I think stuff like this is cool. Little random variations in format that liven things up a bit.
It's the only episode in the entire classic era that did that. I guess it was done because the entire first act was an action sequence, so the producers figured it would be less distracting to have the credits in the teaser.
Did Kirk help start a civil war by arming Tyree with rifles?
Remember when Voyager gave all those letters to the Romulan Telek Rmor, always wondered if he ever had them sent to the people they were meant for, or just what happened to them.
Remember when Voyager gave all those letters to the Romulan Telek Rmor, always wondered if he ever had them sent to the people they were meant for, or just what happened to them.
The Klingons gave the villagers rifles, and Kirk gave Tyree equal arms so they wouldn't get slaughtered. If a civil war did happen, it was the Klingons who essentially started it.
Considering that it was The Doctor who 'set the record straight' about Voyager being lost and not destroyed in "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE", I don't think the messages were sent to Starfleet at all. The fate of those messages is a good question, though... particularly since a number of crew died between "EYE OF THE NEEDLE" and "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE".
It’s because the phaser fight the starts the first act would clash with the titles, make them hard to read and the fight hard to see.
Just thinking today it would have been cool if "Shades of Grey" aired a few episodes earlier, like say before "The Emissary" but was able to include flashforwards to episodes after it, if that makes sense.
Likely because Piller co-created DS9 with Berman. Berman was on TNG from the beginning and was the franchise head at that point. (Definitely after Roddenberry passed, and functionally for a while before he passed.)
Also, maybe because Piller was using most of his time on DS9 than TNG in seasons 6 and 7, with him and Jeri Taylor focusing more on VOY's creation in season 7.
Would have been cool if "Rascals" didn't have Ferengi using second-hand Klingon ships to pew-pew the Enterprise with... but what to replace those, might you not be wondering? Well, if the Ferengi could reverse-engineer a 9 year-old Federation starship to get some control of it (the Stargazer, from "The Battle", a story that also poohpoohs second-hand items), it's a shock they never continued tinkering, theorizing, buying stolen schematics or something from a neutral espionage entity, and simply use a remote control function (from TWOK, admittedly) to simply disable the big-D with instead. It's not like TNG after season 1 didn't treat season 1 like the pariah of the franchise and these minor tweaks could have been a lot more universe-building at the same time.
Plus, "Home Soil" also does the sci-fi genre some worthy reverence. As much as TWOK was a solid movie, the Genesis Device was really glossed over and begging far more questions about how it could have worked at all. A quick aside as "Home Soil" was also above early-TNG par in terms of relevant minutiae needed and in this case for terraforming, this early TNG gem took a previous presentation of an idea and turned it form idle fantasy into an hour given impressive amount of depth - as well as a fantasy species, or as much as we do know about silicon if not inorganic compounds that could otherwise register as life.
Plus, "Home Soil" also does the sci-fi genre some worthy reverence. As much as TWOK was a solid movie, the Genesis Device was really glossed over and begging far more questions about how it could have worked at all. A quick aside as "Home Soil" was also above early-TNG par in terms of relevant minutiae needed and in this case for terraforming, this early TNG gem took a previous presentation of an idea and turned it form idle fantasy into an hour given impressive amount of depth - as well as a fantasy species, or as much as we do know about silicon if not inorganic compounds that could otherwise register as life.
In "Arsenal of Freedom", Chief Engineer Logan demand Geordi (who was temporarily in charge) break orbit and flee to protect the Enterprise. They had a pretty intense argument about it. However, after Geordi later agreed to leave orbit, Logan's position on the matter flip-flopped. Now he insisted Enterprise stay until it rescued the away team.
Perhaps I'm misremembering or misunderstood when I watched it, but Logan's position appeared to completely reverse itself without much explanation?
Perhaps I'm misremembering or misunderstood when I watched it, but Logan's position appeared to completely reverse itself without much explanation?
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No, you are correct.
It's my only quibble about an otherwise excellent episode. (I love episodes that utilize the entire cast.) He was written to be a foil/jerk to Geordi, no matter what action Geordi decided on.
I guess it explains why he didn't he didn't last very long.
Also Lt. Cmdr. Leland T. Lynch.
Argyle was the only one who appeared more than once. (Only twice.)
Question is why were there so many? Was it just a writing gaff?
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