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Starship Mine

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on February 8, 2025March 13, 2025
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Starship Mine

This Story: Season 6 Episode 18 (production code 244)
TNG Overall: Episode 144
Trek Overall: Story 238, Episode 246
Airdate: 29 Mar 1993
Written by Morgan Gendel
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

  • The first appearance of Tim Russ in Star Trek, although not as Tuvok, his most famous character.
  • Two costumes worn here by the would be thieves were worn later by a race called the Serbians in the Voyager episode “Revulsion“.
  • It appears that Picard gave Tim Russ’ character a Vulcan nerve pinch.  While Spock stated it is possible for a human to do that, it’s never been seen before.  Theory is that Picard’s mind meld with Sarek left him with the ability to do that.
  • The “toxic waste” here is named as Trilithum, explained here as a “byproduct of the ship’s engines”. In “Star Trek: Generations” it’s explained as something way more powerful.  It was also used in a bomb the Dominion used when they attempted to destroy the Bajoran sun in DS9’s “By Inferno’s Light“.
  • The only time the race called the Sheliak are mentioned outside the one episode they appeared in – “The Ensigns of Command“.

Links

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#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 144 - Starship Mine - 29 Mar 1993 1/2 Basically, "Die Hard on the Enterprise". The ship is vacated due to a maguffin, leaving Picard alone. He has to stop a band of people who are trying to steal toxic waste from the ship. That's the extent of it, but it's a fun

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM

#StarTrekMarathon TNG Ep 144 - Starship Mine - 29 Mar 1993 2/2 one to watch. The first ever appearance in #StarTrek by Tim Russ (later Tuvok in Voyager) Data's small talk B-plot was quite amusing. Picard's a bit more cold blooded than usual here, directly leading several people to their deaths.

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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