It's better they did it this way. After one episode, the majority of us had it figured out Janel was a Krill, had they milked it out over the course of a whole season or even half a season, it would just get tedious for everyone in the audience to have figured out what the characters on the show are somehow ignorant of. Just as it was on Disco with Ash Tyler really being a Klingon, or Lorca really being from the Mirror Universe.
Television has changed, and priorities have changed. In TNG's day, the priority was to crap out as many episodes a season hoping to beef up a syndication package. Even then. the Star Trek shows went way overboard, doing 26 episode seasons when most other shows were only doing 22-24. And then take into account the average Trek episode in the 90s took 6-8 days to film, with the actors working from 7am to 11pm those 6 to 8 days until 26 episodes were filmed, with a short break for Christmas.
Star Trek had problems predicting future technology, just take the stacks of PADDs for example. Even First Contact thought that in the 2060s music would be stored on transparent hexagonal discs as opposed to digitally.
Wow, those guys are brothers? I had no idea.
Nice idea. It would be funny if they inserted some explanation into the show, even if it's just an off-the-cuff remark.
TNG's only truly good season was the third, though I give the first two the benefit of the doubt in that they were still trying to find their way. The fourth and fifth got trapped in a rut of being dry and bland episodes with a few good ones scattered here and there. The sixth and seventh seasons were a step in the right direction, there were some genuinely interesting episodes those years and in the seventh in particular they seemed willing to break away from tradition, but it was ultimately too little too late.
But then, couldn't some stuff be kept in the ship's computer banks accessible from a computer terminal, rather than being in the cloud? Take Tapestry for example, when Picard becomes a junior officer, he's supposed to deliver a PADD to Geordi with statistics on it. He accidently gives it to Worf, and later Geordi gets pissed off about Picard dealing with his existential crisis rather than delivering these statistics. Couldn't Geordi just get this information from a computer terminal in engineering?
Except, it's not only the Captain's desk, and it's not always classified information. Remember Voyager when they were lugging an entire crateful of PADDS containing the logs Seven of Nine's parents made about the Borg. Or when Starfleet first sent letters to the crew from their families, Neelix went around the ship delivering PADDS to them with the letter on it. Doesn't the crew have e-main accounts the letters could have been sent to?
I guess. I'm not saying they should have done it constantly, like The Orville is, but it still would have been nice to see something a bit more recent in between all of the Shakespeare and Conan Doyle.
Oh right, I forgot his second esophagus is attached to both his face and stomach.A zipper in the back doesn't explain how it goes between the nose & belly connections
If we had gotten more Tharl, it might have been explained. Such a missed opportunity.
A character secretly being a spy is an old trope, nuBSG even had it as a major part of their premise before both Disco and Orville.
