The Last Outpost

This Story: Season 1 Episode 5 (production code 107)
TNG Overall: Episode 5
Trek Overall: Story 105, Episode 107
Airdate: 19 Oct 1987
Written by Richard Krzemien & Herbert Wright
Directed by Richard A. Colla

Notes

• The first (aired) episode in any incarnation of Star Trek for Armin Shimerman, although he is not playing his most well known character of Quark (despite being the first speaking Ferengi here).
• The first of two times that Picard says “merde” (French for “shit”) in an episode.
• The Ferengi ship is shown to have its “neck” able to expand and lengthen, something that is not shown again in the way it is here.
• The energy whips the Ferengi had were part of the redesign of the cahracters to make them not seem so silly.  The whips were not seen again until the Deep Space Nine episode “Ferengi Love Songs”.

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