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Season 1 Episode 16
Episode: "Too Short a Season"
The Enterprise has been ordered to transport Admiral Mark Jameson [a man of 80+ years] to planet Mordan IV to negotiate with dissidents for the release of hostages. Turns out that this crisis was devised and orchestrated by the planet's leader Karnas a mere ploy to draw out the retiring Admiral, a man with whom Karnas had been nursing a vandetta against for more than 4 decades. In those years not only had Jameson gotten older, but he had also been struck down by a physically debilitating and incurable condition known as Iverson's disease, confining him to a support chair. During the voyage to Mordan IV, the frail old admiral starts exhibiting a curious turnaround in his physical condition, beginning with the reverasal of his illness (thought terminal) swiftly followed by his aging.
He was doing okay at the beginning of this de-aging process, but Jameson's condition has taken a turn for the worse, forcing him to endure physical stresses that his young body can't take... And yet his mission to Mordan IV continues.
The mission concludes, the hostages are released and we are presented with a final thought from Picard.
Season 1 Episode 16
Episode: "Too Short a Season"
The Enterprise has been ordered to transport Admiral Mark Jameson [a man of 80+ years] to planet Mordan IV to negotiate with dissidents for the release of hostages. Turns out that this crisis was devised and orchestrated by the planet's leader Karnas a mere ploy to draw out the retiring Admiral, a man with whom Karnas had been nursing a vandetta against for more than 4 decades. In those years not only had Jameson gotten older, but he had also been struck down by a physically debilitating and incurable condition known as Iverson's disease, confining him to a support chair. During the voyage to Mordan IV, the frail old admiral starts exhibiting a curious turnaround in his physical condition, beginning with the reverasal of his illness (thought terminal) swiftly followed by his aging.
He was doing okay at the beginning of this de-aging process, but Jameson's condition has taken a turn for the worse, forcing him to endure physical stresses that his young body can't take... And yet his mission to Mordan IV continues.
The mission concludes, the hostages are released and we are presented with a final thought from Picard.
