The Dauphin
- Episode aired Feb 18, 1989
- TV-PG
- 45m
Wesley falls for the young future leader of Daled IV, unaware just how dangerous the girl's protective and overly restrictive guardian can be.Wesley falls for the young future leader of Daled IV, unaware just how dangerous the girl's protective and overly restrictive guardian can be.Wesley falls for the young future leader of Daled IV, unaware just how dangerous the girl's protective and overly restrictive guardian can be.
- Salia
- (as Jamie Hubbard)
- Furry Animal
- (as Cindy Sorensen)
- Ensign Gibson
- (as Jennifer Barlow)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDaled IV rotates only once per revolution around its sun, shrouding one side of the planet in eternal night, while It is always day on the other side. This condition, which does exist in nature, is called "tidal locking". Because most planetary bodies have a natural tendency to become tidally locked to their host body over a long enough time, it is thought that such planets may be common and could possibly host life, particularly in systems orbiting red and brown dwarf stars, which have lifespans much longer than other main sequence stars. Daled IV might be an "eyeball planet", a hypothetical type of tidally locked planet where the tidal locking has led to features that make it resemble an eyeball.
- GoofsBoth Worf and Dr. Pulaski are surprised by the existence of shapeshifters, with the latter treating the concept as something from a zoological textbook. However, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) encountered shapeshifters in The Man Trap (1966), Whom Gods Destroy (1969) and The Survivor (1973). Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy also encountered one in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
- Quotes
Wesley Crusher: [to Riker] What should I say? How do I act? What do I do?
Commander William T. Riker: Guinan, I need your help. Could you step over here a minute?
Guinan: Sounds simple enough.
Commander William T. Riker: [to Wesley] Now, first words out of your mouth are the most important. You may want to start with something like this.
[to Guinan]
Commander William T. Riker: You are the most beautiful woman in the galaxy...
[to Wesley]
Commander William T. Riker: But that might not work.
Guinan: Yes! Yes, it would.
Commander William T. Riker: [to Guinan] You don't know how long I've wanted to tell you that.
Guinan: But you were afraid.
Commander William T. Riker: Yes.
Guinan: Of me?
Commander William T. Riker: Of us. Of what we might become...
[Wesley tries to interrupt]
Commander William T. Riker: ... or that you might think that was a line.
Guinan: Maybe I do think it's a line.
Commander William T. Riker: Then you think I'm not sincere.
Guinan: I didn't say that. There's nothing wrong with a line. It's like a knock at the door.
Commander William T. Riker: Then you're inviting me in.
Guinan: I'm not sending you away.
Commander William T. Riker: That's more than I expected.
Guinan: Is it as much as you hoped?
Commander William T. Riker: To hope is to recognize the possibility; I had only dreams.
Guinan: Dreams can be dangerous.
Commander William T. Riker: Not these dreams. I dream of a galaxy where your eyes are the stars and the universe worships the night.
Guinan: Careful. Putting me on a pedestal so high, you may not be able to reach me.
Commander William T. Riker: Then I'll learn how to fly. You are the heart in my day and the soul in my night.
Wesley Crusher: [interrupting] I don't think this is my style.
Guinan: Shut up, kid!
[to Riker, saucily]
Guinan: Tell me more about my eyes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Shades of Gray (1989)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
So of course Wesley develops his first crush. Unfortunately, the girl has a nanny "Anya" acting as a Deflector Shield (Voice Actress Paddi Edwards - Who ironically was the voice of 'Gozer' in Ghostbusters).
In fact, Paddi the nanny was the high point of this Ep. We all thought she was just a protective old woman until she changes into a monster in sick bay. An "Alasamorph" - maybe a distant cousin to Odo, a Shapeshifter, and she's good at it. But her over-protectiveness is interrupting normal ship operations, and Salia (Jaime) is affecting Wesley the same way, he can't get any work done.
Picard confines Anya to quarters. She has a great confrontation with Worf. This gives Salia a chance to sneak out and chase down Wesley.
But "Nothing is as it seems", in more ways than the obvious. It is not simply that the nanny 'Anya' is not who she seemed, but we see Salia talking to a young woman and then a short alien bear. Eventually we figure out that these are also Anya, and she is much more than a Nanny.
Basically this episode is Anya and Selia's taxi ride from Harlem to The Bronx, and what they did to spend the time. The Enterprise is simply a backdrop, and it was lucky for Salia as well that Wesley was there to get all bothered.
This episode was long before they had any digital shots, so there are a couple of transformation sequences done by Dan Currie which were matte paintings shot over each other in rapid succession. The end result was fantastic. Eventually, Foundation Imaging would do CGI for Odo's transformations in DS9, but here, they could do more than the regular Orangish Odo-Goo, you could see the hair and skin textures developing in each piece of the transformation.
This episode in fact had a lot of great imagery, and it was all practical effects. It's worth seeing, even if you don't like Wesleysodes like this. But the Wesley-Salia salivation is not the only connection, there is a strong Anya-Worf connection, and the interaction between Michael Dorn and Paddi Edwards is like watching two boxers in the ring. Or, even better: Two Klingons with Bat'Leth's
- XweAponX
- Jul 31, 2013
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1