After a young lieutenant commits suicide by jumping into the plasma stream in one of the nacelles Counselor Troi and Worf are put in charge of investigating what led him to kill himself. Initial investigations show no obvious reasons for him to end his life; in fact everything suggests that he was happy and his life was going well. The pair return to the point where his death occurred and as Troi stands where he stood; she suddenly feels dizzy then sees the room as it was when the ship was being built. During this dizzy spell she sees a woman being attacked, the face of a red-haired man and a couple embracing who start laughing at her. When she comes to she wonders if something terrible happened in the room back when the Enterprise was built which left some sort empathic echo as the man who killed himself was also partially empathetic.
This episode was a little disappointing mostly due to the fact that it ultimately becomes that most of what we have seen is part of a telepathic vision rather than anything that really happened even if the case is solved in that vision is was disappointing. This also meant that Troi's night with Worf never happened clearly the writers want to tease the viewers about that possible relationship. If this doesn't bother you the mystery of what happened during the ship's construction is fairly interesting and the 'red-haired man' is rather creepy.
The fact that Capt. Picard stated that this was the first suicide on the ship and the fact that ultimately the man who killed himself did so because his telepathic abilities made him live through another man's crime rather than a more usual reason meant the episode failed to deal with any real issues concerning suicide something rather surprising given how 'Star Trek' has dealt with many real issues over the years.
This episode was a little disappointing mostly due to the fact that it ultimately becomes that most of what we have seen is part of a telepathic vision rather than anything that really happened even if the case is solved in that vision is was disappointing. This also meant that Troi's night with Worf never happened clearly the writers want to tease the viewers about that possible relationship. If this doesn't bother you the mystery of what happened during the ship's construction is fairly interesting and the 'red-haired man' is rather creepy.
The fact that Capt. Picard stated that this was the first suicide on the ship and the fact that ultimately the man who killed himself did so because his telepathic abilities made him live through another man's crime rather than a more usual reason meant the episode failed to deal with any real issues concerning suicide something rather surprising given how 'Star Trek' has dealt with many real issues over the years.
