Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 Episode 23: Sarek Online

	IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 from 968 votes
	Release: 1990 / Star Trek: The Next Generation / Season 3 / Episode 23
	Genre: Action \| Adventure \| Mystery
	Director: Les Landau
	Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
	Synopsis: Spock's father Sarek, the legendary Vulcan ambassador, now remarried to another earth-woman, Perrin, boards the Enterprise to crown his career -before retiring- by finalizing painstakingly prepared peace negotiations with the Legarans. His chief of staff and personal assistant asked Sarek to be given maximal rest in view of his weak health, but he insists to attend the ship's Mozart concert starring Data as violin soloist in his honor, and is seen there to cry, unseen for a Vulcan. The next days ever more crew members display unprovoked aggression, even towards friends and relatives. Data gets an entourage member to confirm a medical theory: Sarek is affected by the rare 'bendai syndrome', which causes old Vulcans to loose their most-prized emotional self-control, and telepathically spreads the epidemic. Picard must think of the negotiations with the probably susceptible Legarians, which cannot be delayed, while Sarek denies his condition, alas tellingly emotionally; once he admits it...