Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unnatural Selection

VHS, 46 minutes, PARAMOUNT

After responding to an emergency call from the U.S.S. Lantree, an away team finds the Lantree's crew dead from an unexpected cause: old age. The Enterprise then speeds toward the Lantree's last port of call, the Darwin Genetic Research Station, to warn its inhabitants of the danger. The mysterious disease has already infiltrated the station. Chief researcher Dr. Sara Kingsly (Patricia Smith) pleads with Picard (Patrick Stewart) to evacuate the children, who show no signs of infection. Reluctantly, Picard allows Dr. Pulaski (Diana Muldaur) to examine one boy (George Baxter) in the protected environs of a shuttlecraft. Moments after contact with the boy, Pulaski is stricken by the aging disease. While Pulaski resigns herself to her fate, Picard desperately searches for a way to save the doctor's life.