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Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 156: Gambit, Part I
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0097360025637
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogFrench (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 02, 1999
Running Time: 46 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1987
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Editorial Review:
"Gambit" opens with a shocker: the crew searches for a missing Captain Picard in a seedy bar, only to be told by a Yridian eyewitness that he's been vaporized in a fight. Riker vows to track down Picard's killers, and we're off! Soon Riker is also whisked away, captured by the same band of mercenaries that offed the captain. As the crew of the Enterprise scramble to track down their leader, Riker discovers that Picard is also aboard the raiding ship, calling himself Galen and looking distinctly mean. This is a fun episode of shifting loyalties and some deliberate macho posing from both Picard and Riker, as the two feign an adversarial relationship to confuse their captors. The story line also poses interesting dilemmas as Picard and Riker try to warn the Enterprise without blowing their respective covers. Keep an eye out for The Cosby Show's Sabrina Le Beauf as the bizarrely calm Ensign Giusti. --Ali Davis
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - is Picard really dead?
Worf, Dr. Crusher, Troi & Riker are on an away mission to find what happened to Captain Picard. They are in an alien bar on an alien world similar to the Cantina scene in "Star Wars." When people are killed in this seedy bar, no one talks for fear of being the next one to take a phaser hit to the head. Through the gentle (and sometimes not-so-gentle) art of persuasion, Riker and co. are able to draw the truth out of a Yridian witness in exchange for travel away from the planet. The Yridian explains ... Read More
Rating: - Good fun as Star Trek goes swashbuckling
Two part TNG episodes are usually "significant" in some way. This one isn't, and perhaps it's all the better for that. It's an adventure that just happens to need more than the standard 44 minutes.
The story opens with the crew investigating Captain Picard's disappearance. They are horrified to learn that he was killed in a bar fight by a group of mercenaries. A grief-stricken and revenge-seeking Riker is permitted by Starfleet to investigate what happened. While examining a looted archaeological ... Read More
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