Unfortunately, Brahms is nothing like the idealized holographic version La Forge fell for a year earlier, in the third season episode "Booby Trap".
Taking defensive action, Captain Picard orders a low-power phaser burst on the creature, inadvertently killing it.
As the ship's power supplies run low, the crew finds a nearby debris field toward which the larger creature appeared to have been traveling, and realize it would serve as a better feeding ground for the infant.
Worse, they also discover the creature is emitting radio signals attracting more of its kind from the debris field, and they are heading straight toward the Enterprise.
La Forge and Brahms put aside their differences and devise a solution: altering the frequency of energy to "sour the milk", causing the infant to leave the ship and join the other creatures.
[4] Writing for Trek Nation, Michelle Green argued the storyline involving Picard's relationship with the alien was the episode's redeeming grace.
"That's what makes this episode palatable to me, because otherwise we're treading close once again to derailing serious drama with puerile sexual relations," Green wrote.
"[5] This episode was released in the United States on September 3, 2002, as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation season four DVD box set.