When Commander Riker comes down with a dangerous alien infection after an away mission, the only way to treat it may be through reliving his memories.When Commander Riker comes down with a dangerous alien infection after an away mission, the only way to treat it may be through reliving his memories.When Commander Riker comes down with a dangerous alien infection after an away mission, the only way to treat it may be through reliving his memories.
Michael Dorn
- Lieutenant Worf
- (archive footage)
Wil Wheaton
- Wesley Crusher
- (archive footage)
Vaughn Armstrong
- Capt. Korris
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Brenda Bakke
- Rivan
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Robert Bauer
- Kunivas
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
James G. Becker
- Youngblood
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Katy Boyer
- Zero One
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Merritt Butrick
- T'Jon
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Christopher Collins
- Capt. Kargan
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Ward Costello
- Adm. Gregory Quinn
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Denise Crosby
- Lieutenant Natasha 'Tasha' Yar
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the producers made Q Who (1989) earlier in the season, the episode went way over budget, and the money ran out at the end of the season. To cut costs, they had to do a clip show. As such, Shades of Gray is often considered the worst episode of TNG, and even the producers admitted they were embarrassed by it.
- GoofsWhen Geordi and Data beam back down to the jungle, Data reports that his scanner detects no animal life within 50 kilometers, despite the fact that insect and bird noises are heard in the background.
- Quotes
Commander William T. Riker: [about the tenacity of the Rikers] My great-grandfather once got bit by a rattlesnake. After three days of intense pain... the snake died.
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Featured review
It Could Be Worse, I Suppose
I'd forgotten about the writer's strike of 1988. After watching those season ending episodes of "The Outer Limits" which shamelessly includes random insertions from previous episodes, I thought other series were above that. I guess, at least for one episode, STNG needed to save a few buck and bank on an insipid plot. Riker picks up a kind of raging virus as he and Geordi explore a planet previously unexplored. It is beyond the expertise of Dr. Pulaski, who can't stop it. Scans reveal that it has attacked the nervous system and will eventually head for the brain and kill Riker. What Pulaski and Troi find is that the entity is reactive to human emotions. Troi is there to read Riker's thoughts as he dreams. She senses different kinds of dreams from adventure to erotic to pain to terror. All these are represented by short clips from the first two seasons. There is no order to them, but Pulaski is able to use drugs to enhance the experiences. Troi, whom we all know is in love with Will, coaches the doctor as they search. It was fun to guess what scenes might fit in, but it detracted from the actually presentation. It's sad sometimes to know that factors other than a lack of creativity force the hands to the producers of shows such as these. It's so piecemeal and the whole treatment is so hard to swallow that it's a bit of an embarrassment.
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- Hitchcoc
- Aug 12, 2014
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- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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