Star Trek: The Next Generation/Night Terrors

Night Terrors
Season 4, Episode 17
Airdate	March 18, 1991
Teleplay by	Pamela Douglas and Jeri Taylor
Story by	Shari Goodhartz
Directed by	Les Landau
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Star Trek: The Next Generation — Season Four

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Night Terrors is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the ninety-first episode overall.

Starring: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker)

Also Starring: LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data)

Guest Stars: Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), John Vickery (Andrus Hagan), Duke Moosekian (Ensign Gillespie), Craig Hurley (Ensign Peeples), Brian Tochi (Ensign Kenny Lin), Lanei Chapman (Ensign Sariel Rager), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien)

and Special Guest Star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

Co-Star: Deborah Taylor (Zaheva)

Plot Overview

When the Enterprise becomes trapped in a spatial rift, the crew's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. While no one else aboard is able to enter REM sleep or dream, Deanna keeps having the same dream over and over again to the point of driving her mad.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Andrus Hagen is a Betazoid who has gone mad (become unresponsive) due to his extended time spent in the spatial rift. This is what is in store for Deanna, if they cannot leave the spatial rift.

Trivia

The Show

• It turns out that the dreams that Deanna is having are actually messages being sent by aliens who are also trapped in a complimentary, but separate part of the spatial rift. If only she knew what the message meant.

Quotes

• The Dream: ... One moon circles ...