Q; How can Troi beat Data at chess?
A; She didn't, she beat him at three-dimensional chess. I can only assume that, in some way not immediately apparent, there is an angle to it which is absent from the standard game.
Q; Bearing in mind just how powerful and capable Macduff's technology obviously is, what, as Riker wondered, did he need to use the Enterprise to wipe out the Lysians for?
A; Hmmm, bit of a puzzler, this, isn't it? My opinion is that he wanted it to appear as though the Federation had done it rather than his own race, the Sartaaren, and I can only guess that that would have been for short-term political reasons. I say short-term because it could not be kept a secret forever that Picard et al were not quite themselves when they were attacking the Lysians so it would eventually emerge who the real culprit had been.
It's nice to see that Ro Laren is indeed allowed to wear her Bajoran earring as Picard promised her.
Once again, we see here someone who has been hurt on the Holodeck. The young swimmer, diving on the deck, has damaged her shoulder, and if I understood her conversation with Beverly correctly, it isn't for the first time either. So much, some might think, for the built-in safety features of the deck. Oh, well, them pesky Binars done it!
I note that when Data, La Forge and Ro etc. are working at the consoles at the rear of the Bridge, the ones usually staffed by zombies, they get to be seated, whereas the zomboids are always pictured standing. Why should this be?
The basic premise of the show is that Macduff has taken over the Enterprise and its personnel and wiped certain of their memories with a view to making them go to war against the Lysians. Why then did he not rearrange things so that the computer would inform them that Worf was the captain? From his point of view it would make much more sense to have the warlike Worf in charge than the diplomatic Picard.
Screwy, huh?
As Macduff is revealed to be a phoney, Riker and Worf both blitz him with phaser fire. I know Worf always carries a phaser handy (he probably sleeps with one) but where did Riker conjure his from?
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