- Script
- Michael Jan Friedman (credited)
- Pencils
- Pablo Marcos (credited)
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos (credited)
- Colors
- Rick Taylor (credited)
- Letters
- Bob Pinaha (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jean-Luc Picard [also as Dixon Hill]; Dr. Beverly Crusher [also as Beverly Howard, or Red]; Q; Worf; Deanna Troi; William Riker; Geordi LaForge; Data; Alexander Rozhenko; Phillipa Louvois; Leonard Cantrell; Antonia Truscott
- Synopsis
- Picard solves the mystery in time to save Deanna and Worf, who have themselves learned that the circus is a front for an interplanetary smuggling operation. Meanwhile, Data is escorting Phillipa Louvois to a legal conference, but they find themselves on a collision course with a ship that doesn't respond to their communications.
- Keywords
- circuses; film noir; holodeck; smuggling
Subplot with Data and Louvois continues in the following issue.
- Script
- Alan Gold (credited)
- Pencils
- ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Letters submitted by Daniel Pulliam, Anjie Buchanan, and Chris Atkinson.