TNG 19x16 - “THE METHOD IN THE MADNESS”

Data warns Picard that Gatt, leader of the Fellowship, is not to be trusted. Gatt returns from the Machine and proves Data right – he will help the Machine to destroy subspace throughout the galaxy, leaving AI as the only relevant lifeforms. Gatt forces Data into torturing Akharin for information. Gatt offers the secret of AI resurrection to prove the Fellowship’s worth, but the Machine finds the data irrelevant. True immortality comes from being copied over and over, not from a simple physical form. Gatt’s own people are appalled – the Machine wants to absorb them into itself, letting the originals die. The Fellowship fractures and Data, Akharin and Rhea make their escape. Enterprise launches its own rescue mission, and an all-out firefight begins. Data interrogates Gatt and tries to persuade the Machine to stop. But the Machine decides the Fellowship is more trouble than it is worth – so it sends the ship tumbling towards the nearby black hole.

VOY 12x16 - “DUTY OF CARE”

Barclay completes his diagnostic – Dr Zimmerman’s memory patch is not responsible for the EMH’s recent problems; a series of unexplained power surges are to blame. Barclay cannot remove the patch – the only thing is for the EMH to seek counselling. That means talking to Cambridge, the very man whose relation-ship with Seven sent him down this path. Paris is trying to speak to his estranged mother when Seven calls – she needs his help. Icheb plants clues that the ex-Borg are fleeing Earth, when in fact Sharak has arranged for them to hide at the Tamarian Embassy. Paris brings in his mother – if she wants to care for children, here they are – while Seven hides out at Janeway’s house to work on contacting Axum and Riley via their catoms. On Aldebaran, Sharak detects another “impossible” agent spreading the catomic infection on purpose. But instead of killing herself, this one seems determined to kill Sharak...