They killed Hengist!

[SantaTom]

It's not about being "perplexed," it's about being unnecessarily distracted, pulled out of the moment. If it serves no story purpose, it's just in the way.

FWIW, I feel that way about the "past" scenes in All Good Things. It takes me out of the story because I find it so jarring that so much is NOT the way it actually was in season 1.

 

[Christopher]

FWIW, I feel that way about the "past" scenes in All Good Things. It takes me out of the story because I find it so jarring that so much is NOT the way it actually was in season 1.

Well, that's excusable, because there was only so much they could do. I mean, one wouldn't expect Denise Crosby to be willing to shave the back of her head for a single-episode guest appearance, as opposed to a regular role. One wouldn't expect them to restore Worf's season 1 forehead appliance or Troi's season 1 accent, because those were extradiegetic changes, refinements in how the universe was portrayed, so naturally they'd be retroactively used in any flashback, the same way pre-TOS productions retroactively use the term "mind meld" even though it wasn't introduced until season 3. Moving O'Brien from battle bridge to main bridge conn makes sense given how much more prominent and popular Colm Meaney had become in the interim. I do wish they'd caught a couple of continuity errors, like Tasha not having met Picard before and the stardate of Picard taking command, but some imperfections are inevitable in such a complex undertaking as the production of a multi-season TV series.

 

[Set Harth]

FWIW, I feel that way about the "past" scenes in All Good Things. It takes me out of the story because I find it so jarring that so much is NOT the way it actually was in season 1.

Same thing happened in Breaking Bad.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Women also showed their fear more audibly (screaming, crying) and visibly (fainting, clinging to someone else) than men did.

Mainly because what Alan Alda termed "testosterone poisoning" makes so many men terrified of expressing fear. (Wasn't there some dialogue between Spock and Khan about that very subject, in "Space Seed"?)

 

[Phaser Two]

Mainly because what Alan Alda termed "testosterone poisoning" makes so many men terrified of expressing fear. (Wasn't there some dialogue between Spock and Khan about that very subject, in "Space Seed"?)

More between Kirk and Khan—after Spock baits him.

**
KIRK: You fled. Why? Were you afraid?
KHAN: I've never been afraid.
KIRK: But you left at the very time mankind needed courage.
KHAN: We offered the world order!
KIRK: We?
**

. . . and I challenge just about any TV show these days—with a few exceptions—to match dialogue like that.

 

[Maurice]

Women also showed their fear more audibly (screaming, crying) and visibly (fainting, clinging to someone else) than men did.

Right. Which may just mean they're culturally allowed to do so whereas males are told to "man up" from an early age and especially not show emotions that make them look weak or feminine.

 

[fireproof78]

Right. Which may just mean they're culturally allowed to do so whereas males are told to "man up" from an early age and especially not show emotions that make them look weak or feminine.

Still are. It's tragic and I see my daughter dealing with it in her boyfriend who feels he has to man up at times.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

More between Kirk and Spock—after Spock baits him.

**
KIRK: You fled. Why? Were you afraid?
KHAN: I've never been afraid.

My mistake. The dialogue between Spock and Khan was in the Blish adaptation, and possibly in the version of the script that Blish was given.