Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Outrageous Okona

"Life is like loading twice your cargo weight on to your spacecraft. If it's canaries and you can keep half of them flying all the time, you're all right."

- Thadiun Okona

"The Outrageous Okona" is the fourth episode of season two of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the twenty-ninth episode of the series overall (if one counts the two-part pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" as two episodes). Combining the episode count of all Star Trek-related TV shows to date, it is the 135th episode of the entire franchise. The episode was directed by Robert Becker with a teleplay written by Burton Armus based on a story treatment by Les Menchen, Lance Dickson, and David Landsberg. It first aired in syndication on Saturday, December 10th, 1988.

Notes & Trivia

 * Stardate: 42402.7


 * Actor William O. Campbell, who plays Thadiun Okona was the second choice to play William T. Riker before the part was ultimately given to Jonathan Frakes.


 * Thadiun Okona is a rather obvious pastiche of a more well-known galactic rogue, Han Solo of the Star Wars mythos.