Redemption

This Story: Season 4 Episode 26 (production code 200)
TNG Overall: Episode 100
Trek Overall: Story 199a, Episode 202
Airdate: 17 Jun 1991
Written by Ronald D. Moore
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• The season four finale. Like the season before it, it was a cliffhanger, whose resolution was in Part II as the premiere episode of the following season.
• Former president Reagan visited the set during the filming of this episode.
• The first episode for “The Duras sisters” Lursa & B’Etor (Barbara March & Gwynyth Walsh).  They would appear in two more episodes of TNG (Redemption Part II & Firstborn), one episode of Deep Space Nine (Past Prologue), as well as the first TNG movie, “Star Trek: Generations”.
• Tasha Yar appears as Sela for the first time in this episode.  Her origins are explained in Part II of this episode.
• Troi, Crusher, & LaForge appear in this episode in a single scene, and none of them have any lines.
• Part I was directed by Cliff Bole.  He did not direct Part II.
• One of the rare instances when Guinan fires a phaser.
• I loved the Klingon usage of “Kelicam” as a measure of distance – used from the TOS movies. :)

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