“The Defector”
Written by Ronald D. Moore
Directed by Robert Scheerer
Season 3, Episode 10
Production episode 40273-158
Original air date: January 1, 1990
Stardate: 43462.5
Captain’s Log: We open with Data performing Act IV, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Henry V — the scene where Henry disguises himself as a soldier and walks among the troops on the eve of the battle at Agincourt.
Picard then heads to the bridge. A Romulan scout ship has breached the Neutral Zone. Picard orders Worf to hail them to warn the ship off, but before he can, the scout ship hails the Enterprise, requesting assistance — and asylum. A Romulan warbird decloaks in hot pursuit of the scout ship, firing on it.
[“Are you prepared to die today?”]