Interface is an episode from the seventh season of the television series The Next Generation in which Geordi tries to search for his missing mother, a Starfleet captain.

Plot summary

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At the beginning of the episode, Geordi LaForge, Commander Data, and Beverly Crusher are testing an interface which allows LaForge to use the VISOR circuitry in his brain, along with a virtual reality suit to control a probe by remote control. This way LaForge could use the probe to go into areas that would be too dangerous for crew members to enter.

By using the interface to the probe, Geordi goes to see if there is anybody possesed on a ship that is trapped in a gas giant's atmosphere. He finds that there is no one left alive on the ship, but believes that he encountered his mother on the ship. But continued use of the probe soon exposes LaForge to unhealthy levels of neural stimulation. At about the same time Captain Picard learns that the ship that LaForge's mother commanded had disappeared.

LaForge is convinced that his mother was onboard the ship, and wants to use the probe to communicate with his mother. But Crusher and Picard refuse to allow him to use the interface suit again. LaForge decides to use the suit anyways. While in contact with the probe, he encounters the being who appears to be his mother again, but learns that she is actually a native lifeform to the gas giant. This being talks LaForge into taking the ship closer to the planet, so that she and others like her trapped on the ship can go home.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes