Remembering A Fistful of Datas

[Lucy of Nine]

Just rewatched this ep, I loved this episode! Actually I love anything with Worf and Alexander!
Best moments - Troi's bad accent, Data as Annie at the end, Worf smiling in the mirror with his hat on...
Such a classic episode. I love Season 6!

 

[roguephoenix]

hehe we're complete opposite. i hated anything that had klingons on it except b'elanna episodes on voyager cause she hated klingons too. she's my kind of klingon!

plus the episode was western. second strike for me. >_<

 

[Falcor5]

Just rewatched this ep, I loved this episode! Actually I love anything with Worf and Alexander!
Best moments - Troi's bad accent, Data as Annie at the end, Worf smiling in the mirror with his hat on...
Such a classic episode. I love Season 6!

Really fun episode! Love the end when the Enterprise flies off into the sunset like in an old western!

 

[tomalak301]

hehe we're complete opposite. i hated anything that had klingons on it except b'elanna episodes on voyager cause she hated klingons too. she's my kind of klingon!

plus the episode was western. second strike for me. >_<

Um, why are you a Star Trek fan again? Also, wasn't the original concept for Trek a "Western in Space." What are you doing here.

 

[roguephoenix]

hehe we're complete opposite. i hated anything that had klingons on it except b'elanna episodes on voyager cause she hated klingons too. she's my kind of klingon!

plus the episode was western. second strike for me. >_<

Um, why are you a Star Trek fan again? Also, wasn't the original concept for Trek a "Western in Space." What are you doing here.

hence why i don't like the oldtrek. no appeal to me. tng is my star trek. you can keep your oldtrek. to each his own. i wish the movie had killed off the klingons instead. now that would be my kind of nutrek universe!

 

[Too Much Fun]

I generally don't like Westerns either, but I loved this episode. I tried to watch some of the Westerns that are supposed to be among the greatest movies of all time like "The Wild Bunch" and "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" (still need to check out "The Searchers", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Shane", "Unforgiven", etc.) and couldn't get into them, so I don't think an affinity for westerns is necessary to enjoy this episode.

It's filled with endearing performances and very entertaining character moments where characters act like we've never seen them act before (i.e. Troi, Worf, and Data) while at the same retaining all the personality quirks and qualities that made us like them in the first place. I think this episode had the best use of Alexander in all of Star Trek as well. I never much enjoyed any of the episodes that heavily featured him in TNG or DS9, but I'm glad he exists just because his existence made it possible for this episode to play out the way it did.

Also, it was so well-directed, it makes me believe Patrick Stewart might have done better than Shatner if he'd had a chance to direct a Star Trek movie! His writing input didn't help Nemesis, but if he'd been directing instead, it might have been a whole different (and better) story!

 

[Iruka]

Just rewatched this ep, I loved this episode! Actually I love anything with Worf and Alexander!
Best moments - Troi's bad accent, Data as Annie at the end, Worf smiling in the mirror with his hat on...
Such a classic episode. I love Season 6!

This one is in the running for my all-time favorite episode - I love the dialogue, Data's performance as Eli ("Sheriff's been roughin' up on me somethin' fierce!"), all the costumes... and Troi with a Winchester ranks as one of the coolest things in all of Star Trek in my book. (Now, if only they'd let her do some fencing in "Qpid"...)

Iruka

 

[Brutal Strudel]

One of the few TNG comedy episodes that actually worked. And this coming from someone who hates Alexander.

 

[Jaespol]

It was good but I constantly felt it could have been better.

 

[Too Much Fun]

How do you think it might have been improved, J? Seemed pretty perfect to me just the way it was.

 

[thedude]

I was never a big fan of this episode. Really anything featuring tween Alexander is just kind of annoying to me... he just forces everything so much. For a holodeck episode it's well done, but certainly not "perfect" as suggested in previous posts. You'd think after all the "the holodeck is broken, but if we shut off power everyone dies" episodes, Geordi would have had the foresight to, ya know, FIX IT!

That said the comedy is pretty good, and evil Data is enjoyable (channel Lore much, Brent?) but overall I'd day Fistful is is solid B- for me. Not great, not bad, but good.

 

[WillsBabe]

This is a bit of a "meh" episode for me. I kind of enjoyed it and it had a good novelty factor, and Worf and Alexander were delightful together, but on the whole not really an episode I'd chose to watch.

 

[Too Much Fun]

IYou'd think after all the "the holodeck is broken, but if we shut off power everyone dies" episodes, Geordi would have had the foresight to, ya know, FIX IT!

It's true that "holodeck goes crazy" was a formula that TNG eventually wore out by going back to that well too many times, but I don't think that changes the fact that this was a good episode and so were many of the other holodeck-centric episodes (although some of them were lame, too).

 

[IndyJones]

Really fun episode! Love the end when the Enterprise flies off into the sunset like in an old western!

Agreed. I just love that moment.

Edit to add: I just pulled up the end of the episode. I never realized it took place in Deadwood! I'm a huge fan of the show, and visited the town last year.

I might have to watch Fistful again!

 

[Lt.Cmdr.LaForge]

I also thort this episode was awesome. it was a departure from what we normally watched on the show, so it gave us something new and exciting to watch. Plus Patrick Stewart directed it =]

 

[barnaclelapse]

One of the few TNG comedy episodes that actually worked. And this coming from someone who hates Alexander.

That's kind of my opinion, too.

And I was never very big on Alexander. Most of the story opportunities that came out of his relationship with Worf were strangely disappointing to me.

 

[sbk1234]

I tend to agree with most. Not a big fan of Alexander. However, it's a pretty fun episode. I also don't like holodeck stories much. But, again, this one works.
I liked how Worf started getting into the program when he started kicking butt.
I also got a kick out of Troi referring to it as the "ancient" west, since it would be nearly 500 years before their time, give or take.

 

[Piper]

It's a good fun episode, as noted well directed by Patrick. The interesting thing is that when he was given the script and told he was going to direct it, he had to go away and hire out a bunch of Western movies, as he was very unfamiliar with the genre and wanted to get a feel for it.

 

[Nebusj]

I generally don't like Westerns either, but I loved this episode. I tried to watch some of the Westerns that are supposed to be among the greatest movies of all time like "The Wild Bunch" and "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" (still need to check out "The Searchers", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Shane", "Unforgiven", etc.) and couldn't get into them, so I don't think an affinity for westerns is necessary to enjoy this episode.

All right, but if it turns out you don't like ``The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' or ``Shane'' --- or ``High Noon'', come to think of it --- we're going to have a very hard time staying friends.

There is a shocking affinity between the more mature/adult westerns of their golden age and the Original Series, particularly its first season. The radio broadcasts of Gunsmoke are particularly choice, even if they are so depressing as to almost cure joy altogether.

That said, I didn't like ``A Fistful Of Datas'' because oh, man, holodeck malfunction yet another freaking time? And with Alexander all over it? Why not throw in Lwuxana Troi and the emergency holographic Joe Piscopo and be done with it?

 

[apenpaap]

I love the episode. Though it should've been called "The Good, The Bad, and the Klingon" as they originally intended.