Star Trek: TNG - Home Soil / When the Bough Breaks

Home Soil ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.		When the Bough Breaks ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode	17	Episode	18
Airdate	February 22, 1988	Airdate	February 15, 1988

Catalog Number	LV40270-117
Format	Extended Play CLV

Running Time	92 minutes

Side	Running Time
1	46min 21sec
2	45min 33sec
	91min 54sec

Pressing Location	Pioneer Video Manufacturing
Retail Price	$34.98
Issued	August 26, 1992

Home Soil
Directed by Corey Allen

Teleplay by Robert Sabaroff

Story by Karl Geurs & Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff

Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry

Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes

Also Starring LeVar Burton
Denise Crosby
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton

Guest Stars Walter Gotell
Elizabeth Lindsey
Gerard Prendergast

Stardate 41463.9
At the Federation's request, an Enterprise away team beams down to Velara III to observe a group of terraformers, scientists who are working to generate life-forms on the barren planet. But when a terraformer engineer is killed in a bizarre accident, the starship team begins to suspect a destructive presence at work.
Data (Brent Spiner) and Geordi (LeVar Burton) discover a microscopic inorganic life-form, the Microbrain, that seems to be trying to communicate. Once on board the Enterprise, the Microbrain reveals that the terraformers' work has been killing the Microbrain's species. Now the Microbrain has declared war on the terraformers and the Enterprise.

When the Bough Breaks
Directed by Kim Manners

Written by Hannah Louise Shearer

Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry

Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes

Also Starring LeVar Burton
Denise Crosby
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton

Guest Stars Jerry Hardin
Brenda Strong
Jandi Swanson
Paul Lambert
Ivy Bethune

Stardate 41509.1
The Enterprise accidentally discovers Aldea, a utopian world hidden behind a sophisticated shielding device. After initial contact is made, tragedy strikes when several children disappear from the Enterprise, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) among them.
The crew is shocked when the Aldeans reveal that they are responsible for this heinous crime. Having lost their ability to reproduce, the Aldeans need the children to perpetuate their dying race. As Picard struggles to find a method of penetrating the planet's shield, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) discovers the Aldeans suffer from radiation poisoning which is slowly destroying the planet's atmosphere. Can the starship crew rescue its children from a dying planet?

Home Soil
Directed by	Corey Allen
Teleplay by	Robert Sabaroff
Story by	Karl Geurs & Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff
Executive Producer	Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring	LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Guest Stars	Walter Gotell Elizabeth Lindsey Gerard Prendergast
Stardate 41463.9 At the Federation's request, an Enterprise away team beams down to Velara III to observe a group of terraformers, scientists who are working to generate life-forms on the barren planet. But when a terraformer engineer is killed in a bizarre accident, the starship team begins to suspect a destructive presence at work. Data (Brent Spiner) and Geordi (LeVar Burton) discover a microscopic inorganic life-form, the Microbrain, that seems to be trying to communicate. Once on board the Enterprise, the Microbrain reveals that the terraformers' work has been killing the Microbrain's species. Now the Microbrain has declared war on the terraformers and the Enterprise.

When the Bough Breaks
Directed by	Kim Manners
Written by	Hannah Louise Shearer
Executive Producer	Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring	LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton
Guest Stars	Jerry Hardin Brenda Strong Jandi Swanson Paul Lambert Ivy Bethune
Stardate 41509.1 The Enterprise accidentally discovers Aldea, a utopian world hidden behind a sophisticated shielding device. After initial contact is made, tragedy strikes when several children disappear from the Enterprise, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) among them. The crew is shocked when the Aldeans reveal that they are responsible for this heinous crime. Having lost their ability to reproduce, the Aldeans need the children to perpetuate their dying race. As Picard struggles to find a method of penetrating the planet's shield, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) discovers the Aldeans suffer from radiation poisoning which is slowly destroying the planet's atmosphere. Can the starship crew rescue its children from a dying planet?