Star Trek: The Next Generation: The First Duty


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The First Duty
Season 5, Episode 19

Wesley is in trouble when he gets involved in a desperate cover-up after his Starfleet Academy squadron suffers a fatal collision. Sci-fi adventure, guest starring Robert Duncan McNeill, with Wil Wheaton


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Movie/Drama Science Fiction

Cast & Crew

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Patrick Stewart (Actor) .. Capt Jean-Luc Picard
Brent Spiner (Actor) .. Lt Cdr Data
Jonathan Frakes (Actor) .. Cdr William Riker
Robert Duncan McNeill (Actor) .. Nicholas Locarno
Wil Wheaton (Actor) .. Wesley Crusher
Gates McFadden (Actor) .. Dr Beverly Crusher
LeVar Burton (Actor) .. Lt Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn (Actor) .. Lt Worf
Marina Sirtis (Actor) .. Counsellor Deanna Troi
Ray Walston (Actor) .. Boothby
Ed Lauter (Actor) .. Lt Commander Albert
Jacqueline Brookes (Actor) .. Admiral Brand
Paul Lynch (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Patrick Stewart (Actor) .. Capt Jean-Luc Picard
Born: July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, West Yorkshire
Best Known For: Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Early-life: Born July 13, 1940, in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. He began acting at 12 in amateur groups (where he befriended a young Brian Blessed). He left school at 15 to work on a local newspaper, quitting after the editor told him to choose between the theatre and journalism. For a year he worked as a furniture salesman to fund his drama training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He landed his first professional job with Lincoln Repertory in 1959.
Career: A long association with the Royal Shakespeare Company began in 1966. Stewart's first small-screen role came in 1974's A Fall of Eagles, and his movie debut a year later in Tilney. His subsequent TV roles include I, Claudius, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Star Trek: The Next Generation, which made him a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. He returned to the stage when the series ended in 1994. Stewart has since appeared in the Star Trek movies Generations, First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis. He's also starred in Conspiracy Theory and the blockbusting X-Men films. He made a memorable appearance in Extras, starred alongside David Tennant in Hamlet.
Quote: "I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair."
Trivia: He was knighted in 2010.
Brent Spiner (Actor) .. Lt Cdr Data
Born: February 02, 1949 in Houston, Texas
Best Known For: Playing android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Early-life: Brent Jay Spiner was born on February 2, 1949, in Houston, Texas. His parents, Jack and Sylvia owned a furniture store. Jack died of kidney failure at 29, when Brent was 10 months. His mother later married Sol Mintz, who adopted Brent and his older brother Ron. Although they divorced after seven years of marriage, Brent retained his adopted father's surname until 1975, when he took back his birth name. He started acting in high school thanks to much inspiration from teacher Cecil Pickett, who also taught Dennis and Randy Quaid. After graduating, Spiner followed his mentor to the University of Houston and other local colleges, while launching his professional acting career in theatre.
Career: Spiner made his TV debut in 1970 movie My Sweet Charlie, and eventually established himself as a stage actor in New York, appearing in a number of off-Broadway and Broadway plays. He had a bit part in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories. He moved to Los Angeles in 1984 and appeared in TV movies Robert Kennedy and His Times, Crime of Innocence and Manhunt for Claude Dallas. Spiner became a household name when he was cast as android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. He played the role until the movie Star Trek: Nemesis (which he co-wrote), when the character was killed off. He has also appeared in the movies Independence Day and Dude, Where's My Car? His recent work includes roles in the film The Aviator, and TV series Enterprise and Threshold.
Quote: On his Data action figure: "At first I was reluctant. But then I figured, if it's good enough for Alec Guinness, it's good enough for me."
Trivia: Away from acting, Spiner has released an album, Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back.
Jonathan Frakes (Actor) .. Cdr William Riker
Robert Duncan McNeill (Actor) .. Nicholas Locarno
Wil Wheaton (Actor) .. Wesley Crusher
Gates McFadden (Actor) .. Dr Beverly Crusher
LeVar Burton (Actor) .. Lt Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn (Actor) .. Lt Worf
Marina Sirtis (Actor) .. Counsellor Deanna Troi
Born: March 29, 1955 in London
Best Known For: Playing Deanna Troi in the Star Trek franchise.
Early-life: Born on March 29, 1955 in London. Marina's parents did not want her to pursue acting so she applied for drama school secretly. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1976 and joined the Connaught Theatre. In 1986, she moved to Los Angeles to boost her career.
Career: Sirtis had supporting roles in a number of films and guest-starring roles on many British TV series before she landed the role of Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation. She played the character during all seven seasons and also for episodes of other series in the Star Trek franchise, as well as the feature films Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). Her first role after she finished Star Trek: The Next Generation was in the TV series Heaven Help Us. She also voiced Demona in the Disney series Gargoyles. Sirtis went on to appear in several films and such TV series as Diagnosis: Murder, The Outer Limits, Earth: Final Conflict, Stargate SG-1, Casualty, Holby City and Grey's Anatomy. She lent her voice to the video game Mass Effect, as well as animated series The Cleveland Show and Adventure Time. More recently, she has appeared in NCIS and voiced the Enterprise's computer in Star Trek Continues.
Quote: "The thing about Star Trek is that it is not judgemental. You can do whatever you want, within reason."
Trivia: She supports Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and has a tattoo of the team's logo.
Ray Walston (Actor) .. Boothby
Ed Lauter (Actor) .. Lt Commander Albert
Jacqueline Brookes (Actor) .. Admiral Brand
Paul Lynch (Director)
Ronald D Moore (Writer)
Naren Shankar (Writer)