Chain of Command, Part I
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 14 December 1992
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 46357.4
- DIRECTED BY
- Robert Scheerer
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 236
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Ronald D. Moore; story by Frank Abatemarco
Picard is relieved of command for a secret mission into Cardassian space, leaving the Enterprise in the hands of a demanding new captain with very different ideas.
Red alert: the full plot, ending included. Haven't watched yet?REVEAL SYNOPSIS
Admiral Nechayev relieves Picard of command and sends him, Worf and Crusher on a covert mission: to find and destroy a suspected Cardassian biological weapons facility on Celtris III. Taking over the Enterprise is Captain Edward Jellico, a brisk officer who reorganises the crew at once and quickly falls out with Riker, all while negotiating with the Cardassian envoy Gul Lemec as tensions rise along the border near Minos Korva. After intense training on the holodeck, the away team reach the planet with help from a Ferengi ship and make their way in. They find no sign of the weapon and realise they have walked into a trap. Worf and Crusher escape, but Picard is captured. He is now a prisoner of the interrogator Gul Madred, who reveals the facility was designed to lure him in. To be continued.
- 01The scene with DaiMon Solok was originally meant to feature Quark aboard Deep Space Nine, and it was filmed on that show's replimat set.
- 02Jellico appears on screen only in this two-parter, but he recurs in novels such as Peter David's New Frontier series.
- 03David Warner and Patrick Stewart had worked together on a 1965 production of Hamlet.