This time, Beverly is there to treat him, against Ronin's wishes. Ronin gets mad and gives him the same shock Quint got earlier. Ronin protests, but Picard is done with Ronin's bullshit and probes him with questions. Data pipes up over the com signal, saying that they're going to exhume Nana's body. Picard wants answers from a reluctant Beverly, and when he won't stop asking, Ronin appears, proclaiming his love for Beverly and asking Picard to leave. Suddenly, Picard walks in on Beverly being ravished by a space ghost. and it's coming from Nana's grave!īeverly and Ronin reconvene in Nana's old house, as Ronin attempts to "merge" with her in a big green ghost cloud. Picard decides he's going to have a word with Ronin, while Data and Geordi also head down to Caldos to find an energy signature similar to what was found on Quint's body. Picard goes to talk to Troi, who is also concerned, and they agree that Ronin holds some power over her. Picard comes in, horrified at her request to resign from Starfleet, but Beverly is adamant that she's going to live on Caldos and live like her grandmother did, and she beams down. Beverly is overcome with excitement at this prospect, and we cut to her in the transporter room about to beam back down to the planet while dressed like an old woman. Sure enough, Ronin shows up, saying she's going to become a part of him, like all the Howard women before her. but not before a Big Damn Kiss, after which he vanishes!īeverly gets back on the ship and lights Nana's candle. He confirms that he can travel along the Enterprise's power transfer beam and instructs her to get back to the ship and light the candle. This time, Ronin appeals in corporeal form, which he says he can't do for long, while Beverly melts at his touch. Beverly leaves her medical staff to inspect the body, as she has to go back to her grandmother's house and get information out of the ghost. When Data and Geordi arrive to check it out, Ned Quint is trying to tear something out of the computer system apparently to banish Ronin, but a sudden electrical discharge kills him.īeverly Crusher shows up at the station to inspect the body and determines that it wasn't a plasma discharge that killed Quint, but some other anomaly. This is due to feedback coming from a power transfer beam, which Data can't turn off and is forced to deactivate at the substation where it's originating. On the bridge, the ship's environmental control are malfunctioning, causing the bridge to become carpeted by fog, Ten-Forward's temperature to drop below freezing, and deck 13 to lose gravity.
But when Crusher meets Troi later, she admits that she's entranced by Ronin's charms. He starts to give her "strange sensations," telling her that they are becoming one, but Crusher tells him to leave.
He claims to have been born in 1647 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has spent the last 800 years seducing the women of the Howard family. The voice calling Beverly's name returns, and she identifies him as Ronin, the man at the funeral and Nana's young lover. She hears the "presence" again and sees a flash the mysterious man in a mirror.
Beverly finds the house's interior covered in flowers. The Enterprise picks up the oncoming storm, puzzling Geordi and Data, who'd been working on the weather systems. Ned Quint walks off as green lightning flashes, driving Beverly back into the house. But Quint reiterates his warnings to abandon the house and candle, claiming a ghost is bringing storms to the planet.
Beverly has now read of Nana's close relationship with him, so they make peace. She chalks it up as a dream she had after reading "a particularly erotic chapter in her grandmother's journal." Beverly heads back down to the planet with flowers for Nana's grave and meets Ned Quint there. Beverly relays this to Troi the next day, and seems to have enjoyed the sensations, as this "presence," as she calls it, knew how she liked to be touched.
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