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Alpha Onias III is a
Class-M planet, albeit barren and inhospitable in parts.
The planet is in the Onias system dangerously close to the
Romulan Neutral Zone. |
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Miridian VI is very close
to the Neutral Zone. Ethan claims there is a research
station present there set up "last year", although Riker
believed the planet to be uninhabited. |
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Barash is a child-like
alien from a nameless race of shapeshifters. He says he
may be the last one of his kind. |
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Outpost 23 is
the key to all Federation defenses in the Neutral Zone.
Its' location is a closely-guarded secret. |
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Will plays the
trombone, although he often gets teased about bad he is. |
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The Curtis
Creek Program is often used by Riker when he wants to go
fishing on the holodeck. |
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In the false
future, Will has been Captain of the Enterprise for nine
years. He is said to have contracted Altarian
encephalitis, "a retrovirus that incorporates its DNA
directly into the cells of its host. It can lie dormant
for years, then suddenly become active". |
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Geordi now has
cloned eye implants, Data is first officer and Picard has
become an Admiral who arrives on the Romulan Warbird
Decius along with Deanna who now works with Picard at
Starfleet. Her Enterprise replacement was Minuet who Riker
married and had a son with - Jean-Luc. Minuet died two
years ago in a shuttle accident. |
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Four years
ago, Riker saved a Romulan battle cruiser in distress and
helped form closer relations between the Empires. Tomalak
is now an Ambassador. |
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Mention is
made to Parisses Squares (see "11001001).
Riker claims he was slightly younger than Jean-Luc when he
started playing. |
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First
appearance of Beverly's regular nurse, Alyssa Ogawa. |
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Although
not explicitly stated in the episode, the instrumental
that Riker tries to play is the 20th-century jazz standard
"Misty," originally composed as an instrumental by the
pianist Errol Garner in 1954. |