Masks.

STTNG

Star Trek The Next Generation Season Seven

When all the weird symbols start cropping up all over the ship, why not do what has been done before and reboot the main computer? Isn't it the obvious thing to do? Admittedly, though, this would be a bit of a plot-killer.

Beverly suggests that perhaps the strange object left in Troi's quarters was from a secret admirer. How, one wonders, may one keep admiration secret from an empath? Or maybe she's just used to being admired, being a very attractive woman, and would think nothing of it.

When Data is in Engineering, at one point he drapes himself languidly over the central console. Why doesn't it affect it in any way? How come bells and whistles aren't going off all over the ship?

When Data bends forward in his grief, he can be clearly seen to be wearing a zip on the rear of his tunic.

At one point, when Worf and Geordi have just witnessed that the photon torpedo they are trying to configure for manual firing is full of snakes, Worf comments that the entire ship is turning into something else completely. He then orders that he and Geordi be beamed out of engineering. Excuse me? Worf can see everything is falling apart around him, yet he still trusts the transporters?

Lordy but this was a dull show way, way too talky. Difficult for the writers to shoehorn the rather less than cerebral Worf into this one at all, I imagine. I assume that the raison d'être behind the show was to do one as cheap as possible, what they call, I believe, a bottle show, where everything takes place on the ship so they don't have to build loads of expensive new sets. There was only the one extra set needed, if you think about it, and that looked more functional than decorative. Still, this show at least gave Brent the chance to show off his considerable acting skills to some advantage. I see that at one point Data uses the same open-handed blow that I've commented upon before. Has he been attending Worf's Mok'Bara classes? I think, overall, that this was the Season Seven show that most illustrated the lack of interest that, so I understand, was being shown in the series by various key personnel in favour of getting Deep Space 9 off the ground. With the exception of the score, which brooded and bubbled beneath the action to great effect, this was not a good effort at all, boys and girls; must try harder.

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