Pen Pals (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
"Pen Pals" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of the syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 41st episode overall, first broadcast on May 1, 1989.
The series follows the adventures of the crew of the Federation starship Enterprise commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In this episode, Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher learns to manage a science team, and in the primary plot, focusing on the Starfleet's Prime Directive, Data helps a young girl on a troubled planet.
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