Episode 228: "Realm of Fear" 

When the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters another starship, the U.S.S. Yosemite, trapped in a plasma streamer, a young engineer named Reginald Barclay comes up with a plan to reach the vessel. The crew adopts his plan, but Barclay balks when he realizes that the crew wants him to join them as part of the Away Team. Deathly afraid of the transporting process, he backs out at the last minute, leaving the rest of the Away Team to transport to the fire-marred Yosemite. There, they find that one dead body is the only sign of humanity, and they also notice several fragments of a broken sample container. Later, emboldened by a session with Troi, Barclay is able to rejoin the Away Team just in time to transport back. Each member returns to the Enterprise without incident except Barclay, who encounters a sinister-looking creature while in molecular form.
Back on board the Enterprise, Barclay is genuinely shaken by what he has seen. Geordi has O'Brien run a full diagnostic on the transporter, but the tests show nothing unusual. Barclay is able to relax, but becomes even more unnerved when his arm begins to radiate light in the precise spot where the creature touched him. Meanwhile, in Sickbay, Beverly performs an autopsy on the Yosemite crew member and is shocked as each of the dead man's systems briefly and separately come to life, one after the other.

Beverly's examination reveals that the crew member was killed when his body was invaded with high-energy plasma. Geordi, Data and Barclay realize that the plasma was brought inside the ship in the sample container that was fragmented, and that the plasma somehow exploded. The three try to determine why the explosion occurred, but Barclay is unable to concentrate, still shaken by what he saw on his arm. Geordi reports Barclay's condition to Troi, who immediately relieves him of his official duties. Late that night, Barclay returns to his room to sleep, but is unable to do so when his arm begins glowing again — this time all the way up to his shoulder. Sure that something must be hidden in the transporter, he summons O'Brien to help him find it.

O'Brien transports Barclay to the Yosemite and back, and Barclay encounters the creature during the trip. Sure of what he has seen, he wakes the senior staff to tell them, and while Picard is skeptical at first, he authorizes an in-depth investigation. Beverly examines Barclay and finds that he has been exposed to the same plasma that killed the Yosemite crew member.

Data and Geordi discover that the plasma particles are actually life forms, and that some of those life forms are inside Barclay. Thus Barclay must confront his greatest fear - of being dematerialized and permanently lost in molecular limbo. During the transport, however, Barclay encounters the creature again. Instead of panicking, he takes its hand and brings it back to the ship with him. When they arrive, everyone is shocked to see that it is a human being — one of the crew members from the Yosemite. The crew rescues the two other crewmen trapped in molecular limbo, and Barclay, having beaten his fear, emerges as a hero.

Production: 228
Season: 6 Episode: 2
Air Date: 09.28.1992
Stardate: 46041.1
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as William Riker
Brent Spiner as Data
LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Worf
Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
Dwight Schultz as Reginald Barclay
Renata Scott as Admiral Hayes
Thomas Velgrey as Crew Member
Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Patti Yasutake as Nurse Ogawa
The ceiling of the transporter chamber on the Enterprise D is in fact the floor of the transporter chamber from the Enterprise in the original series.

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                STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 
                              
                        "Realm of Fear" 
                          #40276-228 
                              
                          Written by 
                         Brannon Braga 
                              
                          Directed by 
                          Cliff Bole 
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Copyright 1992 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights
Reserved. This script is not for publication or
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                         FINAL DRAFT
                        JULY 15, 1992
         STAR TREK: "Realm of Fear" - 07/15/92 - CAST 
                STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 
                        "Realm of Fear" 
                             CAST                               
                              
                PICARD             BARCLAY
                RIKER              ADMIRAL HAYES
                DATA               SCIENCE SHIP CREWMEMBER
                BEVERLY            
                TROI               
                GEORDI             
                WORF               
                                   Non-Speaking
                                     DEAD CREWMEMBER
                O'BRIEN              THREE CREWMEMBERS
                NURSE OGAWA        
                COMPUTER VOICE     
                Non-Speaking       
                  BARTENDER          
                  SUPERNUMERARIES    
                  ENSIGN DERN        
         STAR TREK: "Realm of Fear" - 07/15/92 - SETS 
                STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 
                        "Realm of Fear" 
                       
                             SETS 
            INTERIORS                  EXTERIORS
          
            USS ENTERPRISE             USS ENTERPRISE
              MAIN BRIDGE
              CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM     PLASMA STREAMER
              OBSERVATION LOUNGE
              SICKBAY                  SCIENCE SHIP
              ENGINEERING
              CORRIDOR
              TEN FORWARD
              BARCLAY'S QUARTERS
              TRANSPORTER ROOM
              TROI'S OFFICE
          
            SCIENCE SHIP
              SCIENCE OPS.


 

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