Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episode 18 Synopsis

Stardate: 42823.2 The Enterprise races to evacuate a lost colony who's planet is about to be destroyed. The rustic colonists, known as the Bringloidis, tell the crew that they had traveled from Earth many generations ago with a second colonist group, which continued on to another planet, after their colony was dropped off.

The Enterprise decides to search for the second group, to check if the Mariposans, as the other group are known as, also survived. They soon find the Mariposans, and are surprised to find they all are descended from the five survivors of the ship, which crashed, and all are now clones. Dr. Pulaski discovers that the Mariposan colony will soon die out due to an inherent flaw in the cloning process.

The Mariposans ask the crew for some of their DNA, but when they refuse, the Mariposans then attempt to steal their DNA. When they are foiled in their attempt, the crew comes up with their own solution, which involves the commingling of the Bringloidis.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - The Child
• s02e02 - Where Silence Has Lease
• s02e03 - Elementary, Dear Data
• s02e04 - The Outrageous Okona
• s02e05 - Loud as a Whisper
• s02e06 - The Schizoid Man
• s02e07 - Unnatural Selection
• s02e08 - A Matter of Honor
• s02e09 - The Measure of a Man
• s02e10 - The Dauphin
• s02e11 - Contagion
• s02e12 - The Royale
• s02e13 - Time Squared
• s02e14 - The Icarus Factor
• s02e15 - Pen Pals
• s02e16 - Q Who?
• s02e17 - Samaritan Snare
• s02e18 - Up the Long Ladder
• s02e19 - Manhunt
• s02e20 - The Emissary
• s02e21 - Peak Performance
• s02e22 - Shades of Gray

Star Trek: The Next Generation Show Summary

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".

In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.