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Season 1 Episode 7
Episode: "Lonely Among Us"
The Enterprise has been assigned to transport two parties of delegates from competing worlds to a conference on Parliament. Shortly into the voyage, the Enterprise encounters an unusual energy cloud in which a community of energy lifeforms resides. After inadvertently having been caught up in the ship's circuitry, one of these energy beings discovers it can inhabit members of the crew; during those periods of cohabitation however the occupied crewmember experiences a blackout. With several crew members having been invaded coupled with a series of computer system failures, it becomes apparent that this lifeform has actually been trying to get back to its energy cloud.
The energy lifeform has caught up with Captain Picard himself and is exploiting his position to issue unusal orders and bypass any attempts made by his colleagues to confirm that their captain is still of sound mind. Things get a little more out there shortly after the Enterprise arrives at the energy cloud's location, starting with a minor admission to the bridge crew that the energy lifeform has stationed itself in Picard's mind, that he's resigning from Starfleet and that he now intends to live as a combined energy pattern with the energy lifeform.
Season 1 Episode 7
Episode: "Lonely Among Us"
The Enterprise has been assigned to transport two parties of delegates from competing worlds to a conference on Parliament. Shortly into the voyage, the Enterprise encounters an unusual energy cloud in which a community of energy lifeforms resides. After inadvertently having been caught up in the ship's circuitry, one of these energy beings discovers it can inhabit members of the crew; during those periods of cohabitation however the occupied crewmember experiences a blackout. With several crew members having been invaded coupled with a series of computer system failures, it becomes apparent that this lifeform has actually been trying to get back to its energy cloud.
The energy lifeform has caught up with Captain Picard himself and is exploiting his position to issue unusal orders and bypass any attempts made by his colleagues to confirm that their captain is still of sound mind. Things get a little more out there shortly after the Enterprise arrives at the energy cloud's location, starting with a minor admission to the bridge crew that the energy lifeform has stationed itself in Picard's mind, that he's resigning from Starfleet and that he now intends to live as a combined energy pattern with the energy lifeform.
