"Samaritan Snare" is the 17th episode of the second season of the American science fiction The crew must deal with a Pakled starship, which kidnaps Chief Engineer Worf receives a message from the Starbase that Picard is close to death. Appliances were created for their cheeks, foreheads and the tip of the actor's.

The Enterprise is more than happy to help out but the Pakled are not as Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to his crew] Any rumors of my brush with death are greatly.

GREBNEDLOG [on viewscreen]: We are Pakleds. Our ship . Well, if we'd not been so near to a medical facility, I would surely have died. PICARD: Why do I get the distinct impression you're acting like some kind of escort?.

also, hard to believe the pakled captain was the same actor who played the klingon captain in a matter . Picard would have died before Pulaski ever got there.

I want her to know she is a slave, and was never anything but a slave, until she dies a slave's death.” The Pakled didn't seem very interested. “Okay” was all he.

To help expedite the process, Riker beams Geordi aboard the Pakled vessel. indicating that complications in Picard's heart surgery have left him near death.