A young boy living aboard the Enterprise-D who is poisoned by parasites after a practical joke by his older brother Jake sends him running to hide in the ship's arboretum.
Willie Potts is a child aboard the USS Enterprise-D who appears in the fourth-season episode Brothers, set in 2367. His parents are away on sabbatical, leaving him and his older brother Jake on the ship.
During a game, Jake tricks Willie into believing he has killed him. The frightened boy runs off and hides, and while hiding eats the fruit of a cove palm, which carries a dangerous parasite. Dr Crusher places him in quarantine, and the Enterprise sets course for a starbase with the facilities to cure him.
The journey is interrupted when Data, answering a homing signal from his creator Noonien Soong, seizes control of the ship. Willie is treated in time, and the episode ends with the two brothers reconciled, a parallel to Data's uneasy reunion with Lore.