Episode-a-week: Code of Honor

[Captrek]

Another point that SFDebris pointed out in his review is how poorly the script is written. And this isn't some plot point that's brought up in the beginning and is forgotten in the end. This is pure contradiction in the span of three minutes.

Hagon: The rules are known. Let combat continue until there is a victor. It will not be interrupted.
*Yareena loses her weapon*
Lutan: Combatants, hold your positions! *they do, Lutan points to the spectator who get hit with the weapon* Return the weapon.

The best part about that scene is how the spectator casually hands over the weapon, looks down, sees that he has been wounded, gets an “oh shit” look his face, and dies. Riker describes the weapon as “split-second lethal,” but it’s not a split second from the moment you’re wounded — it’s a split second from the moment you realize you’re wounded. Until then you’re Wile E. Coyote blissfully walking on air.

I’m not sure whether it was intended as comedy or not.

 

[BillJ]

Uh, not really? My sister never found Vladimir Putin or any other world leaders attractive. Heck, outside of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, she barely knows any powerful business person by their name.

So your sister has been the object of affection by various world leaders?

Tasha Yar being enamored by a fiendish, sexist, deceiving and overall backstabbing person is truly what our enlightened women of the future will be like!

All women? No. Some women? Sure.

Of course, some people think every person in the future is going to react the same exact way to what goes on around them. This actually completely misses the point of Trek, that even though people are different, they should still be treated with respect.

 

[BillJ]

Yep. Can't go three minutes before the script just breaks it's own rules. Oh, and this one I got from youtube. You know how Crusher just cannot stress how awful this plague is and that the colonists need the vaccine now? Well, I think the Enterprise can go a lot faster than warp 3.

I've seen Kirk leave orbit at warp one when dire situations present themselves. Did you happen to think they may push the engines once they've actually cleared the star system they're in?

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I really try to pretend that this piece of crap episode doesn't exist. I usually skip over it and I rarely do this with Star Trek.

 

[Trekker4747]

And did anyone else find the portrayal of Tasha Yar in this episode insulting? She's the high ranking security officer on the ship who's duty is to make sure everything is in order, and this episode actually attempts to portray her as having some genuine attraction towards Lutan. The man who kidnapped her, lied to Picard and almost condemned millions to die. This is truly a really horrible, racist and sexist episode.

There were a few moments in the first couple of seasons (and, hell, probably in the entire series) where it seems our female leads are little more than "concubines on demand" for the visitor of the week. In "Loud as a Whisper" a deaf mediator -Riva- is almost instantly taken with our buxom young Counselor Troi and all but demands she escorts him around the ship and sees to some of his needs which includes being alone with him in his quarters after one of his translators leaves pretty much saying, "Yeah... Things seem like they're going to get... "messy" soon so I'm not really needed anymore."

So, yeah, this seems like one of those episode where one of our AOTW is taken with a female officer on the ship and asks that she always be around and Picard pretty much goes along with it.

 

[Jeyl]

Did you happen to think they may push the engines once they've actually cleared the star system they're in?

If that was the case, then using warp one to leave orbit and going to maximum warp once out of the solar system should go without saying. Do they really need to give the crew orders for every step of the way?

 

[Jeyl]

There were a few moments in the first couple of seasons (and, hell, probably in the entire series) where it seems our female leads are little more than "concubines on demand" for the visitor of the week.

Just got done with Haven and boy, you hit the nail right on the head with that one.

 

[R. Star]

There were a few moments in the first couple of seasons (and, hell, probably in the entire series) where it seems our female leads are little more than "concubines on demand" for the visitor of the week.

Just got done with Haven and boy, you hit the nail right on the head with that one.

Well Angel One reverses this for at least one episode. The main female lead is "Mistress Beata" and Riker is the "Gigolo on demand" for 45 minutes.