My Dearest Trekkies (The Drumhead)

It’s a good episode, that’s for sure. And still very, very relevant.

 

And getting more relevant by the day, I'm sorry to say. There are forces in power today that seek to censure speech, forbid thoughts, and deny freedoms.

 

Ah. Okay. Apologies for the inconvenience. Will keep it in mind.

 

I often have additional thoughts right after posting something, so I just use the Edit button. You can't change the title of your post, and you can't add in quotes, but you can add plain text easy enough.

 

I remember being concerned that they would attempt to re-create Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. I remember reading in a magazine that they wouldn't do this. This was just before I started getting on BBSs, so I only knew what my friends in middle school were saying and whatever few articles got published in mainstream papers and magazines that I happened to see.. Thinking about it now, I wonder how I lived in such an information vacuum.

I was really happy, though, that the captain was nothing like Kirk.

 

I just watched this one this evening, and it holds up even better now more than ever. We must, as always, remain vigilant.

 

This was always my favourite episode as a teenager. I love a good 'bottle show,' especially with performances like this

And I especially love seeing how Picard takes the time to get to know Tarses and put him at ease, and later to protect him at a risk to his own career. It's a softer side of Picard's character that echoes his conversation with Tasha (when she was in the penalty box) in Hide and Q. Picard seems to have a talent for seeing and appreciating qualities in junior officers that other overlook. Like how he chose Geordi as part of his command crew after a meeting years before on a shuttlecraft (The Next Phase) or chose Riker after reading about his disobedience (The Pegasus)

Yeah, I was really happy to see him pop up again in a recent Trek book for a brief but satisfying moment with Picard

 

The final scene is maybe one of the best moments Picard & Worf ever had