Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.06

Legacy

The Enterprise rushes in to help a freighter that is in bad shape. The ship explodes just after the two men aboard the ship evacuate in an escape pod. The escape pod crash lands on Turkana IV. The two men are taken captive by one of the two gangs that are currently fighting for control of Turkana City.

Commander Riker leads an away team into the tunnels beneath the city where most people live now. They make contact with the Coalition one of the two factions that are currently at war. The Coalition offers to help them to recover the two crew men from the Alliance, the other faction.

Hayne, the leader of the Coalition sends Ishara Yar, one of his people to act as a liaison with the Enterprise crew. Ishara is the sister of Tasha Yar, former Chief Security Officer aboard the Enterprise. The crew of the Enterprise has their doubts but as they work with her they learn to trust her.

She helps them to rescue the two men who crash landed on Turkana IV but is revealed to have ulterior motives for doing so.

Thoughts

Tasha Yar was killed towards the end of the first season in an episode that I don't recall watching.

There is more to this episode than my description encapsulates but it summarizes the essence of the plot. The biggest thing that it omits is the relationship that develops between Data and Ishara while they are working together.

Ishara changes outfits, roughly twenty minutes into the episode, she goes from wearing a loose fitting leather outfit to a tight-fitting, aquamarine colored, spandex, bodysuit. She changes back to the outfit she was wearing early in the episode just before she leaves the Enterprise for the last time. No explanation is given for the change of outfit in either case.

Ishara looks a little like Sarah Connor in T2, but this episode first aired Oct 29, 1990, roughly 8 months before T2 was released.

This was an excellent episode. What made it great for me is the relationship that develops between Data and Ishara. It is kind of sad how it all ends between the two of them.