Fans of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” always got a little giddy when Brannon Braga’s name appeared in an episode’s writing credits.
Braga became a staff writer on Tng in its fourth season, right when the show was getting great.
Braga was often the one responsible for the weirder, more psychedelic episodes of the show, starting with “Identity Crisis,” a 1991 episode wherein Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) transformed into an invisible alien. Braga proceeded to write the episode wherein multiple clones of Data (Brent Spiner) took over an Old West town.
He wrote the episode wherein the Enterprise was caught in a time loop and didn’t notice until several go-throughs of being destroyed.
He wrote the one where Riker (Jonathan Frakes) woke up in an alien asylum, convinced the Enterprise was a hallucination.
He wrote the one where Barclay (Dwight Schultz) devolved into a spider and the one where Data started having nightmares.
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