The Neutral Zone (Episode)

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The Neutral Zone
"The Neutral Zone" (TNG126)

"The Neutral Zone" (TNG126)
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1
Episode 26
Production Number 126


Previous Conspiracy (TNG125)
Next The Child (TNG127)
Released 16 May 1988
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(The root of all realities)


Stardate 41986.0: Cryogenically frozen Humans from the 20th century are brought aboard as Picard tries to prevent war with the Romulans

As the Enterprise awaits the return of Captain Picard from a special briefing, Data can't resist investigating a three-hundred-year-old capsule found nearby. Three Humans are found in stasis within, the only survivors of a 20th-century fad of cryogenic preservation for the terminally ill. Picard's return, however, brings news of disappearing outposts and the suspicion that the Romulans may be returning to activity along the Neutral Zone after decades away.

The revived Humans have their own problems: the broker Ralph Offenhouse demands access to his now-nonexistent money, Claire Raymond misses her children, and bored country singer L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds wants to party. Picard relies on Troi and Data to help address their problems while he focuses on another challenge: a cloaked Romulan warbird, the Federation's first contact with the Romulans in fifty-three years. A tense exchange yields the revelation that the outposts are disappearing on the Romulan side of the border as well. The two sides agree to exchange information in the future, but the Romulans leave no doubt that they mean to be reckoned with once again. With tensions eased somewhat, the Enterprise heads back, arranging a long ferry ride to Earth so that the three passengers will have plenty of time to get acquainted with the twenty-fourth century.

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