The Next Phase

[Willieck]

One of my favourites. Love this one partly because I like Ensign Ro but also because it is a different quirky episode. The end where they finally reappear is brilliant although I am never quite sure why they end up on the floor.

I like Ensign Ro because she is feisty, intelligent and very attractive in her own way with a devastating smile when she is happy.

 

[Alrik]

....although I am never quite sure why they end up on the floor.

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Same thing happended to Luke when he got hit by Force Lightning.

Seriously though, it looked like the re-phasing caused by the anyonic sweep was very uncomfortable. Geordi had mention earlier when he encounted a sweep that it made his hand tingle and feel numb. So perhaps it did feel like a pretty good zap. On screen, when the sweep hit, they crupled like a house of cards, so that's my take.

Oh, and I really enjoy this ep.

 

[Sakrysta]

I love this one as long as I manage to turn my brain off for it.

"We're non-corporeal! We can run through walls and pass our hands through tables! Just pay no attention to the fact that we can run at all without floating through the floor, or ride turbolifts, or even stow away on shuttles..." *whistles innocently*

I love the emotional content of the episode, though.

 

[Psion]

I love this one as long as I manage to turn my brain off for it.

"We're non-corporeal! We can run through walls and pass our hands through tables! Just pay no attention to the fact that we can run at all without floating through the floor, or ride turbolifts, or even stow away on shuttles..." *whistles innocently*

I love the emotional content of the episode, though.

Agreed. This was about the emotions of death and seperation, not the physics of being 'out of phase'. I like the episode, but wished they'd fine-tuned their physics a bit more. Meh! On a weekly TV-show, it's easily forgiven.

 

[RyuRoots]

It's not every day Riker gets shot in the face, Geordi turns invisible, and Data throws a wake. It's also really great to see two characters who don't interact often get an episode together; I LOVE stuff like that.

 

[CaptainStoner]

I love this one as long as I manage to turn my brain off for it.

"We're non-corporeal! We can run through walls and pass our hands through tables! Just pay no attention to the fact that we can run at all without floating through the floor, or ride turbolifts, or even stow away on shuttles..." *whistles innocently*

I love the emotional content of the episode, though.

Agreed. This was about the emotions of death and seperation, not the physics of being 'out of phase'. I like the episode, but wished they'd fine-tuned their physics a bit more. Meh! On a weekly TV-show, it's easily forgiven.

And from a filming and FX perspective, ignoring the spatial problems (and how they were even breathing oxygen out of phase) was the best way to go.

Although I'll take a swing at the problem anyway. Out of phase doesn't mean 100% non-corporeal and you're floating through floors while suffocating. It means you can pass through walls etc. with some concentration. The real leap is in assuming that the human (or bajoran) mind can effect the phasing to some degree, enough to allow breathing, walking on solid surfaces, because they are still partially there. Other people can walk through them for similar reasons.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

In my mind, they weren't non corporeal. They ere still affected by the gravity plating found along each floor.

I love this episode, lots of fun! I loved the life celebration at the end of the episode. That's they way funerals should be.

I never get sick of this epsiode

 

[UssGlenn]

In my mind, they weren't non corporeal. They ere still affected by the gravity plating found along each floor.

yeah, walking isn't a problem, they are out of phase with normal matter but are still made of matter themselves, so gravity pulls down on them. They don't phase any further through the floor than to the gravity generators (about half an inch, not enough to notice on screen). If this had happened on a planet, they would sink to the center of the planet, which is the center of the gravity well, so they were really lucky they were on a ship.

Breathing is the real problem in the episode. Still working on a rationalization for that one.

 

[Ghrakh]

Or seeing by the ship's light sources and hearing the crew's voices...

I can chalk off things as dramatic license, as long as they make some kind of sense or aren't central to the story, but in this episode there was one stretch too many imo, mainly because this "out of phase" was what drove the plot to begin with. Not a bad episode, but not one of my favorites.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

This episode is so much fun, that for me to dismiss it for these reasons, despite the justification for that, I might as well not watch Any Trek, because there is sound in space. If the episode sucked, I would criticize the plot and the characterization but it doesn't suck on any of those levels.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

I loved it, its a great example of how consistently good TNG was during those seasons.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Plot hole (tiny one) that I just found. After the transporter mishap, Picard asks Troi if she senses anything. She doesn't, but I think she would.

 

[Willieck]

Plot hole (tiny one) that I just found. After the transporter mishap, Picard asks Troi if she senses anything. She doesn't, but I think she would.

Yes, I wondered about that one as well.

 

[Solarbaby]

Plot hole (tiny one) that I just found. After the transporter mishap, Picard asks Troi if she senses anything. She doesn't, but I think she would.

Yes, I wondered about that one as well.

Was she wearing the bunny suit or standard uniform? That explains a lot. She was thick as pig shit in the bunny suit but suddenly got brains in the uniform.

 

[Willieck]

Plot hole (tiny one) that I just found. After the transporter mishap, Picard asks Troi if she senses anything. She doesn't, but I think she would.

Yes, I wondered about that one as well.

Was she wearing the bunny suit or standard uniform? That explains a lot. She was thick as pig s..t in the bunny suit but suddenly got brains in the uniform.

Maybe it was this one.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Plot hole (tiny one) that I just found. After the transporter mishap, Picard asks Troi if she senses anything. She doesn't, but I think she would.

Troi tends to lose her powers when the plot demands it, the most obvious example I can think of is "A Matter of Time".

 

[Ghrakh]

She could have sensed something bad happened and it still work fine with the plot. "I felt a great disturbance in the transport, as if two voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened." At least.

On another note, those were pretty chill Romulans there at the start. No issues with Feds beaming aboard and taking parts of their ship off. Worf strolls around and not one shows any sign of hatred.

 

[Pauln6]

I love any episode that has Ro in. They should have thrown more money at Michelle Forbes to persuade her to make more episodes in seasons 6 and 7 - I really missed her.

 

[Willieck]

I love any episode that has Ro in. They should have thrown more money at Michelle Forbes to persuade her to make more episodes in seasons 6 and 7 - I really missed her.

Ha, another fan. I agree entirely. She was a great character.