Promos for the next new ST:TNG episode: "Masks" (#269) were 
released today.  The actual program comes out on Saturday, 
February 19th.  Following this will be another new episode
Eye of the Beholder.


Here is the promo copy (announcer):

A STRANGE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION...

   [ large alien ship/artifact on main viewscreen ]

  Data:  It is over 87 million years old.

...TAKES POSSESSION OF DATA.

   [ Data being checked over by Geordi ]

  Data:  What does it feel like when a person is losing his mind?

   [ Data, smiling, with an alien symbol on his forehead ]

NOW HE'S BECOME A TERRIFYING FORCE...

   [ Data wearing a mask; he knocks down two security guards ]

...THATS PLANNING A COMPLETE TAKEOVER OF THE ENTERPRISE.

  Picard:  I'm not going to permit this ship 
           to be turned into an alien city.

   [ energy beam from the alien ship to the Enterprise ]

AND PICARD KNOWS ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP HIM...

  Data:  Death...

ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.


Short version:

  An ancient terror invades Data and takes over the Enterprise,
  on Star Trek: The Next Generation.


-{ Dean Adams }-