In 2017, this episode was rated the 6th worst episode of the Star Trek franchise up to that time, by Screen Rant. In 2017, this episode was noted as featuring scary and eerie Star Trek content. In 2016, SyFy included this episode in a group of Star Trek franchise episodes they felt were commonly disliked but "deserved a second chance". The episode has been mocked by some Trek fans for being unintentionally campy. In 2017, it was ranked the 8th best romantic episode of Star Trek, noted for its exploration of sexual dreams. In 2016, fans at the 50th anniversary Star Trek convention voted "Sub Rosa" as the 6th worst episode of any Star Trek series. She says that her grandmother's journals reveal that "whatever else he might have done, he made her very happy." Reception As Picard's log states, "Doctor Crusher's recovery will be of a more personal nature." Troi and Crusher discuss the events in Ten Forward, where Crusher says that a part of her is a little sad. Beverly destroys the candle with a phaser and vaporizes Ronin when he attempts to possess her body. She has by now discovered that he is an anaphasic alien who can only survive because the plasma-based candle is his energy receptacle. Ronin does so and tells Beverly to give him the candle.
Beverly arrives and orders Ronin to get out of her grandmother's body. They open the grave, and the grandmother rises and attacks them. Despite Ronin's objections, Beverly helps Picard.Īt the cemetery, Geordi and Data have found an energy source in Beverly's grandmother's grave. Picard asks questions which Ronin does not want to answer, and Ronin attacks Picard. He wants to get to know Ronin, and finally Ronin appears. Then Picard beams down onto the planet and visits Beverly in her house. Troi tells Picard that Ronin is a very strange man, but they have to accept Beverly's decision. Picard goes to Counselor Deanna Troi, with whom Crusher spoke about Ronin before she left. Beverly tells Captain Picard that she wants to leave the Enterprise and live on the planet. Beverly beams up and lights the candle, and Ronin appears. Ronin tells her to light the candle, which is on the Enterprise. The ghost called Ronin manipulates Beverly's mind so that she falls in love with him. Data and Geordi attempt to fix the problem but are shocked to find Ned, the Howard groundskeeper, trying to stop them, before he is killed in an explosion. Meanwhile, the colony is suffering from a major storm system, which the weather modification satellite is unable to correct. Finally he becomes visible, and Beverly sees a man of about 30 years. Beverly hears a voice that tells her he is a ghost and loved her grandmother and now also loves Beverly. He also tells her that she should never light the candle her grandmother always carried, since this candle will wake up the ghost. Reading some diaries, she discovers that despite being 100 years old, her grandmother was involved with a 34-year-old man named Ronin.īack on the planet, a groundskeeper of her grandmother's tells her that there is a ghost in her grandmother's house and that she should leave immediately. Later, Crusher enters her grandmother's house and collects several mementos, which she takes onto the Enterprise. During the burial, Crusher sees a man she does not know who is obviously very interested in the events. Beverly Crusher to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Felisa Howard. The Enterprise visits Caldos IV to enable Dr. Crusher attends her grandmother's funeral, and spends time in her grandmother's haunted house, romanced by her grandmother's non-corporeal lover. It was the 14th episode of the seventh season.ĭr.
" Sub Rosa" is the 166th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 7)