Star Trek: The Next Generation 3.07

The Enemy

Commander Riker, Lieutenant Commander La Forge, and Lieutenant Worf beam down to Galorndon Core to see if there are any survivors of a Romulan ship which crashed there. They find one but they are operating in a tight window due to storms on the planet's surface. Geordi gets separated and left behind when the window of opportunity closes and his location is unknown.

The Enterprise makes contact with a Romulan warship that is preparing to cross into Federation space to come looking for its missing ship. Captain Picard warns them not to do so and promises to return the survivor whom they found.

The efforts to rescue Geordi continue. Wesley comes up with a way to send a signal through the storm to Geordi. In practice it works but Geordi is unable to respond after he encounters Bochra, another Romulan survivor from the crashed spaceship. Bochra insists on holding Georgi at gun point until it is almost too late.

The Romulan aboard the Enterprise is in bad shape. Worf is identified as the only one who can possibly help him by donating some of his genetic tissue. Worf refuses and the Romulan dies.

The Romulan warship under the command of Commander Tomalak crosses into Federation Space. An incident almost erupts when it is revealed that the Romulan aboard the Enterprise has died.

Geordi finally gets Bochra to agree to work with him so that they can contact the Enterprise. They do so, they are rescued, Commander Tomalak is satisfied, and there is no incident.

Thoughts

This is the only episode in which Bochra appears but Commander Tomalak also appears in another episode that I have watched 3.10 (The Defector). This episode also made me think of 5.23 (I, Borg) in which Lieutenant Commander La Forge works with a Borg briefly, but under different circumstances.

I put this episode on a list of episodes to watch a few years ago but I don't remember exactly why. It might have been the focus on Geordi that moved me to want to see it.

This was a very good episode. They did a great job of working the three plot lines together. It wasn't perfect. They has to rush some things in order to fit everything in to a 45 minute episode. Definitely worth a watch.