Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) the entire "Star Trek: The Next Generation" series. Technically, it was chosen as second-worst, but Empire decided that ""—its initial choice for worst episode—didn't count, because "Shades" was a flashback 'clip' episode. Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Masks" is the seventeenth episode of the of the American science fiction television series "", the 169th episode overall. An alien archive, like an alien Library of Alexandria, initially appearing as a rogue comet because of accumulated matter, transforms the "Enterprise" as well as adapting Lieutenant Commander Data for a re-enactment of its culture's mythology, including the creation of two masks which
Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 3) timeline seen in the series. The events of that episode would set up appearances in "The Next Generation" for the actress as the half-Romulan character Sela in later seasons. The season also featured the first appearance of actors who would later reappear both in "The Next Generation" and later series of the franchise. These included Tony Todd as Worf's brother Kurn, who would appear in this role later in the series and also in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". "Hollow Pursuits" marked the first appearance of Dwight Schultz as Lt. Reginald Barclay in the franchise. He would become a recurring