
Season: 2
Original Airdate: 11/19/1988
Writer(s): Jaron Summers & Jon Povill and Maurice Hurley
Director(s): Robert Bowman
Guest Stars
Seymour Cassel as Hester Dealt
Stardate: 42073.1
Synopsis: This episode introduced Dr. Kate Pulaski as the new Chief Medical Officer. En route to pick up samples of various viruses for study, The Enterprise is invaded by a strange, glowing light which searches around the ship until it finds Counsellor Troi and enters her body. Troi wakes up distressed and, after a medical examination discovers she is pregnant and the pregnancy is proceeding at an unusually rapid rate.