Written by Philip LaZebnik and William Douglas Lansford She orders the release of the hostages, and then appears on the Enterprise shortly after to declare that the ship also belongs to her, much to Picard’s visible irritation. So she sends him down to the planet in his bedclothes, and the transporter malfunctions. Time Until Meeting: 9:42. Picard disputes whether Ardra did anything to help Ventax II, and Ardra demonstrates her various "powers", including appearing as Earth's Devil. Picard convinces Data that Ardra is a con artist, invoking the scene from A Christmas Carol from earlier in the episode. Radnja prikazuje kako USS Enterprise dolazi na planetu koji nastoji za sebe uzeti naizgled svemoćni entitet Ardra, tvrdeći da je prije hiljadu godina sa njegovim žiteljima sklopila pogodbu prema kojoj će im dati hiljadu godina mira. Jared is the first witness, and he explains the circumstances under which Ventax made the arrangement with Ardra. They receive a garbled transmission from the team leader, Doctor Howard Clark, who reports that the planet is in chaos, and its entire population in the grip of mass hysteria: all of them believe their world is coming to an end. It’s a good job he doesn’t sleep nude, that’s all I’m saying. In an attempt to convince everyone that she is who she says, she briefly takes on the form of the Klingon “devil” Fek’lhr and then produces legal documents for the planet’s leader, Jared, to sign. Picard admits that he cannot. Ronald D. Moore (executive story editor). On the holodeck, Jean-Luc Picard is watching with interest as Data performs a scene from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, playing Ebeneezer Scrooge to a holographic Jacob Marley. As with a previous critique of Data's performance as Henry V, (TNG: "The Defector") Picard compliments him on his technique, but encourages him to be more creative and less imitative. TV-PG William Douglas Lansford (story by), ", "Could she be another refugee from the Q Continuum?" "Devil's Due" like TNG's season 2's "The Child" was actually an episode written for the non-produced late-1970's TV series, "Star Trek Phase II", that yes would have been given to the original series cast. She tells Picard that he would have had more fun if he’d lost, and laughs saying those dreaded words, “Until we meet again.” (They won’t.). Picard beams down to meet with Jared, accompanied by Data, Worf, and Troi. Picard demonstrates that he can “steal” Ardra’s powers. Or why Picard is in bed while Worf and Geordi are out working. then, with snaps of his fingers, Picard causes the capital city to tremor, Ardra to disappear and then reappear inside the courtroom, and Picard himself to appear as Fek'lhr, all of which Ardra seems powerless to affect in any way. He causes tremors—and Ardra can’t make them stop. TNG LOL: This is actually a really funny episode. "Did you say uniform?" Enterprise receives an emergency transmission from a science station on the planet Ventax II. ", "And who is this Ardra?"