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Skin of Evil Version 2:
I still think Skin of Evil would work better as Season 3 or 4
That Deanna and Armus Merge as a result Deanna becomes an Evil Twin Version [E.T.V.] of herself and Armus becomes Good. E.T.V. Deanna is taken back to the ship where she starts to turn on the CREW and use her Telepathic powers on the crew to harm them, the Doctor and the Captian have to figue out if a mind transfer has taken place between Deanna & Armus, Armus is cntrolling Deanna, is Armus a shape-shifter and assumed Deanna's idenity after killing her or is it something else.
The crew has to trun to the Good Armus for help
2 Parter or 3 Parter
This has been running around in my head for a few weeks:
Skin of Evil Version 3 -- Season 3 or 4:
Another idea I had to rework this episode is at the being of a plot arc over several episodes. As I mentioned earlier in this topic Deanna is a FULL Telepath and Telekinetic. Actress instead of actor to play the part of Armus; the entity Armus is determined to escape her prison and decides to merge with Deanna in order to escape from this wasteland.
They become one and learn everything about each other, a few hours pass and then their new conciseness separates. Armus tries to hold on but it does not work, their conciseness switch forms. Deanna Troi’s conciseness merges with the liquid form of Armus and the conciseness of Armus enters the body of Deanna Troi. Armus comes out the worse for wear since she has become less advanced life form also as a side effect of this Armus is suffering almost total amnesia; Deanna has access to the SUM of their memories when they were merged. However Deanna’s new mind is in a state of disarray her mind is like a sea storm, she completely destroys the shuttlecraft as she exits it unable to yet properly control the strength/abilities of her new body with Armus trapped inside of her.
The away team lands on the planet and witness the fate of the shuttlecraft and this alien life form expelling a body from within it (her) about ten minutes later which of course they view as Deanna but is not. Tasha confronts the alien life form Deanna just as she is about to try and let the away team know that her mind is no longer in her body but in this alien life form, Tasha does not believe her and neither does the rest of the away team.
Deanna still somewhat disorientated by the transfer and agitated responds to Tasha’s confrontational attitude with a self preservation response combined with anger and attacks her. Deanna breaks every bone in her body and snaps her neck, Riker and Data open fire on Deanna with no visible effect the away team escapes with Armus.
Deanna reaches out with her new abilities to stop the Enterprise from leaving, as a result Picard open communication with what he thinks is an alien life form, and Dr. Crusher informs the Captain that Troi has severe amnesia; Deanna tries again to explain her predicament to Captain Picard but to no avail the Captain and the Doctor come to the conclusion that the Alien was trying to control Deanna and reached into her mind and that is why it has knowledge of her life and not because of a mind transfer. Deanna has failed again; she completely looses her temper and lashes out at the Enterprise. The ship takes moderate damage at first then serious damage (200 dead and injured combined as a result) Data devices a method to disorientate the alien, Data enacts his plan it works better than expected Alien Deanna is rendered unconscious.
The Enterprise limps away from the wasteland planet, Danna regains consciousness the depth of her situation sinks in she accidentally killed Tasha, attacked her shipmates who knows how many are dead or injured. Her body has been stolen someone else his living her life right now, she has been abandoned by her crew and she is stranded on a wasteland planet how will she escape and convince them of the truth. Will Starfleet send vessels to subdue her and contain her for transport to holding facility or some sort of status unit? Or worse yet sent to a laboratory to poked and examined for the rest of her days she thinks out loud “Am I even mortal anymore” “Is the transfer permanent !?”
Deanna becomes hysterical
The rest of the plot arc deals with Deanna learning to control her new form/body learning to become a shape-shifter so she can assume humanoid appearance to interact with people better, getting off her prison, dealing with Starfleet and tracking down the Enterprise and getting them to see the truth. Getting her life back and her body is the transfer permanent? Armus regaining her memory and impersonating Deanna Troi as well as getting of the ship at the best possible moment and trying to get Starfleet to place her old body in a kind of status unit.
