From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Promos for: COST OF LIVING (#220)
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:02:08 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

In article <1992Apr12.000533.11591@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@isis.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>Promos for the next new ST:TNG episode: "Cost of Living" (#220) were 
>released today.  The actual show will air starting on Saturday, April 18.
>Two more new episodes are scheduled to follow: "The Perfect Mate" (#221)
>and "Imaginary Friend" (#222).
>
>
>Here is the promo copy for COST OF LIVING, announcer:
>
> A CLASH BETWEEN GENERATIONS...
>  [ Worf looking annoyed; Lwaxana talking closely with Alexander ]

>Alexander:  I hate him.

That's okay, Alexander.  Nobody's fond of your character either.

> ...TRIGGERS AN ESCAPE INTO FANTASY.

Another one?!  I thought we've had six stories about using the holodeck
for this kind of thing already.

>  [ Alexander and Lwaxana enter the Holodeck; exterior 
>    surroundings with several strange humanoids present ]
>Lwaxana:  My little warrior wants to see more out of life
>          than just fighting, eh?
>
> BUT A PARASITE INVADES THE ENTERPRISE...
>  [ Data and Geordi watch as a particulate cloud moves 
>    across an exposed bank of isolinear chips ]
>  [ Picard and Riker on the bridge ]
>Riker:  Is it big enough to cause a threat?
>  [ The Enterprise is shaken ]

Ahh.  So nice to see something refreshing and new for a change...  :-)

>  [ Lwaxana hugs Alexander; grid walls show through on the Holodeck ]
> ...AND WORF AND HIS SON ARE TRAPPED IN IT'S PATH OF DESTRUCTION.
>  [ Picard talking on the bridge ]
>Picard:  There won't be a ship left to reach the Pelloris Field.
> LIFE SIGNS ARE FAILING!

Rocky to Bullwinkle: "Again?"

>  [ A particulate cloud descends on the Enterprise as it moves 
>    through a field of small asteroids orbiting a blue planet ]
>  [ In a crew cabin, Troi {very attractively} turns and looks astonished ]
>  [ Geordi studying a panel in Engineering ]
>Geordi:  Primary power systems are going down.

"Again?"

>  [ The Enterprise fires an orange energy bolt from the 
>    main deflector; an asteroid is hit and destroyed ]
>
> ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.
           ^^^ ^^^

Apparently in name only.  Haven't I seen this episode before?


>Short promo version:
>  The crew struggles to stop a parasite from devouring it's way 
>  through the Enterprise, on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
><No signs of the wedding sub-plot, or Mr. Homm in the promos.  Oh, well>
>-{ Dean Adams }-


Another poster said this looks like the typical tacked-on-danger device
that's been so overused throughout TNG's history.  I couldn't agree
more.  I knwo that the teasers are frequently misleading, but this
sounds...well...like New Ground all over again.  Ack.

Announcer:

UNLESS TWO KEY MEMBERS OF THE CREW CAN WORK OUT THEIR INTERPERSONAL
PROBLEMS IN 45 MINUTES, THE ENTERPRISE WILL BE PRUNIFIED...

Geordi: Captain, we're beginning to prunify!

Picard: Start a Level One diagnostic!

WILL PERSONAL TENSIONS BE SOOTHED IN TIME?

Troi:  Worf, you must deal with your son's emotions before the ship is
       placed in imminent danger again.

Worf:  Grrr...

[Exterior shot of Enterprise shriveling up]   

ON THE NEXT ALL NEW (BUT MOSTLY RECYCLED) EPISODE OF STAAAAR TREK!


Short promo:

The Enterprise crew is locked in a desperate personality conflict which
endangers the ship.



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