Disaster.

STTNG

Star Trek The Next Generation Season Five

I wondered in the beginning, exactly who Monroe was, why she was in charge and why had we never seen her before? In the next few moments two of those questions were answered as she was obviously brought in just to be killed off. It doesn't explain why she was in charge, though, she was only a one-pipper and Troi, who was present on the Bridge and therefore technically in charge, should have taken control from the beginning. If she wasn't there to be in charge, why would she be hanging out on the Bridge in the first place?

Ro offered that their first priority should be to establish life-support. I'd have said it was important to maintain gravity myself. The subject of gravity is always conveniently ignored in Star Trek, and we might imagine we know why, mightn't we, readers?

Now here we have the Enterprise with all its power down, and the nacelles don't glow any more. So, as I said recently, how come the ports on the transport ship were glowing?

Interesting to see that Picard and the children are in one of the very few turbolifts that contain a control panel.

Why was there no-one in Engineering when the filaments hit? I thought that there were shipboard round-the-clock watches.

While Ro and Troi were arguing the merits of going as opposed to staying, they missed the most important point. Ro said that they had to go to save themselves, but Troi said they had to stay while there was even a remote chance of alerting anyone present in Engineering to the imminent containment breech. This they hoped to do by routing power from the Bridge to activate the monitors in Engineering. What they should have addressed was a way of powering the monitors from somewhere in the drive section. That way, they could have separated the saucer and got out of range with a clear conscience that they'd done all they could. Curiously, the matter was not even brought up.

Ah yes, the baby. Covered with gunk when Worf is wrapping her, spotlessly clean and bone dry as he hands her to Keiko. Ho hum.

Season Five

Redemption Two Darmok Ensign Ro Silicon Avatar Disaster The Game Unification One Unification Two A Matter of Time New Ground Hero Worship Violations
The Masterpiece Society Conundrum Power Play Ethics The Outcast Cause and Effect
The First Duty Cost of Living The Perfect Mate Imaginary Friend I Borg The Next Phase
The Inner Light Time's Arrow Part One

Redemption Two.
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