The duty shifts must have really been messed up for the next couple of days, given how long the crew was deprived of sleep.

I don't think they were deprived of sleep, just no dreams, REM sleep.

If I remember my psychology class, REM sleep (dream sleep) is the most important phase of sleep. Being deprived of that over a few nights can wreck havoc with your system. It's almost as bad as not sleeping at all!

Also Picard and some of the others looked like hell toward the end there.

I think the crew will probably get 8 plus hours sleep then try to readjust their sleep schedules.

I have this image of Troi and Data trying to run the ship all by themselves for the next twelve or so hours. :-)

I can hear it now:

Troi: Data, what does this light mean?
Data: That there is going to be a core breach.
Troi: What's a core breach?
Data: Oh, S***!

I'm sure Data and the Computer could run things for 24 hours or so. Probably the Computer wouldn't even need Data.

What I am curious about... sleep deprivation is a pretty 'standard' tactic in not-so-ethical interrogations, since it disorients the person and hinders their concentration. Considering the nature of Starfleet's enemies, like the Cardassians, wouldn't at least SOMEONE on board recognise the symptoms before a special medscan showed it? Souldn't, in fact, the symptoms be cross referenced in the medical diagnostic computer database?

Wasn't Data left to run the ship by himself in 1101001 or whatever is was called?

One of my favourite type of nits occurs during this ep. During the scenes in ten foward, a paranoid crew member is ranting on about how they are all rats in a diabolical experiment. In the next scene he practicaly instigates a mutiny until it is quashed by Guinen's (sp) behind the bar laser rifle. During both of these scenes there is alot of background talking that seems to indicate that alot of people in ten foward agree with this crew member. But if you watch, none of the extras on camera (and there are lots) are moving their lips. It is especialy funny looking in the first scene, where the crew member is sitting at a table with a least 3 or 4 others either sitting or standing about. It's like everyone he is with either doesn't agree with him or are ignoring him, but all the people at other tables (the ones we can't see) evidently do, by the sounds of it. I guess he's just sitting at the wrong table.

Crusher describes some of the dead as being barricaded in their rooms, but later she says that all 34 people killed "each other." Also Troi said that Angus, the only survivor, "Didn't kill any of those people." Now if you were so paranoid for your safety that you would barricade yourself in your room why would you barricade yourself in a room with someone else? And if you were planning to kill someone else, wouldn't you try to do it when they were asleep or had their back turned? So did the last two humans just kill each other in some kind of duel? And why didn't anyone, apparently, try to kill Angus? For that matter, how do you barricade a sliding door?

There were some nice creepy scenes in this episode. Particularly the snakes in Riker's bed and the corpses sitting up in the morgue.

Data and Picard are the only two on the Bridge and Data orders Picard to bed. Picard leaves by the Turbolift. Then the outside shot of the Enterprise shows someone walking across the Observation Lounge. Who is it? I thought everyone had been ordered to bed? Was Riker afraid of more snakes in his bed and decided to sleep on the table?

MISSING LINE: "Look...up in the sky...it's a bird...it's a plane...IT'S SUPER-TROI!" Said by the voices in Troi's dream.

The pulsating star SFX comes from "Allegience"

MYSTERY SOLVED:
The reason why the "USS BrAttain" is printed on the saucer section as being "USS BrIttian" is because someone at Starfleet had.....THE SCPIPTS!

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To "?"....

In case you tuned in late at Nitcentral, "THE SCPIPTS" is a fictional disease that I made up during the first season of TOS. What happens during that time is that somewhere in the middle of the first season during the closing credits, the word "Script Supervisor" is spelled "SCPIPT Supervisor"....it happens a whopping 13 times during the first season. For more details go to "Keyword search" on the left and type in the word "SCPIPT" and you'll see what I mean. It's hysterical!

GREAT LINE: "Anyone want to see setting number 2?" Guinan after shooting off the phaser rifle

I just did number two. It's setting quite well right now.

FUNNY THOUGHT: THE REAL REASON the crew of the Brattain went berzerk was because their ship's name was spelled wrong on the hull.

I must note that the Brattain's log has the name of the ship spelt correctly as the Enterprise plays back the last entry from the Brattain Captain.

I'm sure this has been touched on, but was there NO WAY to get the Enterprise moving, even slightly? What about decompressing a shuttle bay? What about evacuating a section of the ship and decompressing it?

DVD subtitles spell the ship's name "Brittain".

When Troi has her last conversation with the Betazoid survivor (whom we never see again afterward) he repeats some of the things from the voices he heard. At one point he says "One moon circles" and Troi does not react. A few seconds later he says "Eyes in the dark" and Troi realizes that she is hearing the same things. She was not paying much attention, because she also heard "One moon circles" in her dreams.

I still find it an unbelievable leap to get from "Eyes in the dark, one moon circles" to "Binary stars, hydrogen".

Even if Troi had an inspiration that they were talking about chemicals, wouldn't you think that "Eyes (plural) in the dark, one moon circles" is all part of the same clue, i.e. an atom with a two-part nucleus and one 'orbiting' electron?

Chemically the atoms which would fit this are deuterium (one proton, one neutron, one electron) and the helium ion (two protons, one electron, and almost never seen in nature).

Although I think the Enterprise's entire hydrogen supply is actually in the form of deuterium, according to the Tech Manual et al, so maybe this makes sense after all!

PS the alien ship looked VERRY alien indeed.

Well, being an empath, troi could have been reacting to a "feeling" on the matter and not strictly on the spoken words.

John Vickery (Andrus Hagan) is a popular Trek guest, later appearing as Gul Rusot in two episodes of DS9 and in the Enterprise episode "Judgment."

Brian Tochi (Ensign Lin) was Toshiro in the "Revenge of the Nerds" series, Nogata in the "Police Academy" series, and the voice of Leonardo in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie series.

NANJAO: I found Guinan's keeping of a phaser rifle under the bar reminiscient of how some bartenders in early 20th century saloons kept a shotgun under their bar just in case.

Brian Tochi was also in the TOS episode "And the Children Shall Lead" as one of the children, and an episode of the 80's Twilight Zone entitled "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium."

Guinan's laser rifle is actually a 1979-1981 'Buck Rogers' toy that they spray-painted with gold paint. I have one (without the gold paint) in my old room at my parents' house.

Does yours work too?

Say, MikeBrill, mind me asking what was your first Trek you ever saw, how old were you and what got you hooked on it? also were are you now?

Torque - Oddly enough, I haven't gotten around to testing it yet, since I got it second-hand on EBay.

Laforge - The first Trek I ever saw was the original series, not sure which episode, the first year it was on NBC. Not sure how old I was; my DOB is March 21, 1961. I got hooked on it because it was a space show, since I was already also hooked on 'Lost in Space', 'Fireball XL5', 'The Jetsons', 'My Favorite Martian', and 'I Dream of Jeannie'. Roughly the same time I got hooked on 'Space Ghost', 'The Herculoids', 'Space Kiddettes', and Flash Gordon comic books. I currently live and work in Winchester, Virginia.

This note is so funny, I decided to post it here too.

Marina Sirtis said that in "Night Terrors", that's a stunt flying in the air during the "posterior view". She said, "That's not my ass! That's the stunt's ass!" Then Marina turned around and showed us her back-side to "prove it"..and she's right....her butt is nicer. (no debate there)

Seriously, do you have sources for your statements?

You might notice JAL's name on several boards right now in the 'last day' link, including one where he is describing his experience at the sci-fi convention in Chicago, which is where he's getting his information. In response to one of your posts on another board directed at JAL, this site is not just about nitpicking.

Again, Johnny...Marina told me herself at the convention

she leaned up against him and whispered it in his ear... and then nibbled a little bit...

I wish!

He could just make one long post instead of flooding several topics.

I prefer to make postings revelant to the topic.
Additionally, shorter postings are easier to read.

And pointless.

Let it go, Johnny. I'm fine with the short posts.

Question is Johnny the return of John-Boy?

Data and Picard are the only two on the Bridge and Data orders Picard to bed. Picard leaves by the Turbolift. Then the outside shot of the Enterprise shows someone walking across the Observation Lounge. Who is it? I thought everyone had been ordered to bed? Was Riker afraid of more snakes in his bed and decided to sleep on the table?

They reused the final scene from the opening for that shot, including the little figure in the lounge. What Phil praises in the Guide as a nice touch by the creators turns out also to form the basis of a nit. It's a funny old world, isn't it?

Somnambulist? Somnambulist John A. Lang trying to find Deanna Troi's quarters?

No, I was already IN Deanna's quarters at the time.

Oh, so was that Deanna fleeing in terror, then?

No, she was running TOWARDS me.

When they find hydrogen in the ships computer, Data says that a number of other chemicals react explosively with hydrogen, and as an example he gives calendenium. While this may be true, there are much simpler examples he could've given. Oxygen will react explosively when combined with hydrogen.

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By Johnny on Sunday, October 07, 2007 - 1:45 pm:
Seriously, do you have sources for your statements?

His right hand was examining it as you can see in this picture:

http://nitcentral.philfarrand.com/cgi-bin/discus/board-profile.cgi?action=pict&file=27350.jpg

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By Erin on Friday, September 15, 2000 - 11:00 am:
I have this image of Troi and Data trying to run the ship all by themselves for the next twelve or so hours. :-)

Don't forget Guinan

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the console that the Ensign is at while saying he's hearing sounds has one display panel that is red.. not the typical color of the computer consoles...

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Captain Picard while feeling like the ceiling is falling in the turbolift shows his nice fancy boots. One thing I noticed though was that the thickness of the soles looks to be quite large. Is Picard wearing built in shoe lifts?

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Also, Picard while trying to act like he's losing it seems to be walking hunched over more.

By Erin on Friday, September 15, 2000 - 11:00 am:
I have this image of Troi and Data trying to run the ship all by themselves for the next twelve or so hours. :-)

Don't forget Guinan

Starfleet ships can be operated by a single person if the need arises. This is mentioned in the TNG tech manual, seen frequently in DS9 with Runabouts and was also shown to be the case with Voyagers 'Year if Hell part 2'. Where Janeway is the sole remaining crewmember on the (Badly damaged) ship for several weeks and has no problems piloting or running the ship. (Maintenance is a different matter of course). There was also an Episode of TNG in the first season where the crew fell ill and Data was running the ship alone, although it was not clear if Data was the only crew member still standing and there could have been other crewmembers helping out in other sections of the ship. In this case Data plots a course for the Neutral zone and there is no mention or implication that the ship would be useless when she got there or that she couldn't make the trip with only a single person on the bridge.

There would, therefore, be no problems with Data running the ship for several hours to allow the rest of the crew to sleep.

I was pointing out that Guinan wasn't affected either so she could help run the ship; Not that she was needed to nor that if she didn't help, the ship would be destroyed.

I recently watched this episode again. Along with "Future Imperfect", it was one of my favorites from the fourth season. And it also showed how useful Troi really could be in certain situations, as apparently she was the only member of the Enterprise-D crew who could communicate telepathically with the catatonic Betazoid from the Brittain, and then with the alien lifeforms on the other side of the Tyken's Rift. I thought that it was really cool to show that, yes, Troi did indeed serve a useful purpose at times, as opposed to when she had no knowledge of the warp engines and containment breaches in "Disaster", which came after this episode.

I also liked how Guinan was able to get the situation in Ten-Forward under control fairly easily, even after calling security she showed off her behind-the-bar weapon that made a colorful blast. I suppose that perhaps she was not affected by the REM sleep fatigue that plagued the rest of the crew, because of her unusual alien physiology. And Data did not sleep, at least until "Phantasms", so he was a major part in the ship's escape from the rift. And Troi was only having nightmares. She said that she might end up just like Andrus Hagen, who was apparently rendered permanently catatonic from his REM fatigue experience. I wonder what happened to him, did he go back to Betazed and have to be put in a medical facility to be treated for the rest of his life? I do wonder about that.

Anyway, I had meant to comment on this episode sooner but I did not yet know what I was going to say. Well, here it is. Also, was Gillespie an engineer? I thought he might have been one. He wasn't permanently harmed by the REM fatigue, I thought he might have showed up again after this. I dont believe he did, though. And he was one of the outspoken crewmembers who clearly were suffering from the hallucinations plaguing the ship. I thought the most scary of all of them were the dead bodies "sitting up" in the morgue that totally freaked Dr. Crusher out. It would have had the same effect on me, that's for sure!