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![Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 104: Silicon Avatar [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R2K2MN7FL._SL160_.jpg "Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 104: Silicon Avatar [VHS]")
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Staring:
LeVar Burton,
Gates McFadden
Director:
LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Gabrielle Beaumont, Robert Becker, Cliff Bole
List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $44.99
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304179581
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304179588
Label: Paramount Home Video
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: 1996-10-22
Running Time: 46
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1987-09-26 |
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Commander Riker and Data are on the planet Melona IV overseeing construction of a new colony. Riker is also starting up an affair with one of the colonists and they seem happy together, which of course means she's doomed. Her destruction comes courtesy of the Crystalline entity, previously seen in the episode "Datalore" from season 1. The entity mines the entire planet for its energy, absorbing everything. All but two of the colonists are saved (Riker's girlfriend is killed when she stops to help another), thanks to a protective cave. Back on the Enterprise, the crew decides to pursue and study the entity, along with the help of xenologist Kyla Marr, who has devoted her life to studying it ever since it killed her son on Omicron Theta. She has no trust for Data because she knows that Data's "brother" Lore was responsible for luring the entity to Omicron Theta, but it's only with Data's help that she learns the secret to communicating with and possibly destroying the alien creature. Because the entity killed her son, she wants to destroy it before it kills again, and Riker agrees, but Picard would rather try to establish communications with it. Though the character of Marr is often annoying, and her communication with her son through Data's access to the Omicron Theta journal entries is a bit much, all is forgiven with an ending that is as brilliant as it is bittersweet. --Andy Spletzer
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