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This Story: Season 7 Episode 7 (production code 259)
TNG Overall: Episode 159
Trek Overall: Story 251, Episode 261
Airdate: 1 Nov 1993
Written by Hilary J. Bader (and René Echevarria – uncredited)
Directed by Les Landau

Notes

• The final episode for Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: TNG.
• The only episode of TNG where Lwaxana appears, but Mr. Homn does not.  In real life Carel Struycken was unavailable at the time.  Homn is mentioned, however.
• Kirsten Dunst (at age 11) guest starred in this episode.
• The first time we ever saw Deanna’s father, who Deanna used to name the child she had in “The Child” from Season 2.
• The scene with Troi “jumping into space” was performed by Marina Sirtis herself.
• Data’s dream program from the episode before (Phantasms) is referenced.
• One of three episodes with no scenes on the bridge.  The other two are “Family” and “Liaisons“.
• The events of this episode are mentioned in the Deep Space Nine episode “The Muse“.
• In Star Trek: Picard, Riker & Troi have two kids.  The daughter was named Kestra after Deanna’s sister who is shown to have died in this episode.
• The wolf in the dream sequence was real, and nobody wanted to be on set with it, despite it being trained and with a handler.

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