#suddenly human

I’ve rewatched “Suddenly Human” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 4) and no, it’s not another episode about Data, as you could have thought, judging by the title. It’s an episode about a human boy raised by an alien race, humanoid, of course, but still quite different from Earth inhabitants. (Spoilers!) Enterprise stumbles upon a destroyed alien ship and saves the survivals. Among them, doctor Crusher finds a human teenager, who claims that he’s Talarian and therefore is to be returned to his captain. Enterprise crew finds out that he’s a son of two officers, who were killed by Talarians many years ago. They are afraid that he was abused by his “comrades” and captain and want to return him to his grandmother. The Talarian captain arrives, speaks to captain Picard (who finds out, that he wasn’t brutalizing the boy) and meets the boy. Picard still tries to create some kind of bond and understand the boy better, talk to him, plays Racquetball, takes him to “Ten Forward” to meet Wesley. It all ends up with the boy attacking captain at night, not killing him, but supposing that he’s now to be executed. Picard finds out that the boy still wants to return to his father (the Talarian captain) and finally returns him. An interesting episode about found family.