Lonely Among Us
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Well, that's better than anything I've come up with EnriqueH. 
I can understand someone having to whip up a prop on the fly, but they went as far as installing a working light on the eyepiece. I just wonder what the idea was.
I can understand someone having to whip up a prop on the fly, but they went as far as installing a working light on the eyepiece. I just wonder what the idea was.
Well, that's better than anything I've come up with EnriqueH.
I can understand someone having to whip up a prop on the fly, but they went as far as installing a working light on the eyepiece. I just wonder what the idea was.
Thanks! Maybe I can use that in my Trek novel (if I ever get around to writing it.)
Maybe a working light on the eyepiece isn't a big deal in the 24th century. After all, didn't Wesley have some hardcore tractor beam invention going in The Naked Now? A working light on the eyepiece is probably child's play for him.
Why is it that, at the secret staff meeting about Picard's behavior, didn't Geordi think to contribute something important, the fact that IMMEDIATELY PROCEEDING his captain's strange behavior, he'd reacted to seeing what he thought was the same force he'd seen topple Worf a short while earlier, zapping Picard?
That might have given Dr. Crusher something to work with in justifying relieving Picard of command, other than just hopng Riker can 'back her up somehow'.
That might have given Dr. Crusher something to work with in justifying relieving Picard of command, other than just hopng Riker can 'back her up somehow'.
I thought the episode was good for season 1, it was fun to see the characters possessed and then puzzled about their new locations and lack of memory (exploited but not overdone) and then to get mysterious about the entity's intentions and how the crew would react to Different! Picard. The subplot, especially the ending, was a little out-of-place, goofy yet dark humor, but an alright supplement, not too inappropriate given how intense and indeed unrealistic the antagonism was from both of the factions.
The whole Antican/Selay thing was strange. Not in and of itself, but the fact that normally, when visiting dignitaries appear on the ship, the episode revolves around them to some extent. The crew seemed to pay less attention to them than they did to Ralph Offenhouse and his bunch. That's saying something!
You'd think, at least one of the Anticans or Selay could have been posessed by the energy cloud-thing, if only to justify their presence in the story. We didn't know them, but their characterization from the word go was one of mutual hostility. They both came across as sarcastic, at best (actually, that's an interesting twist on a hunter species behavior, not simply aggressiveness or hunter/pray "simplicity").
But that said, how good at hunting are they, to accidentally snare Riker ("Sorry. Wrong species.")? Why would they be lying at wait in the corridors, and why should they expect the other delegates to be wandering around for? Where would one hide in those corridors? And why was Riker walking around in that specific part of the ship? You would think each party would have assigned to it it's own security men, in order to protect each from the other. Proto-O'Brian was all we saw.
Also, Picard seemed to exist in tandem with the energy creature to some extent. He even told the bridge crew that he had officially tendered his resignation from Starfleet. Why would the entity bother with that? It wouldn't, so it must have been Picard's doing. So after Picard is rescued in the end, shouldn't he still be resigned from Starfleet? It had to have been his own doing.
You'd think, at least one of the Anticans or Selay could have been posessed by the energy cloud-thing, if only to justify their presence in the story. We didn't know them, but their characterization from the word go was one of mutual hostility. They both came across as sarcastic, at best (actually, that's an interesting twist on a hunter species behavior, not simply aggressiveness or hunter/pray "simplicity").
But that said, how good at hunting are they, to accidentally snare Riker ("Sorry. Wrong species.")? Why would they be lying at wait in the corridors, and why should they expect the other delegates to be wandering around for? Where would one hide in those corridors? And why was Riker walking around in that specific part of the ship? You would think each party would have assigned to it it's own security men, in order to protect each from the other. Proto-O'Brian was all we saw.
Also, Picard seemed to exist in tandem with the energy creature to some extent. He even told the bridge crew that he had officially tendered his resignation from Starfleet. Why would the entity bother with that? It wouldn't, so it must have been Picard's doing. So after Picard is rescued in the end, shouldn't he still be resigned from Starfleet? It had to have been his own doing.
Perhaps that became null and void when Crusher relieves him of command?
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