I thought the scene where Picard speaks Jaradan and their reply ("You have honoured us with your words of greeting. A new day dawns between us." (Applause from the Bridge crew)) was a bit cringeworthy. Simply because I thought it was silly (even though I know this was never more than the B-plot of the episode).
Moments on TNG that make you cringe.
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She also enjoys reading about her grandma having sex which is the weirdest thing in that episode from a long list.
Thought of this because I was watching an "Out of Context TNG" supercut and it showed her saying "I was reading a particular erotic entry in my grandmother's journal". That was is still weird in context though.
That, and "Clues" pushing it with mid-season dialogue like "You are a most unusual species, worthy of a second chance"*, there was plenty of slices of Cheesery/Fromagerie/etc to choose from, of which some is more gouda than others...
* which also forgets that the moment the 1701-D syncs to a Federation computer they'll see the time discrepancy and then go back to the Paxans again, unless I had forgotten something else
I've a weird feeling how, in real life, if aliens were to attempt to speak with us and all that, we'd see people endeavoring to do that more often. It's cheesy in a way, true, yet easier to swallow than 98% of the episode "Disaster", which couldn't even get the "suck vs blow" regarding air pressure transference correctly... despite in season one it was Data who had it right when correcting Riker. Maybe that's another reason I prefer early TNG, they more often got the science right and tried doing different things instead of the usual rubberstamp soapbox speech of the week - which definitely did get more cringey at times, yet was more popular if the ratings were anything to go by so I'll concede I'm wrong...
So... like Mega-Maid, they should have gone from Suck to Blow?
But they could be, to a crystalline entity.
And if the cuttlefish were capable of killing the whale before it could devour them, it would be completely justified.
True. Just doesn't mean the entity is not just an animal feeding, doing what it does. No evil necessary. Just biology.
"Sins of the Father" - Michael Dorn over acts in that entire episode...also the ridiculous line in Best of Both Worlds pt 2
"The Borg have neither honor nor courage...THAT is our greatest advantage", complete non sequitur
"The Borg have neither honor nor courage...THAT is our greatest advantage", complete non sequitur
But so Worf.
Exactly, I like how TNG always has the characters give the advice they would actually give and not just say the perfect thing right away to advance the episode. It also keeps the viewer guessing about what the resolution will be when Picard has a meeting and, say, Data wants to hack into the alien probe with the sensors, Worf wants to blow it up, Deanna wants to see if she can link with it telepathically, and Beverly wants to scan it for microbes.
yeah but in context it was a ridiculous line...maybe even "Commander, we WILL be victorious..." would have been fine and in character, but Riker just went on about the mechanics of what they were up against...and Worf's line just seemed silly in comparison...
Well, Worf is factually correct. The Borg do not have honor or courage.
But again, that's what Worf would say and what he really believes.
TNG's first season is truly a neverending source of WTF moments/lines. (I'm saying this as someone who enjoys season 1. Well, most of it. There's stuff even I find terrible.)
Troi's line technically wasn't false... the only thing that made the Aldeans bad parents was that they were trying to parent kids they had no right to. Which wouldn't apply to offspring they produced themselves.
But I still maintain that that episode would have been better if their condition hadn't been curable, for a lot of reasons.
But I still maintain that that episode would have been better if their condition hadn't been curable, for a lot of reasons.
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