Darmok.

STTNG

Star Trek The Next Generation Season Five

I suppose that we have to assume the UT was on its holidays for this one.

Wasn't it a good thing Picard had his little romper top on when he was beamed down to the planet? He'd have been a chilly boy without it.

Observe the black chick at helm, where young Wesley used to sit. She's been in loads and loads of episodes, but to my knowledge her character has never been given a speaking part.

Riker brusquely informs the Bridge crew that he wants a solution to their problems by 09.00 hours. You can only make this kind of demand in an environment where individuals who do not deliver what the boss wants will be replaced by someone who the boss imagines (perhaps fondly) can deliver. You can, therefore, only make this kind of demand, with its implication, if you have someone on hand to replace the 'failures' with. You can't do it in outer space when you're light-years from anywhere. It's a shame these lines were included in the show, as they detract from one of the best episodes ever. I thought that the whole point of Star Trek was that as a race we were going to achieve a level of co-operation, based on a sense of mutual respect and responsibility, which would make that kind of hierarchical structure redundant (which it always should have been, in my opinion).

"No! No!" says Picard as he's beamed up from the planet. What this was, of course, was an urgent plea to the writers, who had him speaking While Being Transported!!

Anyone notice who that fetching young girly was with Geordi? That was young Ashley Judd, putting in her first appearance, long before she get's smoochie with Wesley in The Game.