When Wesley meets Geordi and Data again, Data makes a joke. Data? Making a joke? This is something of a departure for our android friend, is it not?
I see that whoever prepared Wesley's quarters has thought to provide him with a bowl of fruit but we've had this discussion before.
It has long been a theory of mine that a show has reached its sell-by date when too many people are on the bandwagon. Just count the number of producers credited to this episode. There's more of them than there are folk in the cast!
There were times during this episode when I had the uneasy feeling that I'd changed channels and was watching first season Kung Fu by mistake.
Once again the Season Seven "cram 'em all in" philosophy asserts itself, as we have appearances by Wesley, the girly admiral, the Traveller and Daddy Crusher. Whew! Incidentally, for those who like to play "I saw them on Star Trek!" when they're watching tv, the girly admiral cropped up the other night in a movie called "It's Nothing Personal", starring Amanda Donahoe and Bruce Dern. She played some kind of a shrink, and it's the only show other than Star Trek (and the movie "Hoffa") that I've ever seen her in.
Good to see that this episode broke the run of bottle shows the season has been afflicted with.
How many of us must have watched this episode and wished that we had had some kind of a guide through our post-adolescent period? Or, indeed, throughout the whole of our lives . . .
Descent Part Two Liaisons Interface Gambit Part One Gambit Part Two Phantasms Dark Page Attached Force of Nature Inheritance Parallels The Pegasus Homeward Sub Rosa Lower Decks Thine Own Self Masks Eye of the Beholder Genesis Journey's End Firstborn Bloodlines Emergence Preemptive Strike All Good Things Part One All Good Things Part Two