Allegiance (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Allegiance (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Allegiance" is the 18th episode of the of the American syndicated science fiction television series "", and the 66th episode of the series overall. It was originally released on March 26, 1990, in broadcast syndication. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Federation starship "Enterprise". In this episode, Captain Picard finds himself abducted from the "Enterprise" and held in a chamber with other prisoners, while a doppelgänger replacing him behaves strangely and gives increasingly disturbing orders. Captain Picard, while sleeping in his quarters on the "Enterprise"
Masks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) 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 are stylistically "a kind of cross between Venetian and Mayan." A classroom of children on the "Enterprise"-D including Data are making clay sculptures under the supervision of Deanna Troi when a mysterious-looking