in Deep Space Nine.
- Both Odan (the Trill) & Dr Crusher say transporting a Trill can damage the symbiont. This is later ignored when introduced as a regular character in Deep Space Nine.
- The shuttlecraft here was named after Professor Stephen Hawking.
- Gates McFadden was seven months pregnant when filming this episode. She said in interviews that she had wished that her first romantic story didn’t come while she was pregnant.
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[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 97 - The Host - 13 May 1991 1/2 "The one where Dr. Crusher gets some". Seriously, Dr Crusher gets involved with a mediator in a squabble between planets. Said guy is a Trill - their first appearance in Trek. While the concept we know from DS9 is here, but the look
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) December 21, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 97 - The Host - 13 May 1991 2/2 a bit different here. The mediator is hurt, requires the symbiont to be temporarily transplanted into Riker & then a female host, which doesn't do it for Crusher. The ep is a bit of a roller coaster for her emotions (and hormones).
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) December 21, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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