| The Icarus Factor | |
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| Series Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 14 | |
| File:TNG 2x14 001.jpg | |
| Air date | April 22nd, 1989 |
| Writers | Maurice Hurley; Kurt Michael Bensmiller |
| Director | Joseph L. Scanlan |
| Producers | David Livingston; Burton Armus; Mike Gray; John Mason; Robert L. McCullough; Maurice Hurley; Rick Berman; Gene Roddenberry; Peter Lauritson |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart; Jonathan Frakes; LeVar Burton; Michael Dorn; Marina Sirtis; Brent Spiner; Wil Wheaton |
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"The Icarus Factor" is the fourteenth episode of season two of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the thirty-eighth episode of the series overall (if one counts the two-part pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" as two episodes). Combining the episode count of all Star Trek-related TV shows to date, it is the 144th episode of the entire franchise. This episode was directed by Joseph L. Scanlan with a teleplay written by Maurice Hurley based on a story treatment by Kurt Michael Bensmiller. It first aired in syndication in the United States on April 22nd, 1989.