Genesis story
A routine medical treatment inadvertently creates a virus that begins to de- evolve the Enterprise crew while Picard and Data are on an away mission. This is the first and only episode to be directed by Gates McFadden, who plays Dr. Crusher.
15 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| devolution | choice | the crew devolve into various animals |
| what if everyone turned into zombies | choice | Picard and Data faced a ship full of zombie-like devolved creatures |
| species transmutation | major | The enterprise crew members devolved into various more primitive creatures. |
| the nature of animal instincts in humans | major | devolved people displayed idiosyncratic animal instincts |
| what if I underwent a physical metamorphosis | major | Picard, Troi, Riker, Worf, Beverly, Barclay :: the crew, but Picard in lemur in particular |
| android | minor | Data, Soong Type Android :: Data immune to the effects of de-evolution |
| anger | minor | Riker :: caveman-Riker |
| coping with personal failure | minor | Worf :: Worf |
| expecting parents | minor | Alyssa Ogawa :: Ogawa's pregnancy |
| fear | minor | Picard :: lemur-Picard of beast-Worf |