Where Silence Has Lease

[Timo]

But that was in the pilot episode! Later on, Worf seemed to calm down - but in this episode, he's really on the edge again, ranting about space bogeymen, balking at orders, panicking on boarding party duty. It may well have something to do with him still being on an adrenaline high from the simulation in the teaser. Or then both of those aspects are the result of a strange medical condition that bothers Klingons every now and then...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Surefire]

I didn't like this episode.

One of the things that bugged me was the very end, when Picard talked with Nagilum. He did not at all call Nagilum on the cold blooded murder IIRC, but instead spoke of how they have one thing in common, something like curiousity.

How can you behave friendly towards a creature that kills one crew member in cold blood, and threatens to kill at least half the ship?

A very creepy episode indeed.

 

[HRHTheKING]

I didn't like this episode.

One of the things that bugged me was the very end, when Picard talked with Nagilum. He did not at all call Nagilum on the cold blooded murder IIRC, but instead spoke of how they have one thing in common, something like curiousity.

How can you behave friendly towards a creature that kills one crew member in cold blood, and threatens to kill at least half the ship?

A very creepy episode indeed.

Picard was a little bit too friendly for my liking towards murderous creatures.

Nagilum. The Crystalline Entity. Hugh/Borg.

 

[Surefire]

I didn't like this episode.

One of the things that bugged me was the very end, when Picard talked with Nagilum. He did not at all call Nagilum on the cold blooded murder IIRC, but instead spoke of how they have one thing in common, something like curiousity.

How can you behave friendly towards a creature that kills one crew member in cold blood, and threatens to kill at least half the ship?

A very creepy episode indeed.

Picard was a little bit too friendly for my liking towards murderous creatures.

Nagilum. The Crystalline Entity. Hugh/Borg.

My memory is that the Crystalline entity was killing to eat, not out of malice. I think the second episode it appeared in, it was even almost communicated with before the old lady killed it. Had she not killed it, it my have turned out to be sentient and reasoned with (perhaps finding an alternate food source).

Nagilum seemed to kill for amusement.

 

[euphorik]

Other than the Crystalline Entity, Nagilum was TNG's best villain.


I would have said the Borg, but after the "Hugh" episode, they became crap.

100% technically, it was during the hugh episode that they became crap.

 

[Nebusj]

My memory is that the Crystalline entity was killing to eat, not out of malice. I think the second episode it appeared in, it was even almost communicated with before the old lady killed it. Had she not killed it, it my have turned out to be sentient and reasoned with (perhaps finding an alternate food source).

Not to mention a handy pal to have around next time the Borg come after you, what with its anti-life skills and the Borg's ``two shots free'' policy.

 

[Timo]

...Also, odds are that the Crystalline Entity was not the sole representative of its species (just like Joan Wilder sez, if there's one certain thing, it's that bastards have brothers). A whole horde of those things would be a very nice thing on your side, and a very un-nice thing on the other side...

It just plain pays to be friendly in the end.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[HRHTheKING]

Picard would have an ethical problem with unleashing a Federation-friendly Crystalline Entity upon the enemies of the Federation.

It had to be killed. It would be too expensive to provide it with food. The Federation was going through a credit crunch. It had to bail out the starship construction sector.

 

[Red Ranger]

Picard would have an ethical problem with unleashing a Federation-friendly Crystalline Entity upon the enemies of the Federation.

It had to be killed. It would be too expensive to provide it with food. The Federation was going through a credit crunch. It had to bail out the starship construction sector.

Har har hardy har har! How many billions in credits? And were there bonuses abconded with? -- RR

 

[GalaxyX]

i think what got me the most was when Nagilum kills Haskell. i remember seeing it the first time when i was i dunno 8 years old maybe. i think its still the most violent cold death we've seen on star trek.

I agree. I always wondered how that crewmember died, like he died from sheer terror.

recently a youtube video spoiled it for me though, and everytime I think about the scene all I can do is chuckle lol

 

[Red Ranger]

You know, in at least one of those quantum realities from the ep Parallels, it wasn't the unnamed conn officer Nagilum killed -- it was Wesley. That should warm the cockles of the hearts of Wesley-haters everywhere!

BTW, I always thought Nagilum killed that conn officer by giving him a massive cerebral hemmorhage, or stroke, or a good old-fashioned conniption.

Red Ranger