My Dearest Trekkies (The Drumhead)

[Whizkid]

Please watch "The Drumhead'

*Sir Patrick Stewart, as Jean-Luc Picard at his best*

I feel it's what both Picard and Eugene Wesley Roddenberry wanted to discuss.

 

[Tosk]

Do I have to watch it again if I've already seen it dozens of times?

 

[Whizkid]

I suppose not.

 

[Oddish]

My favorite line in that one:

"..." [VADM. Thomas Henry]

He didn't say a word. He didn't have to.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

My favorite line in that one:

"..." [VADM. Thomas Henry]

He didn't say a word. He didn't have to.

That’s a fantastic moment, and there are so many really great moments in that episode.

Oh, yes. That's how it starts. But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. Something is wrong here, Mister Worf. I don't like what we have become.

Just classic.

 

[Whizkid]

It's really classic. Everything I expect ST to be.

 

[Oddish]

Indeed.

Might I suggest that you edit the title so that it mentions "The Drumhead" specifically? That might attract more people to the topic.

 

[Whizkid]

Hey. Okay. How do I do that? I could of course delete the post and start all over again.

 

[Oddish]

I think the Edit Post function might work, just change the title line. If not, you can ask a mod to help.

EDIT: Nope, it doesn't work. My bad.

 

[1001001]

Moving to the proper forum and adding to the title.

 

[Oddish]

Or a mod might come and help without being asked.

 

[1001001]

Or a mod might come and help without being asked.

 

[Whizkid]

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

 

[Oddish]

"The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

If that had been a space battle between two ships, those words would have been the photon torpedo that hit the warp core.

The only negative I have about that episode is that we never got an update about what happened to Simon Tarses afterward.

 

[Whizkid]

Correct!

 

[Whizkid]

I think this is called Zeigarnik Effect or something.

 

[Whizkid]

Berman and Braga were adamant about not closing this narrative arc.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

"The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

If that had been a space battle between two ships, that would have been the photon torpedo that hit the warp core.

The only negative I have about that episode is that we never got an update about what happened to Simon Tarses afterward.

Picard was dropping truth bombs all over the place in that episode, and that is a particularly potent one.

And hard agree about Tarses. ‪‪I would’ve liked to see him again down the line.

 

[Oddish]

Berman and Braga were adamant about not closing this narrative arc.

Rick Berman did a lot of good things with Trek... but sometimes you wonder what was he thinking?

And hard agree about Tarses. ‪‪I would’ve liked to see him again down the line.

One of the book series took the character and developed him a bit. He got a six-month suspension from Starfleet for falsifying his record, but was ultimately reinstated. He later returned to Starfleet Academy's medical school and became an officer and a doctor.

 

[Whizkid]

Berman did a lot of good things with Trek... but sometimes you wonder what was he thinking?

I sometimes feel, when ST was first created, 1966, EWR may have felt, given the space war between the US and USSR, that this sort of mythology was required. Then, 20th July 1969, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins go to the moon. US has won the space war. 1969 is also when TOS is called off. After 3 seasons.

The 70s were mostly an era of massive films, thanks to EWR's good friend George Lucas. Star Wars. Plus ST 1-6. It continues until the late 80s. Then, suddenly, a revisit happens. UPN decides to go the TV way.

I'm still trying to gather historical data about the protests against a bald Englishman fronting TNG. But the rest, as they say, is history. The fact that EWR passed away midshow is, I believe, what allowed DS9 to happen. Because Berman was practically frothing at the mouth, chafing against EWR's injunction that conflict among characters is to be outruled. Ergo the huge difference between TNG and DS9.

EDIT: I forgot to mention 1989, although that was somewhat implied.