I so loved the next generation, and still do; I was never too fond of Riker but appreciated the group as a whole, and my hero Picard.
This is the season with Pulaski. We first meet Guinan, but also the Borg. We have the deaf negotiator and a sentient Moriarty, a judge states that Data is not property, Picard is deeply touched by Sarjenka’s pleas and K’Ehleyr refuses to marry Worf
Intro: Picard’s voice: “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations to boldly go where no one has gone before”
Starring
Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker
Also Starring
Levar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher
Special Appearance by Diana Muldaur as Doctor Pulaski in ep 1-2-3-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-17-18-19-20-21-22
and Special guest star Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan in ep. 1-4-9-10-16
Colm Meaney as transporter chief in ep 1-2; in ep 7 he’s got his name in the credits after the title, still working at the transporter and called Chief O’Brian; in ep 8-9-10-11-12 he’s in the ending credits as Colm Meaney : Chief O’Brien; in ep 13-14-20(I think)-22- he’s right after the special appearance as Guest Star Colm Meaney; in ep 15 he’s after the special appearance, with the other names as just Colm Meaney; in ep 16 he’s again a guest star after John deLancie; in ep 18 he’s in the ending credits as co-star Colm Meaney; in ep 19 he’s a guest star after Carel Struycken.
1- The child
ITA Il bambino
42073.2 Dr Pulaski is the new doctor, Beverly is now Head of Starfleet Medical, Geordi is chief engineer and Wesley serves on the bridge and Ensign. Pulaski did not report to Picard but easily found out ten-forward, and he’s pissed. There’s a reason though. Deanna went to her because she’s pregnant. There’s no man, but a ‘lilght’ entered the ship and also her body. The pregnancy progresses incredibly quickly, instead of lasting 10 months it will all last more or less two days. She feels no pain at all, it all goes smoothly. Deanna calls him Ian Andrew like her father. After a day, he looks 4 and keeps growing. Pulaski treats Data like a machine, and calls him D-a-ta (deita). The ship is carrying very dangerous bio-stuff inside a containment unit, to bring to planet Rachelis plagued by something bad. When there is trouble with the containment area because of some radiation, Ian tells Deanna it’s him, it’s his fault - he’s the source of the radiation - so he says he has to leave. He closes his eyes and quietly dies in his bed. He turns back to a little light, communicates silently with Deanna and leaves the ship. He’s a “life-force entity”, and when he saw the ship he became curious and wanted to learn about them and never meant any harm. Without him, it all goes on smoothly. Wesley is supposed to leave the ship but he doesn’t want to and after a talk with Guinan he chooses to stay.
2- Where silence has lease
ITA Dove regna il silenzio
42193.6 To the Morgana Quadrant, still unexplored. There’s a sort of ‘hole’ in space, void. Data: “the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom is ‘I do not know’”.
They stop to investigate and get near, and the void enveloped them. Two probes just disappeared. They try to leave but can’t.
Pulaski has to apologise a lot to Data because she tends to treat him like a non-living machine.
They seem to destroy a Romulan ship iwth one hit then they seethe Starship Yamato. It’s deserted, seems to have two bridges, and then openings start appearing and disappearing as soon as they try to leave. Deanna and Pulaski agree that it’s like a rat-lab, and then a sort-of-face appears on the screen. It calls himself “Nagilum”, and is studying them. It kills Haskell to learn about death, if it’s true that they exist and then cease to exist. He wants to use the crew to study all kinds of deaths…
42194.7 Picard decides on an autodestruction in 20 minutes. He won’t back down so Nagilum lets them go. Picard waits until the countdown is at 10 seconds before finally “abort auto-destruct sequence” and when asked by the computer if he agrees Riker goes “yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur wholeheartedly”. To avoid misunderstandings.
Nagilum appears on Picard’s ‘computer screen’ to tell him he concluded that they are “too aggressive, too hostile, too militant” and therefore they have nothing in common with him.
3- Elementary, dear Data
ITA Elementare, caro Data
42283.3 Data plays Sherlock on the holodeck, and Geordi is Watson. It’s easy for Data since he’s read all the stories, so it’s no fun for Geordi. Pulaski sasys he wouldn’t be able to solve a real mystery so she joins them in a new mystery created by the computer. It’ still based on the written stories, though, so not enough mystery, so Geordi asks the computer for “a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him” and adds “create an adversary capable of defeating Data”. Moriarty sees them and can now summon the Arch. He kidnaps Pulaski. When Geordi explains things to Picard, he says “merde” who summons it all :lol: I always found it funny how it was not allowed to swear on television, but since it was in French he could do it .-p
Moriarty takes control of the ship, he gained a consciousness and is learning things. He does not want to di, so Picard promises to save his character in the computer and maybe recall him at a later date, and all is well.
Guest star Daniel Davis - he was Moriarty, who played Niles in The Nanny
4 - The outrageous Okona
ITA L’immorale
42402.7 Two ships approach, one from planet Atlec and one from planet Straleb, and both want Okona. He won’t tell Picard why. Well, one is angry because his daughter is pregnant, and he accuses Okona of seducing her and abandoning her, while the other says he used his son to get close and steal an important heirloom. Okona chooses to surrender and marry the girl, so the truth comes out, the youths are in love, and Okona got the jewel from the boy to give to the girl… they confess and get engaged.
After Okona and Guinan make Data think about humour, he wants to understand it and starts studying it on the holodeck. He feels quite dejected that he can’t get it.
Guest stars William O. Campbell - Special guest star Joe Piscopo as the Comic.
5- Loud as a whisper
ITA Rumoroso come un sussurro
42477.2 / 42479.3 Planet Sorais V is in need of a mediator so the Enterprise gets Riva for them. He is deaf so he has three people who can hear his thoughts and speak for him. He is very sure of himself, he has never failed. This time, a member of one of the factions becomes violent and Riva’s interpreters, his chorus, is killed. Riva is shocked. Picard helps him in the moment by telling him he’s not alone and holding his hand in his fist. A nice moment. Data learns his sign language and they can talk. Riva is giving up, wants to go home. Deanna talks to him. Riva tells her she could do it, the secret is turning a disadvantage into advantage. She remarks that he should do it then, so he’ll try again, and they’ll have to learn to understand him… well, it’s not that easy, but it can be done I guess. And it’s true, while trying to learn to understand him they’ll be speaking to each other too. So he stays on the planet alone, for how long it will take. Picard compliments Deanna for a job well done :-)
6- The skizoid man
ITA L’uomo schizoide
42437.5 Ira Graves is a great mind living in isolation and now his assistant calls for help.Data tries having a beard, but Deanna laughs. Worf, Troi, Data and Lt Selar go to help Graves while all the others go to the rescue of a ship with more than 2000 people needing help.
42437.7 He’s dying, there’s no cure for his disease. He tells Data he won’t die for real, he can put his mind in a computer, and Data so freely tells him that he has an off switch… it’s no surprise that he put himself into Data. It takes Deanna and her tests to get to the truth, that there’s two minds in him. Graves keeps hurting people because of Data’s strength so eventually he puts his mind in the computer of the ship, leaving Data alone. All is knowledge in there, but no consciousness.
7- Unnatural selection
ITA Selezione innaturale
42494.8 Uss Lantree sends a distress signal but when they reach the ship, every one is dead, of old age, even though two months prior they were young people. They reach the station that was visited by the ship and they’re aging too. They insist on asking for help for their “children” who are genetically advanced but actually look like young adults. Pulaski thinks they’re the carriers. They were created, and are telepathic and telekinetic. Picard finds out Pulaski insisted on coming to the Enterprise, being a fan of his :-)
Pulaski ages rapidly, but they find her previous Dna in her brush, and O’Brian modifies the transporter to filter any changes and they save her, and then all those on the station.
8- A matter of honor
ITA Questione d’onore
42506.5 Riker will go on a Klingon ship as part of an officer exchange program. Worf gives him an emergency transporter. Ensign Mendon comes on the Enterprise. When the Klingon find trouble on the ship, they think it was done by the Enterprise and go back to attack. They don’t talk or care about why; the Enterprise finds out the problem and how to solve it, but the Klingons don’t believe them.
42057.8 The Klingon captain wants to attack, so Riker gives him his transporter and quite sneakily takes his place as the new captain. Now Riker demands they surrendera and Picard does. The Enterprise repairs their ship and Riker goes back there.
9- The measure of a man
ITA La misura di un uomo
42523.7 Riker, Data, O’Brien, Geordi and Pulaski play poker. Riker wins by bluffing. Picard meets again Phillipa after 10 years while at the station. Cmdr Maddox visits the ship ‘to work on their android’, he wants to disassemble him to study him. Data doesn’t believe it will work so Picard refuses, but Maddox tells them Data has now been transferred to the station under his command. He could resign, so he does. But Maddox won’t accept it, and says he can’t be allowed to resign because he’s just a machine. A property. Phillipa agrees to that, but Picard challenges it: Picard to the defence, and Riker to the offence, and must do it well or it won’t count. Since she has no personnel there. Riker does well, taking off one of his hands and pushing the switch-off button. Picard talks to Guinan, and she finally says the truth about making robots: slaves. That’s what it’s about, and I’d add, having slaves without any guilt, freely. Picard does a heartfelt speech and Phillipa rules that Data has the freedom to choose so he refuses and goes back on the Enterpries.
10 - The Dauphin
ITA La delfina
A Head of State, Salia, comes aboard, a girl, and Wesley is charmed. Her governess Anya is very strict. Salia should bring together the two factions always at war on her world. They only appear human, but can change shape. Wesley wonders how to approach her, so he asks Worf and Riker and it’s… embarrassing…
Anya visits the ship and wants to kill a patient because he’s ill but they stop her. Wesley takes Salia to the holodeck to see worlds.
42568.8 Both Anya and Salia can transform. Salia will go alone to her world and Anya back to her home on the third moon. Wesley is a bit of a jerk when she goes to say goodbye, but makes it good before she leaves.
11- Contagion
ITA Contagio
42609.1 To the Neutral Zone to meet the Yamato. The Yamato blows up, all dead. Picard says he loves archeology and orders his tea, Earl Grey, hot, and when he gets flowers it’s clear the Enterprise is having problems too, now. The Yamato may have found the Ancient Iconian world, and its probe caused all the trouble. When the Romulans fail to fire, Riker says “fate: protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise”. Picard, Data and Worf on the planet discover they have gateways to other places, other worlds. Picard wants to blow it all up, after Worf bringsData on the Enterprise through a gateway. Data repaired his own system by shutting down and eliminating everything corrupted, so they plan the same for the ship. Picard uses a gateway too, first gets on the Romulan ship then he’s beamed back home.
12- The Royale
ITA Hotel Royale
42625.4 They find debris and bring aboard a piece with the Usa flag and Nasa written on it. They find a structure on the planet below, and go watch. It’s all pitch black then there’s a revolving door. Inside, it’s the Hotel Royale, with people gambling. The concierge thinks it’s Earth. The team can’t get out. In a room there’s a human corpse, of 283 years ago. They see an American space uniform, with 52 stars, so between 2033 and 2079 AD, as the debris. A colonel S. Richey. There’s the book Hotel Royale in the room. He lived there for many years, at least 38. His ship was contaminated by
Aliens and everyone else died. Maybe out of guilt, the alien created this hotel for him believing it was a fair representation of life on Earth. Following the story, Data plays to win enough money to buy the hotel and go away. This time they can.
13 - Time squared
ITA Tempo al quadrato
Riker cooks for Data, Pulaski, Worf and Geordi. He learned to cook because his father hated it so he had to do it. His mom died when he was young and he never knew her. Owon eggs, nobody likes it, Worf finds it delicious.
42679.2 A shuttlecraft alone. It’s from the Enterprise, the same one they have there, and there’s another Picard inside. Unconscious. It’s quite unsettling for Picard, to watch himself. Pulaski says he’s out of phase. He comes from 6 hours in the future.
A sort of ‘white hole’, a huge tractor beam traps the ship, then it targets Picard, that’s why the first left the ship. Now Picard2 asks Picard1 what was the other alternative - how come the others knew it and he doesn’t… - to head straight to the heart of it. Picard2 shoots the first one to end the cycle, and he’ll disappear when they manage to go forward.
14- The Icarus Factor
ITA Fattore Icaro
42686.4 Riker is offered to be captain of the Aries on a scientific mission. The ‘civilian advisor’ come to talk to Riker about the mission of the Aries is his father Kyle, it’s been 15 years since they last saw each other and Riker is not very excited. He didn’t even know Kyle knew Pulaski, and is surprised to see them hug - wel, she should have mentioned it when he cooked for her… - they apparently had something a long time ago, she got married three times afterwards…
Will looks at pictures: he was 9, in Alaska, and with a big fish, but Kyle took it. Will says he’s been alone since he was 15. The Rikers confront each other duringa match of anbo-jyutsu, with a bit of armor, a helm that covers the eyes so they can’t see, and a big stick one end of which can sense the other and the other end is for attack. Will has hated his father a lot, apparently; Kyle had lost his wife and been left with a child and he didn’t know how to deal with him - that’s not really an excuse, though, is it?
Worf keeps more to himself than usual, and snaps at any attempt at company, and Wesley figures out it’s because “it’s the tenth anniversary of Worf’s age of ascension” which is “a ritual of great significance, a rite of initiation marking the new level of Klingon spiritual attainment”. The anniversary is “a day of celebration and ritual spent with one’s fellow Klingons”. This makes him feel isolated because there are no other Klingons here. They recreate the ritual on the holodeck, it involves “painsticks” because enduring physical pain is a spiritual test. Wesley tells Geordi and Data first, then Pulaski and O’Brien too, to be present as the family. Deanna takes him there but goes away :-)
Riker refuses the promotion and stays on the Enterprise. Of course.
15- Pen pals
ITA Amici per la pelle
42695.3 Picard wanted some time on the holodeck riding a horse, but he’s called right away. Wesley is given “command of the planetary mineral surveys”… and basically he’s only a student… and he’ll have to give orders to various experts much older than him…
42737.3 Data received a transmission, he says “eight weeks ago”, of a girl asking “is anybody out there?” And he answered, and they’ve talked often. Sarjenka is her name, and her people don’t know about other worlds. Her own, though, is having geological problems and Data wonders if they could help. There’s the Prime Directive to consider, so Picard orders him to cease all contacts, but then he hears her voice pleading and changes his mind.
42741.3 Orbiting Drema 4. Data can’t contact her so he goes down and then he takes Sarjenka on the ship. The Enterprise cures the planet, deletes her memories of Data, and take her back.
16- Q who?
ITA Chi è Q?
Ensign Sonya Gomes is new here, and a fresh graduate, and she’s very excited… so she drops chocolate all over Picard’s uniform. He wants to go change, and finds himself on a shuttlecraft with Q.
42761.3 At Picard’s insistence, they appear in ten-forward. Guinan and Q know each other, from 200 years ago, and are very hostile. Good :-) She says that not all Q are the same, “some are almost respectable”. Q asks to stay on the Enterprise as crew because he’s homeless. He’s been ‘asked’ to leave the Q Continuum. Picard refuses, of course because they can’t trust him, and he says they’re prepared for whatever’s out there. Q: “The arrogance” and to Guinan: “they don’t have a clue as to what’s out here” and so Q snaps his fingers and she ship travels 7000 light years in a second, almost three years from the nearest station. Guinan suggests heading right back but they decide to investigate a bit. They meet a ‘ship’, a cube, with no quarters, no separate sections. Guinan knows them, they destroyed everything and “scattered my people throughout the galaxy”. The Borg.
One Borg enters the ship without them noticing anything. Whey they shoot him, another one appears and now it has a shield. “If you defend yourself you will be punished”. 18 people are ‘missing’ after their first encounter. When they visit the ship, the Borg pay them no mind at all. Finally Picard orders to go away, warp 9.65, and they fire, but the Borg are still there, following, firing, getting nearer. When they lose the shields completely, Picard finally tells Q to “end this”, even tellshim “I need you”. Another snap of his fingers, and they’re back where they started. But now that the Borg know of their existence, “they will be coming”.
Guest star John deLancie
17-
ITA Trapppola per samaritani
42779.1 They leave Crusher on “Starbase 515 for Starfleet exams”.
Pulaski orders Picard to go to the Starbase too, to perform “a procedure”. He doesn’t want anyone to know, so he goes. He needs “another damned cardiac replacement” because his heart was injured once but the replacement was faulty. He says he never had time for marriage, being an ambitious officer. Wesley says “where women are concerned, I am in complete control”… I guess he already forgot about Salia, when just a look at a pretty girl made him unable to work… Picard was not always so disciplined. He was top of the class and very “cocky”; once on leave, with his friends, he got in a fight with three Nausicaans. He “told him what I thought of him, his pals, his planet, and I possibly made some passing reference to his questionable parentage”. He fought well, but still one of them got him in the back with a knife. It pierced his heart. “I was an undisciplined, loud-mouthed, opinionated young man who was way out of his league”: He learned his lesson. Now, both the doctors and Picard have red gowns: sure it won’t show the blood, but it sure is not calming. I feel anxious only looking at that.
The ship receives a distress signal and goes to help. They are Pakleds, their ship is called Mondor and “it is broken”. They say “we look for things. Things we need. Things that make us go”. They seem dumb, slow, with no weapons and no skills. Geordi goes on their ship to help. Deanna insists he’s in great danger. Everyone else doesn’t believe so, first of all Geordi. When he is finally done, the Pakleds stun him and raise the shields. He can make the ship go so they want him. They faked the problems to get Geordi, they want all the information on the computer of the Enterprise, but they can’t, of course, it’s against all security procedures. These Pakleds have stolen from Romulans, Klingons, Jarada… well, it’s hard to imagine them stopping to help… but it’s easy to imagine them underestimating some they believe inferior…
There was a 2,4% chance of things going wrong, and now Picard risks dying. So they called the Enterprise! No they’re in a hurry, so they get Geordi back with a trick and hurry to the Starbase where Pulaski saves Picard, and thewhole ship probably knows.
Wesley’s exam results “permit him to continue his studies onboard the Enterprise”. Picard also says “any rumors of my brush with death are greatly exaggerated”.
18- Up the long ladder
ITA L’avventura del Mariposa
Starfleet received a “distress beacon used by the European Hegemony”. It was “a loose alliance” formed in the 2100s, trying for a world government.
42823.2 Worf collapsed on the bridge, and Klingons don’t faint, so Pulaski is worried… then she smiles, he has Rop’ngor, a “childhood ailment”, the Klingon version of the measles. She lies to Picard about it, to save Worf a ‘humiliation’. Worf then performs the Klingon tea ceremony with Pulaski as thanks, and she gets an antidote so she can drink it with him. Nice. Worf thinks that Klingon’s love poetry is the best… something you wouldn’t expect :-)
They find record of the Mariposa ship launching for the Ficus Sector with lots of computer and spinning wheels and more, with captain Granger. 42827.3 On the planet there are more or less 200 people and the Enterprise goes to evacuate, and they insist in bringing up their farm animals. 223 people with two pregnant women. Picard laughs and “bows to the absurd”. Riker is charmed by Brenna, a fiery girl, who doesn’t put up much of a fight at all. There is another colony, and it’s quite different. The Prime Minister of Mariposa and the Head of security are both Grangers. Pulaski works out in a moment that they’re all clones. Only five colonists survived so they used clones to form a society, but after 300 years they have troubles and would like fresh Dna, but Riker is vehemently against it. So Pulaski’s and Riker’s dna is taken by force. Riker goes down to destroy the first two clones already being made. “We have a right to exercise control over our own bodies”… well said, Riker, people should remember that even when the bodies are women’s…
Pulaski thinks the only real solution to save their society is for them to make children. Picard’s face lights up at the idea of merging the two colonies :lol: The Bringloidi have the energy and drive and the clones possess the emotional maturity and the technical knowledge” so they have to agree, and every woman shall need to have three children from three different men - so, three women for every man and three men for every woman.
19- Manhunt
ITA Caccia all’uomo
42859.2 Picard is in high uniform for Antedian dignitaries coming on board, the ones that look like fish covered in aluminum from the neck down - not clear why he had to, since they’re basically asleep. When a small vessel hails them, Deanna goes “Oh my God, what’s sh doing here?”. Starfleet orders them to grant Lwaxana Troi “a daughter of the fifth house, holder of the sacred chalice of Riix, heir to the holy rings of Betazed” full ambassadorial status. She’s here for the conference. Riker brings her luggage, poor man :lol:
She’s quite something and excessive, but Deanna’s human father was never unhappy with her, apparently he worshipped her :-)
Picard is the only guest at her dinner :-) so he calls for Data to join them to talk about other cultures and stuff :lol: Deanna tells Pulaski that Betazoid females that enter mid-life go through ‘the phase’, where she’s fully sexual. At this point Pulaski informs her that Picard is with her, but no need to warn him :lol:
“As ship’s doctor, I consider it an excellent exercise for his reflexes and agility” :lol: Lwaxana fixated all her attention on him, so he decided to make himself scarse and goes to the holodeck to play Dixon Hill. Meanwhile Lwaxana walks around the ship looking for another man. And, she decides to marry William Riker :lol: Until she looks for him and finds both him and the captain on the holodeck. She hits it off with Rex, the barman of the program, and they don’t tell her right away. So she decides to marry Rex instead…
When the Antedians and Lwaxana are to be beamed down, she says their robes are full of explosive, to blow up the whole conference! She didn’t find a husband but she saved the conference :-D
Guest stars: Majel Barrett, Carel Struycken
20- The emissary
ITA L’emissario
Riker, Worf, Data, Geordi and Pulaski play poker again and Worf wins.
An emergency signal gives them a top secret mission. An important emissary is arriving inside a class-8 probe. Very small and uncomfortable, but fast. It’s a Klingon woman, K’Ehleyr. Half Klingon, her mother was human. She knows Worf already. There’s a Klingon ship that’s been travelling more than 75 years, from when Federation and Klingon were still at war. Cryogenic sleep, now close to home, so when finally awake they’ll think only of war. K’Ehleyr doesn’t really like her aggressive Klingon side. She and Worf were quite close, once. She’s fiery and I liked her a lot. She gets along pretty well with Deanna :-)
Worf and K’Ehleyr ‘mate’ now and then he wants to get married because of tradition because “it’s our way” , becasue of “honor”… bah. She refuses to swear the oath anyway.
42901.3 When they meet, the Klingon crew is awake and attacks. Worf finds a way to stop them without destroying them: instead of Picard, the Kligon see Worf and K’Ehleyr in command so they stand down. K’Ehleyr goes on their ship to wait for a Klingon ship to reach them. Worf tells her: “I will not be complete without you” as a goodbye.
21-Peak performance
ITA Una perfetta strategia
42923.4 The Enterprise is to do some war games, and master strategist Kolrami, a Zakdorn, is with them. Riker will captain another ship and they’ll do a simulated battle. Riker takes Geordi and Worf with him, Wesley too. Riker challenges Kolrami at the game Stratagema, knowing he can’t win. He only lasts a few seconds. Pulaski challenges on behalf of Data, she wants him to “bust him up”, and it’s a real surprise when Data loses. Data thinks there’s something wrong in him, until finally Picard tells him that “it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose”.
During the simulation, a Ferengi ship attacks the Enterprise for real. Kolrami wants to retreat leaving the 40 people on the Hathaway behind, tactically an acceptable loss; the two crew work together to find another solution, and it works. Picard keeps praising Riker as ‘the best’ whroughout the episode, when actually it was all thanks to Worf, Wesley, Geordi and Data…
A rematch this time lasts much much longer, until Kolrami storms away furious. This time Data didn’t try to win, only to stop Kolrami and aim for balance.
Guest star Armin Shimerman
22- Shades of gray
ITA Ombre dal passato
During a “geological survey” Riker injures his leg. It seems just a scratch and there are unknown microbs in it.
42976.1 It’s actually a serious thing and he risks dying. Pulaski does all she can, keeping the brain alive, “force the neurons to stay active by stimulating them directly with electrical impulses”. Deanna is also there; Riker keeps reliving memories, when he met Data or talked to Guinan about her eyes… warmth and friendship relax him, erotism and passion make it worse. Great sadness slows the infection, survival instincts slows it further, so to save him Pulaski gives him rather terrible dreams…
End of season 2.
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