Some do muse and quip how Wesley gets justice in this one:
TNG: "Hide And Q"
Some dialogue is truly hokey, the main idea of Q tempting Riker was fleshed out fairly decently as a whole, and the story is still above average given the core ideas afoot - no matter how many scenes of cornball hokum try to derail it all, and the attempts to trip up the story with cringey dialogue are pretty significant in a couple scenes.
The "70% cliche" scene where Riker can't save the little girl because of "a promise" actually works and, yeah, Picard is right - Q very probably set up the entire scenario just for that reason alone. Only this time Q doesn't reset everything like how he normally does... Which is a subtle, or perhaps unintentional reminder that Q is far more deadly a being - before later seasons shift away from that underpinning undercurrent. Or the whole situation was contrived out of thin air, which also fits what Q does, can, or will do. So either way it's all good, just one possibility isa teensy bit more cruel and morbid.
Still can't get enoughgolden sugar crisp hyperactivity-inducing cereal of this scene:
(It's also a nice bit of continuity toward "The Naked Now" where Geordi laments in not being able to see like everyone else - even if he can see more and better (to the point a lot of the crew are quietly burying envy, despite knowing the device's side-effects). Even if Yar turned him down (while still uninfected) but, upon infection, starts banging everyone she can find... pity he was elsewhere all those scenes! Especially when Data appeared...) But longing isn't actively advancing, and people find others attractive without actually wanting to bang them or be banged by them. In the eye of the beholder and all Then again, Geordi also states "Hey, not bad!" in an alluring tone about Wesley so maybe he's also wanting a triad if not more general threesome that TNN would never have allowed to hint at, not for the main show's main crew. And that's the most important part - the amount of perceptions that audience can decide for on their own is the most refreshing. One can see it in any number of ways and it still works. Like what the VISOR can show only we all have one.
(Wes, in his own way, is otherwise saying "Please turn me back, you made my life ten years shorter by doing this.", but his spoken phrase of "want to get there on my own" is, on reflection, no less poignant. The older one gets, the more one realizes that... and as we all know, Wonderboy can think and commit in sections, after "just glancing at" something, what all "the adults" need weeks to do on their own... no wonder 'The Traveler' is brought in; he's used to save not just Wesley but the entire series with a tangential plotting idea.)
What's left:
TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
TNG: "Hide And Q"
Some dialogue is truly hokey, the main idea of Q tempting Riker was fleshed out fairly decently as a whole, and the story is still above average given the core ideas afoot - no matter how many scenes of cornball hokum try to derail it all, and the attempts to trip up the story with cringey dialogue are pretty significant in a couple scenes.
The "70% cliche" scene where Riker can't save the little girl because of "a promise" actually works and, yeah, Picard is right - Q very probably set up the entire scenario just for that reason alone. Only this time Q doesn't reset everything like how he normally does... Which is a subtle, or perhaps unintentional reminder that Q is far more deadly a being - before later seasons shift away from that underpinning undercurrent. Or the whole situation was contrived out of thin air, which also fits what Q does, can, or will do. So either way it's all good, just one possibility is
Still can't get enough
(It's also a nice bit of continuity toward "The Naked Now" where Geordi laments in not being able to see like everyone else - even if he can see more and better (to the point a lot of the crew are quietly burying envy, despite knowing the device's side-effects). Even if Yar turned him down (while still uninfected) but, upon infection, starts banging everyone she can find... pity he was elsewhere all those scenes! Especially when Data appeared...) But longing isn't actively advancing, and people find others attractive without actually wanting to bang them or be banged by them. In the eye of the beholder and all Then again, Geordi also states "Hey, not bad!" in an alluring tone about Wesley so maybe he's also wanting a triad if not more general threesome that TNN would never have allowed to hint at, not for the main show's main crew. And that's the most important part - the amount of perceptions that audience can decide for on their own is the most refreshing. One can see it in any number of ways and it still works. Like what the VISOR can show only we all have one.
(Wes, in his own way, is otherwise saying "Please turn me back, you made my life ten years shorter by doing this.", but his spoken phrase of "want to get there on my own" is, on reflection, no less poignant. The older one gets, the more one realizes that... and as we all know, Wonderboy can think and commit in sections, after "just glancing at" something, what all "the adults" need weeks to do on their own... no wonder 'The Traveler' is brought in; he's used to save not just Wesley but the entire series with a tangential plotting idea.)
What's left:
TOS: "Mudd's Women"
TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
TOS: "Miri"
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II"
TOS: "Shore Leave"
TOS: "The Return Of The Archons"
TOS: "This Side Of Paradise"
TOS: "The Alternative Factor"
TAS: "Beyond The Farthest Star"
TAS: "One Of Our Planets Is Missing"
TAS: "The Lorelei Signal"
TAS: "The Survivor"
TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan"
TAS: "Once Upon A Planet"
TAS: "Mudd's Passion"
TAS: "The Terratin Incident"
TAS: "The Time Trap"
TAS: "The Ambergris Element"
TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
TAS: "The Eye Of The Beholder"
TAS: "The Jihad"
TNG: "Code Of Honor"
TNG: "Lonely Among Us"
TNG: "Too Short A Season"
DS9: "A Man Alone"
DS9: "The Passenger"
DS9: "The Storyteller"
ENT: "Terra Nova"
ENT: "Civilization"
ENT: "Fortunate Son"
ENT: "Cold Front"
ENT: "Fusion"
ENT: "Rogue Planet"
ENT: "Oasis"
ENT: "Detained"
ENT: "Desert Crossing"
ENT: "Shockwave, Part I"
DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not For The Lamb's Cry"
DIS: "Choose Your Pain"
DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"
DIS: "Into The Forest I Go"
DIS: "Despite Yourself"
DIS: "The Wolf Inside"
DIS: "Vaulting Ambition"
DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue"
DIS: "The War Without, The War Within"
DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?"
ST: "Runaway"
ST: "The Brightest Star"
ST: "The Escape Artist"
PIC: "Remembrance"
PIC: "Maps And Legends"
PIC: "The End Is The Beginning"
PIC: "The Impossible Box"
PIC: "Broken Pieces"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
PIC: "Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2"
PRO: "Dream Catcher"
PRO: "First Con-tact"
SNW: "The Serene Squall"
