Q; Why would La Forge only start to whisper after the peekaboo equipment was in place in the access tube over Ten-Forward?
A; My opinion is that the peekaboo gear made a hole in the ceiling of Ten-Forward so that after it had been made if they'd been speaking loudly then they could have been overheard.
Q; Why does Picard suggest that blowing the Cargo Bay hatch and blowing all the disembodied spirits into space will kill them? After all, they can live without a body, so why should space kill them?
A; Why indeed? This does rather prompt the question; why did the bodiless spirits stay tied to one planet? Why didn't they just drift through space till they found another planet with people they could take over? The answer would seem to be that they need either a body or the "storm" to survive. Notice how when the disembodied spirits are being held in the transporter beam in Cargo Bay 4 how windy it suddenly gets in the bay? This is no ordinary storm (yawn).
Notice anything odd about the shuttle that Riker and the others try to land in? It has seat belts! Unusual, eh?
One has to wonder why the original Away Team didn't think to take a pattern enhancer down with them in the first place. Wouldn't it seem to be an elementary precaution, given the circumstances?
These guys seem able to pull phasers out of thin air. When Ro fires upon Data and O'Brien, where does she get the phaser from? Perhaps they all practice sleight of hand in their down time.
When Worf and his security team are running towards the turbolift where they expect the evil trio to be, they are seen to be running past a bloke in the corridor who is wearing contemporary (for us today) clothing. Who on earth was he?
Why did the evil trio dump their comm. badges in the turbolift? What does that serve? This episode is the absolute worst in terms of communications. One minute people are talking to each other through the comms system, the next they are speaking asides to people in the same room. Riker for some reason has to signal Ro, using the thumb across the throat gesture, to break communications with Ten-Forward. Why? No-one usually does that, it always seems to be done automatically. Sometimes they tap their badges to communicate, sometimes they just talk straight into the air. Absolute rubbish. When Picard, from Ten-Forward, suggests to Riker that the trio be allowed safe access to Cargo Bay 4, he isn't wearing a comm. badge. How can Riker hear him? When Worf tells Picard how many of the crew are injured, he isn't wearing a badge either. How can he be heard?
One good thing about this episode, I've never seen Gates' hair looking more beautiful. Good hair day or what?
Continuity error ahoy! When Picard is speaking to Data and Troi in Ten-Forward, he speaks his lines into a camera behind them, and they speak theirs into a camera behind him. In the shots from his point of view, Data is standing sideways on. In the shots taken from behind Data and Troi, Data has his back to us. Watch as they alternate between the two.
I cannot help but wonder just how practical it is to pick someone up by the neck. Data somehow manages this without crushing Picard's windpipe or bruising him in any way. I find this a shade unlikely. (Actually, I've since seen it done by wrestlers. It can be done)!
Do I see my friend the Unnamed Black Chick in Ten-Forward? I bet she wishes she'd been at Helm that day . . .
I notice that, in the absence of the zombies who stand at the back of the Bridge, Geordi and Beverly (I mean, what's she doing there?) are seated once again at those positions. I think that this is so that when a shot is taken from the rear of the Bridge looking forward, as if from inside the computer terminals, then you can get a more balanced shot. If you put four people in, you can have two standing and two sitting. At least, that's all I can figure.
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