Q; How is it that one moment Wesley's experiment is volatile and the next apparently stable?
A; They did this to it, they did that to it. We don't know exactly what Wesley had been doing to the stuff in his original experiment; it could have been something that affected the stated premise (i.e. that you can't transport it) concerning antimatter. There seems to be a concern to present the Enterprise and all her doings within a fixed framework where every quantity is known. S'cuse me, folks, but I thought the whole point of the show was to boldly go where no man/one has gone before. Well, in this episode, young Wesley (who is after all a genius) boldly took some antimatter where it had never been before. Nuff said!
Q; How did Worf make a phoney Starfleet vessel appear to the Ferengi when he couldn't know their codes or computers?
A; Worf's a competent tactical officer. He guessed!
Peculiarly, when told of the prospective tactical simulations, Picard, Riker and Worf all whinge that it's not necessary. Curious behaviour, some might say, for a team who got creamed by the Borg just a few shows ago.
La Pulaski seems, in contrast to her earlier days, to be very much at home on the Bridge now.
When he peers at his experiment aboard the Enterprise, we see that Wesley's trousers still don't do up all the way at the rear. Surely, this cannot be a fashion?
Have we ever heard of Stratagema before this episode? Not that I can recall. Mind you, the crew seem to know it and understand it, don't they (yawn)?
Speaking of 'Recall', did anyone recognise Roy Brocksmith under all that makeup? I believe we sci-fi fans last saw Roy informing Big Arnie that this was all a dream and that he was still strapped in a chair back at Recall, Inc. Humour fans might further remember him living in apartment 4G in Gary Shandling's condo.
And finally, a nod must go to the universe's most recognisable Ferengi, one Shimerman, A., who here presents himself as the Ferengi Captain. Obviously he's been promoted since appearing as a Ferengi crew member in 'The Last Outpost'. Hi, Armin!
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