Crystalline entity memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the starfleet crew of the federation starship enterprised. During the battle with the byzantium, the tholian commander stated. How did lore summon the crystalline entity when he was dismantled at the time. Includes all episodes of the original series, the next generation, deep space nine, voyager, enterprise, discovery, picard, the new battlestar galactica, the orville, and the star wars movies. The next generation birth of the federation, although its called the crystal entity. Here are our picks for the best data episodes of star trek. Are the star trek tng episodes on netflix the remastered.
Episodes of the next generation, deep space nine, and voyager all use the same stardate system. Datalore, the first season episode where the crystalline entity first appears. The easiest way to tell is by episode 1x04 datalore where the crew first encounter datas brother lore and more importantly in this regard at least the crystalline entity. A team from the enterprise is helping a team of colonists on melona iv when the crystalline entity attacks. The episode abounds in one revelation after the other, with an end that is possibly one of the series most surprising.
One of those new elements will be the crystalline entity, first seen in the season one episode datalore. While not biological, the crystalline entity was undeniably alive in the sense of having will, motivation and the ability to make selfdetermining decisions. Tragically, juliana was fatally injured during the attack, lingering in a coma after leaving. The next generation main title composed by jerry goldsmith and alexander courage. The trek nation silicon avatar daily star trek news. She eventually comes to appreciate his objective scientific input and even takes a liking to him after learning he has and can evoke many memories of the victims of the entitys earlier attack, in which her son remi perished. Set almost 100 years after captain kirks fiveyear mission, a new generation of starfleet officers set off in the u. In star treks tng datalore fans encounter datas deadly brother lore and the great crystalline entity whove been in cahoots together all along. Soong was presumed to have been killed in 2336, when the colony on omicron theta was destroyed by the crystalline entity. At least it is on netflix in the uk, though i see no reason why itd be any different in the presumably us. Since the crystalline entity shakes but the enterprise does not, the star field should not have shaken along with the entity.
The next generation is an american science fiction television series which aired in. The next generation silicon avatar tv episode 1991. The next generation episodes datalore and silicon avatar. He also originated the role of soong through thick old man makeup in the classic tng episode brothers, in which he also played datas evil brother, lore.
The crystalline entity makes an appearance in the 1999 pc game star trek. Star trek picard is not star trek page 91 the trek bbs. In star trek tng, are the crystalline entities sentient. The crystalline entity returns, and the enterprise takes aboard a. He claims he was disassembled because he was so humanlike that he frightened the local population.
This article lists characters of star trek that received attention from thirdparty sources in their various canonical incarnations. The crystalline entity was a powerful, spaceborne creature. With patrick stewart, brent spiner, jonathan frakes, levar burton. It is unclear why the tholian assembly is intent on protecting the entity. Browse other questions tagged startrek startrektng or ask your own question. The next generation and the films star trek generations and star trek. Star trek sci fi blog the great crystalline entity. The next generation main title composed by jerry goldsmith.
Because the original cgi model for the entity was lost, they had to create a new. This clip is taken from an episode called the high ground. Another, more powerful, crystalline entity appears in star trek online. It also undermines her perfectly legitimate argument with picard over how to treat the crystalline entity. Datalore thousands of deaths have been attributed to this entity. The next generation, view video clips and browse photos on. Join the conversation and connect with cbs s star trek. A massive and unique lifeform, delicate in appearance while blindly and insatiably feeding off the lifeforce of beings and even. This article lists characters of star trek in their various canonical incarnations. The next generation season 5, episode 4 silicon avatar. The enterprise as transporting colonists to a planet to settle on, planet gets attacked by the crystalline entity, the enterprise spends the rest of the.
There is a high chance that dealing damage to the entity will cause a large crystalline fragment to break off into space. But i do have one personal rule, that ive written on a card and put into my wallet. The crystalline entity returns, and the enterprise takes aboard a scientist to help track it down, but her personal agenda does not match capt. Ogawa appears in 16 episodes throughout seasons 47 of star trek. Like others of its species it fed on organic matter, converting it into energy, leaving entire planets devoid of life. One of the elements that has been recreated using cgi is the crystalline entity and that has now been revealed by. The entities constant hunger for energy meant it thrived by feeding off the organic energy patterns of unsuspecting human lifeforms. Before the borg, the crystalline entity was tngs premier example of a foe so inhuman that discussion seemed impossible. To examine the point in tng, lets take a look at the first five episodes of each season. Over seven years and 182 episodes, the enterprise crisscrossed the far edge of the galaxy, going where no man has gone before.
The next generation season 5 episodes american television episodes. I love all sorts of animals, and am very much into conservation and the preservation of endangered and threatened species. She eventually comes to appreciate his objective scientific input and even takes a liking to him after learning he has and can evoke many memories of the victims of the entity s earlier attack, in which her son remi perished. Instead, soong and juliana managed to escape to planet terlina iii. It was responsible for thousands of deaths over the years. In fact, he knows far more than he is letting on and has the ability to call upon a crystalline entity of great destructive power, the very power that destroyed the planet and killed all of its inhabitants.
The crystalline entity also appears in strange new worlds vii as one of several parties that attempts to seize the guardian of forever, only to be driven off by the horta. The next generation really amped up the political aspect of its episodes conflicts, wars, hardhitting material, etc. Jimmy fallon, kristen wiig, will ferrell, and matthew mcconaughey turn quarantine into pretty funny soap. The next generation and starred in the four subsequent tng films.
The crystalline entity was a brancher, a type of dangerous cosmozoan lifeform. Silicon avatar is the 104th episode of the american science fiction television series star trek. He was a bad one in datalore, partners with a crystalline entity that nearly devoured the. She commented, of all the characters to bring back, whod have thought the crystalline entity. In the next generation episode datalore we are introduced to the datas.
Spiner played yet another member of the soong family, the scheming arik soong, in three episodes of star trek. Guest star ellen geer is memorable as a scientist that has motives, other than science, in her investigation of the mysteriously dangerous crystal entity. Described in the script of the episode datalore as, moving in to float close to our starship. Noonian soong memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. Heres the timeline i compiled from looking at the transcripts of various episodes.
A massive and unique lifeform, delicate in appearance while blindly and insatiably feeding off the lifeforce of beings and even planetary resources. Enterprised on their own mission to go where no one has gone before. The next generation turned 25 recently, we voyaged back to where no one has gone since the show went off the air. That, and lores desire to please the crystalline entity is nonsensical. Season 1 season 2 season 3 season 4 season 5 season 6 season 7. With patrick stewart, jonathan frakes, levar burton, michael dorn. This includes fictional major characters and fictional minor characters created for star trek, fictional characters not originally created for star trek, and reallife persons appearing in a fictional manner, such as holodeck recreations. The result of this short conversation, and the general theme of the program being centered around insurgency as a. The next generation main title composed by jerry goldsmith and alexander. Weve observed these large fragments seek out starships and ram into them, destroying them in as little as a single hit. Season 5, silicon avatar data, whats are best bet for cover. The crystalline entity is a massive spaceborne cosmozoan that can be found in.
The next generation, the enterprise encounters a derelict starship full of twentiethcentury humans in. What did lore get from collaborating with the crystalline entity. But the moby dick premise of this obsessed woman whose sons consciousness was stored in data was too good to pass up. Picard has once again brought back brent spiner this time as the son of dr.
We dutifully unpacked our most and least memorable episodes of the. Surely they could have found a better way to differentiate data and lore. The next generation episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. There is a new documentary named beyond the five year mission the evolution of star trek. New crystalline entity for star trek tng in hd revealed. But next generation was the space exploration story for millennials coming of age.
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