Product Details

• Actors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden
• Directors: LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Gabrielle Beaumont, Robert Becker, Cliff Bole
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: June 25, 1996
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304066120
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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From the Back Cover

After locating the Brattain, a science vessel aimlessly adrift in space, the crew of the Enterprise discovers that, with the exception of the ship's Betazoid counselor, everyone on board is dead.

While attempts to communicate with the lone survivor prove futile, the science vessel's engines refuse to start. After investigating, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) concludes that the crew must have killed one another and warns that the Enterprise might suffer the same fate.

Mysteriously, the crew becomes increasingly hostile and paranoid, so Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) orders the ship to leave the area, but her engines have also shut down. Now, with the crew members quickly losing their grip on reality, Troi, (Marina Sirtis) and Data (Brent Spiner) are the only ones left sane enough to save the ship. But can they solve the mystery before everyone goes mad?

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one moon circles..., February 26, 2004

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Shelley Gammon "Geek" (Kaufman, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 91: Night Terrors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Enterprise is en route to the last known coordinates of the USS Brattain, 29 days after they sent out a distress call followed only by silence.

The away team finds a disturbing scene onboard the Brattain. All crew members, except one Betazoid, are dead - results of phaser fire and hand-to-hand combat with their crew-mates. The Betazoid is the only living witness, but he is in a disturbed, catatonic state and Troi has trouble reaching him.

Crusher performs autopsies to see if there is any reason for the crew going bonkers and killing each other, and seemingly crippling many of the ship's vital functions. Tension begins to ripple throughout the crew. While finding a ship full of dead Federation crewmembers is disturbing, the behavior of the Enterprise crew is becoming less than ordinary. Their feathers are ruffled and many of them begin to behave in aggressive, paranoid ways.

Troi is plagued with nightmares, where she is flying through space as dark voices attempt to communicate with her, "one moon circles, eyes in the dark...," all with cryptic words she can't make sense of.

Crusher tells Picard that whatever happened on the Brattain is happening on the Enterprise and they need to get away as soon as possible. Picard informs the doctor that they will be leaving within the hour as they prepare to take the Brattain in tow.

As they begin to embark, it's obvious they're not going anywhere. Engines won't respond. Other systems are failing and power is seemingly leaking from the ship. After detailed analysis by Data, it's determined that they are stuck in a Tyken's rift. So named after Captain Tyken, whose ship was in a similar rip in space, bleeding power to the rift. Tyken's experience makes no mention of sleep disturbances or paranoid, aggressive behavior among his crew. Crusher discovers that the only person on board that is able to dream is Troi - everyone else is being deprived of REM sleep and the deprivation is slowly driving them insane... all without explanation.

How are they going to get out of this one? They can't move. They are bleeding power and the crew is starting to lose their wits, with eruptions of violence occurring in Ten Forward and Worf attempting ritualistic suicide due to his plaguing feeling of fear.

Many memorable scenes - probably the most creepy scene is Dr. Crusher in the morgue, as the dead crew-members of the Brattain appear to come to life. This is truly an episode that has the viewer on the edge of their seat.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Night Terrors, August 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 91: Night Terrors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I believe when the writers where writing this episode they wanted to make it a diffrent episode. Something we usually don't see in Star Trek. Well that is very true this is quite a diffrent episode from others. The crew begins to suffer from sleep deprivation and things on board the USS Enterprise get a little strange.