Wow, I hadn't seen this since its original airing. What a terrible episode! Spot turning into a lizard is one of the most ridiculous moments in the entire series.
And it's all giggles at the end from Beverly and her reconstructed face and Troi with her bite mark.
My vote would go to "The Royale" which like "Spock's Brain" was an attempt by the writer to make a very different kind of episode and ended up being a rather bad episode.
My vote would go to "The Royale" which like "Spock's Brain" was an attempt by the writer to make a very different kind of episode and ended up being a rather bad episode.
Agreed, "The Royale" was much worse. But Genesis was a little whacked out too. I thought in the Trek world they say that humans evolved from monkeys... so why was Barclay a spider?
And it's all giggles at the end from Beverly and her reconstructed face and Troi with her bite mark.
And that there is why I hate this episode. Everything is just reset and hunky-dory at the end.
Nevermind the fact that there's CHILDREN on the ship who were effected by this "virus" and that if Riker's brain was "much smaller" he shouldn't of been able to even recover! How do you regenerate brain cells that've gone away?!
And if you can even regenerate the braincell how do you get it do what it did before? ArghhhH!!!
This COULD'VE been a cool episode if it was the crew reduced to their primal nature and not necessairly into animals and Worf's "Deevolved" "animal" was awesome but on the whole the episode is just dumb and makes not a lick of sense. And the "science", "plot" and "solution" in it REEK of Bragaisms that would become staples in Voyager.
Oh, Data's quarters JUST HAPPEN to independant computer systems.
Oh, Data can make a cure that JUST HAPPENS to revert the injected back to normal... IN MINUTES, even SECONDS!!!
Oh, Riker and Ogawa turn into early humans, fine. But Barcaly turns into a... spider?! And there's... COBWEBS all over engineering?! Huh?!
And worse of all is just the "reboot' ending where everyone is just fine and life is going on. Sure the ship was just moments ago in shambles (and there's a lame use of stock footage fo the ship fine in the middle of the crisis) someone killed Ensign Ricky at the helm, Cro-Worf has undoubtedly killed others in his "hunts", the children are likely traumatized for life, everyone has to be shooken up inside to their core. But, nope. Everything is just fine. Here's Deanna and Beverly just being all aloof and cracking jokes at Barclay's expense. Eveything is just great and dandy on the ship!
FUCK YOU BRANDON BRAGA!!!
I actually couldn't care less if the science is rediculous in this episode, I find it very enjoyable and well directed. If I wanted to be convinced by theories on Evolution I would watch a documentary. This is supposed to be escapism after all.
We can "allow" the ridiculous science. I mean transporters and warp-drive have a few ounces of ridiculum to them. But my problem is the way it was used, the contrivances, and the way everything is just shrugged off and ignored at the end.
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