Seven Words in TNG

which caused him to laugh, but then

 

he looked like he'd been struck by

 

a surge of warp plasma from the

 

bridge console (like Valtane on the Excelsior)

 

.

Data was beginning to suspect that there

 

was something fishy going on that didn't

 

seem right to Captain Picard. He didn't

 

know how to tell the Captain about

 

the problems that he was sensing, thanks

 

to his enhanced android capabilities and was

 

therefore a little isolated from the rest

 

of the Enterprise crew, especially the ones

 

that were close to the Captain and

 

those that worked in engineering, for they

 

were the ones that he relied upon

 

for the most important part of his

 

assignment as captain of the Enterprise D,

 

and head of the wine appreciation club.

 

Picard was a particular person and loved

 

to be thought of as special by