"Power Play" | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation episode | |
Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 15 |
Directed by | David Livingston[1] |
Story by | Paul Ruben Maurice Hurley |
Teleplay by | René Balcer Herbert J. Wright Brannon Braga |
Featured music | Jay Chattaway |
Production code | 215 |
Original air date | February 17, 1992 |
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"Power Play" is the 115th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is the 15th episode of the fifth season.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, alien entities take over the minds of Data, Troi, and Miles O'Brien.
The story begins when the spaceship picks up a distress signal, and upon investigation seems to be coming from the USS Essex, a spaceship lost two hundred years earlier.[2]
The episode is noted for having five different writers involved in the story and screenplay.[3]