Shapeshifting Nanny

Story: The Dauphin
Written By: Scott Rubenstein & Leonard Mlodinow
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1989

When a young attractive future head of state tells Wesley he is holding a magnet…he gets nerd boner that nearly kills him…and he is distracted so much he can’t remember to give the magnet to Geordi. So yeah…it’s a Wesley Love Story. YIKES.
The girl is also meant to join together a planet plagued by civil war, two sides that are literally separated by night and day. And her governess is a creepy shapeshifting nutter (who tells Pulaski to murder a patient because he MIGHT be contagious). And then the pretty magnet-loving girl turns out to be a shapeshifter too. So there are just too many things going on in this episode. Plus a lot of the monsters they shapeshift into look ridiculous and cheap.

NEXT TIME: The Yamato Explodes