Peak Performance

This Story: Season 2 Episode 21 (production code 147)
TNG Overall: Episode 47
Trek Overall: Story 147, Episode 149
Airdate: 10 Jul 1989
Written by David Kemper
Directed by Robert Scheerer

Notes

• The Borg are mentioned here as a reason for preparedness, but they are not seen.
• This episode presents the first look at the inside of a non-Galaxy-class Federation starship since “The Battle”. It is notable for featuring the series’ only shots of a Constellation-class’s main engineering section.  They call it a Constellation class, but that’s what Kirk’s ship was in the original series. This doesn’t look like that.
• The ship set was used later on in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” as the bridge of NCC-1701C.
• The Ferengi captain is played by Armin Shimerman, who of course will later go on to play Quark on Deep Space Nine.
• One of my favorite lines comes from this..  “It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose.”

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