When the now-repaired Enterprise beams Picard back, Riker tells the Romulans how to save their ship and the Enterprise leaves the Neutral Zone peacefully.Īnalysis: "Contagion" isn't a profound episode in terms of character development, but it's a tightly written thriller with lots of entertainment value. Meanwhile Picard, fleeing the self-destructing Iconian control center, steps through a gateway onto the Romulan ship and finds that their systems are infected as well. This gives LaForge the idea to shut down the ship's computer and wipe all infected memory from the past few days. Data's systems shut down and LaForge believes him "dead," but then he reboots, his self-correcting system having purged the alien program.
But the away team has discovered an Iconian gateway that allows transport to other local worlds, so Picard sends Worf and Data back to the Enterprise and prepares to destroy the controls rather than allowing the Romulans to take over the Iconian technology. The Romulans follow, firing at the Enterprise and forcing Riker to raise shields, which makes it impossible to beam the away team back when Data is damaged by a smaller probe on the planet. Believing that the only possibility of saving his ship lies on Iconia, Picard takes the Enterprise there and beams down with Data and Worf while LaForge tries to understand how the Enterprise could have picked up the devastating software virus that destroyed the Yamato merely by downloading its logs. Worse, a Romulan ship arrives to order the Enterprise to leave the Neutral Zone. The crew discovers that a probe from the Iconian planet used an unknown form of energy to scan the Yamato, which seems to have led to the ship's destruction, but a series of similar breakdowns begins to plague the Enterprise as well, though the Enterprise has not been scanned by such a probe. Studying the ship's logs, Picard discovers that the Yamato's captain, Varley, was an archaeology enthusiast like himself and could not resist visiting the legendary world of Iconia when he believed he had located its whereabouts, justifying the incursion into the Neutral Zone with the belief that Iconian technology had to be kept out of Romulan hands.
The other starship's warp core breeches before the Enterprise can lend assistance, blasting the ship apart and killing everyone aboard. Plot Summary: The USS Yamato sends a desperate plea to the Enterprise for assistance in the Romulan Neutral Zone, where the Yamato is suffering from a catastrophic series of system failures.
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