I know the girl who played a young Guinan also played a young Whoppie Goldberg in "Sister Act." Also Guinan was only in 3 episodes in season 6 and this was one of them. Jason
I found it unfortunate that this Rene bore no resemblance to the one we'd seen previously. I don't even have diabetes and I feel like I should bring an insulin shot to that part of the movie. It's so horribly saccharine.
This is one of my funny favorites. I will admit that I picture the episode playing out like Home Alone.
I thought taking over the Enterprise was way easier than it should have been. The Ferengi says it flatl: "For an investment of two surplus Klingon ships, a few repairs and some weapons, we've netted a Federation starship and her crew". If they're taken over so easily and even the villain says it aloud, it seems like there should be some payoff to that fact. Maybe there was a traitor on board, or Riker let them win for some larger goal. But instead it seemed like just the easiest way to get to the high concept plot of the characters in kids' bodies fighting the Ferengi.
Not to mention their are thousands of people on the ship. I mean everyone simply fighting back with phasers would enough to take out what I guess was maybe half a dozen Ferengi. Jason
I think more disturbing than anything is that they thought Keiko and Guinan were totally fine sitting on the bulkhead. Enterprise is chock-a-block with shuttles, just take a larger one. Guinan can't even fit her hat under it without tilting her head!
A shame that a handful of Ferengi can seize a whole ship with the amount of security they have on a ship like that.
Deep Space Nine showed that Ferengi aren't spectacular at strike teams. And, as Kevin MacAllister observed, "don't you know that a kid always wins against two idiots?" Stands to reason that a bunch of kids would win against several idiots.
This episode it also one of my favorite examples of the whole "the crew makes an earth-shattering discovery and it's never mentioned again" trope that's so common in Star Trek. They basically discover the fountain of youth and it's never brought up again. I think the whole thing with the Ferengi trying to take over the ship is mentioned in again in Deep Space Nine, but the not the fountain of youth part.
The most unbelievable detail in this episode is the idea that an old guy (past sixty) would pass up the chance of being young again! Throughout the series and the movies, Picard says the stupidest things about getting old and all...
I liked Rascals way more when I was younger, when I was closer to the ages of the kids depicted in this episode. As an adult now, I find the episode really annoying. It still has its moments, but I tend to skip some parts if I'm doing a TNG marathon just to get this episode over with. "He's my Number 1 Dad!...**Big HUG**.....HahA! Cringe!
Well, it shouldn't be that easy but some writer had a hair brained idea and the producers bought into it so there you go. Besides it's still far less egregious than Tuvok's multitudes of security chief ineptness. Everyone and their uncle circumvented Voyager's security as if there was no security.
...I mean, at least they remembered the whole reroute/shutdown command functions option this time around... I want to say the episode might have worked better if they'd expanded either of the two stories to be the centerpiece for the full hour, but both have parts that are worth keeping... A more thought-out Ferengi takeover of the ship might have worked, but you'd likely have to cut out other parts of the episode to keep it at the same runtime...