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Unfortunately, the conspiracy decided to make its presence known shortly thereafter; the ''Enterprise'' comes across the destroyed wreckage of one of the captains' ships, and through his research, Data is able to confirm many of the odd occurrences Picard was told of, leading everyone to assume the worst: secret invasion. Since anal Skrulls wouldn't be invented for several years, Picard decides to head to Starfleet Headquarters to figure out just what the hell is going on. Once there, Picard and Riker meet with a trio of admirals, all of whom seem to be acting very strangely. Things get weirder when we learn that one of them is an admiral who, in a previous episode, started the rumors of the conspiracy, but now insists he was only speaking metaphorically about [[You Will Be Assimilated|acquiring new members of the Federation]]. While Riker is still not convinced, Picard is, and orders him to keep an eye on this admiral while he goes on a tour of the ''Enterprise''.
Once on board, the admiral introduces Riker to a [[Star Trek II:
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The slug turns Admiral Quinn into this, as he beats the crap out of Riker, throws Geordi through a door, and Worf over a table.
* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: At least as close as the PG rating would allow. We do see a man's body blown open and [[Your Head Asplode|his head blown off]].
* [[Body Horror]]: Good '''God,''' the mother-alien hiding underneath Remmick. And before that, we "get" to see Remmick's head explode. This is ''not'' your average ''TNG'' episode.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Everyone affected by the slugs.
* [[Fake Defector]]: Riker fakes being infected by the slugs so he can get into the conference room and help Picard. It fooled ''everybody,'' Picard included.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: An extremely, extremely long-term version of it. The signal sent to the Delta Quadrant would be followed up on not in ''[[Voyager]]'', but in the ''Delta Rising'' expansion of [[Star Trek Online]]. The novelverse EU instead considered them a Trill offshoot in contradiction to the STO plot. Given both are [[Broad Strokes]] canon to the televised series, it is hard to say which is actually canon.
* [[Spotting the Thread]]: A key tell the people with the parasites are not themselves (aside from the telltale neck protrusion that is not visible unless you know where to look) is problems with memory. Quinn winds up tipping Picard off something is wrong when he refers back to when they first were introduced and Quinn's response is completely wrong.
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