Question about "Clues"

[carlmarx]

^^I guess that makes sense. But didnt they say they were all in a form of bio-stasis? That's why their beards didnt grow and whatnot. I didnt think 24 hours of a form of bio-stasis that got dismissed in two lines would be that out there.

Such a good episode the first time around though.

 

[MikeS]

^^I guess that makes sense. But didnt they say they were all in a form of bio-stasis? That's why their beards didnt grow and whatnot. I didnt think 24 hours of a form of bio-stasis that got dismissed in two lines would be that out there.

Such a good episode the first time around though.

But they had to find out there was an M class planet before they found out they'd been in biostasis.

As someone said earlier in the thread - it's all about decreasing probability.

 

[MikeS]

Actually, I just re-read my post and thought of a glaring error.

Geordi goes to great lengths (on behalf of the audience) to figure out why their beards haven't grown during their suspected "missing day". When they meet the xenophobic aliens it's explained that they were in biostasis and Geordi say's "that's why our beards didn't grow". But then we find out that they were concious for that day. Troi was taken control of, Worf had his arm broken and the crew reset the computer records. How can you be both concious and in biostasis?

Or did I miss the explanation of that?

 

[Timo]

One would think that our heroes fought the aliens for something like ten minutes at most, then were overwhelmed, and spent at most the remainder of the hour coming up with a solution that would allow them to survive. So, 23 hours of biostasis to hide the fact that more than 30 seconds had passed.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Shatnertage]

I honestly never understood the ending o0f this episode, which is why I don't regard it highly despite an otherwise intriguing presence.

So here is why, and it is also my question:

How do they not leave any clues?

The clues that were left, the moss growth experiment, and the internal clock traces from the transporter signature, well those things can't be covered up.. that's why Crusher found them. You can't just eliminate those particular clues for next time?

I always like to imagine my alternate ending, which goes something like this:

Picard, making his speech: "Think of this as sort of a test, a dry run." (or however it went)

Aliens: "That is what you said the last three times," and they destroy the Enterprise.

That would have been the Twilight Zone ending, followed by this voice-over:
"One Jean-Luc Picard...captain of a starship called the Enterprise. A ship that discovered curiosity can be costly...and that not every cat has nine lives...in the Twilight Zone."