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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Drumhead'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 195)<BR>by Jeri Taylor</TD>
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When a serious explosion occurs in the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I>'s engineering section, a visiting Klingon exobiologist named J'Ddan is suspected of causing the incident. Admiral Norah Satie comes out of retirement to conduct an investigation, and, using evidence compiled by Lieutenant Worf, quickly extracts a confession from J'Ddan: the Klingon admits to passing schematics of the ship to the Romulans, but denies responsibility for the explosion. Satie's aide, a Betazoid called Sabin, confirms that J'Ddan is telling the truth, leading Satie to surmise that there is a co-conspirator aboard the vessel. When Satie questions the crew, she comes to suspect that crewman Simon Tarses is lying, concluding that he is one of the saboteurs; however, Captain Picard refuses to believe this without more substantial evidence. Meanwhile, LaForge and Lieutenant Commander Data determine that the warp engine explosion was an accident. Satie continues to insist that Tarses is a traitor, a conclusion reinforced on learning that he is part Romulan. But when Picard attempts to stop Satie's witch-hunt, she calls an official hearing into effect, and demands that the captain be interrogated as a possible traitor... 

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Bruce French (<B>Sabin</B>), Spencer Garrett (<B>Simon Tarses</B>), Henry Woronicz (<B>J'Ddan</B>), Earl Billings (<B>Admiral Thomas Henry</B>), Jean Simmons (<B>Admiral Norah Satie</B>), Ann Shea (<B>Nellen</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Jonathan Frakes 
<BR>Produced by David Livingston
<BR>Co-Produced by Peter Lauritson
<BR>Executive Producers Michael Piller, Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry
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<BR>29th April, 1991

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<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data 
<BR><BR>*Working title: ‘It Can't Happen Here’

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