Thoughts on this S1 ep? I've always had a soft spot for it as it shows all the crew (except Logan, the putz) at their best. I've seen others condemn Troi's motivation of La Forge as childish, but it does have value - she reassures him (which although he was doing fine no doubt helped) but does point out to him (which he may not recognize as a non-Command officer at this point in his career) that his junior officers need support and are looking to him. Being close to their own experience level, Geordi may simply assume they were handling it as well as he was.
The idea of a weapon that constantly analyses its own failings and adapts is definitely proto-Borg, in fact if they had eventually gone with the route of this weapon realising it needed organic components for flexibility and that lead to the Borg, I'd have bought it, and I don't mean the manner Picard shut the weapon off in the end.
Apart from the risible "Crusher has an orgasm with an energy ghost while Picard watches" Sub Rosa there was no follow-up to Beverly's intriguing backstory of a colony disaster where med supplies ran out and her grandmother improvised, which is a shame. With Yar's history, this could have made for a good bonding point for healer and warrior as both products of failed Federation colonies.
The idea of a weapon that constantly analyses its own failings and adapts is definitely proto-Borg, in fact if they had eventually gone with the route of this weapon realising it needed organic components for flexibility and that lead to the Borg, I'd have bought it, and I don't mean the manner Picard shut the weapon off in the end.
Apart from the risible "Crusher has an orgasm with an energy ghost while Picard watches" Sub Rosa there was no follow-up to Beverly's intriguing backstory of a colony disaster where med supplies ran out and her grandmother improvised, which is a shame. With Yar's history, this could have made for a good bonding point for healer and warrior as both products of failed Federation colonies.
