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“Devil's Due”

Episode Number87 (4.13)
Production Number187
Season4
Stardate44474.5
Original Airdate04-Feb-1991
StoryPhilip Lazebnik and William Douglas Lansford
TeleplayPhilip Lazebnik
DirectorTom Benko
Ardra arrives to enslave the Ventaxians
Synopsis

An emergency transmission from a Federation science station brings the Enterprise to Ventax II. A woman with great powers claims to be the Ventaxian's mythical figure Ardra and she has returned to claim the planet and its inhabitants by a 1,000 year old contract. Picard sets out to prove that she is just a con-artist.

Guest Cast

Marta DuBois (Ardra)
Paul Lambert (Dr. Howard Clarke)
Marcello Tubert (Acost Jared)
Thad Lamey (Devil Monster)
Tom Magee (Fek'lhr Monster)
William Glover (Marley)

Notes
  • Picard critiques Data's role as Scrooge from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" on the holodeck.
  • Marta DuBois previously played Magnum's estranged wife on "Magnum P.I."
  • At one point, Ardra transforms herself in to Fek'lhr, The Guardian of Gre'thor—where dishonored Klingons go after they die.