Well, yeah.
It's a Disaster!
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Well, yeah.
The episode was okay, but I hated that the "problem" was solved during the last commercial. As they went into commercial, everything was still gone to hell and we wondered how they were going to save themselves. When they came out of commercial, it was "Captain's log, everything is fine now," do the tag and roll credits.
That happened a lot on TNG, and it's just poor writing.
I don't know that I agree with this. The ship was damaged, but out of danger. Data and Riker averted the core breach, Picard and the kids escaped the turbolift before it fell, Keiko had the baby, the plasma fire was extinguished, and so on. I don't think it would have added anything to the story to have scenes of the crew replacing computer panels, sealing hull breaches, vacuuming the floors, etc.
I always think about those kids as adults and imagine them still cherishing the pips that Captain Picard gave them
I think his point was that everything resolves itself right at the end of the episode. Doesn't seem too plausible to have all problems solved at the same time. On the other hand, it didn't make sense for Quincy and Columbo, etc to solve all the crimes in an hour either.
Pretty much, yup. I mean I guess there's ways to excuse it. Maybe he wasn't focusing on that section, at that moment, & it was isolated to that specific spot. I dunno. His vision gets glossed over quite a bit when it's convenient to do so
I think about that plaque they made him, burning in the wreck of the D, a couple years later
Lot of really good memories they don't even bother with in that movie 
She was at the briefing about how the Yamato was destroyed, but even Picard seemed a little touch & go on what Geordi & Data were saying. It's possible all that went right over her head lol
I guess to me "antimatter containment failure" is more "most phones are iPhones or Android devices" and less "to check what version of Android you're using, follow these steps...", by which I mean it's not so much technical info as "things everyone knows about starships".
Maybe not?
Maybe not?
Perhaps, but Forbin did emphasize the word during.I think his point was that everything resolves itself right at the end of the episode. Doesn't seem too plausible to have all problems solved at the same time. On the other hand, it didn't make sense for Quincy and Columbo, etc to solve all the crimes in an hour either.
I thought his point was that the sequence went
1) Various immediate crises solved but ship still messed up
2) commercial break
3) everything is back to normal
And that he would have preferred to come back from commercial to things still getting fixed.
Watched Disaster again yesterday, and YES it's good !! I appreciated it even more than the 1st time !
Indeed. I was thinking about this. Sirtis said she was suppose to be intelligent but believes that had to leave when her cleavage became front and center. And out of nowhere, I forget the title, the one where she's a Romulan, even made me pause because I thought "When did she get techonobabble saavy?!" (I was 12 and noticed)
So it comes and goes with the boobs? As marina would probably gather.
Alright,
I finally made it to Disaster this morning. as I'm on season five now. I have to admit the way Ro and O'Brien talked back and forth at times early in the episodes could explain why Deanna seemed...confused at first. Ro's phrasing at times was confusing and it did seem she was reacting to how Ro was saying it rather than the concept of containment field for anti-matter, if the subtitles were accurate- they aren't always accurate so.
I finally made it to Disaster this morning. as I'm on season five now. I have to admit the way Ro and O'Brien talked back and forth at times early in the episodes could explain why Deanna seemed...confused at first. Ro's phrasing at times was confusing and it did seem she was reacting to how Ro was saying it rather than the concept of containment field for anti-matter, if the subtitles were accurate- they aren't always accurate so.
I think after the ship was out of mortal danger, there was no reason to show the repair work on screen.
Of that episode, I foremost remember the brilliant design features of the cargo bay. So you can evacuate all air, and then you have to walk about 20 meters to another panel to repressurize. Or if only they had built in a few handbars there, then one of them could have stood there right away…. Impressively thought out layout for emergency cases just like this one!
He probably would have done something ridiculous like power the panel with his visor or something McGiverish.
Beverly : "But what if the panels lose power? We'd be dead!"
Geordi: "<Laughing> Don't be ridiculous, those systems have 4 redundant backup systems, and they would all have to fail simultaneously! The odds of that are incredibly low and such a thing hasn't actually happened on a Starfleet ship for 213 years!"
Beverly: "You mean, until this ship launched! In the last few years we must have had such cascade failures at least 3 times already! Also 'disaster' doesn't sound too hopeful, does it?"
To add insult to injury they could have added them in Star Trek Generations revealing they all perished in Picard's vineyard fire and showed up in the Nexus
The episode has its moments, but it still drives me nuts regarding Crusher's blatant inaccuracy regarding "Okay, breathe in deeply and hold your breath while holding onto something just before we remove the force field and the atmosphere will get blown out into space and ignore that urge to exhale!" scene, which BTW LaForge makes the same dumb gaffe about "suck" as Riker had in "Naked Now" and that's what really sucks.
Data with the million amps of electricity bit was pretty numbing too considering how powerful a million amps is. Don't believe me? Go the the cabinet, take out two million 9v batteries, hook them up in parallel (not serial) and then complete an electric circuit and enjoy the fireworks in the way the fire department won't. Actually, I wouldn't do that not just because it's an expensive thing to try for a cheap thrill, but because it's potentially fatal given how the humanoid body can react to small amounts of current, never mind a mil...
Data with the million amps of electricity bit was pretty numbing too considering how powerful a million amps is. Don't believe me? Go the the cabinet, take out two million 9v batteries, hook them up in parallel (not serial) and then complete an electric circuit and enjoy the fireworks in the way the fire department won't. Actually, I wouldn't do that not just because it's an expensive thing to try for a cheap thrill, but because it's potentially fatal given how the humanoid body can react to small amounts of current, never mind a mil...
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